During a period of reorganization by public school boards across Ontario following a decision by the Ontario Government to extend funding of Catholic schools to include secondary school grades 10 to 13 (OAC) in the 1980s, many public schools of the
Etobicoke Board of Education in southern Etobicoke with low enrolment were ceded to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (later the Toronto Catholic District School Board). Originally offered the former
Mimico High School (now
John English Junior Middle School), the MSSB preferred the newer, designed buildings of
Kingsmill Secondary School (later
Bishop Allen Academy), which were already nearby, requested the former
Alderwood Collegiate Institute in
Alderwood (which was closed in June 1983) to serve the rest of southern Etobicoke; Alderwood reopened as the South campus outlet of Etobicoke's first Catholic high school,
Michael Power/St. Joseph High School. The school's namesake, Father John Redmond was named in his honor after serving as a Basilian priest, a principal, an educator, and prominent national track and field coach. The roots clearly relied on the Basilian motto of "Teach me Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge." The 1960s school buildings were in a very bad state of repair forced Father John Redmond to relocate to newly constructed buildings in
New Toronto (
St. Teresa's parish), on the
Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital grounds beside the historic 19th century buildings of the Mimico Lunatic Asylum, which are now the site of
Humber Polytechnic's
Lakeshore Campus, in September 2006. As the Toronto Catholic District School Board does not operate an arts school in Etobicoke, Father John Redmond was chosen as the Catholic board's Regional Arts Centre on June 12, 2005. The school serves Catholic students from the former
Lakeshore Municipalities (Mimico, New Toronto, Long Branch) in southern Etobicoke. ==Notable alumni==