The school's facility was constructed in 1927 at the corner of Cambie and Sexsmith Roads. It accommodated grades 10 and 11 as
Richmond Secondary School until 1937, when grades 8 and 9 were added, and the school’s name changed to
Richmond Junior-Senior Secondary School. With the opening of a new Richmond High School on Foster Road (now Minoru Boulevard) in 1952, the original facility on Cambie Road became
Cambie Junior Secondary School, serving Grades 7 to 10. According to the city of
Richmond, "The school was named after the road, but the road was named after Henry John Cambie|Henry James [John] Cambie, an engineer with the
Canadian Pacific Railway, who surveyed and built roads in both Vancouver and Richmond." In 1969, money was appropriated to expand the school, including addition of a chemistry lab. During the Royal Family's visit to Vancouver in 1971, the band from Cambie Junior Secondary school played
God Save the Queen while the Union Jack was hoisted. In 1995, the original building was replaced by a new facility at Jacombs and No. 5 Road. Renamed Henry James Cambie Secondary School, it became a junior-senior secondary school in 1996. The building on Cambie and Sexsmith roads burned down in the late 1990s. == Curriculum ==