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Saint-Lambert International High School

English international baccalaureate secondary school in St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5069694 ↗
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Saint-Lambert International High School (previously known as Chambly Academy or Chambly County High School) is a public secondary school, in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada.

It is located at 675 Green Street and borders the Club De Golf St-Lambert. It is the only English-language secondary school in Saint Lambert and is part of the Riverside School Board. It offers an International Baccalaureate program, and has had a student population ranging from 400 to 750 students (during a baby boom peak in the early 1970s). The school is currently home to approximately 500 students.

History

The first St. Lambert High School was built on the corner of Green and Notre-Dame streets in 1896. In 1912, it was enlarged so that students from all of Chambly County could attend. Due to increased enrolment, the current building at 675 Green Street was opened in November 1954, and Chambly County High School became the first English language high school on the South Shore. In 1979, St.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saint-Lambert International High School” is english international baccalaureate secondary school in St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saint-Lambert, International and High, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1896, 1912, 1954, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. For this dossier, Saint-Lambert, International and High is the immediate research focus.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5069694. Authority coordinates are 45.510, -73.504. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1912, 1954 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Lambert International High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.