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Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute was founded by the Reverend John Stuart in 1792, based upon a grant given for secondary education in the colony of Upper Canada, on the orders of Governor Simcoe. The original building was a one and a half storey frame structure which was used until 1849.

While a new structure was being built, the school was housed in the present Principal's residence of Queen's University. The second building, a two storey stone structure, was completed in 1853. In 1892, the school was moved, as a result of increased enrolment, to its present location at the corner of Frontenac and Earl Streets.

Girls were first admitted as students in January 1877 and the school has remained co-educational since. The oldest remaining part of the present school is the 1915 wing, which is now the Science area, while the latest addition was completed in 1969. The Module Secondaire de Langue Française was established at K.C.V.I. in 1980, and in September 1995 became l'École Secondaire Mille-Iles, Frontenac County's (now the Limestone District School Board) first French language secondary school.

Mille-Iles is now a school in the local separate French first language board. However, KCVI still houses Module Vanier, a grades 7 and 8 French Immersion school. Among those who have attended K.C.V.I., are Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada; Sir Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario; and George Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, who laid the 1892 commemorative stone. On November 12, 1992, a new commemorative stone was dedicated by His Excellency The Right Honourable Ramon A. Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

John Henry "Harry" Spring was born in, or around, 1890 to Hugh and Ellen (nee Scott) Spring of Inverary and died February 21, 1960 in Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Spring moved from Inverary into Kingston sometime around 1902. J. H. Spring started at Queen's University in 1910 and graduated with a B.A. 1919, and a B.Sc. (Electrical) 1920. He was originally a member of the class of 1916, but went on overseas service during the First World War and completed his education upon his return.