The building is shared with the Summit Alternative School and the Fisher Park Community Centre.

In the late 19th century, the Ottawa Electric Railway Company (OERC) bought the farms of Andrew and George Holland and started an amusement park.

Thomas Edison launched his Vitascope projected film invention in 1896 and gave the Holland brothers exclusive rights to put it on exhibition in Canada.

During the year of construction Connaught students attended the site of the former Champlain High School off Island Park Drive at the Kichi Zibi Mikan.

Barbara Brockmann, a teacher at the school, was a recipient of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History.