[5][6] It is named after Tommy Douglas, the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan whose government implemented North America's first single-payer, universal health care program.

The school is located at 4020 Major Mackenzie Drive, and its first principal is Ann Pace from 2015-2020.

[8] At Woodbridge College, it operates as a "parallel, but separate" school, during which time the building at Woodbridge College was shared by two schools with separate staff and student body.

[8] The school's boundaries are Highway 400 to the east, Rutherford Road to the south, Pine Valley Drive to the west, and the King-Vaughan town line in the north.

[5] Before opening, students residing south of Teston Road and north of Major Mackenzie Drive attended Woodbridge College, except those southwest of the area delimited by Millwood Parkway.