About Us
The College, founded in
1905 with Sr Clelia Martinelli, an Italian missionary as its first principal,
made its mark in history as the oldest school of commerce in Hong Kong. Sr
Clelia taught her first 25 students Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping, the
secretarial skills needed at that time. Her vibrant personality did much to
enliven the tiny beginnings and to soundly establish the new venture.
In the
early 1950's the curriculum was enriched and upgraded, providing secretarial
and commercial training to secondary school graduates. In 1970, the College
was formally registered with the Education Department as 'Sacred Heart Canossian
Commercial School'. Subsequently, the College was re-registered and renamed
as 'Sacred Heart Cannossian College of Commerce' in 2000, to reflect its upgraded
curriculum.
