J.L. Ilsley High School is a Canadian high school located in Spryfield in the western part of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The school is named after James Lorimer Ilsley, a former federal cabinet minister who served in Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's World War II government and was later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The school opened in 1971.Notable alumni Joey Comeau – writer, creator of A Softer World Matt Robinson – poet Peter North – pornographic performer and producer