A report on University of Toronto and University College, Toronto
University College, popularly referred to as UC, is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation.
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Collegiate university
0 linksUniversity in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.
University in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.
The London pattern spread the idea of the examining university with affiliated colleges around the British Empire, in particular to Canada where the University of Toronto was refounded as an examining university, its teaching arm becoming University College, Toronto, which federated other colleges in the region, and to India, where the universities of Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai were founded in 1857, and New Zealand, where the federal University of New Zealand was established in 1874.
Knox College, Toronto
0 linksKnox College is a postgraduate theological college of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Towards the end of the century, Knox began encouraging its students to attend non-divinity studies at the nearby University College of the University of Toronto.
Convocation Hall (University of Toronto)
0 linksConvocation Hall is a domed rotunda on the grounds of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In the latter half of the 19th century, the university began to see the need for a considerably larger ceremonial auditorium beyond the confines of University College, made more apparent by a fire that damaged much of the college in 1890.
The Gargoyle (newspaper)
0 linksThe Gargoyle is the student newspaper of University College at the Canadian University of Toronto.
Frederick William Cumberland
0 linksCanadian engineer, architect and politician.
Canadian engineer, architect and politician.
At the University of Toronto, he designed University College, the Provincial Magnetic Observatory (1853–55) and the Director's Residence (1858; demolished in 1901), as well as major additions and reconstruction of the Centre Block (1856–59) of the Osgoode Hall law courts.