Coat of arms of the University of Toronto
Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.
University College, c. 1860
Painting of University College, 1859.
The University College fire of 1890, Dominion Illustrated
A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.
The main building of University College, a National Historic Site since 1968
Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.
Croft Chapter House
The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.
The south entrance
Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Detail of an ornate arch over the south entrance
The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The East Wing was swiftly restored after suffering extensive fire damage in 1890.
The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.
Inside the college quadrangle
The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.
The Laidlaw Wing houses the modern college library, in addition to the University of Toronto Art Centre.
Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.
Sir Daniel Wilson Residence
The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.
Whitney Hall (built 1930–31), women's residence designed by John M. Lyle
The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.
The University College Union
The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.
The college cloisters
Varsity Stadium
University College at night
The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.
Arthur Meighen
Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.
Charles Herbert Best
21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.
Edward Blake
Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.
Vincent Massey
William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA
James Hillier
Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA
James Reaney
Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB
Bob Rae
John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)
Bill Davis
John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal
William B. Davis
Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory
David Cronenberg
Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD
Lorne Michaels
Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD
David Ben
Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc
Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

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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The earliest recorded instance of gridiron football occurred at University of Toronto's University College in November 1861.

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Coat of arms of the University of Toronto

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Buildings of St John's College, Cambridge

Collegiate university

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University 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.

Buildings of St John's College, Cambridge
The University of Otago Registry Building
Branford College at Yale University
The University of Paris depicted in a 17th-century engraving

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

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Knox College
Historical home of Knox College at 1 Spadina Crescent
A corridor that forms a section of the college cloisters
Interior garden at one of the college's quadrangles
Performance at the Knox College Chapel
The cloister windows at Knox typify the collegiate Gothic architectural style.
Knox College during a winter snowstorm
Casavant organ console at right front of chapel

Knox 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)

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Convocation Hall under construction, 1906
Convocation Hall Facing north
The oculus at the top of the hall's dome
Perspective view of columns
Inside the auditorium during convocation

Convocation 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 logo, current

The Gargoyle (newspaper)

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The Gargoyle logo, current

The Gargoyle is the student newspaper of University College at the Canadian University of Toronto.

Frederick William Cumberland

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Canadian engineer, architect and politician.

Canadian engineer, architect and politician.

Pendarvis at 33 St. George Street in Toronto was Cumberland's home (now owned by University of Toronto)

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.