A report on University of Toronto

Coat of arms of the University of Toronto
Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.
Painting of University College, 1859.
A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.
Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.
The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.
Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.
The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.
Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.
The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.
The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.
The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.
Varsity Stadium
The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.
Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.
Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.
21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.
Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA
Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA
Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB
John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)
John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal
Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory
Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD
Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD
Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc
Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

Public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Map of Upper Canada (orange) within British North America (pink)

Family Compact

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Small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada from the 1810s to the 1840s.

Small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada from the 1810s to the 1840s.

Map of Upper Canada (orange) within British North America (pink)
John Strachan
Upper Canada College, 1835.
"Moss Park", 1889, the estate of William Allan
The Grange, estate of D'Arcy Boulton Jr.
Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, estate of Sir Allen McNab

On March 15, 1827, a royal charter was formally issued for King's College (now the University of Toronto).

Kin-Yip Chun

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Kin-Yip Chun is a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto's Department of Physics.

This X-ray image of Cygnus X-1 was taken by a balloon-borne telescope, the High-Energy Replicated Optics (HERO) project. NASA image.

Cygnus X-1

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Galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole.

Galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole.

This X-ray image of Cygnus X-1 was taken by a balloon-borne telescope, the High-Energy Replicated Optics (HERO) project. NASA image.
A blue band light curve for Cygnus X-1, adapted from Kemp et al. (1987)
Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Cygnus X-1
A Chandra X-ray spectrum of Cygnus X-1 showing a characteristic peak near 6.4 keV due to ionized iron in the accretion disk, but the peak is gravitationally red-shifted, broadened by the Doppler effect, and skewed toward lower energies
An artist's impression of the HDE 226868–Cygnus X-1 binary system. ESA/Hubble illustration.
NASA poster for Cygnus X-1

Louise Webster and Paul Murdin, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Charles Thomas Bolton, working independently at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory, announced the discovery of a massive hidden companion to HDE 226868 in 1972.

New College, Toronto

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A section of the New College complex

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Toronto in Canada.

Records of Early English Drama

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The Records of Early English Drama (REED) is a performance history research project, based at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

MaRS Discovery District

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Not-for-profit corporation founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2000.

Not-for-profit corporation founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2000.

The MaRS Centre, seen from the northeast corner of College Street and University Avenue
Construction of MaRS Phase II in August 2008.
The empty construction of MaRS Phase II in July 2009.
Completed MaRS Phase 2 in 2016.
Airbnb office in the MaRS Centre
Inside the MaRS Centre atrium.

It is located on the corner of College Street and University Avenue in the city of Toronto’s Discovery District, adjacent to the University of Toronto and its affiliated research hospitals at the University Health Network.

South-facing elevation of FitzGerald Building at the University of Toronto. The building was constructed in 1927 with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation to house the School of Hygiene. This entrance originally served the Connaught facilities that occupied the two basement levels.

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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South-facing elevation of FitzGerald Building at the University of Toronto. The building was constructed in 1927 with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation to house the School of Hygiene. This entrance originally served the Connaught facilities that occupied the two basement levels.

Dalla Lana School of Public Health is the school of public health at the University of Toronto.

Yorkville, Toronto

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Neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In 1968, nearby Rochdale College at the University of Toronto was opened on Bloor Street as an experiment in counterculture education.

Johnston Hall, University of Guelph

Ontario Agricultural College

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Johnston Hall, University of Guelph
The Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm, Guelph, Canada, 1889
Special review day at Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario ca. 1939-46
MacDonald Institute, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario
Johnston Hall Clock Tower, University of Guelph

The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) originated at the agricultural laboratories of the Toronto Normal School, and was officially founded in 1874 as an associate agricultural college of the University of Toronto.

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

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Main building at St Michael's College
Main entrance of the institute

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) is a research institute in the University of Toronto that is dedicated to advanced studies in the culture of the Middle Ages.