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Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, 1863 (Victoria University Archives). Victoria College was founded as the Upper Canada Academy by the Wesleyan Methodist Church.In 1831, a church committee decided to locate the academy on four acres (1.6 hectares) of land in Cobourg, Ontario, east of Toronto, because of its central location in a large town and access by land and water.
Knox College, University of Toronto, founded as the Free Church rival to Queen's during the Disruption of 1843 and favourable to church union, was expected to serve as the new church's main seminary. However, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario awarded the building to the continuing Presbyterians. The faculty and most students of Knox left to ...
Annesley Hall is the all-female residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto. The residence is located across from the Royal Ontario Museum and is designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1] Built in 1903 in the Queen Anne style, Annesley Hall is the first university residence built for women in Canada. [2]
Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto. [7] The Gate House emblem is the Phoenix, visible in the bottom-right corner of the Victoria College insignia.
In the 1850s Victoria College was in Cobourg (Ontario) and the Department of Medicine was established in 1854 when John Rolph’s medical school in Toronto became attached to the College. In 1866, L'École de médecine et de chirurgie de Montréal also became affiliated with Victoria College.
Simon Fraser University: 9 University of Victoria: 10 University of Calgary: 11 University of Guelph: 12 Western University: 13 University of Ottawa: 14 Dalhousie University: 15 Université Laval: 16 York University: 17 Concordia University: 18 Toronto Metropolitan University: 19 Université de Sherbrooke: 20 Carleton University: 21 University ...
In turn, it was one of the inspirations for the University of Leeds Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies. [3] The Centre's logo was designed by Allan Fleming, while he was head of graphic design at University of Toronto Press, from 1968–1976. [4] The Centre is now located in the Lillian Massey Building, part of Victoria University, Toronto.
A university college is a federated or affiliated academic university institution of a larger public university (often referred to as the "parent" campus). Federated and affiliated colleges have existed in Ontario, Canada, for over a century. [1] The establishment of these institutions came from Christian religious groups.