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Queen's University at Kingston, [3] [12] [13] commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. [9] Queen's is organized into eight faculties ...
The name of the street is derived from Kingston, Ontario as the road was the primary route used to travel from Toronto to the settlements east of it situated along the shores of Lake Ontario; in the west end of Kingston, the road was referred to as the York Road (referring to Toronto) until at least 1908, and is today named Princess Street.
The University of Toronto Scarborough is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto, based in Downtown Toronto. Centennial College is a public college that operates several campuses in Scarborough, and other areas of Toronto. In addition to public post-secondary institutions, Scarborough is home to several private vocational schools ...
Queen Street begins at an intersection with The Queensway, Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street and crosses through Parkdale, the Fashion District, downtown Toronto, Riverdale, Leslieville, East Toronto and The Beaches, ending east of Victoria Park Avenue at a residential street named Fallingbrook Road in Scarborough.
Queen's first Faculty of Education was founded in 1907, but it was closed in 1920 when the training of teachers in Ontario was centralized in Toronto. The present Faculty dates from 1965, when the province approved Duncan McArthur College, a Queen's-affiliated college temporarily located at 131 Union Street (now the site of Stauffer Library).
Rathika Sitsabaiesan (M.I.R. 2007) – Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River (2011–2015) George Spotton (B.A. 1895) – member of the House of Commons; Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC (2010–2014) Ross Thatcher – 9th premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971)
The first organized university football league in Canada, the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU), was founded in Kingston in November, 1897, with charter members Queen's, McGill University, and the University of Toronto., [4] the football squad showed continued success, winning three straight Grey Cups in 1922, 1923 and 1924.
The road was named for the McCowan Family, a Scottish family patriarch who settled in the area in 1833. [1] The street, the former Lot 22, and later McCowan's Sideroad (officially called McCowan Road by Scarborough Township in 1956), begins at Kingston Road in the City of Toronto and ends at Baseline Road in the Town of Georgina. [2]