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Sarah Stickney (mother) Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) [1] was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. [2][3] Ryerson is considered to be the founder of the Ontario public school system.
History. The school was founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. [5] It was established by a large land grant of 740 acres (3 km²) by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. [6] By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton ...
A statue of Egerton Ryerson by Hamilton MacCarthy was installed on the grounds of Ryerson University in Toronto, now known as Toronto Metropolitan University, from 1887 until 2021. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4]
The Toronto Normal School was a teachers college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1847, the normal school was located at Church and Gould streets in central Toronto (after 1852), and was a predecessor to the current Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. [2][3] The Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario College of Art & Design and the ...
Website. www.vicu.utoronto.ca. Victoria University (officially called Victoria College by the University of Toronto [3]) is a federated college of the University of Toronto. The college was founded in 1836 by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada as a nonsectarian literary institution. [4][5][6][7] From 1841 to 1890, Victoria operated as an ...
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In 2002, several years after the university's school of graduate studies was established, the university adopted the name Ryerson University. In 2022, it was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University, in response to concerns about Egerton Ryerson's influence on the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Burwash Hall refers to both Burwash Dining Hall and Burwash Hall proper, the second oldest of the residence buildings at Victoria University in Toronto, Canada. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913. It was named after Nathanael Burwash, president of Victoria from 1887 to 1912. [1] The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work ...