[burwash] a review OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 51 



the chapel and two wings on the proposed plans. When tenders were 

 received it was found that the available funds would cover little more 

 than the two wings, and of these only one was ultimately built. On the 

 23rd of April, 1843, the corner stone of the university building was laid 

 with most imposing ceremonial by His Excellency Sir Charles Bagot, 

 Governor-General of the United Canadas and Chancellor of the 

 university. On the morning of that day being St. George's day the St. 

 (Teorge's Society accompanied by the Sons of St. Andrew and of St. 

 Patrick attended Divine service in the cathedral, where an appropriate 

 sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry Scadding, M.A., of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge. At one o'clock the procession formed on Queen 

 street at the University Avenue gates. After an address to the Chancel- 

 lor in Latin to which he replied in the same language, the procession 

 marched up the avenue to the chosen site, that on which the Parliament 

 Buildings now stand. Here in the presence of a large concourse of 

 ladies and gentlemen, and of the military, civil and educational ofïicers 

 of the province, the stone was duly laid by His Excellency. Addresses 

 were delivered, poems in Latin and Greek were recited, prayers offered, 

 and the whole concluded with a salvo of artillery. At the banquet in 

 the evening His Lordship the Bishop of Toronto, with deep emotion, 

 declared that this was the happiest day of Iiis life, one to which he had 

 looked forward for forty years. 



At the same time preparations were being made for the beginning 

 of academic work. Professors of Classics, Belles Lettres, Divinity, Law, 

 Mathematics, Chemistry and Anatomy were chosen, the names being the 

 Eev. John McCauI, LL.D., the Eev. James Beaven, D.D., the Hon. W. 

 IL Draper, Eichard Potter, Esq., H. E. Croft, Esq., and W. C. Gwynne, 

 M.B. 



The formal opening took place on the 8th of June, 1843, when 

 twenty-six students signed the roll. The names of those students are 

 worthy of record as many of them afterwards won distinction in the pro- 

 vince. They were Edmund Baldwin, Xorman Betlume, C. K. Boulton, 

 Henry J. Boulton, J. A. Cathcart, George Crookshank, W. G. Draper, 

 Elliott Grasett, J. T. Hagerman, John Helliwell, W. P. Jarvis, H. B. 

 Jessopp, E. C. Jones, W. H. Lyons, J. J. Macaulay, S. S. Macdonell, T. 

 A. ilcLean, A. D. Maule, James Patton, John Eoaf, Christopher Eobin- 

 son, Alfred Sharpe, W. Larratt Smith, James Stanton, and Walter Sten- 

 nett. In religion twenty-two were Church of England, one Eoman 

 Catholic, one Presbyterian, one Congregationalist, and one Baptist. 



The chief feature of the occasion was the address of the Lord Bishop 

 of Toronto, president of the university. The address which was pub- 

 lished in full, together with the proceedings both at the laying of the 



