TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
versity of Toronto, is now (1913) erecting what will 
probably be its permanent home on the west side of 
the University lawn. St. Michael’s College was 
founded by the Basilian Fathers from Annenay, 
France, in 1852, and affiliated with the University of 
Toronto in 1881. It occupies a pleasant site to the 
east of the Queen’s Park, on St. Joseph Street. 
Another Anglican school of divinity, now called Wyc- 
liffe College, was established in 1877 and is located 
on Hoskin Avenue, north-west of University College. 
The rise of the historical method and the growth 
of modern science rendered an increase in libraries 
and laboratories an imperative necessity if higher 
education in Ontario was to keep abreast of the age. 
Confederation was the result, and the University now 
includes four Arts colleges within its system, in addi- 
tion to a number of affiliated institutions less closely 
connected with it. University College represents the 
original foundation and is still maintained by the 
state, Victoria (Methodist) federated and removed 
from Cobourg to Toronto in 1892, Trinity followed 
in 1904, and St. Michael’s in 1910. This wise pol- 
icy, aided by the enlightened support of the govern- 
ment, the upward trend of the school system, and the 
desire for learning characteristic of the Canadians 
has made the University one of the largest on the 
continent and the best attended in the British Em- 
pire.* Its various faculties of Arts, Law, Medicine 
* Exclusive of India. 
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