The Normal School Was Founded
By Egerton Ryerson
In 1847 As
The First Teacher-training Institution
In
The Province
It Moved Into
A New Building
In 1852
On
A Parcel Of Semi-rural Land Eventually Bounded
By Gerrard
Victoria
Gould
And Church Streets
In 1852
At
The Core Of
The Present Main Campus
The Historic St
James Square
Egerton Ryerson Founded Ontario's First Teacher Training Facility
The Toronto Normal School
It Also Housed
The Department Of Education And
The Museum Of Natural History
And Fine Arts
Which Became
The Royal Ontario Museum
An Agricultural Laboratory
On
The Site Led
To
The Founding Of
The Ontario Agricultural College And
The University Of Guelph
St
James Square Went Through Various Other Educational Uses Before Housing
A Namesake Of Its Original Founder
Egerton Ryerson Was
A Leading Educator
Politician
And Methodist Minister. He
Is Known As
The Father Of Ontario's Public School System. He
Is Also
A Founder Of
The First Publishing Company
In Canada
In 1829
The Methodist Book
And Publishing House
Which Was Renamed
The Ryerson Press
In 1919
And Today
Is Part Of McGraw-Hill Ryerson
A Canadian Publisher Of Educational
And Professional Books
Which Still Bears Egerton Ryerson's Name
For Its Canadian Operations
Advances
In Science
And Technology Brought
On
By World War II
And Continued Canadian Industrialization
Previously Interrupted By
The Great Depression
Created
A Demand For
A More Highly Trained Population
Howard Hillen Kerr Was Given Control Of Nine Ontario Training
And Re-establishment Centres
To Accomplish This
His Vision Of What These Institutions Would Do Was Broader Than What Others Were Suggesting
In 1943
He Visited
The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT)
And Was Convinced Canada Could Develop Its Own MIT Over One Hundred Years
Along
The Way
Such An Institution Could Respond
To
The Society's Needs
When
The Province Approved
The Idea Of Technical Institutes
In 1946
It Proposed
To Found Several
It Turned Out All But One Would Be Special Purpose Schools
Such As
The Mining School
Only
The Toronto Retraining Centre
Which Became
The Ryerson Institute Of Technology
In 1948
Would Become
A Multi-program Campus
Kerr's Future MIT Of Canada
The Toronto Training
And Re-establishment Institute Was Created
In 1945
On
The Former Site Of
The Toronto Normal School
At St James Square
Bounded
By Gerrard
Church
Yonge
And Gould
The Gothic-Romanesque Building Was Designed
By Architects Thomas Ridout
And Frederick William Cumberland
In 1852
The Site Had Been Used As
A Royal Canadian Air Force Training Facility During World War II
The Institute Was
A Joint Venture Of
The Federal
And Provincial Government
To Train Ex-servicemen
And Women
For Re-entry Into Civilian Life
The Ryerson Institute Of Technology Was Founded
In 1948
Inheriting
The Staff
And Facilities Of
The Toronto Training
And Re-establishment Institute
In 1966
It Became
The Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
In 1971
Provincial Legislation Was Amended
To Permit Ryerson
To Grant University Degrees Accredited
By Provincial Government Legislation
And By
The Association Of Universities
And Colleges Of Canada (AUCC). That Year
It Also Became
A Member Of
The Council Of Ontario Universities (COU)
In 1992
Ryerson Became Toronto's Second School Of Engineering
To Receive Accreditation From
The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)
The Following Year (1993)
Ryerson Formally Became
A University
Via An Act Of
The Ontario Legislature
In 1993
Ryerson Received Approval
To Also Grant Graduate Degrees (master's
And Doctorates)
The Same Year
The Board Of Governors Changed
The Institution's Name
To Ryerson Polytechnic University
To Reflect
A Stronger Emphasis
On Research Associated With Graduate Programs
And Its Expansion From Being
A University Offering Undergraduate Degrees
Students Occupied
The University's Administration Offices
In March 1997
Protesting Escalating Tuition Hikes
In June 2001
The School Assumed Its Name
As Ryerson University
Today
Ryerson University Offers Programs
In Aerospace
Chemical
Civil
Mechanical
Industrial
Electrical
Biomedical
And Computer Engineering
The B.Eng Biomedical Engineering Program
Is
The First Stand-alone Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program
In Canada
The University
Is Also One Of Only Two Canadian Universities
To Offer
A Program
In Aerospace Engineering Accredited By
The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)
Organization
See also: Attractions
in Toronto, Supporters
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5.6.1 Past incidents
The G
Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. . . Upper Canada College
in Toronto
Founded
in 1829
it
is
the oldest independent school
in Ontario
A.R.S
Armenian School
Assistant coach Robin Fraser
2 Current system. .
. . The four Atlantic Provinces
are Canada's least populated
with New Brunswick
the third least populous
at 747,101
in 2016
the Atlantic provinces also have higher rural populations
New Brunswick was largely rural until 1951; since then
the rural-urban split has been roughly even. Population density
in
the Maritimes
is above average among Canadian provinces
which reflects their small size and
the fact that they do not possess large
unpopulated hinterlands
as do
the other seven provinces
and three territories
New Brunswick's 107 municipalities cover 8.6% of
the province's land mass but
are home
to 65.3% of its population
the three major urban areas
are
in
the south of
the province and
are Greater Moncton
population 126,424
Greater Saint John
population 122,389
and Greater Fredericton
population 85,688
Ethnicity
and language. . The TDSB held no public inquiry into
the culture of fear
and offered no compensation
to those affected
in 2016
the new director John Malloy said:. In 2014
the Province of Ontario appointed Margaret Wilson
to lead an independent review of operational issues at
the TDSB
Wilson conducted over sixty interviews
and reviewed documents
letters
and hundreds of emails
Her conclusion was that
a "climate of fear" existed within
the TDSB. Wilson wrote:. 3.1 Democratic governance
The four Atlantic Provinces
are Canada's least populated
with New Brunswick
the third least populous
at 747,101
in 2016
the Atlantic provinces also have higher rural populations
New Brunswick was largely rural until 1951; since then
the rural-urban split has been roughly even. Population density
in
the Maritimes
is above average among Canadian provinces
which reflects their small size and
the fact that they do not possess large
unpopulated hinterlands
as do
the other seven provinces
and three territories
New Brunswick's 107 municipalities cover 8.6% of
the province's land mass but
are home
to 65.3% of its population
the three major urban areas
are
in
the south of
the province and
are Greater Moncton
population 126,424
Greater Saint John
population 122,389
and Greater Fredericton
population 85,688
Ethnicity
and language, Bathurst St
School (1872)
Assistant coach Nick Theslof
Toronto
is Canada's largest media market
and has four conventional dailies
two alt-weeklies
and three free commuter papers in
a greater metropolitan area of about 6 million inhabitants
the Toronto Star and
the Toronto Sun
are
the prominent daily city newspapers
while national dailies
the Globe
and Mail and
the National Post
are also headquartered
in
the city
the Toronto Star
the Globe
and Mail
and National Post
are broadsheet newspapers
StarMetro
is distributed
as free commuter newspapers
Several magazines
and local newspapers cover Toronto
including Now
and Toronto Life
while numerous magazines
are produced
in Toronto
such
as Canadian Business
Chatelaine
Flare
and Maclean's
Daily Hive
Western Canada's largest online-only publication
opened their Toronto office
in 2016. Toronto contains
the headquarters of
the major English-language Canadian television networks CBC
CTV
Citytv
Global
the Sports Network (TSN)
and Sportsnet
Much (formerly MuchMusic)
M3 (formerly MuchMore)
and MTV Canada
are
the main music television channels based
in
the city
though they no longer primarily show music videos as
a result of channel drift
Tourism.
Terry R Bennett DMD