Moulton College
Did you know there is a link between the corner of Bloor and Yonge streets in Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton? You didn't? Then read the Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque located on a west facing wall just inside this building at 2 Bloor Street East. It says:
Near this site in Senator William McMaster's former residence, Moulton Ladies' College was opened in 1888. A year earlier the bequest of McMaster's fortune to Baptist higher education had led to the founding of McMaster University. His widow, Susan Moulton McMaster, then conveyed the residence to the University for use as a preparatory school for girls. The Ladies' Department of Woodstock College, an older Baptist institution, was transferred to the Toronto college, named Moulton in honour of Mrs. McMaster. For 66 years Moulton College served with distinction both day and resident students from junior grades to university entrance. The buildings were sold in 1954 and demolished in 1958. The name is preserved in Moulton Hall, a women's residence at McMaster University, Hamilton.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.670654 -79.386145
Photo by Alan L Brown - March 2004
Related page:
McMaster Hall
Related page from my 'Ontario's Historical Plaques' website:
McMaster University 1887
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