The Rolph School

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2007

Outside the south side of the Toronto Reference Library on the north side of Asquith Street attached to a small rock is a 1980 Toronto Historical Board plaque which says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.671504 -79.386054

Dr. John Rolph (1793-1870), lawyer, physician and politician founded the first medical school in Upper Canada. As a reformer he was involved in the Rebellion of 1837 and fled to the United States. Following his return in 1845 he opened a school of medical instruction on Queen Street. Incorporated as the Toronto School of Medicine in 1851, it became the Medical Department of Victoria University in 1854. Popularly known as "Rolph's School", it occupied new premises on this site from 1856 until 1871, in a building originally built as a Wesleyan chapel in 1841. It was demolished in 1974.

Related Ontario plaque
The Honourable John Rolph, M.D. 1793-1870

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