Trinity College

Photos by Alan L Brown - October 2007

Photo Source - Canadian Heritage Gallery

If you head west on Queen Street past Bathurst, you'll come across Trinity Bellwoods Park. Notice those gates at the entrance? Notice the plaque on the gates? Curious about what that 1988 Toronto Historical Board plaque says? Well here it is:

The University of Trinity College was located on this site 1852-1925, occupying a large Gothic-Revival building designed by Kivas Tully with later additions by Frank Darling. Trinity was founded as an independent institution by Bishop John Strachan following secularization of the provincially-endowed university. Awarded a Royal Charter in 1852, Trinity offered instruction in arts and divinity, and, for varying periods, in law and medicine. It also granted degrees in music, pharmacy and dentistry. In 1904 Trinity federated with the University of Toronto and in 1925 moved to a new but similar building on the Queen's Park campus. The old building was used by the Kiwanis Boys Club until 1956, when it was demolished. This gateway, put up in 1903, has been left standing in commemoration.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.645423 -79.413257

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