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  Q&A: What small town fought to keep its college from moving to Toronto and federating with U of T?
On March 15, 1827, King's College - the precursor to the University of Toronto - was granted its royal charter by King George IV.
Professor Emeritus of Law at U of T. His book is published by the University of Toronto Press.
Victoria's senate then reversed its earlier vote against the move, and the provincial government was notified that Victoria now accepted federation.
www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bios/02/history20.htm   (544 words)

  
 Victoria Texas Online - Our Victoria Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Victoria is the place where Texas history was written and the legendary Texas cattle industry began.
Victoria was platted by Jose M.J. Carbajal and developed an early importance as a stop on the La Bahia Road, as a stock-raising center, and as a shipping center for the port of Linnville.
Victoria continued to grow as a trade center, especially as Indianola became an important port of entry for both goods and thousands of immigrants who settled in the area.
www.victoriatexasonline.com /history.html   (522 words)

  
 Victoria University in the University of Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victoria University ("Vic" for short) is a federated school of the University of Toronto, consisting of Victoria College and Emmanuel College.
Victoria University is somewhat separated from the rest of the university geographically, bordering Queen's Park, and being located on the eastern portion of the campus along with St.
Victoria College was originally founded (as Upper Canada Academy--the name was changed in 1841) in Cobourg, Ontario, to the east of Toronto, in 1836, largely due to the efforts of Egerton Ryerson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_University_in_the_University_of_Toronto   (868 words)

  
 Victoria College
There are several institutes of higher education which are, or have been previously, known as 'Victoria College'.
This institute was formerly one of the major teachers colleges in Australia, which expanded into a general college offering business, nursing and teaching courses.
The College was taken over by Deakin University in the early 1990s and is now known as Deakin University[?], Burwood campus and Deakin University, Toorak campus.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Victoria_College.html   (67 words)

  
 Innis College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Innis College Residence, 111 St George St Innis College is one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Toronto.
Innis College is named in homage to famous U of T political economist Harold Innis.
Innis was the first college to host an open pub (1975) and the first college to sport an equity split between faculty and students on their governing council.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innis_College   (498 words)

  
 The Directory of Canadian Universities - Victoria University
Emmanuel College is a theological college and is part of the Toronto School of Theology.
Victoria College is one of the seven undergraduate colleges for students in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.
Victoria is particularly proud of its integration of modern technology into the graceful architecture of the dwellings and academic buildings on campus.
www.aucc.ca /can_uni/our_universities/victoria_on_e.html   (612 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Victoria
In 1904 the title was changed to that of the archdiocese, and in 1909 to that of the Diocese of Victoria, the Archdiocese of Vancouver being then transferred to Vancouver City, B.C. As early as 1778 Franciscan missionaries reached Nootka on the west coast of the island.
The former, devotedly both to education and the care of the sick, are still actively engaged in various parts of the diocese, and have two institutions in Victoria, St. Ann's Academy for girls and St. Joseph's Hospital.
Right Rev. Bertram Orth succeeded in 1899, and in 1903 was raised to the dignity of archbishop of the newly established ecclesiastical province of British Columbia.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15412b.htm   (772 words)

  
 U of T Magazine -- University of Toronto
During her final year of a BA in Women's Studies and African Studies at U of T in 1996, Dawn Wilkinson took a one-week filmmaking workshop in Mount Forest, Ontario, that persuaded her to pursue a life behind the camera.
U of T. Pat Hibbitts (BA 1973 VIC) was honoured with a Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction Award.
U of T English professor and poet George Elliott Clarke received the Faculty Award; and Flow 93.5 FM CEO and philanthropist Denham Jolly received the Honorary UTBAA Alumni Award.
www.magazine.utoronto.ca /06winter/alumninotes.asp   (1146 words)

  
 Welcome to Gilson College
The College is within 35 minutes of several major transport centres, including Melbourne International airport, Avalon airport, Essendon airport, and Melbourne port (the largest container port in Australia).
Covering the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, this area was known as the Trans-Commonwealth Union conference and in 1950 WJ Gilson was given the responsibility of administering education in this vast area.
The area around Gilson College in addition to its agricultural activity was a gateway through to the gold fields of Bendigo and Ballarat.
www.gilsoncollege.com /G-history.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Historic Buildings | History of Toronto and County of York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Croft Chapter House is part of University College and is physically attached to it, being on the south-western corner of the building, on King's College Circle.
After plans for federation with the University of Toronto were abandoned, the College was united in 1887 with Woodstock College to form McMaster University, which moved to Hamilton in 1930.
It was given its Royal Charter to confer degrees and was renamed Victoria College in 1841.
www.historyoftoronto.ca /history/buildings7.html   (995 words)

  
 U of T Magazine -- Spring 2002
Born in Toronto in 1902, Creighton studied English and history at Victoria College, U of T. Upon graduation in 1925, he went to Oxford and read for a second BA.
Hired by U of T in 1927, he would move from lecturer to professor to chair of the history department to professor emeritus, in a storied career that spanned more than half a century.
Central to Creighton's conceptualizing of Canadian history was the "Laurentian thesis," the argument that Canada made sense both politically as a counterpoint to the U.S., and economically because of the St. Lawrence River, which bisects the eastern part of the continent.
www.magazine.utoronto.ca /02spring/f01h.htm   (438 words)

  
 Victoria County Sheriff's Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I am T. Michael O'Connor, a fifth-generation a South Texas rancher and businessman, who graduated from St. Joseph High School, attended Victoria College, and received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Texas AandM University.
I currently serve as Captain in the U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol and an Adjunct Instructor at the Victoria College Police Academy.
I was elected Sheriff of Victoria County in 2004 and was sworn in January 1, 2005.
www.victoriasheriff.org /org.htm   (469 words)

  
 U of T Intramurals
This trophy was presented by Miss Margaret Addison, Dean of Women, Victoria College, in 1908-09.
It was won by St. Hilda's College for three successive years, 1910-1911, 1911-1912, and 1912-1913, thus gaining permanent possession.
In 1980 St. Hilda's College donated the trophy to the Athletic Department to be presented to the Division II Ice Hockey Champions.
www.uoftintramurals.ca /news/?id=623   (64 words)

  
 Victoria - Students
ResNet is part of the University of Toronto Residence network and we work with the U. of T. in bringing you internet access while you live on campus.
Victoria University is committed to ensuring a positive working and learning environment.
Victoria University reserves the right to assess the severity of a violation and its consequent penalty.
vicres.utoronto.ca /contract.php   (458 words)

  
 Victoria, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Victoria Barge Canal (completed in 1962) connects the city with the Intracoastal Waterway.
Victoria has food-processing plants, aircraft shops, and factories manufacturing petrochemicals, concrete, metal, machinery, clothing, and boats.
It is the seat of Victoria College and the Univ. of Houston at Victoria.
www.bartleby.com /65/vi/VictoriaUS.html   (145 words)

  
 CMT.com : Victoria Williams : Biography
Despite a successful career as a idiosyncratic country-folk performer, Victoria Williams was perhaps best known as a songwriter; thanks, ironically enough, to a tribute
Born in Louisiana in 1959, Williams taught herself to play the guitar while still in her teens, and soon began composing songs.
In response, her manager began assembling friends and fans to record Williams' songs for a benefit album; the result, 1993's Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams, featured the likes of Pearl Jam, Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet, the Jayhawks, and Soul Asylum, whose rendition of "Summer of Drugs" was the record's first single.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/victoria_williams/bio.jhtml   (493 words)

  
 Victoria's Secret targets college women - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com
At the launch of the fall 2004 collection, model Alessandra Ambrosio shepherded 20 college students, who were selected from a nationwide search to be spokeswomen in university dorms.
Ambrosio and "Team Pink" (as the college gals have been named) arrived in their new short-shorts and tank tops at the Manhattan flagship store of Victoria's Secret in pink and white Hummer limos.
Victoria's Secret proclaims in a statement that the "Pink" collection "expresses that lingerie is more than just underwear, but a necessary and fashionable wardrobe extension."
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5551845   (506 words)

  
 The Strand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The student newspaper of Victoria University in the University of Toronoto • Established 1953
The rumour of a scheme by U of T Engineers to usurp the Student's Administrative Council has met the same fate as the Gunpowder Plot of their alleged hero, Guy Fawkes.
U of T is the center of attraction for World AIDS day
www.thestrand.ca   (333 words)

  
 Victoria Advocate - Top Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Once the burning is complete, dirt work will begin on the $33 million end of the project that includes widening the highway north of Victoria County to four lanes and adding an overpass at state Highway 111.
YOAKUM - The burning of debris cleared for the path of the U.S. Highway 77 expansion project from the Victoria County line north to past the state Highway 111 intersection has started.
The Victoria area transportation office oversaw the first two phases, while the latest phase is a Yoakum area project.
thevictoriaadvocate.com /428/story/19679.html   (534 words)

  
 Vortex(t)
Shrub’s recent pontificating about a troop “surge” as a solution for all that ails us in Iraq is stuck in my craw in a similarly urgent way.
The doctor, then, spent all of five minutes evaluating me before commanding us to get to the nearest ER (to rule out appendicitis, kidney issues, and any other possible reason for this excruciating pain).
Victoria on The continuing vengeful antics of One Angry Ovary.
victoriamarinelli.com /main   (4335 words)

  
 University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- U of T hosts teaching conference (Jun 15/06)
New trends in post-secondary teaching and the latest findings in pedagogical research take centre stage at Victoria College this week, where U of T is hosting the annual conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).
Some 600 university and college professors, teachers, administrators and students will be attending STLHE’s 26th annual conference, which runs from June 14 to 17.
It’s the first time U of T has hosted the annual conference and Bartlett said the timing is a reflection of a growing awareness at the university about the importance of ongoing faculty development.
www.news.utoronto.ca /bin6/060615-2368.asp   (521 words)

  
 Victoria Beckham Image Gallery, Pictures, Pics, Photos, Photo Gallery, Cards Galleries, Profile, Biography, ...
Victoria Caroline Adams was born April 17, 1974, in Hertfordshire, England.
As a child, Victoria was surprisingly lonely; other children often teased her because of her acne and she would even ask her father not to drop her off in front of school so as not to be seen in the family's Rolls-Royce.
Victoria, along with her band mates Emma, Geri, and the two Mels, became instant household names, with success that changed the face of pop culture and gave new meaning to "girl power."
www.celebwelove.com /Victoria_Beckham/biography.html   (669 words)

  
 Mr. K. Pooranampillai
Pooranampillai, 92, a former principal of Hartley College, Point Pedro (1943-1967), and later at St. Johns College, Jaffna (1967-1976), affectionately known as KP, passed away in UK at his daughter's residence on 22 April.
He had made the College a place for the acquisition of skills necessary for life.
Pooranampillai was the Principal of Hartley College from 1943 to 1967, which is considered as a "golden era" of Hartley College.
www.hartleycollege.com /kp   (999 words)

  
 Victoria, Tomas Luis de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He went to Rome in 1565 to study for the priesthood at the German Jesuit College.
In 1571 he became music master of the Collegium Romanum, succeeding Palestrina, who may have been his teacher.
In 1578, Victoria gave up the position he had held since 1573 as music master at the Collegium Germanicum to become a resident priest at the Church of San Girolamo.
www.bartleby.com /65/vi/VictoriaT.html   (208 words)

  
 Environmental crisis forging strange bedfellows
New partnerships bridging the boundaries between religion and science must be forged if the world is to avoid ecological collapse because of pollution and human interference, says a University of Toronto professor.
In fact, Scharper continues, Republican Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House in Washington has admitted publicly that one of his biggest blunders was not understanding the opposition to his administration's planned rollback of environmental safeguards by the rank and file religious members of his own party.
Scharper will deliver a lecture of his views at the Walter Gordon Massey Symposium at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria College, U of T, on March 16.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-03/uot-ecf031405.php   (179 words)

  
 College of Law, University of Illinois
At the University of Illinois, Professor Kesan holds positions in the College of Law, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.
He has also worked with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation on their intellectual property protection and technology commercialization activities in the former Soviet Union countries.
He is a registered patent attorney and practiced at the former firm of Pennie and Edmonds LLP in the areas of patent litigation and patent prosecution.
www.law.uiuc.edu /faculty/DirectoryResult.asp?Name=Kesan,+Jay   (560 words)

  
 Dorm Brothel - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations.
We did not stoop to the State U level of referring to ourselves as freshmen, sophomores, and such—not at "The University." We were all men at U.Va.—"gentlemen," we were told.
It could happen in the back seat of a car, a cheap motel, a cow pasture, or a Civil War battlefield, but not in a college dormitory or fraternity house bedroom, not yet at least; it was not until the end of the decade that all the...
www.ctlibrary.com /ct/2005/february/13.44.html   (426 words)

  
 Prospective Students
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor's Latest research, respiratory therapy is one of the "fastest growing" occupations requiring an associate's degree.
The Victoria College has a variety of financial assistance programs available to qualifying students including scholarships, loans, and grants.
Applicants for the Respiratory Care Program must meet special entrance requirements and complete a departmental application form in addition to the general Victoria College application for admission and general admission requirements.
www.victoriacollege.edu /dept/resp/prospective_students.htm   (518 words)

  
 Britain markets itself as 'damaged goods,' professor says
A 1999 New York exhibition of contemporary British art, yBa (young British artist), notoriously included a huge painting of a child murderer, animal carcasses floating in formaldehyde and a painting of the Virgin Mary that incorporated porn magazine pictures and elephant dung.
Her work on issues of national stereotypes as filters carries through into her current work on the major Canadian artist Michael Snow in his international contexts.
Legge's research, which will be published in book form, is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, a Connaught grant and Victoria College at U of T. CONTACT: Professor Elizabeth Legge, Department of Fine Art, 416-585-4447, eliz.legge@utoronto.ca or Michah Rynor, U of T public affairs, 416-978-2104, michah.rynor@utoronto.ca
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-05/uot-bmi052203.php   (329 words)

  
 @MMHS - Milliken Mills High School, Markham, Ontario Canada
Students will also be called down to the guidance office to meet with the grade level counsellor during the year to look at their progress and to discuss future goals.
We are also hosting three evenings for the college and university representatives to provide specific information about programs at their schools.
The college application is $80.00 for 5 choices, no more than three choices can be from the same school.
access.mmhs.ca /department_index_info.asp?ID=11   (2681 words)

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