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{{Short description|Private all-boys school in Toronto, Canada}} | |||
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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} | |||
|name = Upper Canada College | |||
|native_name = | |||
|latin_name = | |||
|image = UCC_Crest.PNG | |||
|motto = Palmam qui meruit ferat | |||
|motto_translation = Whoever hath deserved it let him bear off the palm | |||
|established = ] | |||
|type = Independent | |||
|affiliation = None | |||
|endowment = $43,274,134 ]<ref></ref> <ref>] ]</ref> | |||
|faculty = 72 | |||
|principal = Dr. James P. Power | |||
|enrollment = 1116 | |||
|streetaddress = 200 Lonsdale Road <!--- FORMAT MAPQUEST LINK http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=200+Lonsdale+Road&city=toronto&state=On&zipcode= ---> | |||
|city = ] | |||
|province = ] | |||
|country = ] | |||
|postalcode = M4V 1W6 | |||
|campus = Deer Park (urban), Norval (rural) | |||
|colours = Blue and white | |||
|mascot = | |||
|url = http://www.ucc.on.ca/}} | |||
{{Infobox school | |||
'''Upper Canada College''' (UCC), located in downtown ], ], is a ] ] and ] for boys, where students between Senior ] and ] study under the ] program. | |||
| name = Upper Canada College | |||
| image = Upper Canada College Crest.svg | |||
| caption = | |||
| address = 200 Lonsdale Road | |||
| city = ] | |||
| province = Ontario | |||
| country = Canada | |||
| fundingtype = Independent<!--this parameter links automatically--> | |||
| schooltype = ] and ] | |||
| motto = {{Langnf|la|Palmam qui meruit ferat|Let he who merited the palm bear it|break=yes}}<ref name=CHA/> | |||
| established = {{start date and age|1829}} | |||
| principal = Samuel James McKinney | |||
| free_label = ] | |||
| free_text = ''Vacant'' | |||
| faculty = 140 | |||
| grades = Kindergarten to grade 12 | |||
| enrolment = 1,146 | |||
| other_grade_label = {{abbr|K|Kindergarten}} – grade 7 | |||
| other_grade_enrolment = 416 | |||
| other_grade_label_2 = {{nowrap|Grades 8–12}} | |||
| other_grade_enrolment_2 = 730 | |||
| campus = ]/] ({{convert|38.5|acre|km2|disp=sqbr}}, urban)<br /> ] ({{convert|450|acre|km2|disp=sqbr}}, rural) | |||
| colours = {{hlist|Blue|white}} | |||
| endowment = ]107,000,000<ref name="Endow"/> | |||
| url = {{URL|ucc.on.ca}} | |||
}} | |||
'''Upper Canada College''' ('''UCC''') is an independent ] and ] ] in ], Ontario, operating under the ] program. The college is widely described as Canada's most prestigious ],<ref>{{cite news |last=Cheney |first=Peter |title=UCC's watershed moment |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |date=11 September 2004 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/uccs-watershed-moment/article18273203/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-03-21}}</ref><ref name=article4325078>{{cite news |last=Valpy |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Valpy |title=Being Michael Ignatieff |date=28 August 2006 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/being-michael-ignatieff/article4325078/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Cheney |first=Peter |title=Judge gives green light to UCC sexual abuse suit |date=31 December 2003 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/judge-gives-green-light-to-ucc-sexual-abuse-suit/article18441285/ |access-date=2023-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Martin |first=Sandra E. |date=November 2003 |title=10 things private schools won't tell you |magazine=MoneySense |url=http://www.canadianbusiness.com/my_money/planning/education/article.jsp?content=20031107_143425_800 |access-date=21 October 2010 |archive-date=19 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019220840/http://www.canadianbusiness.com/my_money/planning/education/article.jsp?content=20031107_143425_800 }}</ref> and has produced many ].<ref name="CE"/><ref name="Boarding">{{Cite news |date=4 October 2007 |title=Exclusive Toronto private school to end boarding |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/exclusive-toronto-private-school-to-end-boarding-1.654110 |access-date=21 October 2010}}</ref><ref name="TL">{{Cite journal |title=Telling tales out of school |journal=Toronto Life |location=Toronto |publisher=Toronto Life Publishing Co. |date=October 1994 |page=36}}</ref> With around 1,200 students, UCC is highly ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toronto's foremost private boys school, operating under the IB Program. |url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/ |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=ucc.on.ca}}</ref> The school has a financial aid program which currently awards more than $5 million annually to Canadian citizens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tuition and Financial Aid at UCC {{!}} Boys Private IB School in Toronto |url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/admission/tuition-and-financial-assistance |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=ucc.on.ca}}</ref> | |||
The secondary school segment is divided into 10 ]; eight are for day students and the remaining two are for ]. Aside from the main structure, with its dominant ], the Toronto campus has a number of sports facilities, staff and faculty residences, and other buildings. UCC also owns and operates an outdoor education campus in ]. | |||
Founded in 1829, UCC is the oldest ] in the province of ], the third oldest in the country, and is often described as the most prestigious ] in Canada,<ref><br><br> <br><br><br><br> (Moved as of February 12, 2007<br><br><br></ref> having many of Canada's elite, powerful and wealthy as graduates. Modelled on the great ] ]s, throughout its history the College both influenced and was influenced by government, and maintained a reputation as a ] ] from its founding. However, UCC is today fully independent, and the student and faculty populations are more diverse in terms of cultural and economic backgrounds. A link to the ] is maintained through ], who is the College's Official ], and a member of the Board of Governors.<ref name="UCCHist"></ref> | |||
UCC was founded in 1829 by ], then ], and modelled on ]. After facing closure by the government on more than one occasion, UCC became fully independent in 1900, nine years after moving to its present location. It is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario<ref name="CE">{{Cite encyclopedia |last=McLean|first=Steve|date=2012-03-09|title=Education > Colleges & Universities > Upper Canada College|editor-last=Marsh|editor-first=James Harley |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada-college |publisher=Historica Foundation of Canada |place=Toronto|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=23 October 2010 |archive-date=2017-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916140145/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/upper-canada-college/ }}</ref><ref name="HB488">{{Cite book |last1=Thomson|first1=Ashley|last2=Lafortune|first2=Sylvie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bufwMVeKC3MC |title=Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools|year=1999 |location=Toronto |publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=1-55002-323-3|page=488}}</ref> and the third oldest in Canada. UCC maintains links with the ] through its members or representatives of the ], sometimes serving as the college's Visitor and/or on its Board of Governors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our History {{!}} Upper Canada College |url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/welcome/our-history |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=ucc.on.ca}}</ref><ref name="UCCHist">{{cite web| url=https://bluenet.ucc.on.ca/sslpage.aspx?pid=935| title=Discover > Archives & History > College History| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Boothroyd|first1=Basil |title=Prince Philip: An Informal Biography|date=1971 |publisher=McCall|location=New York |isbn=0841501165 |edition=First American}}</ref> | |||
==History== | |||
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==History== | |||
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Upper Canada College's has a storied history that parallels the growth of the city of Toronto, and the province of Ontario. Founded in 1829 by then-] of ], Major-General Sir ] (later Lord Seaton), in the hopes that it would serve as a "feeder school" to the newly established King's College (later the ]), UCC was modelled on the great public schools of Britain, most notably ].<ref name="How">Howard, Richard; ''Upper Canada College, 1829-1979: Colborne's Legacy''; Macmillan Company of Canada, 1979</ref><ref name="UCCHist" /> Despite ever increasing enrolment, and its popularity with leading families of the day, both from the local ] and from abroad, UCC was faced with closure on a number of occasions, threatened either by opponents to elitism, withdrawal of funding by the provincial government that once administered it, or by having no building in which to operate.<ref name="How" /> | |||
===Beginnings and growth=== | |||
Originally located at the corner of ] and Simcoe Streets, the College moved to its present location in ], which was then a ] area, in 1891. UCC maintained a Cadet Corps from around 1837 until it was disbanded amidst changing social standards in 1976; it was the only student corps called to duty in Canadian military history when it assisted in staving off the ] in 1866.<ref name="How" /> Through the two World Wars, a number of UCC graduates gave their lives and provided leadership. Historian ], in his book ''The Generals'', demonstrated that UCC graduates also accounted for more than 30% of Canadian generals during the Second World War; in total, 26 Old Boys achieved ] rank or higher in ].<ref>Killbourn, Pg. 168</ref> | |||
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UCC was founded in 1829 by Major-General Sir ] (later the 1st ]), then ], in the hopes that it would serve as a ] to the newly established ] (now known as the ]).<ref name=CE/><ref name=HB488/> UCC was modelled on the ] of Great Britain, such as ].<ref name="UCCHist"/><ref name=How>{{cite book| last=Howard| first=Richard| title=Upper Canada College, 1829–1979: Colborne's Legacy| publisher=Macmillan Company of Canada| year=1979| location=Toronto| isbn=0-7705-1843-5| page=| url=https://archive.org/details/uppercanadacolle00howa }}</ref><ref name=OT5>{{cite magazine| magazine=Old Times| url=http://issuu.com/uppercanadacollege/docs/ucc_oldtimes_ws_2013/7| last=Daniels| first=Chris| title=A Few Good Men| date=Winter–Spring 2013| page=5| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> Though now an independent school, the college was created with public funds, including an initial land grant of 6,000 acres of crown lands, later increased to 66,000 acres.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Centennial Story: The Board of Education for the City of Toronto 1850–1950|last=Hardy|first=Edwin Austin |location=Toronto|publisher=Thomas Nelson & Sons (Canada) Limited |year=1950|editor-last=Cochrane|editor-first=Honora M.}}</ref> | |||
The school began teaching in the original ]. However, within a year, it was established on its own campus, known as Russell Square,<ref name=HB488/> at the north-west corner of ] and Simcoe streets. Colborne brought educated men from the United Kingdom's ] and ] Universities, attracting them with high salaries.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=13}} Still, despite ever increasing enrolment, popularity with leading families of the day (both from the local ] and from abroad);{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=14}} a visit in 1847 from the Governor General of the ], ];<ref>{{cite web| title=Upper Canada College (1831–1891); Interior, prayer hall; visit of Lord Elgin| url=http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PICTURES-R-5169&R=DC-PICTURES-R-5169| publisher=Toronto Public Library| access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> and praise from many, including ],{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=44}}<ref>{{Cite book| last=Dickens| first=Charles| author-link=Charles Dickens| title=American Notes| publisher=General Books LLC| date=6 March 2010| location=New York| page=142| isbn=978-1-153-74747-9| url=http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/americannotes/16?term=college%20of%20upper%20canada}}</ref> UCC was faced with closure on a number of occasions. Opponents of elitism{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=15}}{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=112}} sought to curtail provincial government funding{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=114}} and remove the college from its premises.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=112}} | |||
UCC faced a major crisis when, in ], it was discovered that the main building was in serious disrepair, due to poor construction, and was in danger of collapse. A massive funraising campaign was started and within the year, and construction of the present building began in 1959, and was opened by ] ] in 1960. | |||
The school merged with King's College for a period after 1831 and moved 60 years later to its present location in ],{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=26}} then a rural area.<ref name=HB488/> The school expanded in 1902 to take in lower-year students with the construction of a separate primary school building, the Prep, allowing for boys to be enrolled from ] through to graduation. | |||
Massey had further influence on the College, in teamwork with principal Rev. Sowby, bringing about somewhat of a ] for the school. A number of distinguished visitors made themselves present, and leading minds were brought on as masters.<ref name="Kill">Killbourn, William; ''Toronto Remembered''; Soddart Publishing, Toronto; 1984</ref> Still, despite this enlightenment, as well as the fact that the school had been accepting ] since the first ] student enrolled in 1831,<ref></ref> UCC attracted accusations of ] and sexism; the atmosphere was described as reflective of Toronto in general,<ref name="Fitz"></ref> "basically Tory, Anglican and fantastically patrician..."<ref name="Fitz" /> The school culture tranformed through the 1970s as UCC offered assistance to the less affluent, and made attempts to attract boys from visible minorities, becoming "a small United Nations" that echoed Toronto's ethnic variety<ref>Howard, pg. 264</ref> (today, students from over 16 different countries attend UCC<ref></ref>), though up to 1990 there was still talk of anti-semitism.<ref>Sherman, Motek; ''College Times'': Editorial; 1990</ref> These aspects of College life came to light in James T. Fitzgerald's book ''Old Boys,'' published in 1994. The school, however, took the ensuing criticisms seriously, creating a more transparent institution.<ref></ref> | |||
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In 1900, the government of Ontario stopped funding UCC,<ref name="HB488" /> making it a completely independent school. By 1910, however, UCC was facing declining enrolment and capital; it considered selling the Deer Park campus and moving again to become a full boarding school on a property purchased in ].<ref name="McLean5">{{cite magazine| last=McLean| first=Steve| title=100 Years| magazine=Old Times| page=5| date=Summer–Fall 2013| publisher=Upper Canada College}}</ref> Plans were halted by the outbreak of the First World War, and the college remained where it was. It eventually thrived there, both physically and culturally, as the buildings were expanded and bright instructors attracted. | |||
In the decade following 1998 Upper Canada College suffered a series of scandals wherein staff were accused of ] or of possessing ]. The first was Clark Winton Noble, who admitted to an earlier attack on a UCC student in 1971 when he was under trial for an assault against a student at ] in 1998. He was never tried for the previous admission as the charges were withdrawn.<ref></ref><ref></ref> Five years later, eighteen students sued UCC in a very public case, claiming ] by Doug Brown, who taught at the Prep from 1975 to 1993. He was found guilty in 2004 of nine counts of ],<ref name="Brown"></ref> and was sentenced to three years in jail. The same year, Ashley Chivers, a teachnig assistant at UCC from 1996 to 2003, was charged with possesion of ], none of which featured UCC students.<ref></ref> He was convicted of one count and was given an 18-month ].<ref></ref> Former teacher Herbert Sommerfeld surrendered to Toronto police in 2004, after previous student Douglas Mackenzie accused him of sexual abuse at the Prep.<ref name="globe"></ref> Sommerfeld was ] due to what the judge called "vague and inconsistent" testimony by the plaintiff.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The same accuser was also part of a case against Lorne Cook, a teacher at UCC between 1978 and 1994. Cook was found guilty of one count of indecent assault and one of sexual interference. In November, 2006, he was sentenced to house arrest.<ref></ref> | |||
Principal William Grant spearheaded further development. Shortly after assuming his position in 1917, he oversaw recruitment of teachers described as "eccentric, crotchety, quaint, though widely travelled and highly intelligent."{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=204}} His tenure also saw other improvements. Student enrolment doubled, and bursaries increased. Teacher salaries also doubled, and their benefits now included a pension plan.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=209}} | |||
Originally offering only secondary school education, UCC expanded to lower years with the construction of a separate primary school building, the Prep, in 1902, allowing for boys to be enrolled from ] through to graduation. The College adopted the ] (IB) program in 1996, which augments the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Following this, ] was added in 1998, and ] the next year. Since 2003 UCC has offered places from senior ] to ].<ref name="TandN" /> | |||
UCC maintained a ] from around 1837, which became a ] attached to the Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada (later ]) in 1860.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://qormuseum.org/history/cadets/upper-canada-college-cadet-corps/| title=17 Upper Canada College Cadets| publisher=The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives| access-date=28 February 2015| date=2 June 2012}}</ref> It was one of only two student corps called to duty in Canadian military history when it assisted in staving off the ] in 1866.<ref name=How/> Historian ], in his book ''The Generals'', demonstrated that UCC graduates accounted for more than 30 per cent of Canadian generals during the ], and 26 Old Boys achieved ] rank or higher.<ref>{{Citation| last=Killbourn| first=William| title=Toronto Remembered| publisher=Stoddart Publishing| location=Toronto| page=| year=1984| isbn=978-0-7737-2029-9| url=https://archive.org/details/torontoremembere0000kilb/page/168}}</ref> A war memorial display case and plaque in the Upper School's main entrance hall is dedicated to the UCC Old Boys who distinguished themselves during Canadian military service periods.<ref name=DND>{{cite web| url=http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=5693| author=Department of National Defence| title=Memorials Details Search Results| publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada| access-date=28 February 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109080257/http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=5693| archive-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> | |||
==Current events== | |||
===Capital building project=== | |||
UCC launched a decade-long $90 million capital building campaign. The plans call for the creation of two new arena complexes, an Olympic-standard 50-metre swimming pool, a new racquet centre (squash, badminton and tennis), a rowing centre, expansion of both the Prep and Upper School academic buildings, a new state-of-the-art turf football field, and an expansion of the Archives. | |||
===After the Second World War=== | |||
In January, 2007, the school announced the arena campaign, dubbed "At Centre Ice." UCC plans to raise $17.5-million for a new arena complex, with over $12 million already raised. The facility will contain one ] and one Olympic-size ice rink.<ref></ref> | |||
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] and his family during the late 1950s paid for the school's clock tower]] | |||
In 1958, UCC faced a major crisis when it was discovered that the Upper School's main building was in danger of collapse due to poor construction. At the time, despite its benefactors, UCC had no endowment.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=248}} An emergency building fund was started and, with the assistance of ], all of the necessary $3,200,000 was raised. ] and his family paid for the clock tower, while ] donated the funds necessary to build Laidlaw Hall. Construction of the present main building began in early 1959, and it was opened by former ] ] near the end of 1960. | |||
The crisis forced the school government to rethink their stance on foresight and planning, leading to a years-long program of new construction, salary improvements, and funding sources.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=248}} Furthermore, in conjunction with Principal Sowby, whom he had helped select, Massey had additional influence on the college and brought about somewhat of a ] at the school – a number of distinguished visitors were brought in, and leading minds were hired as masters.{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p={{page needed|date=February 2021}}}} At this time, the curriculum began to shift from offering a ] to offering one grounded in the ]; language options besides ] were first offered after 1950.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=245}} | |||
===Lawsuit=== | |||
Though media attention has subsided, the lawsuits that began for UCC after 2003 continue today in the form of a still unsettled $19 million case against the school by Douglas Mackenzie, who is himself facing trial in the ], as well as ] to the ], over ] of a minor.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
The period from 1965 to 1975 was a decade of constant change at UCC;<ref name=OT5/> global and local cultural influences (including the ], the bohemian ] neighbourhood, the ] festival, changing fashion trends, rock music, and the ]) collided head-on with the conservative and traditional culture and environment at UCC. Individual freedoms trumped institutional discipline, and ] had lost its clout.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=249}} Patrick T. Johnson, principal from 1965 to 1974, managed the cultural transition during these years, successfully integrating societal trends, traditional values, and individual self-expression. One of the casualties, though, was the cadet corps; it was disbanded in September 1975 in favour of a smaller volunteer corps. Under principals educated at ] (Johnson) and ] (Sadlier), the college refused to adopt the new provincial educational standards issued in 1967, which it considered lower than the old standards.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=261}} UCC also moved forward with new educational and athletic facilities across the campus, while opening the campus to the wider community at the same time.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=263}} By the 1990s, ]s were set up on the campus for any child who wished to enroll. | |||
==Campus and facilities== | |||
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Upper Canada College occupies an open, rectangular campus in ], near the major intersection of ] and ], in the residential neighbourhood of ], with 15 buildings on the site. The main building (the Upper School), central on the campus, and with a dominant ], houses the secondary school component of the College, in a quadrangle form. Laidlaw Hall, the principle assembly hall attached to the west end of the main building, holds a ] as well as a large ] stage; at the other end of the building is the Memorial Wing, the school's main ]; and forming the north end of the main ] is the building containing the two boarding houses, built in 1932.<ref name="TandN"></ref> Satellite to this complex are townhouse-style residences for masters and their families, and Grant House, the residence of the College's principal. There are also two structures north of the boarding houses: one a garage converted from stables, and the other, a small, two-storey cricket pavilion. The Preparatory School is at the south-west corner of the campus, near which is a home for the Prep Headmaster, and a small gatehouse. Currently, the oldest building on the site is the Parkin Building, completed in ]. | |||
The college embarked on another building campaign, again with the aid of Prince Philip, beginning in 1989 and ending in 1994, with the construction of new athletic facilities at the Upper School and the replacement of the 1901 Peacock Building at the Prep. Two years later, UCC adopted the ] (IB),{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=489}} which augmented the ]. Following this, ] was added in 1998 and ] the next year. Since 2003, UCC has offered places from Senior ] to ].<ref name=TandN>{{Cite magazine| title=Then & Now| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2005| pages=7–8| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> | |||
The athletic facilities include an indoor pool, three ]s, as well as, around the campus, an indoor arena (the Patrick Johnson Arena), a sports activity bubble, tennis courts, a sports court, a running track, and nine regulation sized sports fields. The two major fields of the Upper School are called "Commons" and "Lords", after the ] and ]. In the summer of 2006, the UCC Oval (the main sports field) and running track were renovated thanks to an anonymous multi-million dollar donation to the school. The field was replaced by a partially synthetic astroturf/grass hybrid, while the track was made entirely of rubber turf. Several meters below the field, ] pipes were laid which provide ] heating for both the Upper School and a future sports complex. | |||
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===Into the 21st century=== | |||
UCC also maintains its own archives with records, including those that outline the history of Upper Canada, the Province of Ontario, and the city of Toronto, dating back to the mid-].<ref></ref> | |||
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In the years following 1998, five UCC staff were accused of ] or of possessing ]; three were convicted of some of the charges.<ref>{{Citation|last=Cheney| first=Peter| title=What would you say if I seduced you?| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=25 August 2001 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/what-would-you-say-if-i-seduced-you/article1338774/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last1=Appleby| first1=Timothy| last2=Cheney| first2=Peter| title=Sexual predator at private schools pardoned| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=19 October 2006| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sexual-predator-at-private-schools-pardoned/article1107776/| access-date=2023-03-21| url-access=subscription| location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Cheney| first=Peter| title=Child porn charges laid against teaching assistant| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=11 June 2003| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/child-porn-charges-laid-against-teaching-assistant/article25686061/| access-date=2023-03-21| url-access=subscription| location=Toronto}}</ref><ref name=article4111899>{{Citation| last=Appleby| first=Timothy| title=Retired UCC teacher guilty in sex case| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=13 October 2006| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/retired-ucc-teacher-guilty-in-sex-case/article4111899/| access-date=2023-03-21| url-access=subscription| location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last=Moore| first=Oliver| title=Teacher acquitted in UCC sex case| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=6 December 2005| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/teacher-acquitted-in-ucc-sex-case/article18254578/| access-date=2023-03-21| url-access=subscription| location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last=Pazzano| first=Sam| title=No jail for teacher in sex assault| newspaper=Toronto Sun| date=23 November 2006| url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/59666/No_jail_for_teacher_in_sex_assault| access-date=19 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Retired UCC instructor acquitted of sexual abuse charges| publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| date=6 December 2005| url=http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to_teacheracquited20051206.html| access-date=19 October 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922135525/http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to_teacheracquited20051206.html| archive-date=22 September 2006}}</ref> In 2003, 18 students launched a $62 million ] against UCC, claiming ] by Doug Brown, who taught at the Prep from 1975 to 1993 and was eventually found guilty in 2004 of nine counts of ].<ref name=article4111899/><ref>{{Cite news|title=Ontario private school teacher found guilty of abusing boys| date=8 October 2004| publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-private-school-teacher-found-guilty-of-abusing-boys-1.487067| access-date=10 October 2007|url-status=live| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071206125255/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/10/08/ucc_brown_guilty041008.html| archive-date=6 December 2007}}</ref> UCC agreed to a confidential settlement with the victims.<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Beauroy| first=Stéphane| title=Memoir: a notorious Upper Canada College teacher ruined my life| date=23 September 2013| url=http://www.torontolife.com/informer/columns/2013/09/23/memoir-nightmare-on-avenue-road/| magazine=Toronto Life| publisher=St. Joseph Media| access-date=30 January 2015| archive-date=2 March 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302042026/http://www.torontolife.com/informer/columns/2013/09/23/memoir-nightmare-on-avenue-road/}}</ref> | |||
UCC followed the trends in environmentalism when the Board of Governors unanimously voted in 2002 to establish the Green School initiative, wherein environmental education would become "one of the four hallmarks of a UCC education."<ref>{{Cite journal| title=Governors Agree: UCC to be a Green School| journal=Current Times| date=September 2002| page=2| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| url=http://www1.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200209.pdf| access-date=25 August 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104232919/http://www.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200209.pdf| archive-date=4 November 2005}}</ref> Plans to carry this out saw not only upgrades of the school's ] to meet environmentally ] standards, but also an integration of these new initiatives into the curriculum.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Executive Director of Green School sought| journal=Current Times| date=December 2002| page=5| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| url=http://www1.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200212.pdf| access-date=25 August 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104233359/http://www.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200212.pdf| archive-date=4 November 2005}}</ref> After the appointment in 2004 of Jim Power as principal, the curriculum further evolved to address reports of wider, societal trends showing a rise in boys' behavioural problems and a decline in their educational performance.<ref name=OT5 /><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/celebrate-boys-boyness-and-work-with-it/article5370557/| last=Wente| first=Margaret| title=Celebrate boys' boyness – and work with it| date=17 November 2012| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| access-date=9 January 2015| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Simultaneously, UCC's status as an all-boys school found support following years of pressure to become co-educational,<ref name=OT5 /> especially as other prominent, formerly all-boys schools in Ontario began to make the switch, such as ] (1989), ] (1991), and ] (1991). | |||
Aside from UCC's main campus, the College owns the ] near Georgetown, Ontario. | |||
As part of the strategic plan for the school, the board of governors decided in 2007 to close the 180-year-old boarding programme, citing market changes and the neglect of boarding over preceding decades. However, students,<ref name="Power">{{cite news |last=Allemang |first=John |date=13 October 2007 |title=UCC's power play |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/uccs-power-play/article18147436/?page=all |access-date=9 January 2015| url-access=subscription}}</ref> the Old Boy community, and others associated with UCC reacted negatively to the announcement, leading the board to revisit its conclusion.<ref>{{citation| author=Upper Canada College Board of Governors| year=2008| title=Boarding Task Force Report| url=http://bluenet.ucc.on.ca/document.doc?id=59| page=1| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> It was subsequently decided that boarding should be retained, but only if, among other requirements, it housed no less than 60 students, the facilities were improved (work that took place through the summers of 2013 and 2014),<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Kulin| first=Emily| title=Home improvement| magazine=Old Times| url=http://issuu.com/uppercanadacollege/docs/ucc_oldtimes_ws_2013/23| publisher=Upper Canada College| page=21| location=Toronto| access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> and boarders be drawn from across the country.{{sfn| Upper Canada College Board of Governors| 2008| pp=5–6}} | |||
==Tuition, scholarships and assets== | |||
Upper Canada College is Canada's wealthiest independent school<ref></ref> having an endowment of more than $40 million (]).<ref></ref> | |||
==Campus and facilities== | |||
As of 2007, tuition fees range from $22,700 to $24,700 ] for all day-boy students, and $40,500 to $42,000 for boarding.<ref></ref> The institution is well-known for its challenging admissions standards, accepting approximately 25% of all applicants.<ref></ref> To those, UCC offers over $1.4 million in financial aid to students in ] and above,<ref name="UCCG"></ref> providing needs-based assistance.<ref></ref> The school plans to increase financial assistance over the next decade, and to help a more diverse range of students attend UCC. Scholarships include the McLeese Family Scholarship - founded in 1992 to assist international students in attending UCC and taking advantage of debating opportunities. Received a $1.8 million donation from Willis McLeese in 2003. | |||
===Toronto campus=== | |||
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Upper Canada College occupies an open, 17 hectare (43 acre)<ref name=CE />{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=487}} campus in ], near the major intersection of ] and ], in the residential neighbourhood of ]. There are 15 buildings on the site:<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nelnetsolutions.com/collegeprofiles/Profile.aspx?inunid=2442&reprjid=11&sponsor=1&tabid=10019| title=Upper Canada College > Programs and Resources| publisher=Peterson's| access-date=1 November 2010}}</ref> | |||
The main structure (the Upper School), constructed between 1959 and 1960, central on the campus, and with a dominant ], houses the secondary school component of the college, in a quadrangle form. Laidlaw Hall, the principal assembly hall, featuring a full theatre stage and a ], is attached to the west end of the Upper School and, at the other end, is the Memorial Wing, the school's main ].{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| pp=492–493}} Closing the north end of the main ] (which is the location of the statue of the Lord Seaton, installed in 1934<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCUyR1svtb8C| last=Warkentin| first=John| title=Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto| publisher=Becker Associates| year=2010| isbn=9780919387607}}</ref>) is one building, built in 1932, that contains the two boarding houses, as well as two private residences for the associated boarding masters,<ref name=TandN /> adjacent to which is the school chapel, donated by ] ].{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=186}} | |||
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The College has a notable collection of artwork and war medals. This collection includes Canada's first ], awarded in 1854 to Old Boy ], and a Victoria Cross awarded to ]. These medals were given to the ] on permanent loan on May 17, 2006.<ref>Aster, Andrea; ''Old Times'', Heroes' Welcome; Summer/Fall 2006; pg. 7</ref> UCC also holds a collection of original paintings from the ], though several were auctioned by the College in an effort to pay for the lawsuits it faced in 2004.<ref></ref> The school also holds an original ] essay, titled ''Why Boys Leave Home - A Talk on Camping'', donated in 2005, and published for the first time in the '']''.<ref></ref> | |||
Satellite to this complex are ]-style residences for masters and their families; the residence of the college's principal, Grant House, built in 1917; and a small, two-storey ], inaugurated by Governor General ]. The Preparatory School, part of which was designed by ], is at the south-west corner of the campus, near which is a home for the Prep headmaster and a small gatehouse. | |||
The athletic facilities include an indoor pool and three gymnasiums, as well as, around the campus, the William P. Wilder sports complex (containing an NHL and an Olympic sized ] rink, one of only four in Ontario<ref>{{Cite magazine| title=Random Things| magazine=Old Times| date=Summer–Fall 2008| page=53| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref>), a sports activity bubble, tennis courts, a sports court, a running track, and nine regulation sized sports fields. The two major fields of the Upper School are called ''Commons'' and ''Lords'', after, respectively, the ] and ], and one of the main central fields is known as ''the Oval'' (covered in winter by a ]). In the summer of 2006, the latter, along with the encompassing running track, was renovated, with the grass replaced by a partially synthetic ]/grass hybrid and the track paved with a rubber turf. Several metres below the field, ] pipes were laid to provide ] heating for both the Upper School and the adjacent sports complex. A number of these facilities are the result of a decade long, $90 million capital building campaign launched in the 1990s. Still planned are an Olympic-standard, 50-metre swimming pool; a new racquet centre for squash, badminton, and tennis; a rowing centre; the expansion of both the Prep and Upper School academic buildings; and an expansion of the archives. | |||
==Student body== | |||
UCC is a non-denominational school with 1,000 day students and 110 ], who all study the ] (IB) diploma programme during Grades Eleven and Twelve.<ref></ref> From Senior Kindergarten to ] (known as Remove) students attend the Preparatory School (the Prep). Following this, a boy may move on to the Upper School, which consists of Grades Eight to Twelve. The Upper School years are known as follows: | |||
The ], a non-profit agency of the ], erected three ] outlining UCC's presence and history in Toronto. One is on the north-east corner of 20 Duncan Street (the only existing building from the college's original campus), the second at the south-east corner of 212 King Street West, and one at the main entrance of the current campus at 200 Lonsdale Road. (An additional plaque that mentions Upper Canada College stands in ], commemorating Alexander Dunn, an Old Boy who received Canada's first ].) | |||
* ]: Year One | |||
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===Norval campus=== | |||
400 boys are enrolled at the Prep,<ref name="Prep"></ref> while the remainder are at the Upper School; boarding is only available to students in Grade Eight and above. The current student-to-teacher ratio is 18:1 in the lower grades and 19:1 in the upper grades.<ref name="UCCG" /> | |||
Upper Canada College owns and maintains an outdoor educational facility near the town of ], on {{convert|420|acre|ha}}<ref name=CE /> of property on the ].<ref>{{cite web| title=Discover > Board & Governance > Norval Review Committee| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/norvalreview| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=23 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193714/http://www.ucc.on.ca/norvalreview| archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> The land was used by ] as camping and hunting grounds and ] and ] travelled along the Credit to ] to trade with Europeans. By the early 19th century, the land supported farming; many remnants of this use remain, including apple ]s and artifacts, some of which were unearthed by students during simulated archaeological digs.<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Elgie| first=Bill| title=Things you might not know about Norval| magazine=Old Times| date=Summer–Fall 2013| page=9| publisher=Upper Canada College}}</ref> | |||
] as it passes through UCC's Norval property]] | |||
Like several other ] schools, UCC divides its students into ten houses, though only in the Upper School (Prep students are divided into ]). The ] was first adopted in 1923. There were only four houses until the late 1930s; there are now ten houses in all. Two of these, Seaton's and Wedd's, are boarding houses while the remaining eight (Bremner's, Howard's, Jackson's, Martland's, McHugh's, Mowbray's, Orr's, and Scadding's) are for day students. The houses compete in an annual intramural competition for the ]. Each House is also paired up with a "sister house" from ] {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. | |||
Norval's main purpose is to teach college students about the ], ], and ecosystems through outdoor learning programs,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/norval| title=Campus Life > Norval Outdoor School > About the Norval Outdoor School| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=23 October 2010| archive-date=6 July 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193652/http://www.ucc.on.ca/norval}}</ref> some in conjunction with ] Canada.<ref>{{Cite journal| last=Humphrys| first=Kate| title=Bringing Outdoor Education Home| journal=Pathways| volume=17| issue=1| page=27| publisher=Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario| location=Toronto| date=Winter 2005| issn=0840-8114| url=http://www.coeo.org/pathways/PW17.1Winter05.pdf| access-date=23 October 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2013}}</ref> It is staffed by five full-time teachers, a superintendent, and cooks and housekeepers.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=7}} Throughout the school year, entire classes, houses, or portions of certain grades will have a several day stay at Norval and other Ontario schools use the property and its facilities during the weeks when UCC students are not in residence.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=7}} Norval also hosts an open house each season, with the spring Maple Madness focusing on the site's traditional ] manufacturing,<ref>{{cite web| title=Campus Life > Norval Outdoor School > Open Houses| publisher=Upper Canada College |url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112939| access-date=23 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193704/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112939| archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> as well as cross-country skiing in winter and pumpkin carving in the autumn.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=7}} | |||
{{Main|Upper Canada College houses}} | |||
The land was purchased in 1913,{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=489}} at a time when the city of Toronto was quickly growing around the college's Deer Park campus and the trustees were considering moving the school to a new location. Plans for buildings were drawn up by an architectural firm. However, due to the outbreak of the ] and then the ], the move was fully abandoned in the 1930s.<ref name=How /> The college first attempted to sell the land in 1928 and again in 1935, but found no buyers.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=6}} Eventually, the property was developed into an outdoor education centre for UCC students and community. Beginning in 1913, an annual picnic was held at Norval, the first being catered by the ]. As the land had originally been cleared for agricultural use, much of the site was open field until over 700,000 ]s were planted by staff and students through the 1940s,<ref>{{Cite journal| title=Forest Management at Norval| journal=Current Times| page=1| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=May 2003}}</ref> followed by the creation of an ] in 1962.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=6}} The first bunk house was built in the 1930s and augmented in 1967 by another, larger residence and dining building known as Stephen House,<ref name=How /> which won a ] for excellence in architecture for the designer, Blake Millar.<ref name=TandN /> Stephen House contains a classroom and laboratory, in addition to the residential spaces for students and staff. There is also a bungalow-style residence for the property caretaker and in 2003 several log cabins were built for writing retreats. | |||
The school's ], known as the ] is comprised of 16 elected members of the Leaving Class. The Board represents the students at many events such as Association Day and Hockey Night, and relays their wishes during times of change or concern to the upper administration. | |||
Into the 2000s, the school came under criticism for keeping the entirety of the increasingly taxed Norval property while so little of it was actually used; this argument has gained increased credence in light of the consistent yearly tuition hikes and mounting legal costs. Despite repeated assertions that the college had no intention of selling the property, citing not only rapidly increasing land value, but also an intention to hold it to prevent industrial development on land that contains a variety of wildlife, including ] and ], UCC sold a small portion of the acreage in 2007 to help cover costs related to the 2003 class action lawsuit brought against the school by former students.<ref>{{Cite magazine| last=Pringle| first=Andy| title=Message from the chair: What's the bottom line?| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2007| page=20| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mytowncrier.ca/ucc-selling-art-and-land-to-cover-costs-of-lawsuit.html| title=UCC selling art and land to cover costs of lawsuit| newspaper=Town Crier| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001911/http://www.mytowncrier.ca/ucc-selling-art-and-land-to-cover-costs-of-lawsuit.html| archive-date=31 December 2013 }}</ref> In 2011, the Norval Long-Range Planning Committee recommended that Norval's facilities should be expanded to allow for more overnight students and co-educational use.{{sfn| McLean| 2013| p=7}} | |||
==Government, faculty and staff== | |||
Upper Canada College is administered by a ] as a public trust, with the current Chair of the Board being ], Executive Chairman of ].<ref></ref> | |||
===Waterfront facility=== | |||
The school's Principal is Dr. James Power, with the Preparatory School and Upper School headed by Donald Kawasoe and Steven Griffin respectively. The Upper School is in turn divided into the Middle Years Division, directed by Derek Poon, and a Senior Years Division, directed by Scott Cowie. There are 72 faculty members in total, 64 of which teach at the Upper School. Within the Upper School faculty there are 52 men and 12 women, 26 of which have advanced university degrees. 10 faculty members reside on the campus.<ref></ref> | |||
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Upper Canada College has a waterfront site that is located beside ] at Toronto's ]. Occupied by the Don Lindsay Boathouse, the site primarily serves UCC's rowing team, which trains out of the facility during the spring and fall seasons. When not in use by the school's rowing program, the facility becomes a community rowing centre, hosting UCC's summer camps and Horizon program. | |||
==Tuition, scholarships, and assets== | |||
==Curriculum== | |||
] awarded in 1900 and presented in 1901 by Prince George, Duke of York (later ]), to UCC Old Boy ] and in UCC's possession, though on permanent loan to the ]]] | |||
Upper Canada College educates boys from Senior ] through to ], in two separate buildings on the main campus. High School students complete the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. | |||
Upper Canada College is Canada's wealthiest independent school,<ref>{{Citation|title=Consider the Cost: Privatizing Education Public Money for Private Schools| url=http://www.socialjustice.org/subsites/privatization/pdf/Privatizing%20Education.pdf| access-date=22 July 2007| publisher=Centre for Social Justice| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829224654/http://www.socialjustice.org/subsites/privatization/pdf/Privatizing%20Education.pdf| archive-date=29 August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| title=Upper Canada College on hook for $575,000 in provincial tax| newspaper=National Post| date=27 November 2008| url=http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=6014341c-3f04-4e51-9576-47aa9dba7c31&sponsor=| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110163601/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=6014341c-3f04-4e51-9576-47aa9dba7c31&sponsor=| archive-date=10 November 2012| access-date=23 October 2010}}</ref> having an endowment of more than ]100 million.<ref name="Endow">{{Cite web|year=2019 |title=The Upper Canada College website |url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/|location=Toronto|publisher=Upper Canada College}}</ref> For the 2020–2021 school year, tuition fees range from $34,135 to $37,135 (not including a $8,500 initial registration fee, books and uniform) for day students and $61,085 to $66,835 for boarders (not including a $5,000 initial registration fee). An additional $500 technology fee is levied on all students in the Upper School, which covers the costs of a ] laptop computer, the associated software, and technological support.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://ucc.on.ca/tuition-fees| title=Admission > Tuition and Fees| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628073329/https://ucc.on.ca/tuition-fees| archive-date=28 June 2013}}</ref> According to the school, fewer than two per cent of the Canadian population can afford the full cost of attending the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/admission/financial-assistance/|title=Upper Canada College – Financial Assistance FAQ|website=ucc.on.ca|access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> The institution has strict admissions standards, accepting approximately 20 per cent of all applicants for the 2018–2019 school year.<ref>{{cite web| title=Admission FAQs| publisher=Upper Canada College| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=6608| access-date=11 March 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101435/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=6608| archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> The college began a fundraising campaign in 2012 to obtain $100 million for scholarships; a donation of $11 million was received from Stu Lang, the largest single gift in Canadian independent school history.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stu Lang '70|newspaper=UCC|url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/list-detail?pk=133564|access-date=7 July 2020}}</ref> To honour Lang's donation, UCC created the scholars Lang Scholar Program to recognize up to 15 student-athletes annually with extraordinary leadership potential.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/student-life/lang-scholars | title=Lang Scholars | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608215206/https://www.ucc.on.ca/student-life/lang-scholars | archive-date=2024-06-08 | url-status=live}}</ref> UCC disbursed over $5.0 million in financial aid in 2019 to approximately 20 per cent of students.<ref>{{cite web|title=Upper Canada College – Affording UCC|url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/admission/affording-ucc|access-date=7 July 2020|website=ucc.on.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tuition and Financial Aid at UCC |url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/admission/affording-ucc |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=Upper Canada College}}</ref> Only students in grade five and above are eligible for this assistance. | |||
Besides its own archives containing records that outline the history of Upper Canada, the province of Ontario, and the city of Toronto dating back to the mid-19th century,<ref>{{cite web| title=Discover > Archives & History > UCC Archives| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112852| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=23 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103213047/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112852| archive-date=3 January 2011}}</ref> the college also has a notable collection of artwork, antiques, and war medals. This includes the ] insignia presented to ], ], ], and ],<ref name=TT10 /> plus Canada's first ], awarded in 1854 to Old Boy ], and the Victoria Cross given, and ceremonial sword belonging,<ref name=DND/> to ];<ref name=TT10>{{Cite magazine| title=Treasure Trove| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2005| page=10| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> the valour medals were given to the ] on permanent loan on 17 May 2006.<ref>{{Cite magazine| last=Aster| first=Andrea| title=Heroes' Welcome| magazine=Old Times| date=Summer–Fall 2006| page=7| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> In the college's chapel, itself decorated with works by Canadian artists, is an altar made of marble from parts of ], in London, England, that were damaged in ] and donated by ] ]. On this is an ] made from a piece of that which was used for the ].{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=186}} Held is an ] that flew atop one of the ] towers in New York City. Further, the school holds works by ] and a collection of original paintings from the ] (though several were auctioned by the college in an effort to pay for the lawsuits it faced in 2004);<ref>{{cite web| title=Thoreau MacDonald, 1901–1989| publisher=Paul Aird| url=http://www.forestry.toronto.edu/ac_staff/emeritus/loonsforever/thor.htm| access-date=23 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720060132/http://www.forestry.toronto.edu/ac_staff/emeritus/loonsforever/thor.htm| archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| title=UCC selling assets to fund assault settlement| publisher=CTV| date=10 March 2005| url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1110471318570_105880518?hub=Canada| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315105549/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1110471318570_105880518/?hub=Canada| archive-date=15 March 2005| access-date=8 May 2007}}</ref> an original ] essay, titled ''Why Boys Leave Home—A Talk on Camping'', donated in 2005 and published for the first time in '']'';<ref>{{Citation| last=Leacock| first=Stephen| title=Stephen Leacock's hidden treasure| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| date=1 July 2005| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/stephen-leacocks-hidden-treasure/article1120874/| access-date=2023-03-21| url-access=subscription| location=Toronto}}</ref> and the original manuscript of ]' work ''The Mask of Aesop'', which he wrote in 1952 specifically for the Prep's 50th anniversary.<ref name=TT10 /> Also in UCC's possession is a chair owned by Sir ] and another that once belonged to ].<ref>{{Cite magazine| last=Spence| first=Marion| title=Remember When: Seats of Honour| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2007| page=18| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> | |||
===International Baccalaureate=== | |||
In 1996, UCC adopted the ] (IB) program, administered by the ] (IBO) in ], ]. Today the entire curriculum is guided by the IB program, beginning with the IB Primary Years Program (PYP) from Senior Kindergarten to Form Six, which attempts to foster attributes characteristic of a "globally minded" student who inquires, thinks, communicates, and is knowledgeable and principled; an emphasis is placed on the development of positive attitudes towards people, the environment and learning. French, language, ], ], ], ], the arts, and more are covered.<ref name="UCCcurrP"></ref> Form Six and Remove are bridging years between the PYP and the Upper School, though the same courses are taught. | |||
==Governance, faculty, and staff== | |||
Once boys move to the Upper School in Year One (]), they begin university preparation through a ] program. The courseload includes mathematics, ], science, English, dramatic, visual and musical arts, as well as ]. All students must study at least one language in addition to English before graduation.<ref name="UCCcurrU" /> | |||
Upper Canada College is incorporated under an act of the ] and administered by a 17-member ] as a public trust,<ref name=HB488 /> with the current chair of the board being Russ Higgins, a principal of MacPherson Builders ltd. ].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/about/board-governance-2/| title=Board and Governance| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> The board, whose members are appointed and elected from alumni, parents of students past and present, and the wider UCC community, selects the college's principal, who serves for five years,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://bluenet.ucc.on.ca/sslpage.aspx?pid=460| title=Meet Principal Jim Power| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> managing the school's annual operation and heading an executive committee composed of vice-principals, department heads, and administration staff.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/about/board-governance-2/executive-committee/| title=Executive Committee| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> There are also a number of other committees for advancement, finance and audit, governance and nominating, human resources, long range planning, property, and senior management review.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/about/board-governance-2/committees/| title=Committees| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> Additionally, the UCC Foundation, a registered charity in Ontario since 1962 and run by a board of trustees, manages the school's endowment. Honorary trustees include ], ], ], ], Kelly and ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/about/board-governance-2/ucc-foundation/| title=UCC Foundation| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
There are 129 faculty members in total, of whom 12 possess doctorates, 40 hold master's degrees,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/| title=About (drop down)| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=15 February 2015}}</ref> and 20 per cent are International Baccalaureate examiners.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/about/staff-faculty/| title=Staff and Faculty| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> 17 faculty members reside on the campus.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/instvc.asp?inunid=2442&sponsor=1| title=Upper Canada College > Students and Teachers| publisher=Peterson's| access-date=1 November 2010}}</ref> The student-to-teacher ratio is 18:1 in the lower grades and 19:1 in the upper grades.<ref name=UCCG>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=6616| title=UCC at a glance| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=11 March 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101511/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=6616| archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> | |||
Students earn the IB diploma on top of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma; the additional diploma aids students in Canadian University acceptances.<ref></ref> UCC boys average a point total of 36 in the final examinations, and 2 bonus points. The majority of boys take Mathematical Methods, as well, UCC pioneered and wrote the syllabus of the IB's newest, and still developing course, World Cultures. As an IB World School, UCC is in charge of internally administering both ], ] and the ].<ref name="UCCcurrU"></ref> | |||
===Visitor=== | |||
==Ethnic & gender issues== | |||
], UCC's visitor from 1955 until his death in 2021]] | |||
UCC began admitting ] students early in its history. The first black student enrolled in 1831 the first Jewish student in 1836 and the first aboriginal student in 1840; some graduates from the ] peoples of ] having gone on to study at ] and ].<ref></ref> | |||
The visitor of Upper Canada College is a ceremonial role within UCC's governmental structure, though the occupant has the right or responsibility of inspecting and reporting on the College.<ref name=BW>{{citation| url=https://tbaw.ca/2021/05/31/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-the-passing-of-a-patron/| last=Boyle| first=Lachlan| title=Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: The Passing of a Patron| date=31 May 2021| journal=The Blue and White| publisher=Upper Canada College| accessdate=3 August 2023}}</reF> | |||
Even though there have been ethnic minority students admitted to UCC, the school continued to maintain a reputation as a "bastion of ] privilege" through the first 150 years of its history.<ref></ref> In relation to this, diplomat James George, a student between 1926 and 1936, said upon reflection about his time with other UCC graduates in the ]: "If UCC really was a womb matrix for a bunch of WASP patriots, why did it produce so many internationalists?"<ref name="Fitz"></ref> | |||
Sir John Colborne served informally as UCC's first visitor. When the post was created in 1833, the ] was named as the occupant, ''ex officio''. Four years later, an act of the Upper Canada legislature outlined that the ]s of UCC would be the judges of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. The role was then transferred in 1850 to the governor general of the ], on behalf of ],<ref>{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImpFAQAAMAAJ| title=The Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada| page=712| publisher=S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats| year=1859| access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=OT1949>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Old-Times-Upper-Canada-College-1949-2/483797/16| title=A Short History of Upper Canada College| magazine=Old Times| publisher=Upper Canada College| page=14| year=1949| access-date=13 October 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018075617/http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Old-Times-Upper-Canada-College-1949-2/483797/16| archive-date=18 October 2015}}</ref> until ], after which the ] acted as visitor.<ref>{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSlSAQAAIAAJ| title=The revised statutes of Ontario, 1887| volume=2| page=2500| year=1887| publisher=University of California| access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> However, it was later felt the provincial viceroy was associated too much to politics and the office of visitor was not mentioned in the 1901 act that altered the government of UCC.<ref name=OT1949/> | |||
Other former students took a different view, some citing experiences of ]. Graham Fraser, '']'''s Washington Bureau Chief, who attended UCC between 1960 and 1964, recalled: "Anti-Semitism was generally an unspoken undercurrent at UCC, but a couple of times I witnessed overt anti-Semitism.... Before 1960, Toronto was a pretty narrow, close-minded, little Victorian town and Upper Canada College reflected that reality."<ref name="Fitz" /> | |||
Prince Edward, Prince of Wales (later ] and then ]), was in 1920 appointed as Upper Canada College's official visitor, at the Prince's request.<ref name=visitor>{{citation| author=Upper Canada College Monarchist League| title=Report to the Board of Governors: Upper Canada College's Next Official Visitor| date=May 2012| publisher=Upper Canada College| url=http://uccmonarchistleague.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/0/5/11055876/board_of_governors_report.pdf| access-date=19 February 2015}}</ref> The ''College Times'' wrote then: | |||
], who was a student at the College from 1959 to 1965 stated: "The UCC culture in my time was basically Tory, Anglican and fantastically patrician... The Canadian elite must be an open, permeable elite which is colour blind, religion blind and gender blind. There has to be an elite based not even on intelligence but character. They will mostly come from schools that bear no resemblance to Upper Canada College."<ref name="Fitz" /> | |||
<blockquote>It will be a great pleasure to all to hear that the HRH the Prince of Wales has expressed a wish to be given the fine old English title of visitor of this school. HRH met so many 'Old Boys' while that, when he made his visit to Canada last year, he instituted special inquiries about the previous history of the College. Finding that the title existed, he has thus honored us by becoming 'Visitor of Upper Canada College' The gracious offer of the Prince places the position on a still higher plane and it makes us all feel a lot prouder of the grand old College to which we belong.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Our Royal Visitor| journal=College Times| issue=Easter| year=1920}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
In the decades after the 1970s, some saw the ethnic composition of the school's enrolment as changing. In 1979, former Prep School Headmaster Richard Howard said in his book ''Upper Canada College, 1929-1979: Colborne's Legacy'': "The growth of the enrolment has increased the number of boys from a wide variety of backgrounds and decreased the ratio of those from old Toronto families. The address list now reflects Toronto's ethnic variety and resembles a small United Nations."<ref>Howard, Richard; ''Upper Canada College, 1829-1979: Colborne's Legacy''; Macmillan Company of Canada; 1979; pg. 264 | |||
</ref> William Kilbourn also said that the College had been accepting, for many years before the ], a number of foreign students, notably from Latin America and Asia, and that UCC had made a concentrated effort to recruit ] ]s into the student body. By the 1980s the school was offering financial assistance to the less affluent, and was making serious attempts to encourage boys from visible minorities to enroll. But, few applied, save for many ], East Indian, and ]s who were accepted into the Prep; in 1983 the numbers were 42 out of a total student population of 361.<ref>Killbourn, William; ''Toronto Remembered''; Soddart Publishing, Toronto; 1984; Pg. 190</ref> However, even into the 1990s some, while acknowledging the shift to a more ] student body, claimed anti-Semitism continued in some form. In 1990, ''The College Times'' featured an editorial stating that while UCC was no longer "a white-bread, right-wing fortress: it has become much more multi-cultural and (dare I say it?) liberal.... In my years at UCC I have faced anti-Semitism, ugliness, stupidity and bureaucracy."<ref>Sherman, Motek; ''College Times'': Editorial; 1990</ref> | |||
Edward was removed from the post of visitor when he ] in 1936.<ref name=BW/> The office thereafter lay dormant until 1955. Maintaining a connection with the ], ] (husband of Edward VIII's niece, Queen ]), was appointed as visitor of UCC, a role in which he served until ], making him the longest-acting visitor in the College's history.<ref name=BW/> He visited the college five times (in 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, and 1993<ref name=BW/>),<ref name=visitor/> aided two fundraising campaigns, and gave items to the school, including a signed cricket bat.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://issuu.com/uppercanadacollege/docs/ucc_oldtimes_sf_2013_v7/28| last=McLean| first=Steve| title=150th Anniversary XI vs. Old Boys Cricket Match| magazine=Old Times| page=26| date=Summer–Fall 2013a| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=13 October 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018075617/http://issuu.com/uppercanadacollege/docs/ucc_oldtimes_sf_2013_v7/28| archive-date=2015-10-18}}</ref> | |||
By the late 1990s, the college was increasingly diverse, and in 1997 the daily recitation of the Lord's Prayer was replaced by the recitation of a prayer from different global faiths each day. In 2002, student Adam Sheikh created the Diversity Council to celebrate the cultural diversity of the school's student population. This council, a body of students independent from the school administration, organizes celebrations of ], ], and ] cultural events and traditions, as well as Canadian cultural events.<ref></ref> | |||
During his 1959 visit to the school, Philip was made an honorary Old Boy and unveiled the permanent display of his ] in the Massey Quadrangle.<ref name=BW/> To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the College's founding, the Prince made a two-day visit to UCC, which included a reception and formal banquet ] and distributing prizes to the winners of the first annual Jubilee Association Run. Historian ] said of Philip in 1979, "In the lengthy history of the College, no visitor since our inception has taken such a deep interest in our affairs, for such an extended period, as has the present distinguished incumbent.”<ref name=BW/> | |||
UCC's website states that currently "the College's boarding program welcomes Upper School students from all faiths and cultural backgrounds. Each year, more than 100 students from Year 1 to IB2 come together in this cross-cultural hub, where students benefit from each other's unique experiences." | |||
In May 2012, the Upper Canada College Monarchist League conducted a poll and submitted to the Board of Governors a report outlining how 71 per cent of students surveyed (91 per cent of those in Year One) approved of another member of the royal family serving as UCC's visitor upon the resignation or demise of the Duke of Edinburgh. It was recommended that the next person to occupy the post be non-partisan and of a young age, so as to be likely to serve for a number of decades, as the Duke of Edinburgh had done. The most widely supported figure was ] (now the Prince of Wales).<ref name=visitor/> | |||
Today, students from over 16 different countries attend UCC.<ref></ref> The international students typically come from among the wealthiest families in the countries of their origin. | |||
==Student body== | |||
The 1990 College Times also addressed alleged sexism at the school in the article ''The School On The Hill'' by Greg Tessaro, winner of the College Times' Ponton Prize for Journalism. The article stated: | |||
UCC is a non-denominational school with approximately 1,000-day students and 88 ]; Senior Kindergarten to ] students, approximately 400 boys,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112923&rc=0| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928125608/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112923&rc=0| archive-date=28 September 2011| title=Campus Life > Preparatory School| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=21 November 2010}}</ref> attend the Preparatory School (the Prep), after which a boy may move on to the Upper School, which consists of Grades Eight to Twelve. The Upper School years are known as follows: | |||
:"The school fosters sexist attitudes that impair the students.... There is undeniably sexism at the school. The '88 Times had a running joke in the Leaving Class section, "Why beer is better than women", with examples like "Fact #19: Beer doesn't demand equality" ...A careful look through past yearbooks reveals a sexist viewpoint that would not be tolerated at a co-ed school. The school itself is the direct cause of this sexism. ...The school teaches sexism by example. ...In addition, on a staff of over sixty full-time teachers, there are three women. However, in my time at the College, the French conversation teacher has always been a woman. The librarians are all women. The secretaries are all women."<ref>Tessaro, Greg; ''College Times'': The School On The Hill; 1990; Pg. 154-155</ref> | |||
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* ]: Year Eight (formerly called Year One) | |||
* ]: Year Nine (formerly called Year Two) | |||
* ]: Year Ten (formerly called Foundation Year) | |||
* ]: Year Eleven (formerly called IB1) | |||
* ]: Year Twelve (formerly called IB2) | |||
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] Building, part of the Prep School, which houses Kindergarten through Grade Seven]] | |||
While Prep students are divided into ], UCC, like several other schools in the ], divides its Upper School students into houses.<ref name="Board4">{{cite web|url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/student-life/boarding|title=Boarding|publisher=Upper Canada College}}</ref> The ] was first adopted in 1923, consisting of only four houses until the late 1930s, after which the number increased the present ten. Eight of these—Bremner's, Howard's, Jackson's, Martland's, McHugh's, Mowbray's, Orr's, and Scadding's—are for day students and the remaining two—Seaton's and Wedd's—are for boarders.<ref name=Board4/>{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=494}} The houses compete in an annual intramural competition for the Prefects' Cup and the boarders also take part in weekend events and trips with boarders from neighbouring girls' schools.<ref>{{citation| title=Boarding Life at UCC| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/ftpimages/186/download/download_group6296_id150834.pdf| page=18| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 November 2010| ref={{harvid| Upper Canada College| 2010}}}}{{dead link|date=July 2013}}</ref> | |||
Martland's was named for John "Gentle" Martland, a master at the College who was most well known for his reform of the boarding houses, making them into something more than simple residences. He toned down the rigid study regimes, cold dormitories, bland menus, and bullying, fostering instead more tolerating discipline, swift punishment for serious offenders, the occasional feast, and organised recreation.{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=170}} Wedd's is the one the oldest of the ten houses at UCC and is named for William Wedd, formerly first classical master.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://weddfamily.tribalpages.com|title=Wedd Family History – Family Tree|website=weddfamily.tribalpages.com |access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> | |||
UCC did, however, appoint the first woman to its Board of Governors in 1971; ]. The College also states: | |||
:"We value diversity and are actively engaged in building a school that reflects the various backgrounds of our community members. We recognize that embracing a mix of cultures, talents, backgrounds, experiences and socioeconomic diversity will make the College a more rewarding place in which to learn and work."<ref></ref> | |||
The school's ], created in 1892 and known as the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112946| title=Campus Life > Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) > Service| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193819/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112946| archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref>{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=497}} represents the students at events, such as Association Day and Winterfest, and relays their wishes, during times of change or concern, to the upper administration. The group comprises 17 elected members of the Leaving Class:{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=494}} one steward for each house (the heads of houses) plus seven—the Head Steward and six stewards with portfolio—chosen by the majority of the whole student body.<ref name=Leadership>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=118378| title=Campus Life > Upper School > Leadership| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305001740/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=118378| archive-date=5 March 2011 }}</ref> In addition to the stewards, students can enter the ] program, requiring them to show leadership through their senior years to be awarded the title of ''Prefect'' upon graduation, the highest recognition UCC offers "for citizenship and leadership."<ref name=Leadership/> | |||
==Scandals== | |||
Upper Canada College has had a number of incidents in the decade following 1998 where staff were accused of ] or of possessing ]. Only three ended in convictions. | |||
] | |||
<u>Clark Winton Noble</u> | |||
Though Upper Canada College has accepted ] since the first ] student (Peter Gallego, the son of a former American slave) enrolled in 1831<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFB1JdDSDm8C| last1=Shadd| first1=Adrienne| last2=Cooper| first2=Afua| last3=Frost|first3=Karolyn Smardz| title=he Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!| page=49| publisher=Dundurn| location=Toronto| year=2009| isbn=9781770706828}}</ref> and ] boys, such as ] (son of the ] leader ]) in 1840,<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/assikinack_francis_9E.html| last=Leighton| first=Douglas| title=Assikinack, Francis| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=9| year=1976| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> their representation within the student body was initially disproportionate to the same within the city's population<ref>{{citation|last=Borrows| first=John| title="Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" The Diversification of Canadian Law Schools| publisher=University of Manitoba| url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/law/LRI/Legal_education/borrows.htm| access-date=22 October 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529105231/http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/law/LRI/Legal_education/borrows.htm| archive-date=29 May 2006}}</ref> and the school developed a reputation as a "] bastion".<ref name=Power /> ] considered the school's ethnic makeup during his time there, between 1959 and 1965, reflective of the culture of Toronto in general; according to him, "basically Tory, Anglican and fantastically patrician."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pathcom.com/~jfitzg/oldboys_excerpts_ucc.htm| title=Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College > Excerpts| author=James T. Fitzgerald| access-date=12 October 2007| archive-date=16 April 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416040442/http://www.pathcom.com/~jfitzg/oldboys_excerpts_ucc.htm| via=www.pathcom.com}}</ref> ], who attended UCC a decade before Ignatieff, and himself ], said ] was "virtually non-existent."{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=239}} According to school historian Richard Howard, UCC transformed its culture during the 1970s, as it began to offer assistance to the less affluent and made attempts to attract boys from visible minorities, becoming what he called "a small United Nations" that echoed Toronto's emerging ethnic variety (today, students from over 20 different countries and regions attend UCC),{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=264}}<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/upper-8-12/boarding-life/boarding-faq/| title=Explore UCC Boarding > The Boarding Life > Frequently Asked Questions| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref> though, as recently as 1990, there were references in ''College Times'' editorials to antisemitism and sexism.<ref>{{Cite journal| last=Sherman| first=Motek| title=Editorial| journal=College Times| volume=1990| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=June 1990}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| last=Tessaro| first=Greg| title=The School on the Hill| journal=College Times| volume=1990| pages=154–155| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=June 1990}}</ref> These aspects of college life came to light in 1994, through James T. Fitzgerald's book ''Old Boys'', which published some alumni's recollections of the school. In it, ] noted that while the student body was more racially diverse, it was still predominantly populated by the upper middle class, with the Asian students being even wealthier than their white counterparts. The college took the criticisms seriously, hiring Dalglish to help open UCC to the broader community.<ref>{{cite web| author=Ted Schmidt| title=Ted Schmidt: Full Review| url=http://www.pathcom.com/~jfitzg/oldboys_review_ted_schmidt.htm| access-date=12 October 2007| via=www.pathcom.com| archive-date=20 July 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720040105/http://www.pathcom.com/~jfitzg/oldboys_review_ted_schmidt.htm}} Originally published: Catholic New Times, October 8, 2000.</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=jamesfitzgerald.info |title=Ted |url=http://www.jamesfitzgerald.info/Ted.html |access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=18 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518013645/http://www.jamesfitzgerald.info/Ted.html}}</ref> The decision to reverse the 2007 plan to eliminate boarding was made in part because of boarding's inherent ability to allow students from around the world to attend UCC.<ref name=Power /> The college's expansion of financial aid beginning in 2012 was intended to socioeconomically diversify the student body.<ref name=Power /> | |||
:In 1998, Clark Winton Noble ("Knobby") was convicted of ] stemming from an event that occurred in 1988 against a student at ] where he was teaching.<ref></ref> At that time he also admitted to an earlier attack on a UCC student in 1971, when he was a teacher at the school, though he was never convicted of that crime as the charges were withdrawn.<ref></ref> The incident occurred off-campus, and the student never notified the school of what went on until Noble had resigned from the College. After learning of what went on, UCC informed Noble's subsequent employer and the Toronto Police.<ref>Power, Jim; Open letter to UCC community, re. National Parole Board's ruling; October 20, 2006</ref> | |||
<u>Doug Brown</u> | |||
:In 2003, UCC was embroiled in a very public ] lawsuit brought by eighteen students who sued the school over ] by Doug Brown, a member of the faculty who taught history, geography and English at the prep school from 1975 until 1993. In October 2004, Doug Brown was found guilty of nine counts of ], while a housemaster and teacher at UCC.<ref name="Brown"></ref> In January 2005, he was sentenced to three years in jail. An appeal is currently in the works. A resolution process was agreed upon to resolve the lawsuit. In a media release, UCC has announced that they "continue to offer support to those who were victims of abuse at the College, and are committed to a fair process for determining the school's responsibility to compensate those who were victimized by Doug Brown."<ref name="Brown" /> | |||
<u>Ashley Chivers</u> | |||
:In 2003, UCC graduate, and later ], Ashley Chivers, then 28, who had been working at the school since 1996, was arrested on ] charges after police (acting on a tip from California law enforcement) found evidence of criminal images on his home computers.<ref></ref> Chivers' duties at UCC included taking pictures at school events, though after a search of the 6,000 illegal images in his possession, Toronto police confirmed no UCC students, past or present, were evident. Chivers was convicted of one count of possessing child pornography, but not creating it, and was given an 18-month ] in October, 2004.<ref></ref> | |||
<u>Herbert Sommerfeld</u> | |||
:Former teacher Herbert Sommerfeld surrendered to Toronto police in 2004, after a former student, who himself was then facing charges of sexual abuse of children, alleged that Sommerfeld had sexually abused him when he was a student at the Prep School.<ref name="globe"></ref> After Mr. Justice Charles Vaillancourt of the Ontario Court rejected "vague and inconsistent" testimony by the plaintiff, the teacher was ]. However, Sommerfeld's accuser still has a civil suit pending against UCC in which Sommerfeld is named.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
<u>Lorne Cook</u> | |||
:The same person who accused Sommerfeld of abuse was also one of the original complainants against former UCC teacher Lorne Cook, a teacher at UCC from 1978 to 1994, who was found guilty on ] 2006, of two counts of sexual assault on UCC students in 1991 and 1993. He was acquitted of one count of indecent assault and one count of sexual interference. The judge told the court that Cook touched his pupils inappropriately as a way to control and abuse the students without their consent, saying Cook has abused his "significant power in a way that violated the sexual integrity" of his pupils, and not for reasons of sexual gratification. In the November 2006 sentencing, he was spared jail time and instead sentenced to house arrest.<ref></ref> | |||
==Curriculum== | |||
Upper Canada College educates boys from Senior ] through to ]. Graduates receive both the ] and the ] (IB) diploma; UCC adopted the IB program in 1996 and the entire curriculum is today guided by the non-governmental organization. French, language, ], science, ], ], the arts, and more are covered during a boy's years in the Prep School and, once boys move to the Upper School in Year One (]), they begin university preparation through a ] program.<ref>{{cite web| title=Campus Life > Upper School > Academic Program| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112929| publisher=Upper Canada College| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121115749/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112929| archive-date=2012-01-21}}</ref> The courseload includes mathematics, history, ], science, English, second languages, civics, design, film and the dramatic, visual, and musical arts, as well as ].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112928| title=Campus Life > Upper School > Welcome| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305194114/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112928| archive-date=5 March 2011}}</ref> Aiding both student and teachers is the Wernham West Centre for Learning, the most comprehensive and endowed secondary school learning facility in Canada.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Richard Wernham and Julia West Centre for Learning Opens its Doors| journal=Current Times| page=2| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=January 2002| url=http://www1.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200201.pdf| access-date=4 April 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051105000354/http://www.ucc.on.ca/current%20times/CurrentTimes-200201.pdf| archive-date=5 November 2005}}</ref> Created in 2002 as a department pertaining to the refinement of academic skills and assisting the students with learning disabilities, its primary focus is to facilitate improved learning skills and abilities, as well as accommodate for students with particular learning disabilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112936| title=Campus Life > Richard Wernham & Julia West Centre for Learning > Mandates| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826103245/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112936| archive-date=26 August 2010 }}</ref> | |||
==Extracurricular activities== | ==Extracurricular activities== | ||
Participation in extracurricular activities is encouraged at Upper Canada College; all students are required to complete 40 hours of Community Service as a part of their Ontario Secondary School Diploma as well as complete 150 hours of other extracurricular commitments, with an equal division between arts, athletics, and community service (what the IB calls ''CAS'': creativity, action, service),<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/CAS| title=Campus Life > Creativity, Action, Service (CAS)| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201211427/http://www.ucc.on.ca/CAS| archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref>{{sfn| Upper Canada College| 2010| p=12}} prior to graduation.{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=497}} | |||
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UCC runs a variety of extra-curricular theatre programs, ranging in scope and scale, with at least one large scale and one small scale production each year. Productions have included '']'', '']'', several variations of '']'', as well as musicals such as '']'' and '']''. Smaller, student written and run plays are also produced, some of which feature provocative material, including references to drugs and sex, the on-stage smoking of cigarettes by minors, and UCC's first ever publicly performed homosexual kiss. The school awards the ] Award for outstanding achievement on-stage. | |||
Upper Canada College runs a variety of extracurricular theatre programs, ranging in scope and scale, from musicals to ], with at least one large-scale and one small-scale production each year. Smaller, student written and run plays are also produced. The theatre program, which includes all aspects of production, is run in conjunction with ], a nearby girls' private school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=119905| title=Campus Life > Arts > Extra-curricular Theatre Program| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193609/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=119905| archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref> Various bands and music groups that practice extra-curricularly are also supported by the college, including a ], stage band, ], jazz ensemble, and singers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=131511| title=Campus Life > Arts > Music| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193635/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=131511| archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref> These groups compete in festivals at different levels and also organize fundraising concerts.<ref>{{Cite journal| title=Prep Band wins gold| journal=Current Times| page=1| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=July 2002}}</ref> UCC has sports ]ries with other boys' schools in Ontario. | |||
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UCC also supports a music programme, with education taking place both within classrooms as well as through numerous bands and music groups which practice extra-curricularly; including a ], stage band, ], jazz ensemble, and ]s. These groups, as well as individual students, have won various prizes, including gold at , and numerous levels of award from the Kiwanis Music Festival.<ref></ref> UCC hosts the fundraising Youth 4 Youth concert, which also features bands and performers from underprivileged areas of Toronto. | |||
Sports teams run by UCC include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], soccer, ], Swimming, ], ], and ].<ref name=Athletics>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=117333| title=Campus Life > Athletics > Upper School Athletics| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201210307/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=117333| archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nelnetsolutions.com/collegeprofiles/Profile.aspx?inunid=2442&reprjid=11&sponsor=1&tabid=10023| title=Upper Canada College > Athletics| publisher=Peterson's| access-date=1 November 2010}}</ref>{{sfn| Upper Canada College| 2010| p=11}} Some teams are purely ], but 45 interscholastic teams compete in the ] and ] and regularly place high in the standings at national and international competitions,<ref name=Athletics /><ref name=Why>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/whyucc |title=Admission > Why UCC? |publisher=Upper Canada College |access-date=22 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821103912/http://www.ucc.on.ca/whyucc |archive-date=21 August 2010}}</ref> such as the ].<ref>{{Cite magazine| title=UCC rowers and Old Boys finish third at world class regatta| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2007| page=17| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> | |||
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College ensembles have toured various parts of the world, including ], ], and parts of Ghuanzao, ]. | |||
The World Affairs Conference is Canada's oldest student run conference, begun in 1983 and organized in conjunction with ] since the late 1980s. Held annually, the Conference has reached over 4,000 students, 25 countries, and 65 schools around the world.<ref name=UCCWAC>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112815| title=Conferences and Workshops > World Affairs Conference| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193831/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112815| archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref> Past speakers have included ], ], ], ], ], ], ],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/uccnews?rc=0| title=Students think globally at World Affairs Conference| date=13 February 2007| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193836/http://www.ucc.on.ca/uccnews?rc=0| archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> ], ], ], ], ], ], and ],<ref>{{Cite press release |last=Hall |first=Branksome |date=2023-02-06 |title=Martin Luther King III to address students at World Affairs Conference (WAC) on Thursday, February 9 at Upper Canada College in Toronto — Presented in partnership with Branksome Hall, WAC is Canada's longest running, student-led conference |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/02/06/2602482/0/en/Martin-Luther-King-III-to-address-students-at-World-Affairs-Conference-WAC-on-Thursday-February-9-at-Upper-Canada-College-in-Toronto-Presented-in-partnership-with-Branksome-Hall-WA.html |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/edward-snowden-tells-students-mass-data-collection-can-hamper-attempts-to-foil-attacks-1.2940798| title=Edward Snowden tells students mass data collection can hamper attempts to foil attacks| date=2 February 2015| publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/02/edward-snowden-and-greenwald-give-talk-for-toronto-high-school-students.html| last=Westlaar| first=Sean| title=Be wary of Harper's anti-terror bill, Edward Snowden warns Toronto students| date=2 February 2015| newspaper=Toronto Star| access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> all of whom have spoken on a variety of topics including human rights, gender issues, justice, globalization, and health ethics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waconline.org/WAC/About.html| title=About| publisher=World Affairs Conference| access-date=24 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022063154/http://www.waconline.org/WAC/About.html| archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref> The conference has also received letters of support from both the ] and the ]. The Executives of WAC for the 2023-2024 school year are: Ray Wu (Conference Chair), Shaya Farahmand (Conference Chair), Alex Woolsey (Assistant Chair), Darwin Li (Director of Communications), Devlin Moniz (Director of Plenaries), Eugenio Gigi Ciarlandini (Director of Keynotes), Adrian Mak (Director of Marketing), Aarav Dogra (Director of Finance), Samuel Martineau (Director of Technology), Alex Woolsey (Director of Programs), Caleb Chong (Director of Registration), Emerson McQueen (Director of Volunteering), and Jai Sandhu (Director of Facilities). | |||
In conjunction with other schools, UCC ran the ] (OMP), a simulation of a ] that started in 1986, when it was founded by UCC teacher Paul Bennett,<ref name="OMPAbout">{{cite web| url=http://www.omp.on.ca/About.html| title=About > What is OMP| publisher=Ontario Model Parliament| access-date=2 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414033856/http://www.omp.on.ca/about.html| archive-date=14 April 2010}}</ref> and was composed of two events: an Elections Day at UCC, followed by a three-day simulation that took place in the legislative chamber at the ]. UCC students made up the entirety of the Executive Committee that organizes and runs the model parliament,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.omp.on.ca/exec.html| title=About > Executive Committee| publisher=Ontario Model Parliament| access-date=2 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221204249/http://www.omp.on.ca/exec.html| archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> however 200 students from high schools around the province participated.<ref name="OMPAbout" /> Past Elections Day speakers have included ], ], ], ], and ]. As of 2015, OMP has been replaced by OMUN, a Model UN conference now led by UCC students sometimes in conjunction with the Bishop Strachan School and Branksome Hall. OMUN hosts around 400–500 delegates annually and has multiple international delegations present. UCC hosts 50–100 clubs (depending on the term), with Model UN and DECA being among the most popular. | |||
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UCC maintains teams for the following sports: | |||
The UCC Green School is an environmental organization composed of student, teachers, and faculty, through which UCC has planted and maintained an educational ] garden, reduced ] waste and water consumption, and implemented a program of purchasing renewable resources for renovations.<ref>{{citation| last=Centre for Environmental Sustainability| title=Green School Annual Report| publisher=Upper Canada College| year=2006| page=2| ref={{harvid| Upper Canada College| 2006}}}}</ref> The Green School has won awards from the City of ] and the ].<ref>{{Cite magazine| last=Power| first=Jim| title=Message from the Principal: How'd we measure up?| magazine=Old Times| date=Winter–Spring 2007| page=21| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> | |||
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The College maintains and administers its own publishing company, the UCC Press, which produces all school publications. It also once printed professional texts, novels, and histories, such as those by ], but the UCC Press today prints the majority of school-related publications—newspaper, alumni magazines, financial reports, etc.—save for the ''College Times''. UCC provides several publications, most of which are written, directed, and printed by students. | |||
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The ''College Times'' is UCC's ] and is the oldest school publication in Canada, having been issued without fail since it was founded by ], then a student at UCC, in September 1857.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=269}} The first editions were written by Robertson and fellow pupils and printed on presses at '']'', the predecessor newspaper of the present '']''.{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p=270}} Past editors include ], ],<ref name=article4325078/> and ]. Issued more regularly, Upper Canada College also has an online publication, The Blue and White (TBAW, tbaw.ca) to which students submit articles about school life and current affairs. TBAW was founded in 2011 by William Hall. ''Old Times'' is the school's alumni magazine, which reports on the lives of Old Boys, and highlights recent and upcoming events. | |||
UCC teams compete in the ] and ]. | |||
Serials for the student body include ''The Blazer'', the college humour newspaper; ''Quiddity'', the school's annual arts and literature publication, which showcases students' creative work; ''The Blue Page'', a one-page weekly publication of letters to the editor expressing opinions on any relevant issue; and ''Convergence'', the school's award-winning student newspaper.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=132621&tn=Literature| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427092215/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=132621&tn=Literature| archive-date=27 April 2012| title=Campus Life > Arts > Literature| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=21 November 2011}}</ref> In addition, BluesTV was a student-led, school television network that started in 2007 and aired multimedia, slideshows of pictures from various school events, as well as promotional material created for the college. BluesTV became a subsidiary of the Media Association in 2009, fostering the operation of a live-announcement submission and display system. | |||
===School events=== | |||
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Every year the school plans and runs several on or off-site events, some of which are open only to students in certain years, while others to the entire student population, alumni, and their respective friends and family. These events serve a variety of purposes, designed to promote school spirit, for enjoyment, ] or for ] causes. Many of these events are organized by the ], with the help of parent and student volunteers. | |||
* '''Association Day''' is analogous to UCC's ]. Held since ], "A-Day," as it is informally known, constitutes the school's largest annual event, taking place over the last weekend of September, and culminating on the Saturday with a large festival, including competitive matches for all fall sports teams. Association Day is also used as a fundraiser for charities. Following the daytime events is the Association Dinner, attended by Old Boys, and honouring those celebrating their five year incremental (i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, etc.) ]s.<ref name="UCCold"></ref> | |||
* The '''Founder's Dinner''' commemorates the school's founding, and has been held for more than a century, typically taking place on the third weekend in January, to coincide closely with Lieutenant Governor Colborne's ]. The formal dinner is held on the Thursday night before a four day weekend, given to the students to commemorate the occasion. The dinner itself consists of addresses, a keynote speech given by UCC alumnae, and presentation of awards.<ref name="UCCold" /> | |||
* '''Ice Blue''' is an annual ] fundraiser, held every January in UCC's Lett Gym for both family and friends of current or former students, and is the school's pre-eminent source of donations. It is held in conjunction with a silent auction of donated goods and services. | |||
* The '''Battalion Ball''' is a yearly dance held off-campus, at venues like the ] or ]. The event's origins lie in ], when it was called the "At Home," and was a UCC community-wide event, similar to a modern ]. The revival of the UCC Rifle Corps in ] resulted in students attending the At Home, in their cadet uniforms, and by ] a dance was held that evening, known as the Rifle Corps Dance. The event was titled the Battalion Ball in ], just before the UCC Cadet Battalion. By ], the colloquial nickname "The Batt" was devised, and in ] the dance was held off the UCC campus for the first time in its history, at the ]. After ], when the Cadet Corps was disbanded, school uniforms replaced the military attire, ] bands played, and the Batt became more of an end-of-the-school-year ]. Today attire is traditionally ] for boys, and ] or ] for girls, and music is provided by ]s.<ref>Jerjian, Edward; ''Old Times'', Remember When...; Summer/Fall 2006; pg. 9</ref> | |||
* The '''Stewards' Dance''' is UCC's fall semi-formal, and is typically fashioned around ] themes such as "Great Couples in History." The dance takes place in late October, and is administrated by the Board of Stewards for all students in grades 10 and above. | |||
* '''Hockey Night''' has been held by College since ] as an evening where the First Hockey team would play a feature game against one of UCC's rival schools in competition for the ] Victory Trophy.<ref name="TandN" /> The game was held at ], thanks to the generosity of the arena's builder, ], and it's (as well as the then ]) owner, ], both themselves Old Boys. After the closing of the Gardens in ], the event was moved to the ] and then the ]. Over the decades other games were added to the roster, including a game involving the school's Junior Varsity team, the final game of the house hockey tournament, and a game between ] and ]. By the early ], pleasure skating, and Prep School games had been added to the evening's schedule. | |||
* The ''']''' is one of Upper Canada College's most successful events. The school is an official site for the run, acting as the starting, ending point, and event part of the course, which ventures throughout Toronto's Belt-Line. UCC's Terry Fox Run is also the largest site, and has also raised the most money in the world since 2000.<ref></ref> | |||
===School programs=== | |||
* '''The World Affairs Conference''' is Canada's oldest student run conference, and one of ]'s most successful. It is held annually, attended by over 750 international students from 20 schools;<ref name="UCCnews1"></ref> providing a forum for students to hear opinions of leaders in the global community and discuss current and pressing world issues amongst themselves. Past speakers have included ], ], ], ], ], and ],<ref name="UCCnews1" /> all of whom have spoken on a variety of topics including Human Rights, Gender Issues, Justice, Globalization, and Health Ethics. | |||
* '''Horizons''' is a UCC run program with which local underprivileged children are tutored twice a week by current UCC students, and has recently been expanded so as to include athletic games and training. The program also runs through the summer. UCC graduates studying at ] launched a spin-off program in Quebec, between the College Jean-Eudes and inner-city Montreal schools. In 2003 the program was honoured by the ], and the program in Quebec won first prize at the Gala Forces Avenir. In 2006 the programme was awarded the Urban Leadership Award by the Canadian Urban Institute, which itself is dedicated to the enhancement of urban life.<ref></ref> | |||
* The '''Wernham West Centre for Learning''' is the most comprehensive and endowed secondary school learning facility in Canada. Created in 2002 with a $6.9 million donation by the Wernham family to fund the establishment of a department pertaining to the refinement of academic skills and assisting the students with learning disabilities, its primary focus is to facilitate improved learning skills and abilities, as well as accommodate for students with particular learning disabilities. During the late 1990s, the school incurred many requests for such a centre. | |||
* UCC is a founding member of the ] ''']''' (OMP) program. Upper Canada College and St. Clements School students make up a majority of the Executive Committee that organizes and runs the Model Parliament. The three-day Simulation takes place in the Chamber at ]. The first OMP event took place in 1986. | |||
* '''The UCC Green School''' is an environmental organization composed of student, teachers and faculty from all over the school. The Green School has won many awards for their work, especially in the domain of water. | |||
===School publications=== | |||
The College maintains and administers its own publishing company, the UCC Press. The Press, which produces all school publishings, also once printed professional texts, novels and histories, such as those by ]. Today, the UCC Press still prints the majority of school related publishings (newspaper, alumni magazines, financial reports etc), save the ''College Times''. UCC still provides a very extensive quantity of publications, most of which are written, directed and printed by students. | |||
], editor of the ''College Times'' while a student at UCC.]] | |||
* '''''College Times''''', UCC's yearbook, is the oldest school publication in existence, having been printed without fail since September, 1857.<ref name="How" /> Past editors include ], and ]. | |||
* '''''Old Times''''' is the school's alumni magazine, which reports on the lives of Old Boys, and highlights recent and upcoming events. | |||
* '''''The Blazer ''''' is the college humour newspaper, though published under the strict censorship of the UCC administration. | |||
* '''''Convergence''''', founded in 2000, is the school's weekly student newspaper, which reports solely on school issues. Since its inception, ''Convergence'' has emerged as one of the leading student-run publications in Canada, receiving awards from the '']'' and the '']'' - most notably the award for "Best Student-Run High School Newspaper", which it has won several times. It has also received numerous donations from the '']''. | |||
* '''''The Green Report''''' is a student-run monthly publication that focuses on the environmental issues of the world and the school, taking its roots in the UCC Green School. Founded in 2005 by UCC student John Henderson, the Green Report has featured many topics of discussion, including the Carbon Neutral Tournament, UCC and Bullfrog Power, and Car Corner. The ''Green Report'' is printed on 100% recycled post-consumer paper, and represents the start of a new environmental mindset at UCC. | |||
===Community service=== | ===Community service=== | ||
Upper Canada College encourages students to engage in voluntary ].<ref name=Service>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112946| title=Campus Life > Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) > Service| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193819/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112946| archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref> In relation to this, the college runs the Horizons program, in which local underprivileged children are tutored in music, digital media, and academics twice a week by current UCC students.<ref name=Service /> Further, each year, usually for two to four weeks during Spring Break, UCC also organises trips for 15 to 20 of its Upper School students to various ] where they take part in community building services such as constructing schools, ] and homes, or aiding in conservation work. Students have ventured to places like ], ], ],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://UCCVisitsLewa.tumblr.com| title=UCC Visits Lewa| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=4 November 2010}}</ref> and China.<ref name=Service />{{sfn| Upper Canada College| 2010| p=13}} | |||
UCC runs its own united program with ]: twice a year, the school administers a fund raiser with which one full housing unit can be built in the downtown Toronto area. As well, over 50 students annually commit over 60 hours to the building of this unit. | |||
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Each year UCC also organises trips for 15 to 20 its Upper School students to various ] countries where they take part in community building services such as constructing schools, ]s and homes, or aiding in conservation work. These trips usually take place during the ]. Students have ventured to places like ], ], ], and ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
Every year the school plans and runs several on or off-site events, some of which are open only to students in certain years, while others to the entire student population, alumni, and their respective friends and family. These events are intended to serve a variety of purposes—promoting school spirit, for enjoyment, ] or philanthropic causes—and many are organized by the ], with the help of parent and student volunteers. | |||
Association Day is analogous to UCC's ]. Held since 1979, ''A-Day'', as it is informally known, constitutes the school's largest annual event, taking place over the last weekend of September and culminating on the Saturday with a large festival, including competitive matches for all fall sports teams and the Association Dinner for Old Boys celebrating their five-year incremental ]s.<ref name=UCCOld>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001&rc=0| title=Old Boys > Welcome > What is Association Day?| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022003918/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001| archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref> Later in the academic year is the Founder's Dinner, a formal event that has been held for more than a century. It typically takes place on the Thursday night before the third weekend in January, which is made a special long weekend for students as a commemoration of Sir John Colborne's birthday.<ref name=UCCOld2>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001&rc=0| title=Old Boys > Welcome > What is Founder's Dinner?| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022003918/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001| archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref> Another regular event is the UCC Gala, a black tie dinner and ] organized every three or four years in May.<ref>{{Cite journal| title=Gala chairs announced| journal=Current Times| page=3| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=December 2005}}</ref> | |||
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Two secondary school student dances take place in the calendar year: The Battalion Ball originated out of the ''At Home'', a UCC community-wide event similar to a modern homecoming and first held in 1887. The revival of the UCC Rifle Corps in 1891 resulted in students attending the At Home in their cadet uniforms and, by 1897, a dance was added to the festivities in the evening, known as the ''Rifle Corps Dance''. By 1931, the dance became the ''Battalion Ball'', after the Rifle Corps was renamed the UCC Cadet Battalion, and, in 1971, the colloquial nickname ''The Batt'' was devised, which later developed into "Batt Ball". The event was held off-campus for the first time in 1975, at the ], and, after 1976, when the Cadet Corps was disbanded, school uniforms replaced military attire, ] bands played, and Batt Ball became more of a spring ]. Today, Batt Ball is reserved for students in grades 11 and 12, held at venues such as the ] or ], with attire being ] for boys and ] or ] for girls, and music is provided by DJs.<ref>{{Cite magazine| last=Jerjian| first=Edward| title=Remember When...| magazine=Old Times| date=Summer–Fall 2006| page=9| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> The Stewards' Dance is UCC's fall semi-formal and is typically fashioned around ] themes such as "Great Couples in History". The dance takes place in late October and is administered by the Board of Stewards for all students in grades 11 and above. | |||
Upper Canada College owns and maintains an outdoor educational facility, Canada's oldest "outdoor school,"{{Fact|date=February 2007}} located in Norval, Ontario. Though the College only uses a select few, the Norval property is over 450 ]s (181 ]s) in area, through which much of the area's ] flows. | |||
Various sporting events occur annually: Hockey Night has been held by the college since 1933 as an evening where the First Hockey team would play a feature game against one of UCC's rival schools in competition for the ] Victory Trophy.<ref name=TandN/> The game was held at ], thanks to the generosity of the arena's builder, ], and its (as well as the then ]) owner, ],{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=177}} both themselves Old Boys. After the closing of The Gardens in 2000, the event was moved to the ] and then the ]. Over the decades other games were added to the roster, including a game involving the school's Junior Varsity team, the final game of the house hockey tournament, and a game between ] and ]. By the early 1990s, pleasure skating and Prep School games had been added to the evening's schedule. Further, the ] is one of Upper Canada College's most successful events; the school is an official site for the run, acting as the start and end point, as well as part of the course, which ventures throughout ]. UCC's Terry Fox Run is also the largest site and has raised the most money in the world since 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal| last=Aster| first=Andrea| title=UCC goes the distance for Terry| journal=Current Times| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto| date=December 2005}}</ref> The Prep Games Day is an annual held event at the junior school. | |||
By the early ], the city of Toronto was already growing quickly around the College's Deer Park campus, causing the trustees to begin an exploration into the possibility of once again moving the school. The present Norval property, north of the city, was purchased in ], and plans for a new college building were even drawn up by a Toronto architectural firm. However, due to the ] and the ], plans to move the school were abandoned in the 1930s.<ref name="How" /> | |||
==Affiliations== | |||
Still, the property remained in the hands of the school, and it was developed into an outdoor education centre for UCC students. The first bunk-house was built in the 1930s, and in 1964, an ] was planted, while a modern bunk-house, designed by Blake Millar (Class of 1954), and which won him a ] for excellence in architecture in 1967,<ref name="TandN" /> was constructed.<ref name="How" /> Stephen House not only contains residential spaces for students and staff, but also a classroom/laboratory. There is also an older structure that was the original bunk-house, and a bungalow-style residence for the property caretaker. In 2003, several log cabins were built for writing retreats. | |||
Upper Canada College is a member of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS), the ] (CAIS), the ] (SSAT) Board, the ], the Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and an associate member of the ] (NAIS), the ] (IBSC), the Toronto Boys' School Coalition (TBSC), and the college principal is a member of the ] (HMC) in the UK.{{sfn| Thomson| Lafortune| 1999| p=489}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Toronto's foremost private boys school, operating under the IB Program. {{!}} Upper Canada College|url=https://www.ucc.on.ca/|access-date=2020-08-15|website=ucc.on.ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmc.org.uk/schools/international.htm| title=About HMC > HMC Schools > International members| publisher=The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference| access-date=27 February 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206222404/http://www.hmc.org.uk/schools/international.htm| archive-date=6 February 2012 }}</ref> Along with ], ], and ], UCC also remains one of the ], an athletic association of Ontario independent boys' schools established in the 19th century. | |||
] (BSS) is located only two blocks from UCC, it is UCC's sister school. UCC students work on joint projects with students of other nearby girls' schools, including BSS, ], ], and ]. | |||
Norval's main focus of management is toward improved diversity of forest cover and the related protection of wildlife and the Credit River watershed,<ref></ref> aiding the school's primary function of providing outdoor learning programs to students;<ref name="UCCcurrP" /> other Ontario schools use the property and its facilities during the weeks when UCC students are not in residence. Throughout the school year, entire classes, houses, or portions of certain grades will have a several day stay at Norval, where they will learn about a range of topics including ], ], ], plant types, ], river study, and survival, in addition to participating in trust building exercises, ], and athletic games. | |||
The school had, between 2008 and 2009, a relationship with an ] team, the ], though the team and the school were not directly affiliated. Upper Canada College is also a member of the Ontario Tennis Association. | |||
In recent years, the school has come under criticism for keeping the entirety of the increasingly taxed Norval property, while so little of it is actually used; this argument is gaining increased credence in light of the consistent yearly tuition hikes, and mounting legal costs. The school has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of selling the property, citing not only rapidly increasing land value, but also an intention to hold it in order to prevent indsutrial development of the property, which contains a variety of wildlife, including ] and ]. | |||
==People== | |||
Norval hosts an "Open House" each season with the spring "Maple Madness" focusing on the site's traditional ] manufacturing.<ref></ref> | |||
===Alumni=== | |||
{{Main|List of Upper Canada College alumni}} | |||
] ] (right) meeting with President of the United States ] (centre), 2009]] | |||
The college states that almost every UCC graduate, known as an ''Old Boy'', goes on to post-secondary schooling<ref name=UCCUP>{{cite web| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/universityplacement| title=Campus Life > Upper School > University Placement| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193516/http://www.ucc.on.ca/universityplacement| archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> The graduate community consists of over 6,000 Old Boys around the world and,<ref name=Why /> though the career paths of the college's alumni are varied, UCC has a reputation for educating ].<ref name=CE/><ref name="Boarding"/><ref name="TL"/><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.exploreuccboarding.ca/| title=Explore UCC Boarding > UCC makes your life happen| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=26 November 2010}}</ref> | |||
The school has produced 26 ]<ref>{{citation| last=Aster| first=Andrea| url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/2015/12/01/kaleem-hawa-12-is-uccs-25th-rhodes-scholar/| title=Kaleem Hawa '12 is UCC's 25th Rhodes Scholar| date=1 December 2015| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=4 January 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105222051/http://www.ucc.on.ca/2015/12/01/kaleem-hawa-12-is-uccs-25th-rhodes-scholar/| archive-date=5 January 2016}}</ref> and five ].<ref name=CE/><ref name=UCCUP/><ref>{{citation| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rhodes-scholarship-facing-a-new-debate-over-its-past/article27435212/| last=Choise| first=Simon| title=Canadian Rhodes winners announced as scholarship debated| date=23 November 2015| work=The Globe and Mail| access-date=4 January 2016| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Six graduates became ], four were appointed as ], seven as chief justices, and four were elected as ]. At least 18 Old Boys have been appointed to the Queen's/] and 18 were made Queen's/]. Two were awarded the ], two were appointed to the ] and three to the ], no less than 50 have been inducted into the ] since the honour's inception in 1967, 11 into the ], and at least 14 have been accepted as fellows of the ]. Ten are ] and eight have played in the ]. | |||
===Faculty=== | |||
], who taught at Upper Canada College in the late 1800s]] | |||
Notable faculty members of Upper Canada College have included: | |||
* ] – Toronto's first school superintendent and founder of the ]<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/barber_george_anthony_10E.html| last=Armstrong| first=Frederick| title=Barber, George Anthony| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=10|year=1972| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ] – physician and proponent and first Dean of the Ontario Medical College for Women (later ])<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/barrett_michael_11E.html| last=Craig| first=G. M.| title=Barrett, Michael| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=11|year=1982| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ] — New Yorker staff writer, author of the novel ''About the Author'' (2001) and the ''New York Times'' bestselling nonfiction book '']'' (2000) | |||
* ] – author | |||
* ] – ] recipient, three-time all-star ] in the ], and radio and television narrator<ref>{{cite news| last=MacLeod| first=Robert| date=13 November 2012| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/where-are-they-now-mike-eben/article5268622/| title=Where are they now: Mike Eben| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| access-date=23 February 2015| url-access=subscription}}</ref> | |||
* ] – author and broadcast journalist | |||
* ] – author{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=169}} | |||
* ] – chief justice of ] and ], member of the ], Speaker of the ], and chief superintendent of Education | |||
* ] – most widely read English-speaking humourist in the world, 1915–1925 | |||
* Bruce Littlejohn – internationally recognized photographer, writer, and conservationist{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=189}} | |||
* J.P.M.B. "Jock" de Marbois – appointee to the ] and Commodore of the ] and ]{{sfn| Killbourn| 1984| p=173}} | |||
* ] – theologian, second President of ], and president of the Canadian Institute (later the ])<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mccaul_john_11E.html| last=Craig| first=G. M.| title=McCaul, John| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=11|year=1982| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* James Alexander McClellan – president of the Educational Association of Ontario and education reformer<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mclellan_james_alexander_13E.html| last=Lanning| first=Robert| title=McLellan, James Alexander| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=13|year=1994| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* Sir ] – leader of the ] League and first secretary of the ]<ref>{{cite book| last=Wallace| first=W. Stewart| year=1948| chapter=Sir George Parkin| volume=V| page=89| publisher=University Associates of Canada| chapter-url=http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirGeorgeParkin-CanadianHistory.htm| editor-last=Bélanger| editor-first=Claude| title=L'Encyclopédie de l'Histoire du Québec| trans-title=The Quebec History Encyclopedia| series=Biographies| place=Toronto| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312092653/http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirGeorgeParkin-CanadianHistory.htm| archive-date=2005-03-12}}</ref> | |||
* Sir ] – Receiver General to the ] and the director of the ]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/funds/peacock.php| last=McInnis| first=Marvin| title=Sir Edward Peacock| publisher=Queen's University| access-date=22 October 2010}}</ref> | |||
* James Dodsley Humphreys – Toronto's "favourite tenor" and musical composer<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/humphreys_james_dodsley_10E.html| last=Kallmann| first=Helmut| title=Humphreys, James Dodsley| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=10|year=1972| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ] – Canadian intellectual | |||
* ] - British historian and founding professor at ], administered exams in classics at UCC | |||
* ] – Archbishop of Toronto and ] | |||
* ] – Austrian musician, founder of the ], and Director of Music at UofT{{sfn| Howard| 1979| p={{page needed|date=February 2021}}}} | |||
* Thomas Young – architect, illustrator of early Toronto, and founding member of the Canadian Institute<ref>{{cite dictionary| url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/young_thomas_1860_8E.html| last=Morris| first=Shirley| title=Young, Thomas| dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography| volume=8|year=1985| publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval| access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
===UCC Association=== | |||
==Affiliations== | |||
The Upper Canada College Old Boys' Association is a non-profit organization established in 1891, on the day of the closure of the college's Russell Square campus. The name was changed in 1969 to the Upper Canada College Association,<ref name=TandN /> when the association expanded its mandate to include parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college in matters relating to UCC, such as governance and advancement.<ref name=UCCAssociation>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001| title=Old Boys > Welcome > What is the UCC Association?| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022003918/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113001| archive-date=22 October 2010 }}</ref> Specific programs are also run by the association, including those that permit recent graduates to volunteer as mentors to students,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113020| title=Community > Common Ties Mentorship| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-date=14 September 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914015426/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=113020}}</ref> and Old Boy reunions are set up around the world by the association's fifteen branches outside of Toronto: ], ], ], ], Montreal, ], and ] in Canada; ], Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in the United States; London in the United Kingdom; Hong Kong in China; and ] in Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112996| title=Old Boys > Association Branches| publisher=Upper Canada College| access-date=22 October 2010| archive-date=6 July 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193600/http://www.ucc.on.ca/podium/default.aspx?t=112996}}</ref> | |||
It is a common misconception that the ] (BSS), located three blocks from UCC, is UCC's sister school. In fact, BSS's historical brother school is ] in Port Hope, owing to their shared ] ] origins. UCC students work on joint projects with students of other nearby girls' schools, including ] (SCS), ], ], and ]. | |||
A 29-person board of directors, referred to as the Association Council, meets three times a year to discuss matters facing the college and plan association events; 21 of those on the council are elected by members of the association at its annual meeting, while the remaining eight are ex officio.<ref name=UCCAssociation /> Four of the 17 members of the college's board of governors come from the association board, including the President of the Association, and serve on the larger body for a three-year period. | |||
], a co-educational private school in ], is not affiliated with UCC. | |||
==Arms, motto, and emblem== | |||
The College is a member of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS), the Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), the Secondary School Admission Test (SAT) Board, The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and an associate member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and the Principal is a member of the Headmasters Conference (HMC) in the UK. Furthermore, UCC plays a leading role in International Boys' School Coalition (IBSC) and the Toronto Boys' School Coalition (TBSC). | |||
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Upper Canada College's motto is {{Langnf|la|palmam qui meruit ferat|let he who merited the palm bear it}},<ref name=CHA/> which was derived from a poem by ] titled ''Ad Ventos—ante A.D. MDCCXXVII'' (Latin for 'To the Winds—Before ] 1727'). The words, attached to the ] of ] in 1797,<ref>{{cite book| last=Harrison| first=James| title=The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson| volume=1| year= 2007| orig-date=1806| publisher=BiblioBazaar LLC| page=266| isbn=978-1-4346-0663-1}}</ref> were first used in relation to UCC in 1833, as part of an emblem stamped on the inside of books given as prizes, showing the phrase written on a ribbon tying together two laurel leaves around the school's name. Around 1850, a crown replaced the school's name; ] stated this was at the insistence of ], who argued in favour of its use because the school had both been founded by a ] and was at first a royal ].<ref>{{Cite book| last=Robertson| first=John Ross| author-link=John Ross Robertson| title=Landmarks of Toronto| publisher=Nabu Press| year=1904| location=Charleston| isbn=978-1-149-43383-6}}</ref> The crown originally used was that of King ].<ref name=Arms12>{{cite magazine| last=Cowan| first=Charles G.| title=A Grant of Arms| magazine=Old Times| date=January 1987| page=12| publisher=Upper Canada College| location=Toronto}}</ref> | |||
In 1889, Scadding produced the design for an emblem which can still be seen over the doors to Laidlaw Hall at the college's Upper School. L.C. Kerslake described this emblem in 1956: | |||
Upper Canada College also remains one of the "Little ]." | |||
<blockquote>The small wreath, crossed anchor and sword in the centre of the crest are found in Lord Nelson's coat of arms.<br /> | |||
==Alumni== | |||
The open book in the upper left corner is symbolic of education which is the primary function of any school. The quadrant-shaped figure in the upper right corner is a section of the standard of St. George and signifies the school's connection with England and Great Britain, the native land of the founder, Lord Seaton.<br /> | |||
The College states that 100% of all graduates go on to post-secondary schooling. Though the career paths of the College's alumni are varied, UCC has a reputation for educating many of Canada's powerful, elite and wealthy. As is common in single-sex male schools, UCC's alumni are known as "Old Boys". | |||
Technically speaking, the crown should not be included in the crest, as the school was not instituted by royal charter. However, loyalty to the Crown is one of the fundamental traditions of UCC and is certain to endure as long as the school itself.<br /> | |||
The cornua copiae just above the motto stands for the fullness of school life which is one of the distinctive marks of UCC.</blockquote> | |||
This complex design, known as ''Scadding's Device'',{{sfn| Cowan| 1987| p=13}} which was just the Seal of Upper Canada as authorised in 1820 with the college's motto and palm branches applied, was never widely used.<ref name=How/> Instead, the simple crown between laurel leaves tied with a ribbon bearing the school's motto became the standard emblem, although its appearance changed over time in reflection of current tastes. | |||
===UCC Association=== | |||
The Upper Canada College Old Boys' Association was established in 1891, on the day of the closure of the College's Russell Square campus. The name was changed to the Upper Canada College Association in 1969,<ref name="TandN" /> when the association expanded its mandate to include parents, faculty, staff and friends of the College. | |||
It was not until the mid-1970s, as the college approached its sesquicentennial, that consideration was given to having the emblem authorised by the ] (Canada's heraldic authority at that time). The Armorial Bearings Committee was established to oversee the project, and a petition was submitted to the ] in 1981.<ref name=Arms12/> The Board of Governors insisted that the school's traditional emblem be incorporated into the forthcoming ]; however, as the emblem includes a royal crown, it was necessary to obtain the ]'s personal permission to use it officially. This was done via the ], then ] (himself a UCC Old Boy), and Queen ] consented to the request, making UCC the only institution of its kind in the Commonwealth of Nations to have the royal crown in its arms.{{sfn| Cowan| 1987| p=13}} | |||
The Association's purpose is to "preserve and perpetuate the associations and traditions of the College." Managed by an eight person Board of Directors, elected annually by members at the Annual Meeting, the Board meets six times annually to discuss matters facing the College and plan Association events. Four of the 17 members of the College's Board of Governors come from the Association board, including the President of the Association, and serve on the larger body for a three-year period. The Association has an office at the College, and is run by Old Boy Paul Winnell.<ref name="UCCold" /> | |||
] granting UCC its ] (top left), ] (centre left), and ] (lower left)]] | |||
The UCC Association Speakers Series and the Common Ties Mentorship Program, established to link successful young Old Boys with students preparing to take on a career in a similar field, are also run by the UCC Association.<ref></ref> The group also organizes Old Boy reunions all over the world, through the branches that it operates in fifteen locations outside Toronto, n Canada, the ], ], ] and ]. The local branch president organizes events for all members of the Association, which are held either annually or bi-annually in the relevant location. Branch Presidents also act as the Association's representative in each location, helping members re-locating in the area make contact with other Association members and helping find "lost" Association members. In the summer of 2006, UCC created a social network hosted on the school's homepage. | |||
The ] granting UCC its armorial devices, including a ], were issued on 4 January 1985, the 155th anniversary of the college's first day of classes.{{sfn| Cowan| 1987| p=14}} The traditional emblem became the school's official ]. However, as text and numbers are normally not included in such badges, the motto was omitted, but the King of Arms made an exception to the rules by allowing the retention of the date ''1829''.{{sfn| Cowan| 1987| p=14}} The emblem also became the ] of the school's new arms, although without the number ''1829'', since heraldic rules dictate that the royal crown must sit directly on the helmet. | |||
The ] of the arms shows two deer's heads in the chief (one being the crest of the arms of the founder, ], and the other taken from the arms of Bishop ], the first chairman of the board of governors) while, below a ] embattled as in Lord Seaton's arms, is the aforementioned Scadding's Device surmounted by another royal crown. The shield is supported by a master in academic gown (on the left) and a student in ] uniform (on the right), both styled as figures from the mid-19th century.{{sfn| Cowan| 1987| p=13}} These armorial devices were registered with the ] in 2005.<ref name=CHA>{{cite web |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register/project/490 |title=Registration of Arms, Supporters and Badge |work=Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada |publisher=Official website of the Governor General |access-date=25 November 2022}}</ref> | |||
===Noted alumni=== | |||
The school has produced one ], five ] and three ]. At least nineteen graduates have been appointed to the ], twenty-four have been named ],<ref></ref> nine are ], and at least five have received the ]. No less than thirty seven have received the ] since the award's inception in 1967. | |||
{{Main|List of Upper Canada College alumni}} | |||
==In media== | |||
Examples include: | |||
In the 2006 film '']'', the main character of Martin Ward (]) is a graduate of Upper Canada College.<ref>{{citation| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/now-playing/article731506/| last1=Groen| first1=Rick| last2=Lacey| first2=Liam| last3=Taylor| first3=Kate| last4=Cole| first4=Stephen| title=Now Playing| date=25 August 2006| newspaper=The Globe and Mail| access-date=15 February 2015| url-access=subscription}}</ref> The school is also mentioned in ]'s '']'' as an institution into which the wealthy in ], wished to enroll their eldest sons.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_D5Ii3PMAAC&q=%22upper+canada+college%22+%22skin+of+a+lion%22&pg=PT89| last=Ondaatje| first=Michael| title=In the Skin of a Lion| publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group| year=2011| isbn=9780307776631}}</ref> | |||
* ] - Chief general of the ] during ] | |||
* ] - Notable author (also a faculty member). Fictionalized UCC as "Colborne College" in his novels, and recipient of the ] for '']'' | |||
* ] - Founders ], formerly Canada's largest retailer, and eponym of the ] | |||
* ] - noted academic, ] professor, ], and runner-up in the 2006 ] leadership election | |||
* ] - Noted politician, broadcaster and the ] ] for ]. | |||
* ] - accredited with the discovery of the ] | |||
* ] - Canada's ninth wealthiest man, Chairman of ], full owner of the ], and eponym of the ] | |||
* Lord ] - Canada's wealthiest man, sixth wealthiest in the world, and Chairman of ] | |||
* The late Lord ] - Formerly Canada's wealthiest man and father of ] | |||
* ] Canada's second wealthiest man, and Chairman of the George Weston Foods Limited | |||
UCC was a filming location for the 1993 movie '']''<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108065/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt| title=Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993): Filming Locations| website=IMDb| access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> and was the focus of episode eight of season nine of the ] show ''Structures''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2924432&R=2924432| title=Structures. 2007–2008 Episode 8, Upper Canada College| publisher=Toronto Public Library| access-date=26 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3599464/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1| title=Structures: Season 9, Episode 8: Upper Canada College| website=IMDb| access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> | |||
==Noted faculty== | |||
Many leading intellectuals and notable personalities have taught at UCC. They include: | |||
==See also== | |||
* ] - ], ], ], noted author | |||
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* ] - Author, broadcast journalist | |||
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* ] - Noted author<ref>Killbourn, Pg. 169</ref> | |||
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* ] - ], ] | |||
* J.P.M.B. "Jock" de Marbois - ], ], commodore of ] and ]<ref>Killbourn, Pg. 173</ref> | |||
* Sir George Parkin - ], KCMG, leader of the ] and First Secertary of the ]<ref></ref> | |||
* Sir Edward Peacock - Receiver General to the ] and the Director of the ]<ref></ref> | |||
* ] - Canadian intellectual | |||
* Arnold Walter - ], Austrian musician, founder of the ], Director of Music at ]<ref name="How" /> | |||
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The ], a non-profit agency of the ], recently erected three ] outlining UCC's presence and history in Toronto. One exists on the north-east corner of 20 Duncan Street (the only existing building from the College's original campus), the second at the south-east corner of 212 King Street West, and one at the main entrance of the present UCC campus at 200 Lonsdale Road. | |||
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School type | Independent day and boarding |
Motto | Palmam qui meruit ferat (Latin for 'Let he who merited the palm bear it') |
Established | 1829; 195 years ago (1829) |
Principal | Samuel James McKinney |
Faculty | 140 |
Grades | Kindergarten to grade 12 |
Enrolment | 1,146 |
• K – grade 7 | 416 |
• Grades 8–12 | 730 |
Campus | Deer Park/Forest Hill (38.5 acres , urban) Norval (450 acres , rural) |
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Endowment | CA$107,000,000 |
Visitor | Vacant |
Website | ucc |
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent day and boarding school for boys in Toronto, Ontario, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The college is widely described as Canada's most prestigious preparatory school, and has produced many notable graduates. With around 1,200 students, UCC is highly selective. The school has a financial aid program which currently awards more than $5 million annually to Canadian citizens.
The secondary school segment is divided into 10 houses; eight are for day students and the remaining two are for boarding students. Aside from the main structure, with its dominant clock tower, the Toronto campus has a number of sports facilities, staff and faculty residences, and other buildings. UCC also owns and operates an outdoor education campus in Norval, Ontario.
UCC was founded in 1829 by Sir John Colborne, then Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and modelled on Elizabeth College, Guernsey. After facing closure by the government on more than one occasion, UCC became fully independent in 1900, nine years after moving to its present location. It is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario and the third oldest in Canada. UCC maintains links with the Canadian royal family through its members or representatives of the monarch, sometimes serving as the college's Visitor and/or on its Board of Governors.
History
Main article: History of Upper Canada CollegeBeginnings and growth
UCC was founded in 1829 by Major-General Sir John Colborne (later the 1st Baron Seaton), then Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, in the hopes that it would serve as a feeder school to the newly established King's College (now known as the University of Toronto). UCC was modelled on the public schools of Great Britain, such as Eton College. Though now an independent school, the college was created with public funds, including an initial land grant of 6,000 acres of crown lands, later increased to 66,000 acres.
The school began teaching in the original Royal Grammar School. However, within a year, it was established on its own campus, known as Russell Square, at the north-west corner of King and Simcoe streets. Colborne brought educated men from the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Oxford Universities, attracting them with high salaries. Still, despite ever increasing enrolment, popularity with leading families of the day (both from the local Family Compact and from abroad); a visit in 1847 from the Governor General of the Province of Canada, the Earl of Elgin; and praise from many, including Charles Dickens, UCC was faced with closure on a number of occasions. Opponents of elitism sought to curtail provincial government funding and remove the college from its premises.
The school merged with King's College for a period after 1831 and moved 60 years later to its present location in Deer Park, then a rural area. The school expanded in 1902 to take in lower-year students with the construction of a separate primary school building, the Prep, allowing for boys to be enrolled from Grade Three through to graduation.
In 1900, the government of Ontario stopped funding UCC, making it a completely independent school. By 1910, however, UCC was facing declining enrolment and capital; it considered selling the Deer Park campus and moving again to become a full boarding school on a property purchased in Norval, Ontario. Plans were halted by the outbreak of the First World War, and the college remained where it was. It eventually thrived there, both physically and culturally, as the buildings were expanded and bright instructors attracted.
Principal William Grant spearheaded further development. Shortly after assuming his position in 1917, he oversaw recruitment of teachers described as "eccentric, crotchety, quaint, though widely travelled and highly intelligent." His tenure also saw other improvements. Student enrolment doubled, and bursaries increased. Teacher salaries also doubled, and their benefits now included a pension plan.
UCC maintained a Cadet Corps from around 1837, which became a rifle company attached to the Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada (later The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) in 1860. It was one of only two student corps called to duty in Canadian military history when it assisted in staving off the Fenian Raids in 1866. Historian Jack Granatstein, in his book The Generals, demonstrated that UCC graduates accounted for more than 30 per cent of Canadian generals during the Second World War, and 26 Old Boys achieved brigadier rank or higher. A war memorial display case and plaque in the Upper School's main entrance hall is dedicated to the UCC Old Boys who distinguished themselves during Canadian military service periods.
After the Second World War
In 1958, UCC faced a major crisis when it was discovered that the Upper School's main building was in danger of collapse due to poor construction. At the time, despite its benefactors, UCC had no endowment. An emergency building fund was started and, with the assistance of Prince Philip, all of the necessary $3,200,000 was raised. Ted Rogers and his family paid for the clock tower, while Robert Laidlaw donated the funds necessary to build Laidlaw Hall. Construction of the present main building began in early 1959, and it was opened by former governor general Vincent Massey near the end of 1960.
The crisis forced the school government to rethink their stance on foresight and planning, leading to a years-long program of new construction, salary improvements, and funding sources. Furthermore, in conjunction with Principal Sowby, whom he had helped select, Massey had additional influence on the college and brought about somewhat of a renaissance at the school – a number of distinguished visitors were brought in, and leading minds were hired as masters. At this time, the curriculum began to shift from offering a classical education to offering one grounded in the liberal arts; language options besides Latin were first offered after 1950.
The period from 1965 to 1975 was a decade of constant change at UCC; global and local cultural influences (including the Vietnam War, the bohemian Yorkville neighbourhood, the Woodstock festival, changing fashion trends, rock music, and the Watergate scandal) collided head-on with the conservative and traditional culture and environment at UCC. Individual freedoms trumped institutional discipline, and moral authority had lost its clout. Patrick T. Johnson, principal from 1965 to 1974, managed the cultural transition during these years, successfully integrating societal trends, traditional values, and individual self-expression. One of the casualties, though, was the cadet corps; it was disbanded in September 1975 in favour of a smaller volunteer corps. Under principals educated at Oxford (Johnson) and Cambridge (Sadlier), the college refused to adopt the new provincial educational standards issued in 1967, which it considered lower than the old standards. UCC also moved forward with new educational and athletic facilities across the campus, while opening the campus to the wider community at the same time. By the 1990s, summer camps were set up on the campus for any child who wished to enroll.
The college embarked on another building campaign, again with the aid of Prince Philip, beginning in 1989 and ending in 1994, with the construction of new athletic facilities at the Upper School and the replacement of the 1901 Peacock Building at the Prep. Two years later, UCC adopted the International Baccalaureate (IB), which augmented the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Following this, Grade Two was added in 1998 and Grade One the next year. Since 2003, UCC has offered places from Senior Kindergarten to Grade Twelve.
Into the 21st century
In the years following 1998, five UCC staff were accused of sexual abuse or of possessing child pornography; three were convicted of some of the charges. In 2003, 18 students launched a $62 million class-action lawsuit against UCC, claiming sexual abuse by Doug Brown, who taught at the Prep from 1975 to 1993 and was eventually found guilty in 2004 of nine counts of indecent assault. UCC agreed to a confidential settlement with the victims.
UCC followed the trends in environmentalism when the Board of Governors unanimously voted in 2002 to establish the Green School initiative, wherein environmental education would become "one of the four hallmarks of a UCC education." Plans to carry this out saw not only upgrades of the school's physical plant to meet environmentally sustainable standards, but also an integration of these new initiatives into the curriculum. After the appointment in 2004 of Jim Power as principal, the curriculum further evolved to address reports of wider, societal trends showing a rise in boys' behavioural problems and a decline in their educational performance. Simultaneously, UCC's status as an all-boys school found support following years of pressure to become co-educational, especially as other prominent, formerly all-boys schools in Ontario began to make the switch, such as Lakefield College School (1989), Appleby College (1991), and Trinity College School (1991).
As part of the strategic plan for the school, the board of governors decided in 2007 to close the 180-year-old boarding programme, citing market changes and the neglect of boarding over preceding decades. However, students, the Old Boy community, and others associated with UCC reacted negatively to the announcement, leading the board to revisit its conclusion. It was subsequently decided that boarding should be retained, but only if, among other requirements, it housed no less than 60 students, the facilities were improved (work that took place through the summers of 2013 and 2014), and boarders be drawn from across the country.
Campus and facilities
Toronto campus
Upper Canada College occupies an open, 17 hectare (43 acre) campus in Deer Park, near the major intersection of Avenue Road and St. Clair Avenue, in the residential neighbourhood of Forest Hill. There are 15 buildings on the site:
The main structure (the Upper School), constructed between 1959 and 1960, central on the campus, and with a dominant clock tower, houses the secondary school component of the college, in a quadrangle form. Laidlaw Hall, the principal assembly hall, featuring a full theatre stage and a pipe organ, is attached to the west end of the Upper School and, at the other end, is the Memorial Wing, the school's main infirmary. Closing the north end of the main quadrangle (which is the location of the statue of the Lord Seaton, installed in 1934) is one building, built in 1932, that contains the two boarding houses, as well as two private residences for the associated boarding masters, adjacent to which is the school chapel, donated by Governor General Vincent Massey.
Satellite to this complex are townhouse-style residences for masters and their families; the residence of the college's principal, Grant House, built in 1917; and a small, two-storey cricket pavilion, inaugurated by Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn. The Preparatory School, part of which was designed by Eden Smith, is at the south-west corner of the campus, near which is a home for the Prep headmaster and a small gatehouse.
The athletic facilities include an indoor pool and three gymnasiums, as well as, around the campus, the William P. Wilder sports complex (containing an NHL and an Olympic sized hockey rink, one of only four in Ontario), a sports activity bubble, tennis courts, a sports court, a running track, and nine regulation sized sports fields. The two major fields of the Upper School are called Commons and Lords, after, respectively, the British House of Commons and House of Lords, and one of the main central fields is known as the Oval (covered in winter by a bubble). In the summer of 2006, the latter, along with the encompassing running track, was renovated, with the grass replaced by a partially synthetic astroturf/grass hybrid and the track paved with a rubber turf. Several metres below the field, geothermal pipes were laid to provide alternative energy heating for both the Upper School and the adjacent sports complex. A number of these facilities are the result of a decade long, $90 million capital building campaign launched in the 1990s. Still planned are an Olympic-standard, 50-metre swimming pool; a new racquet centre for squash, badminton, and tennis; a rowing centre; the expansion of both the Prep and Upper School academic buildings; and an expansion of the archives.
The Ontario Heritage Trust, a non-profit agency of the Ontario Ministry of Culture, erected three plaques outlining UCC's presence and history in Toronto. One is on the north-east corner of 20 Duncan Street (the only existing building from the college's original campus), the second at the south-east corner of 212 King Street West, and one at the main entrance of the current campus at 200 Lonsdale Road. (An additional plaque that mentions Upper Canada College stands in Clarence Square, commemorating Alexander Dunn, an Old Boy who received Canada's first Victoria Cross.)
Norval campus
Upper Canada College owns and maintains an outdoor educational facility near the town of Norval, Ontario, on 420 acres (170 ha) of property on the Credit River. The land was used by First Nations as camping and hunting grounds and Huron and Iroquois travelled along the Credit to Lake Ontario to trade with Europeans. By the early 19th century, the land supported farming; many remnants of this use remain, including apple orchards and artifacts, some of which were unearthed by students during simulated archaeological digs.
Norval's main purpose is to teach college students about the natural environment, sustainability, and ecosystems through outdoor learning programs, some in conjunction with Outward Bound Canada. It is staffed by five full-time teachers, a superintendent, and cooks and housekeepers. Throughout the school year, entire classes, houses, or portions of certain grades will have a several day stay at Norval and other Ontario schools use the property and its facilities during the weeks when UCC students are not in residence. Norval also hosts an open house each season, with the spring Maple Madness focusing on the site's traditional maple syrup manufacturing, as well as cross-country skiing in winter and pumpkin carving in the autumn.
The land was purchased in 1913, at a time when the city of Toronto was quickly growing around the college's Deer Park campus and the trustees were considering moving the school to a new location. Plans for buildings were drawn up by an architectural firm. However, due to the outbreak of the First World War and then the depression, the move was fully abandoned in the 1930s. The college first attempted to sell the land in 1928 and again in 1935, but found no buyers. Eventually, the property was developed into an outdoor education centre for UCC students and community. Beginning in 1913, an annual picnic was held at Norval, the first being catered by the King Edward Hotel. As the land had originally been cleared for agricultural use, much of the site was open field until over 700,000 seedlings were planted by staff and students through the 1940s, followed by the creation of an arboretum in 1962. The first bunk house was built in the 1930s and augmented in 1967 by another, larger residence and dining building known as Stephen House, which won a Massey Medal for excellence in architecture for the designer, Blake Millar. Stephen House contains a classroom and laboratory, in addition to the residential spaces for students and staff. There is also a bungalow-style residence for the property caretaker and in 2003 several log cabins were built for writing retreats.
Into the 2000s, the school came under criticism for keeping the entirety of the increasingly taxed Norval property while so little of it was actually used; this argument has gained increased credence in light of the consistent yearly tuition hikes and mounting legal costs. Despite repeated assertions that the college had no intention of selling the property, citing not only rapidly increasing land value, but also an intention to hold it to prevent industrial development on land that contains a variety of wildlife, including spotted deer and hares, UCC sold a small portion of the acreage in 2007 to help cover costs related to the 2003 class action lawsuit brought against the school by former students. In 2011, the Norval Long-Range Planning Committee recommended that Norval's facilities should be expanded to allow for more overnight students and co-educational use.
Waterfront facility
Upper Canada College has a waterfront site that is located beside Lake Ontario at Toronto's Outer Harbour Marina. Occupied by the Don Lindsay Boathouse, the site primarily serves UCC's rowing team, which trains out of the facility during the spring and fall seasons. When not in use by the school's rowing program, the facility becomes a community rowing centre, hosting UCC's summer camps and Horizon program.
Tuition, scholarships, and assets
Upper Canada College is Canada's wealthiest independent school, having an endowment of more than CA$100 million. For the 2020–2021 school year, tuition fees range from $34,135 to $37,135 (not including a $8,500 initial registration fee, books and uniform) for day students and $61,085 to $66,835 for boarders (not including a $5,000 initial registration fee). An additional $500 technology fee is levied on all students in the Upper School, which covers the costs of a MacBook Air laptop computer, the associated software, and technological support. According to the school, fewer than two per cent of the Canadian population can afford the full cost of attending the school. The institution has strict admissions standards, accepting approximately 20 per cent of all applicants for the 2018–2019 school year. The college began a fundraising campaign in 2012 to obtain $100 million for scholarships; a donation of $11 million was received from Stu Lang, the largest single gift in Canadian independent school history. To honour Lang's donation, UCC created the scholars Lang Scholar Program to recognize up to 15 student-athletes annually with extraordinary leadership potential. UCC disbursed over $5.0 million in financial aid in 2019 to approximately 20 per cent of students. Only students in grade five and above are eligible for this assistance.
Besides its own archives containing records that outline the history of Upper Canada, the province of Ontario, and the city of Toronto dating back to the mid-19th century, the college also has a notable collection of artwork, antiques, and war medals. This includes the Order of Canada insignia presented to Robertson Davies, Foster Hewitt, Charles Band, and Arnold Smith, plus Canada's first Victoria Cross, awarded in 1854 to Old Boy Alexander Roberts Dunn, and the Victoria Cross given, and ceremonial sword belonging, to Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn; the valour medals were given to the Canadian War Museum on permanent loan on 17 May 2006. In the college's chapel, itself decorated with works by Canadian artists, is an altar made of marble from parts of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, England, that were damaged in the Blitz and donated by Dean of St. Paul's Walter Robert Matthews. On this is an altar cloth made from a piece of that which was used for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Held is an American flag that flew atop one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Further, the school holds works by Thoreau MacDonald and a collection of original paintings from the Group of Seven (though several were auctioned by the college in an effort to pay for the lawsuits it faced in 2004); an original Stephen Leacock essay, titled Why Boys Leave Home—A Talk on Camping, donated in 2005 and published for the first time in The Globe and Mail; and the original manuscript of Robertson Davies' work The Mask of Aesop, which he wrote in 1952 specifically for the Prep's 50th anniversary. Also in UCC's possession is a chair owned by Sir John A. Macdonald and another that once belonged to George Airey Kirkpatrick.
Governance, faculty, and staff
Upper Canada College is incorporated under an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and administered by a 17-member Board of Governors as a public trust, with the current chair of the board being Russ Higgins, a principal of MacPherson Builders ltd. Somerset Entertainment. The board, whose members are appointed and elected from alumni, parents of students past and present, and the wider UCC community, selects the college's principal, who serves for five years, managing the school's annual operation and heading an executive committee composed of vice-principals, department heads, and administration staff. There are also a number of other committees for advancement, finance and audit, governance and nominating, human resources, long range planning, property, and senior management review. Additionally, the UCC Foundation, a registered charity in Ontario since 1962 and run by a board of trustees, manages the school's endowment. Honorary trustees include David R. Beatty, John Craig Eaton II, Hans Michael Jebsen, Michael MacMillan, Kelly and Michael Meighen, Richard M. Thomson, Galen Weston, and Michael Wilson.
There are 129 faculty members in total, of whom 12 possess doctorates, 40 hold master's degrees, and 20 per cent are International Baccalaureate examiners. 17 faculty members reside on the campus. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18:1 in the lower grades and 19:1 in the upper grades.
Visitor
The visitor of Upper Canada College is a ceremonial role within UCC's governmental structure, though the occupant has the right or responsibility of inspecting and reporting on the College.
Sir John Colborne served informally as UCC's first visitor. When the post was created in 1833, the Bishop of York was named as the occupant, ex officio. Four years later, an act of the Upper Canada legislature outlined that the visitors of UCC would be the judges of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. The role was then transferred in 1850 to the governor general of the Province of Canada, on behalf of Queen Victoria, until Confederation, after which the lieutenant governor of Ontario acted as visitor. However, it was later felt the provincial viceroy was associated too much to politics and the office of visitor was not mentioned in the 1901 act that altered the government of UCC.
Prince Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor), was in 1920 appointed as Upper Canada College's official visitor, at the Prince's request. The College Times wrote then:
It will be a great pleasure to all to hear that the HRH the Prince of Wales has expressed a wish to be given the fine old English title of visitor of this school. HRH met so many 'Old Boys' while that, when he made his visit to Canada last year, he instituted special inquiries about the previous history of the College. Finding that the title existed, he has thus honored us by becoming 'Visitor of Upper Canada College' The gracious offer of the Prince places the position on a still higher plane and it makes us all feel a lot prouder of the grand old College to which we belong.
Edward was removed from the post of visitor when he abdicated the Canadian throne in 1936. The office thereafter lay dormant until 1955. Maintaining a connection with the Canadian royal family, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (husband of Edward VIII's niece, Queen Elizabeth II), was appointed as visitor of UCC, a role in which he served until his death in 2021, making him the longest-acting visitor in the College's history. He visited the college five times (in 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, and 1993), aided two fundraising campaigns, and gave items to the school, including a signed cricket bat.
During his 1959 visit to the school, Philip was made an honorary Old Boy and unveiled the permanent display of his personal coat of arms in the Massey Quadrangle. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the College's founding, the Prince made a two-day visit to UCC, which included a reception and formal banquet Exhibition Place and distributing prizes to the winners of the first annual Jubilee Association Run. Historian Richard Howard said of Philip in 1979, "In the lengthy history of the College, no visitor since our inception has taken such a deep interest in our affairs, for such an extended period, as has the present distinguished incumbent.”
In May 2012, the Upper Canada College Monarchist League conducted a poll and submitted to the Board of Governors a report outlining how 71 per cent of students surveyed (91 per cent of those in Year One) approved of another member of the royal family serving as UCC's visitor upon the resignation or demise of the Duke of Edinburgh. It was recommended that the next person to occupy the post be non-partisan and of a young age, so as to be likely to serve for a number of decades, as the Duke of Edinburgh had done. The most widely supported figure was Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (now the Prince of Wales).
Student body
UCC is a non-denominational school with approximately 1,000-day students and 88 boarders; Senior Kindergarten to Grade Seven students, approximately 400 boys, attend the Preparatory School (the Prep), after which a boy may move on to the Upper School, which consists of Grades Eight to Twelve. The Upper School years are known as follows:
- Grade Eight: Year Eight (formerly called Year One)
- Grade Nine: Year Nine (formerly called Year Two)
- Grade Ten: Year Ten (formerly called Foundation Year)
- Grade Eleven: Year Eleven (formerly called IB1)
- Grade Twelve: Year Twelve (formerly called IB2)
While Prep students are divided into forms, UCC, like several other schools in the Commonwealth of Nations, divides its Upper School students into houses. The house system was first adopted in 1923, consisting of only four houses until the late 1930s, after which the number increased the present ten. Eight of these—Bremner's, Howard's, Jackson's, Martland's, McHugh's, Mowbray's, Orr's, and Scadding's—are for day students and the remaining two—Seaton's and Wedd's—are for boarders. The houses compete in an annual intramural competition for the Prefects' Cup and the boarders also take part in weekend events and trips with boarders from neighbouring girls' schools.
Martland's was named for John "Gentle" Martland, a master at the College who was most well known for his reform of the boarding houses, making them into something more than simple residences. He toned down the rigid study regimes, cold dormitories, bland menus, and bullying, fostering instead more tolerating discipline, swift punishment for serious offenders, the occasional feast, and organised recreation. Wedd's is the one the oldest of the ten houses at UCC and is named for William Wedd, formerly first classical master.
The school's student government, created in 1892 and known as the Board of Stewards, represents the students at events, such as Association Day and Winterfest, and relays their wishes, during times of change or concern, to the upper administration. The group comprises 17 elected members of the Leaving Class: one steward for each house (the heads of houses) plus seven—the Head Steward and six stewards with portfolio—chosen by the majority of the whole student body. In addition to the stewards, students can enter the prefects program, requiring them to show leadership through their senior years to be awarded the title of Prefect upon graduation, the highest recognition UCC offers "for citizenship and leadership."
Though Upper Canada College has accepted ethnic minorities since the first black student (Peter Gallego, the son of a former American slave) enrolled in 1831 and First Nations boys, such as Francis Assikinack (son of the Ojibwe leader Jean-Baptiste Assiginack) in 1840, their representation within the student body was initially disproportionate to the same within the city's population and the school developed a reputation as a "WASP bastion". Michael Ignatieff considered the school's ethnic makeup during his time there, between 1959 and 1965, reflective of the culture of Toronto in general; according to him, "basically Tory, Anglican and fantastically patrician." Peter C. Newman, who attended UCC a decade before Ignatieff, and himself Jewish, said antisemitism was "virtually non-existent." According to school historian Richard Howard, UCC transformed its culture during the 1970s, as it began to offer assistance to the less affluent and made attempts to attract boys from visible minorities, becoming what he called "a small United Nations" that echoed Toronto's emerging ethnic variety (today, students from over 20 different countries and regions attend UCC), though, as recently as 1990, there were references in College Times editorials to antisemitism and sexism. These aspects of college life came to light in 1994, through James T. Fitzgerald's book Old Boys, which published some alumni's recollections of the school. In it, Peter Dalglish noted that while the student body was more racially diverse, it was still predominantly populated by the upper middle class, with the Asian students being even wealthier than their white counterparts. The college took the criticisms seriously, hiring Dalglish to help open UCC to the broader community. The decision to reverse the 2007 plan to eliminate boarding was made in part because of boarding's inherent ability to allow students from around the world to attend UCC. The college's expansion of financial aid beginning in 2012 was intended to socioeconomically diversify the student body.
Curriculum
Upper Canada College educates boys from Senior Kindergarten through to Grade Twelve. Graduates receive both the Ontario Secondary School Diploma and the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma; UCC adopted the IB program in 1996 and the entire curriculum is today guided by the non-governmental organization. French, language, mathematics, science, outdoor education, physical education, the arts, and more are covered during a boy's years in the Prep School and, once boys move to the Upper School in Year One (Grade Eight), they begin university preparation through a liberal arts program. The courseload includes mathematics, history, geography, science, English, second languages, civics, design, film and the dramatic, visual, and musical arts, as well as computer science. Aiding both student and teachers is the Wernham West Centre for Learning, the most comprehensive and endowed secondary school learning facility in Canada. Created in 2002 as a department pertaining to the refinement of academic skills and assisting the students with learning disabilities, its primary focus is to facilitate improved learning skills and abilities, as well as accommodate for students with particular learning disabilities.
Extracurricular activities
Participation in extracurricular activities is encouraged at Upper Canada College; all students are required to complete 40 hours of Community Service as a part of their Ontario Secondary School Diploma as well as complete 150 hours of other extracurricular commitments, with an equal division between arts, athletics, and community service (what the IB calls CAS: creativity, action, service), prior to graduation.
Arts and athletics
Upper Canada College runs a variety of extracurricular theatre programs, ranging in scope and scale, from musicals to Shakespeare, with at least one large-scale and one small-scale production each year. Smaller, student written and run plays are also produced. The theatre program, which includes all aspects of production, is run in conjunction with Bishop Strachan School, a nearby girls' private school. Various bands and music groups that practice extra-curricularly are also supported by the college, including a wind ensemble, concert band, stage band, string ensemble, jazz ensemble, and singers. These groups compete in festivals at different levels and also organize fundraising concerts. UCC has sports rivalries with other boys' schools in Ontario.
Sports teams run by UCC include alpine ski, baseball, basketball, cricket, football, golf, hockey, rowing, rugby, lacrosse, soccer, squash, Swimming, Track and Field, tennis, and volleyball. Some teams are purely intramural, but 45 interscholastic teams compete in the CISAA and OFSAA and regularly place high in the standings at national and international competitions, such as the Head of the Charles Regatta.
Programs
The World Affairs Conference is Canada's oldest student run conference, begun in 1983 and organized in conjunction with Branksome Hall since the late 1980s. Held annually, the Conference has reached over 4,000 students, 25 countries, and 65 schools around the world. Past speakers have included Mehdi Hasan, Ralph Nader, Stephen Lewis, Michael Ignatieff, Susan Faludi, Gwynne Dyer, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Geoffrey Hinton, Roberta Bondar, Masai Ujiri, Francisco Salgasti, Esko Aho, Edward Snowden, and Martin Luther King III, all of whom have spoken on a variety of topics including human rights, gender issues, justice, globalization, and health ethics. The conference has also received letters of support from both the Mayor of Toronto and the Prime Minister of Canada. The Executives of WAC for the 2023-2024 school year are: Ray Wu (Conference Chair), Shaya Farahmand (Conference Chair), Alex Woolsey (Assistant Chair), Darwin Li (Director of Communications), Devlin Moniz (Director of Plenaries), Eugenio Gigi Ciarlandini (Director of Keynotes), Adrian Mak (Director of Marketing), Aarav Dogra (Director of Finance), Samuel Martineau (Director of Technology), Alex Woolsey (Director of Programs), Caleb Chong (Director of Registration), Emerson McQueen (Director of Volunteering), and Jai Sandhu (Director of Facilities).
In conjunction with other schools, UCC ran the Ontario Model Parliament (OMP), a simulation of a provincial parliament that started in 1986, when it was founded by UCC teacher Paul Bennett, and was composed of two events: an Elections Day at UCC, followed by a three-day simulation that took place in the legislative chamber at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. UCC students made up the entirety of the Executive Committee that organizes and runs the model parliament, however 200 students from high schools around the province participated. Past Elections Day speakers have included Art Eggleton, John Tory, John Aimers, Bob Rae, and Rex Murphy. As of 2015, OMP has been replaced by OMUN, a Model UN conference now led by UCC students sometimes in conjunction with the Bishop Strachan School and Branksome Hall. OMUN hosts around 400–500 delegates annually and has multiple international delegations present. UCC hosts 50–100 clubs (depending on the term), with Model UN and DECA being among the most popular.
The UCC Green School is an environmental organization composed of student, teachers, and faculty, through which UCC has planted and maintained an educational organic garden, reduced landfill waste and water consumption, and implemented a program of purchasing renewable resources for renovations. The Green School has won awards from the City of Toronto and the National Audubon Society.
Media
The College maintains and administers its own publishing company, the UCC Press, which produces all school publications. It also once printed professional texts, novels, and histories, such as those by Robert Lowell, but the UCC Press today prints the majority of school-related publications—newspaper, alumni magazines, financial reports, etc.—save for the College Times. UCC provides several publications, most of which are written, directed, and printed by students.
The College Times is UCC's yearbook and is the oldest school publication in Canada, having been issued without fail since it was founded by John Ross Robertson, then a student at UCC, in September 1857. The first editions were written by Robertson and fellow pupils and printed on presses at The Globe, the predecessor newspaper of the present The Globe and Mail. Past editors include Robertson Davies, Michael Ignatieff, and Stephen Leacock. Issued more regularly, Upper Canada College also has an online publication, The Blue and White (TBAW, tbaw.ca) to which students submit articles about school life and current affairs. TBAW was founded in 2011 by William Hall. Old Times is the school's alumni magazine, which reports on the lives of Old Boys, and highlights recent and upcoming events.
Serials for the student body include The Blazer, the college humour newspaper; Quiddity, the school's annual arts and literature publication, which showcases students' creative work; The Blue Page, a one-page weekly publication of letters to the editor expressing opinions on any relevant issue; and Convergence, the school's award-winning student newspaper. In addition, BluesTV was a student-led, school television network that started in 2007 and aired multimedia, slideshows of pictures from various school events, as well as promotional material created for the college. BluesTV became a subsidiary of the Media Association in 2009, fostering the operation of a live-announcement submission and display system.
Community service
Upper Canada College encourages students to engage in voluntary community service. In relation to this, the college runs the Horizons program, in which local underprivileged children are tutored in music, digital media, and academics twice a week by current UCC students. Further, each year, usually for two to four weeks during Spring Break, UCC also organises trips for 15 to 20 of its Upper School students to various developing countries where they take part in community building services such as constructing schools, wells and homes, or aiding in conservation work. Students have ventured to places like Venezuela, El Salvador, Kenya, and China.
Events
Every year the school plans and runs several on or off-site events, some of which are open only to students in certain years, while others to the entire student population, alumni, and their respective friends and family. These events are intended to serve a variety of purposes—promoting school spirit, for enjoyment, fund raising or philanthropic causes—and many are organized by the Upper Canada College Association, with the help of parent and student volunteers.
Association Day is analogous to UCC's homecoming. Held since 1979, A-Day, as it is informally known, constitutes the school's largest annual event, taking place over the last weekend of September and culminating on the Saturday with a large festival, including competitive matches for all fall sports teams and the Association Dinner for Old Boys celebrating their five-year incremental class reunions. Later in the academic year is the Founder's Dinner, a formal event that has been held for more than a century. It typically takes place on the Thursday night before the third weekend in January, which is made a special long weekend for students as a commemoration of Sir John Colborne's birthday. Another regular event is the UCC Gala, a black tie dinner and silent auction organized every three or four years in May.
Two secondary school student dances take place in the calendar year: The Battalion Ball originated out of the At Home, a UCC community-wide event similar to a modern homecoming and first held in 1887. The revival of the UCC Rifle Corps in 1891 resulted in students attending the At Home in their cadet uniforms and, by 1897, a dance was added to the festivities in the evening, known as the Rifle Corps Dance. By 1931, the dance became the Battalion Ball, after the Rifle Corps was renamed the UCC Cadet Battalion, and, in 1971, the colloquial nickname The Batt was devised, which later developed into "Batt Ball". The event was held off-campus for the first time in 1975, at the Royal York Hotel, and, after 1976, when the Cadet Corps was disbanded, school uniforms replaced military attire, rock bands played, and Batt Ball became more of a spring prom. Today, Batt Ball is reserved for students in grades 11 and 12, held at venues such as the Royal York Hotel or Arcadian Court, with attire being tuxedo for boys and evening gown or cocktail dress for girls, and music is provided by DJs. The Stewards' Dance is UCC's fall semi-formal and is typically fashioned around costume party themes such as "Great Couples in History". The dance takes place in late October and is administered by the Board of Stewards for all students in grades 11 and above.
Various sporting events occur annually: Hockey Night has been held by the college since 1933 as an evening where the First Hockey team would play a feature game against one of UCC's rival schools in competition for the Foster Hewitt Victory Trophy. The game was held at Maple Leaf Gardens, thanks to the generosity of the arena's builder, Conn Smythe, and its (as well as the then Toronto Maple Leafs) owner, Harold Ballard, both themselves Old Boys. After the closing of The Gardens in 2000, the event was moved to the Air Canada Centre and then the Ricoh Coliseum. Over the decades other games were added to the roster, including a game involving the school's Junior Varsity team, the final game of the house hockey tournament, and a game between Havergal College and Bishop Strachan School. By the early 1990s, pleasure skating and Prep School games had been added to the evening's schedule. Further, the Terry Fox Run is one of Upper Canada College's most successful events; the school is an official site for the run, acting as the start and end point, as well as part of the course, which ventures throughout Toronto's Belt-Line. UCC's Terry Fox Run is also the largest site and has raised the most money in the world since 2000. The Prep Games Day is an annual held event at the junior school.
Affiliations
Upper Canada College is a member of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS), the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS), the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) Board, the G30 Schools, the Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and an associate member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC), the Toronto Boys' School Coalition (TBSC), and the college principal is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) in the UK. Along with St. Andrew's College, Ridley College, and Trinity College School, UCC also remains one of the Little Big Four, an athletic association of Ontario independent boys' schools established in the 19th century.
Bishop Strachan School (BSS) is located only two blocks from UCC, it is UCC's sister school. UCC students work on joint projects with students of other nearby girls' schools, including BSS, St. Clement's School, Havergal College, and Branksome Hall.
The school had, between 2008 and 2009, a relationship with an Ontario Junior Hockey League team, the Upper Canada Hockey Club, though the team and the school were not directly affiliated. Upper Canada College is also a member of the Ontario Tennis Association.
People
Alumni
Main article: List of Upper Canada College alumniThe college states that almost every UCC graduate, known as an Old Boy, goes on to post-secondary schooling The graduate community consists of over 6,000 Old Boys around the world and, though the career paths of the college's alumni are varied, UCC has a reputation for educating many prominent and notable graduates.
The school has produced 26 Rhodes Scholars and five Loran Scholars. Six graduates became lieutenant governors, four were appointed as premiers, seven as chief justices, and four were elected as Mayor of Toronto. At least 18 Old Boys have been appointed to the Queen's/King's Privy Council for Canada and 18 were made Queen's/King's Counsel. Two were awarded the Victoria Cross, two were appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour and three to the Royal Victorian Order, no less than 50 have been inducted into the Order of Canada since the honour's inception in 1967, 11 into the Order of Ontario, and at least 14 have been accepted as fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Ten are Olympic medallists and eight have played in the National Hockey League.
Faculty
Notable faculty members of Upper Canada College have included:
- George Anthony Barber – Toronto's first school superintendent and founder of the Toronto Cricket Club
- Michael Barrett – physician and proponent and first Dean of the Ontario Medical College for Women (later Women's College Hospital)
- John Colapinto — New Yorker staff writer, author of the novel About the Author (2001) and the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book As Nature Made Him (2000)
- Robertson Davies – author
- Mike Eben – Hec Crighton Trophy recipient, three-time all-star wide receiver in the CFL, and radio and television narrator
- David Gilmour – author and broadcast journalist
- Rev. Dr. Charles Gordon – author
- Robert Sympson Jameson – chief justice of Dominica and Upper Canada, member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, and chief superintendent of Education
- Stephen Leacock – most widely read English-speaking humourist in the world, 1915–1925
- Bruce Littlejohn – internationally recognized photographer, writer, and conservationist
- J.P.M.B. "Jock" de Marbois – appointee to the Légion d'honneur and Commodore of the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy
- John McCaul – theologian, second President of UofT, and president of the Canadian Institute (later the Royal Canadian Institute)
- James Alexander McClellan – president of the Educational Association of Ontario and education reformer
- Sir George Robert Parkin – leader of the Imperial Federation League and first secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship
- Sir Edward Robert Peacock – Receiver General to the Duchy of Cornwall and the director of the Bank of England
- James Dodsley Humphreys – Toronto's "favourite tenor" and musical composer
- Henry Scadding – Canadian intellectual
- Goldwyn Smith - British historian and founding professor at Cornell University, administered exams in classics at UCC
- Arthur Sweatman – Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
- Arnold Walter – Austrian musician, founder of the Canadian Opera Company, and Director of Music at UofT
- Thomas Young – architect, illustrator of early Toronto, and founding member of the Canadian Institute
UCC Association
The Upper Canada College Old Boys' Association is a non-profit organization established in 1891, on the day of the closure of the college's Russell Square campus. The name was changed in 1969 to the Upper Canada College Association, when the association expanded its mandate to include parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college in matters relating to UCC, such as governance and advancement. Specific programs are also run by the association, including those that permit recent graduates to volunteer as mentors to students, and Old Boy reunions are set up around the world by the association's fifteen branches outside of Toronto: Calgary, Halifax, Kingston, London, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver in Canada; Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in the United States; London in the United Kingdom; Hong Kong in China; and Budapest in Hungary.
A 29-person board of directors, referred to as the Association Council, meets three times a year to discuss matters facing the college and plan association events; 21 of those on the council are elected by members of the association at its annual meeting, while the remaining eight are ex officio. Four of the 17 members of the college's board of governors come from the association board, including the President of the Association, and serve on the larger body for a three-year period.
Arms, motto, and emblem
Upper Canada College's motto is palmam qui meruit ferat (Latin for 'let he who merited the palm bear it'), which was derived from a poem by John Jortin titled Ad Ventos—ante A.D. MDCCXXVII (Latin for 'To the Winds—Before AD 1727'). The words, attached to the arms of Lord Nelson in 1797, were first used in relation to UCC in 1833, as part of an emblem stamped on the inside of books given as prizes, showing the phrase written on a ribbon tying together two laurel leaves around the school's name. Around 1850, a crown replaced the school's name; John Ross Robertson stated this was at the insistence of Henry Scadding, who argued in favour of its use because the school had both been founded by a lieutenant governor and was at first a royal grammar school. The crown originally used was that of King George IV.
In 1889, Scadding produced the design for an emblem which can still be seen over the doors to Laidlaw Hall at the college's Upper School. L.C. Kerslake described this emblem in 1956:
The small wreath, crossed anchor and sword in the centre of the crest are found in Lord Nelson's coat of arms.
The open book in the upper left corner is symbolic of education which is the primary function of any school. The quadrant-shaped figure in the upper right corner is a section of the standard of St. George and signifies the school's connection with England and Great Britain, the native land of the founder, Lord Seaton.
Technically speaking, the crown should not be included in the crest, as the school was not instituted by royal charter. However, loyalty to the Crown is one of the fundamental traditions of UCC and is certain to endure as long as the school itself.
The cornua copiae just above the motto stands for the fullness of school life which is one of the distinctive marks of UCC.
This complex design, known as Scadding's Device, which was just the Seal of Upper Canada as authorised in 1820 with the college's motto and palm branches applied, was never widely used. Instead, the simple crown between laurel leaves tied with a ribbon bearing the school's motto became the standard emblem, although its appearance changed over time in reflection of current tastes.
It was not until the mid-1970s, as the college approached its sesquicentennial, that consideration was given to having the emblem authorised by the College of Arms (Canada's heraldic authority at that time). The Armorial Bearings Committee was established to oversee the project, and a petition was submitted to the Earl Marshal in 1981. The Board of Governors insisted that the school's traditional emblem be incorporated into the forthcoming achievement; however, as the emblem includes a royal crown, it was necessary to obtain the Canadian monarch's personal permission to use it officially. This was done via the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, then John Black Aird (himself a UCC Old Boy), and Queen Elizabeth II consented to the request, making UCC the only institution of its kind in the Commonwealth of Nations to have the royal crown in its arms.
The letters patent granting UCC its armorial devices, including a heraldic standard, were issued on 4 January 1985, the 155th anniversary of the college's first day of classes. The traditional emblem became the school's official badge. However, as text and numbers are normally not included in such badges, the motto was omitted, but the King of Arms made an exception to the rules by allowing the retention of the date 1829. The emblem also became the crest of the school's new arms, although without the number 1829, since heraldic rules dictate that the royal crown must sit directly on the helmet.
The escutcheon of the arms shows two deer's heads in the chief (one being the crest of the arms of the founder, Lord Seaton, and the other taken from the arms of Bishop John Strachan, the first chairman of the board of governors) while, below a line of division embattled as in Lord Seaton's arms, is the aforementioned Scadding's Device surmounted by another royal crown. The shield is supported by a master in academic gown (on the left) and a student in cricket uniform (on the right), both styled as figures from the mid-19th century. These armorial devices were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority in 2005.
In media
In the 2006 film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, the main character of Martin Ward (Colm Feore) is a graduate of Upper Canada College. The school is also mentioned in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion as an institution into which the wealthy in Rosedale, Toronto, wished to enroll their eldest sons.
UCC was a filming location for the 1993 movie Searching for Bobby Fischer and was the focus of episode eight of season nine of the Rogers Television show Structures.
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Toronto Public Library: Catalogue for Upper Canada College
- Toronto Plaques: Upper Canada College
- The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives: 1930s inspection of the UCC Cadet Corps (video)
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