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CHAPTER 8 – 1871 – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
39. Page 79, para. 2 – “and even single atoms”: Zeller, “‘Merchants of Light’” at 127, citing his lecture to the Br. Ass.
For the Adv. of Science in 1874.
40. Page 79, para. 3 – “usually referred to as A. & M’s”: J.G. Hodgins, Documentary History of Education in the
Province of Ontario, v.23 at 4.
41. Page 79, para. 3 – “how best to provide technical education”: Ibid. at 1; one of the authors was Hodgins, who did
the documentary history of education in Ontario, and the other was a medical doctor from London Ontario, who
headed a chemical company that manufactured acid: C.R. Young, Early Engineering Education at Toronto 1851-
1919 (University of Toronto Press, 1958) at 25; Loudon “Memoirs” at 19-22.
42. Page 79, para. 3 – “the recent established Massachusetts Institute of Technology”: Young, Engineering at 7. M.I.T.
was founded in 1865.
43. Page 79, para. 3 – “New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic”: Ibid. Rensselaer Polytechnic was the first such institution.
44. Page 79, para. 3 – “control of the government itself”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v.23 at 10-11; see also
Richard White, The Skule Story: The University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering 1873-2000
(University of Toronto Press, 2000) at 7-10.
45. Page 80, para. 1 – “the site of the present Ryerson Polytechnical University”: Ibid., v.23 at 8; Loudon “Memoirs”
at 19; Young, Engineering at 28.
46. Page 80, para. 1 – “the north-east corner of Church and Adelaide streets”: Young, Engineering at 27; Loudon,
“Memoirs” at 22; Geoffrey Simmins, Fred Cumberland: Building the Victorian Dream (University of Toronto Press,
1997) at 168-9.
47. Page 80, para. 1 – “taught their business?”: The Globe, February 11, 1871 (debates of the Legislature of Ontario);
Loudon, “Memoirs” at 19-20; Young, Engineering at 28.
48. Page 80, para. 1 – “would benefit from such a school”: The Globe, February 11, 1871, reported his remarks as
follows: “Hon J.B. MACDONALD said it was proposed to erect the college on the grounds of the Normal
School. Institutions of this kind had been very successful in the United States and would be so here, especially
schools of minearology; for ignorance of minearology had cost many of the inhabitants of this country dear. He
would ask was it not time that the drivers of our locomotives, who were entrusted with so many lives, should be
thoroughly taught their business. This would be done in this college, where amongst other things there would be
lectures on the machinery of engines.”
49. Page 80, para. 2 – “a school of mines for the University”: Young, Engineering at 20.
50. Page 80, para. 2 – “under his own auspices”: Loudon, “Memoirs” at 20; see also Young, Engineering at 21, 28, and
32-34.
51. Page 80, para. 2 – “had already been purchased”: Young, Engineering at 35.
52. Page 80, para. 2 – “in the spring of 1872”: Loudon, “Memoirs” at 22-23; White, The Skule Story at 10.
53. Page 80, para. 2 – “lectured in chemistry”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v.24 at 232. Loudon did not join the
staff until the second year: White, The Skule Story at 14.
54. Page 80, para. 2 – “after Hincks died”: McBryde, “Chemistry,” chap. 3 at 3-5; Young, Engineering at 38-39.
55. Page 81, para. 1 – “mining, engineering, mechanics and manufacturing”: An Act to Establish a School of Practical
Science (1873), preamble; White, The Skule Story at 12.