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CHAPTER 1 – 1826 – A CHARTER FOR KING’S COLLEGE
from the United States was just starting when Simcoe left. A. B. McKillop estimates the population at 35,000 at
the end of the 18 th century: see A.B. McKillop, Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951 (University
of Toronto Press, 1994) at xvii. All population figures for this period are approximations.
14. Page 5, para. 2 – “throughout the new province had been set aside”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 23.
15. Page 5, para. 2 – “the different branches of liberal knowledge.”: Ibid. at 17.
16. Page 5, para. 3 – “a college of a higher class”: Ibid. at 11, Governor Simcoe to Sir Joseph Banks, January 8, 1791.
17. Page 5, para. 3 – “what would later be called Upper Canada”: Proceedings at the Ceremony at 33 (referring to a
memorial of 1789 from Loyalists to Lord Dorchester).
18. Page 5, para. 3 – “of infinite support to government”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 11, Governor Simcoe
to Sir Joseph Banks, January 8, 1791.
19. Page 5, para. 3 – “will send their children”: Ibid. at 11, Governor Simcoe to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State,
April 28, 1792.
20. Page 5, para. 3 – “in the revolutionary war”: Simcoe was seriously wounded as well: see S. R. Mealing, “Sir John
Graves Simcoe,” DCB, v. 5 at 754.
21. Page 5, para. 4 – “though I am daily confirmed in its necessity”: E. A. Cruikshank, ed., The Correspondence of
Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, with Allied Documents Relating to His Administration of the Government of
Upper Canada (Toronto : Ontario Historical Society, 1923-31), v. 5 (Supplement) at 264, Governor Simcoe to
Bishop Mountain, February 27, 1796; McKillop, Matters of Mind at 6-7.
22. Page 5, para. 4 – “a lasting obedience to His Majesty’s authority”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 12,
Governor Simcoe to the Bishop of Quebec, April 30, 1795; Elizabeth Helen Pearce, “King’s College” at 27.
23. Page 5, para. 4 – “those who corrupt them”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 12, Governor Simcoe to the
Bishop of Quebec, April 30, 1795; Wallace, History of the University of Toronto at 2.
24. Page 5, para. 5 – “a university be established in the Town of York”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 22.
25. Page 5, para. 5 – “half the education endowment be used for that purpose”: Ibid. at 23.
26. Page 5, para. 5 – “until after Maitland arrived”: Pearce, “King’s College” at 41-2.
27. Page 5, para. 5 – “to his executive council”: Proceedings Held In the Legislature of Upper Canada During the years
1831-2 & 3 (Montreal: Desbarats & Derbishire, 1845) at 24-5 (Report of the Committee of the Executive
Council, 7 January, 1819); Hodgins, Documentary History of Education, v. 1 at 152-3.
28. Page 5, para. 5 – “use of the endowment lands for a university”: Hodgins, Documentary History, v. 1 at 204;
Pearce, “King’s College” at 47-8.
29. Page 5, para. 5 – “to serve both Upper and Lower Canada”: Craig, Upper Canada at 183.
30. Page 6, para. 1 – “a welcome annuity of £300 a year”: Craig, “John Strachan” at 753.
31. Page 6, para. 1 – “Strachan had lavish tastes”: Roger Hall, “John Strachan – Sharpening the Focus” (unpublished
manuscript) UTA B89-0003-02.
32. Page 6, para. 1 – “to found an educational institution”: Stanley Brice Frost, McGill University: For the Advancement
of Learning (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980) at 21 and 35. McGill died in 1813.