Upper Canada College
Drawing of former UCC campus at King and Simcoe Streets in downtown Toronto
Upper Canada College (UCC) is the leading private schools in Canada. UCC remains an all-male elementary and secondary boys' school in Toronto, Ontario.
It is the oldest private school in Canada, having been founded in 1829 by then-Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne (later Lord Seaton). Teaching at the College began in 1830. It moved to its current site, at Avenue Road and Lonsdale Road in Forest Hill, in 1891. (Its exact address is 200 Lonsdale Road.)
The school offers the International Baccalaureate programme to its 1,000 day students and 110 boarders.
The school is Canada's wealthiest, having an endowment of $30 million CDN, which it has devoted to physical expansion, financial aid, scholarships, and advanced computer and laboratory equipment. The school has four gyms, a hockey rink, swimming pool, an advanced Learning Centre (to study the way boys learn), 10 tennis courts, 12 sports fields, an extensive library collection, a new sports activity bubble, as well as numerous support groups for the boys who attend.
UCC has a rich collection of art work, war medals and real estate. UCC houses Canada's largest collection of original paintings from the Group of Seven. These paintings are worth in the hundreds of millions. Moreover, UCC is the owner of the world's first Victorian Cross awarded in 1854 to Old Boy, Alexander Roberts Dunn. UCC is also a major owner of real estate in Canada, holding 45% of the elite Toronto Cricket Club, 680 hectares of green space on the Niagra Escartment (valued at hundreds of millions of dollars), as well as a sizeable proportion of land in New York, London, England and Hong Kong.
UCC has begun plans to launch a $90+ million building and renovation campaign to be completed within the next decade. All the new buildings and the renovations to the existing ones will be based on ensuring that they are environmentally stable, as to minimize the ecological footprint of the College.
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UCC has long been the breeding ground for Canada's elite and many notable Canadians are graduates of the school. They include:
UCC's counterpart (sister) school is the Bishop Strachan School, located three blocks away. Lower Canada College, a coeducational private school in Montreal, Quebec, is not affiliated with UCC.
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