Read more about the article “<em>We’ve heard the story of “Change will come” long enough:”</em> Gender Equity at UTSC
https://www.pledgeproject.ca/plays/sweet-girl-graduate/.

We’ve heard the story of “Change will come” long enough:” Gender Equity at UTSC

Scarborough College celebrated it's twentieth anniversary in 1984, the same year the University of Toronto celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the admission of the first woman to University College, 1884.  As part of the celebrations, the Scarborough College Women's Centenary Committee sponsored a production of The Sweet Girl Graduate.[1] Written…

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Read more about the article Canada in 2000:  the future through a 1967 lens
"Canada in 2000," The Daily Star, Toronto, Ont. February 27, 1967. University of Toronto Scarborough Archives, Beckel 1966-1972 E 9-9:4

Canada in 2000:  the future through a 1967 lens

In 1967, the University College Alumnae Association asked a number of academics and other experts to discuss "what life would be like in Canada in the year 2000?"  Here is what they said: the average weekly family earnings would be $300 for a 28 hour work week, fewer people will…

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Read more about the article In memory of the Honourable David Onley…former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario with deep ties to UTSC
UTSC Photographic Services Collection, Ken Jones, Photographer. University of Toronto Scarborough 2012-001C-13-3-102

In memory of the Honourable David Onley…former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario with deep ties to UTSC

It is with sadness that we mark the passing this week of David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2007 to 2014.  Many of you will know that most recently Mr. Onley was an Associate Professor, Teaching, in the Department of Political Science here at UTSC.  But did you…

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Read more about the article Winter 1966: A Day in the life of a Scarborough College Student
David Harford, "Smoke stacks on Humanities building in the winter." UTSC Photographic Services Collection, https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/photoservices%3A530

Winter 1966: A Day in the life of a Scarborough College Student

by Amelia Ainsworth. As you walk through Excellence Hall with laptop and Tim Hortons coffee in tote, do you ever wonder what a school day was like for those graduates pictured on the wall? As we begin another winter session, perhaps you wonder what it was like for those students…

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Welcome!

Welcome to the History of the University of Toronto Scarborough blog site. Over the next few weeks and months we will share with you the great stories and memories that we are uncovering in our research. Some will delight and some will surprise. Stay tuned!

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