Victoria University, Toronto

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Victoria University (Vic U) is a federated university in the University of Toronto, located on its St. George campus in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution began as Upper Canada Academy, founded in 1836 in Cobourg by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada as a nonsectarian literary institution. In 1841, it became an independent degree-granting institution known as Victoria College, which merged with Albert College in 1884 to form Victoria University. The university federated with the University of Toronto in 1890, relocating from Cobourg to Toronto. The institution consists of two academic colleges: Victoria College (Vic), its secular Faculty of Arts, which serves as one of the seven undergraduate colleges in the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science. Emmanuel College, the postgraduate theological college of Victoria University, affiliated with the United Church of Canada and the Toronto School of Theology. Victoria is situated in the northeastern part of the...

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