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18-504: The Toronto Athletic Club was founded in the 1800s as an unincorporated association. In the 1882 directory, its office is at 185 Yonge Street. In 1890, its office was at 25 King Street West, and its grounds were at 10 Elm Avenue, then north-east of the city, at the intersection of Elm and Sherbourne Street. By 1892, the Club had incorporated and had moved to 149 College Street , a building designed by architect E. J. Lennox , and reputedly holding

36-754: A hockey team at Excelsior Rink on College Street for the Interprovincial Amateur Hockey Union . Toronto Athletic Club The Toronto Athletic Club , also known as the Stewart Building , is a historic building located at 149 College Street in Toronto , Ontario. It was designed by E. J. Lennox and built in 1894 to support the activities of the club; it included the first indoor pool in Toronto. A similarly named but unaffiliated Toronto Athletic Club now exists in

54-491: Is approximately 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) in size. Including the land, the building cost $ 128,873 to construct, and a further $ 15,000 was spent on equipment. The building was built as a result of the efforts of John Beverley Robinson , an amateur boxer, mayor of Toronto and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario . Robinson was the president of the Toronto Athletic Club organization when it built

72-679: The Franco-Ontarian population, after La Cité collégiale in Ottawa and Collège Boréal in Sudbury . It began as a "virtual college" which had no central campus, and instead offered instruction through student access centres in Toronto, Hamilton , Penetanguishene , Welland and Windsor . Instructors located in any of the access centres delivered course lectures to all five locations simultaneously through videoconferencing technology, and students outside of those areas could also access

90-482: The Rotman School of Management . 43°39′33″N 79°23′31″W  /  43.65925°N 79.39197°W  / 43.65925; -79.39197 Coll%C3%A8ge des Grands-Lacs Collège des Grands-Lacs ( lit. " Great Lakes College") was a francophone College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It was established in 1995 as Ontario's third college specifically serving

108-631: The Toronto-Dominion Centre . The building was designed in a Richardsonian Romanesque style favoured by Lennox. Its exterior is sandstone, a material that Lennox used in other buildings in Toronto, such as the Old City Hall and the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park , nearby. An indoor pool was built in the basement but was filled in when the building first became a school. The building

126-573: The Carlaw Avenue campus of Centennial College in Toronto, Boréal moved to its own new campus at One Yonge Street in 2012. Some community members and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union continued to fight for the college to be reopened under the constitutional principle of respect for and protection of minority rights; the case, Gigliotti v Conseil d'administration du Collège des Grands Lacs ,

144-682: The ORFU championship in 1908 and 1910. After the 1911 the club became the Toronto Rowing and Athletic Association from 1912 to 1921. The club iced teams in the junior, senior and intermediate divisions of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). A junior team was first fielded in 1894. An ice hockey team was first selected in 1888 from the club's members, and practiced at the Caledonian Rink . The club also set up

162-626: The building as the new home of the Toronto Technical School . When the school moved in 1915, 149 College became a military building until 1931 when it was converted to municipal use housing Toronto Police Headquarters and the Department of Public Welfare. The building was subsequently named the Stewart Building after Mayor William James Stewart . When police headquarters moved to a building on King Street in 1960,

180-684: The building became the home of 52 Division of the Metropolitan Toronto Police , until the division moved to its new building on Dundas Street in 1977. The building was then sold to the Ontario College of Art in 1979, becoming its second campus until 1997. It then served as the home of the Collège des Grands-Lacs from 1999 to 2001. Since 2008, it has been used by the University of Toronto , including some programs of

198-433: The building, and he served as its president until 1895. The building is on the site of a former home of Robinson. The building served as the Toronto Athletic Club until 1899, when possession of the building was lost due to foreclosure when the club was in financial difficulty and ceased operations. After the demise of the club, a new Toronto Amateur Athletic Club but in a different location. The City of Toronto purchased

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216-490: The college began exploring a proposal to move its Welland campus to the then-proposed new Welland Civic Centre. In 2001, the college's board of governors decided to close the college, due to declining enrolment. Some supporters of the college tried to obtain a court injunction against the shutdown, but were not successful. Second-year students were allowed to complete their programs with Collège des Grands-Lacs as it wound down, while first-year students were offered transfers to

234-455: The college was reported by the media as the subject of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into a fraud allegation around misuse of government funds, which briefly caused the delay of a federal government announcement of new funding to all three of Ontario's francophone colleges. Within days, however, the RCMP confirmed that the college was not under investigation. Soon thereafter,

252-601: The college's courses through partnerships with other educational institutions or through distance education . In 1999, a permanent campus was opened in Toronto, in the Stewart Building at 149 College Street which had recently been vacated by the Ontario College of Art and Design . By this time the access centres in Welland and Windsor were considered full satellite campuses, although the ones in Hamilton and Penetanguishene were still classified as access centres. In 2000,

270-526: The equivalent programs at Collège Boréal . The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities begin negotiations with College Boréal to offer programs in Central and Southwestern Ontario. The college ceased operations in 2002. Its programs and services were taken over by Collège Boréal, although that college did not take over the Grands-Lacs campus on College Street: initially offering its classes at

288-663: The first indoor swimming pool, as well as a gymnasium and billiards room. The Club ran into financial difficulties around 1898, ceased operations and sold off the building. The contents were auctioned off in 1900. From the demise of the Athletic Club, the Toronto Amateur Athletic Club was formed. The Toronto Amateur Athletic Club's football club played in the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) from 1908 to 1911. The team won

306-406: The school's original "virtual college" model, which left it unable to truly build a profile as a French-language cultural institution or community hub in the cities it served, and the financial challenges resulting from its subsequent conversion to a more conventional campus-based model, as factors in the school's eventual failure. It also found that despite the technological innovation represented by

324-591: Was heard by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 2005. The court dismissed the case, ruling that minority language rights had not been violated since Collège Boréal had stepped in to continue offering French-language college education programs in the regions formerly served by Grands-Lacs. A 2012 report by the provincial Commissioner of French Language Services into French language education in Southwestern Ontario identified both

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