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 was founded in 1836 in Cobourg by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada as a nonsectarian literary institution. From 1841 to 1890, Victoria operated as an independent degree-granting university, before federating with the University of Toronto in 1890, relocating from Cobourg to Toronto. The institution consists of two academic colleges: Victoria College (Vic), the secular undergraduate college of Victoria University, which serves as one of the seven 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 St. George campus, adjacent to the University of St. Michael's College and Queen's Park. Among its residential halls is Annesley Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada. A major centre for Renaissance and Reformation studies, the university is home to international scholarly projects and holdings devoted to pre-Puritan English drama and the works of Desiderius Erasmus.
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