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( Upper Canada College)
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent elementary and secondary school for boys in midtown Toronto, Canada. Students between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve study under the International Baccalaureate program. Founded in 1829, UCC is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario, and the third oldest in the country. A link to the Royal Family is maintained through Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is the College's Official Visitor, and a member of the Board of Governors.[3] Founded in 1829 by then-Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, Major-General Sir John Colborne (later Lord Seaton), in the hopes that it would serve as a "feeder school" to the newly established King's College (later the University of Toronto), UCC was modelled on the great independent schools of Britain, most notably Eton College.[3][4] The school began teaching in the original Royal Grammar School, however, within a year was established on its own campus at the corner of King and Simcoe Streets, to which Colborne brought Cambridge and Oxford educated men from the United Kingdom, attracting them with high salaries.[5] UCC was faced with closure on a number of occasions, threatened by withdrawal of funding by the provincial government that once administered it, or by having no building in which to operate.[4] The school survived its denigrators, but after the government of Ontario stopped funding it in 1891, thus making UCC a completely independent school, the College was forced to move to its present location in Deer Park, which was then a rural area. The College thrived at this new location, both physically and culturally, as the buildings were expanded and bright instructors attracted. Central to this development was principal William Grant, who appointed a group of teachers described as "eccentric, crotchety, quaint, though widely travelled and highly intelligent,"[6] and who saw the student enrollment and teacher salaries double, bursaries grow, and a pension plan established.[7] UCC expanded to take in lower year students with the construction of a separate primary school building, the Prep, in 1902, allowing for boys to be enrolled from grade three through to graduation.
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