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ca.1852-2017, predominate 1862-1965 (Creation)
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ca. 50 metres of textual records, graphic materials, photographs, and other material.
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The oldest veterinary school in Canada, the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) was founded in Toronto in 1862 by Andrew Smith (1834-1910), a graduate of the Edinburgh Veterinary College. Recruited by Adam Fergusson of the Board of Agriculture of Upper Canada and University of Toronto agriculture professor George Buckland, Smith came to Canada in 1861 and began giving lectures on veterinary medicine in February 1862. By 1864, Smith was granted a charter by the Upper Canada Board of Agriculture to formally open the privately-owned Upper Canada Veterinary School.
Initially located in Agricultural Hall at Queen and Younge in Toronto, the Upper Canada Veterinary School changed its name to the Ontario Veterinary College in 1869 and moved to buildings on Temperance Street in Toronto in 1870. The OVC was incorporated in 1896 and became affiliated with the University of Toronto in 1897. When Smith retired in 1908, the OVC was acquired by the Government of Ontario and placed under the direction of the Department of Agriculture. The OVC moved to more modern facilities on University Avenue in Toronto in 1914.
The decline of the urban horse population and an increased demand for livestock and food-producing animals after the First World War led the government to move the OVC to Guelph in 1922 so as to be in close proximity to the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), also run by the Department of Agriculture. The OVC remained affiliated with the University of Toronto until it became a founding college of the University of Guelph in 1964.
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The Ontario Veterinary College fonds includes materials on the history of the academic, administrative, and social life of the College from it’s founding in 1862. Administrative records and publications of the OVC, including annual reports, bursar and financial records, correspondence, entrance and graduate records, and examination records, are included, as well as material related to the history of courses, staff and faculty, campus life, and student groups. Yearbooks, club and association materials, College newspapers and publications, maps, photographs, and student-generated material are also included.
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Barker Veterinary Museum, OVC, https://barkerveterinarymuseum.uoguelph.ca/.