UPPER CANADA BACKGROUNDER To ignite boys’ curiosity, imagination and passion. To support diligence, innovation and excellence in all they pursue. To encourage compassion and integrity throughout their lives. To challenge them to make a difference. This is our mission. We believe in boys. 1 / Backgrounder // College

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 The UCC experience 4 UCC: 186 years of history 6 Campus and facilities 7 UCC-at-a-glance 10 A decade of achievement 12 UCC makes news 14 Illustrious UCC alumni 18 Role profile 2 / Backgrounder //

On the list of familiar Canadian institutions, Upper The UCC Canada College has a longstanding entry, known for our commitment to educating boys and unlocking their experience potential, our teachers and staff who inspire and support, and our globally connected alumni.

Upper Canada College is recognized AT A GLANCE nationally and globally as one of Enrolment: 1,169 North America’s foremost boys’ Boarding: 88 Day: 1,081 schools. Educating tomorrow’s Grades: Senior through Grade 5 (International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme); Grade 6 through leaders since 1829, UCC is an Foundation Year (preparation for IB Diploma Programme); Grades International Baccalaureate World 11 and 12 (IB1 and IB2); one of Canada’s broadest programs, scores are generally four points higher than the world average School for 1,169 students in Senior Faculty: 150 (full-time) — Prep: 60 and Upper School: 90 Kindergarten through Grade 12, Student/Faculty Ratio: 8:1 including 88 boarders. With 100 Average Class Size: 18 per cent university placement, UCC offers award-winning faculty and state-of-the-art educational and sports facilities. A central location offers easy access to a city The Economist voted “most liveable” in 2015. Its alumni network of 8,000 includes political leaders, actors and Olympians. (UCC has graduated six lieutenant governors, four premiers, seven chief justices and four Toronto mayors). With an $87-million endowment fund, we are committed to ensuring that 20 per cent of students receive financial assistance. 3 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College Where are they now?

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE DESTINATIONS OF UCC GRADS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Canada Cornell University University of Minnesota Carleton University Davidson College University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Concordia University Dickinson College University of Notre Dame Dalhousie University Duke University University of Pennsylvania HEC Montreal Emerson College University of Rochester Lakehead University Emory University University of Southern California McGill University Flagler College University of Virginia McMaster University George Washington University University of Washington Polytechnique Montreal Georgetown University Vanderbilt University Queen’s University Georgia Tech University Wake Forest University Ryerson University Hamilton College Washington University in St. Louis Sheridan College Harvard University Wesleyan University Saint Mary’s University The Juilliard School Williams College Université Laval Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University University of British Columbia Miami University, Ohio University of Guelph Middlebury College International University of King’s College New York University Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (HU) University of New Brunswick Northeastern University Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Institute of Technology Northwestern University Czech Technical University (CZ) University of Palm Beach Atlantic University Durham University (UK) Parsons The New School for Design Eberhard-Karls-Universität (DE) University of Victoria Pennsylvania State University Imperial College (UK) University of Waterloo Pepperdine University James Cook University (AU) Western University Princeton University The London School of Economics Wilfrid Laurier University Quinnipiac University and Political Science (UK) York University Rhode Island School of Design Queen Mary University of London (UK) Rollins College Royal College of Surgeons (IE) U.S.A. Santa Clara University Sciences Po (FR) Babson College School of the Art Institute of Chicago St. George’s, University of London (UK) Bard College St. Bonaventure University Università Bocconi (IT) Bates College St. Lawrence University University College Dublin (IE) Berklee College of Music Skidmore College University of Bristol (UK) University Stanford University (UK) Bowdoin College Trinity College University of Edinburgh (UK) Brown University Tufts University University of Exeter (UK) Buffalo State Union College University of Kent (UK) Calvin College University of California, Berkeley University of Leeds (UK) Canisius College University of California, Los Angeles University of Manchester (UK) Carleton College University of Chicago (UK) Carnegie Mellon University of Denver University of Sheffield (UK) Colby College University of Massachusetts (Amherst) University of St Andrews (UK) Columbia University University of Miami Yale-NUS College (SG) The Cooper Union University of Michigan 4 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College UCC: 186 years of history

Old Upper School building condemned Last day at the Russell Square site and rebuilt in and campus officially moved to Deer Park Years: 1958–60 Year: 1891

Norval Outdoor School UCC founded by property purchased; Sir John Colborne first Norval picnic Year: 1829 Year: 1913

1829 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 5 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College

With respect for almost 200 years of tradition and history, kept intentionally low at the outset, to attract a range of Upper Canada College is also a future-facing innovator in boys with the character and potential to contribute to their Canadian boys’ school education. UCC was founded in communities upon graduation. UCC was modelled after 1829 by the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, Sir John Britain’s top all-boys schools, most notably . The Colborne, as a non-denominational feeder school for the newly original campus was located downtown in Russell Square founded King’s College (later the University of Toronto). His before it moved to its current site in 1891. The Ontario intention was to make a difference in the lives of boys who government stopped funding UCC in 1900; it is the oldest would go on to make a difference to society. Fees were in Ontario.

PAST PRINCIPALS First International Think Ahead campaign OF UCC Baccalaureate launched; the largest in Canadian diplomas introduced independent school history Rev. Joseph Harris Year: 1998 Year: 2012 1829–38 Rev. John McCaul 1838–43 Frederick Barron Richard Wernham and 1843–56 Julia West Centre for Learning opened Rev. Walter Stennett Year: 2001 1856–61 George Cockburn 1861–81 John Milne Buchan Jim Power became the 18th principal 1881–85 of UCC George Dickson Year: 2004 1885–95 Sir George Parkin 1895–1902 Henry Auden William Wilder ’40 Arena & Sports 1902–17 Complex opened William Grant Year: 2008 1917–35 Terence MacDermot 1935–42 Lorne McKenzie 1943–48 Rev. C.W. Sowby 1949–65 Patrick Johnson 1965–74 Richard Sadleir 1975–88 Eric Barton 1988–91 J. Douglas Blakey 1991–2004 Dr. James Power 2004–16 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 6 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College Campus & Facilities

From a world-renowned learning centre to a skating complex that’s second to none, UCC’s facilities inspire fun, learning and resilience in our boys’ every pursuit.

Learning Grounds Natural elements like a William P. Wilder ’40 Arena & Sports David Chu Theatre This intimate performance recovered tree, log teepee and climbing rope Complex This facility features both NHL- and space has seating for 250 on two levels and is enhance our adventure-style playground. Olympic-sized ice rinks. used for musical and theatre performances.

Laidlaw Hall This dignified room is where Student and Creativity Centre This facility Norval Our 450-acre nature sanctuary along Upper School assemblies and some was built to expand creative thinking the Credit River is a 45-minute drive away performances are held. in a way that’s dynamic, integrated and and fosters lifelong environmental values. comprehensive.

Boarding Our 88 boarders from 22 Swimming Pool This 18-metre pool in the George Weston Hall This 350-seat space is countries thrive in recently renovated Upper School has shallow and deep ends used for assemblies, musical and theatrical buildings. and four lanes for racing. performances. 7 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College UCC- at-a-glance

A picture’s worth a thousand words. Not sure if anyone’s figured out yet what an “infogram” is worth. But it’s a fun way to share a lot of great things about UCC.

3 88 + BOARDING PRO STUDENTS 642 186 RECORDING FROM DAY STUDENTS & EDITING YEARS OLD STUDIOS 40 AT THE UPPER ACRES IN 450 SCHOOL THE HEART ACRES OF COURTS OF TORONTO PROTECTED (THAT’S 22 WOODLAND 22 8,000 SOCCER 45 MINUTES OLD BOYS LIVING DIFFERENT IN 77 DIFFERENT 6 FIELDS!) AWAY COUNTRIES COUNTRIES 42 2015 GRADS HEADED TO U.S. 400 OR INTERNATIONAL 150 SCHOOLS $4.5M METRE OVAL TRACK IN FINANCIAL FACULTY ASSISTANCE MEMBERS AVAILABLE (57 WITH PLAYING TO CANADIAN RINKS ADVANCED DEGREES) 5 FIELDS STUDENTS ANNUALLY 2 (1 NHL, 1 OLYMPIC)

IB SCORES 4 POINTS ABOVE 15 THE WORLD 4 AVERAGE CISAA INTER- 18 NATIONAL SERVICE 60+ 5 CO-ED STUDENT CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIPS A CLUBS AND THEATRICAL DIFFERENT IN 2014–2015 YEAR ORGANIZATIONS PRODUCTIONS SPORTS

APPLE 2 LAPTOP DIPLOMAS 10 8 FOR EVERY AWARDED: HOUSES MUSICAL STUDENT IB & OSSD ENSEMBLES 8 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College 9 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College

TORONTO: A CITY OF NEIGHBOURHOODS

UCC is located on 40 acres in the heart of Toronto, the largest city in Canada and one of the world’s most multicultural urban centres. From world-class street festivals to professional sports, dining, shopping and a vibrant waterfront with ferry access to Toronto Island, you’ve got the world’s most liveable city at your front door. 10 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College Executive Summary: A decade of extraordinary achievement

Upper Canada College has reached many milestones over the past decade, executing upon strategic plan goals unveiled in 2007.

The cornerstone of the ambitious plan was to significantly To these ends, the College made great strides in evolving its facilities, increase accessibility, among these other key objectives: investing in professional development opportunities for faculty and, • To significantly improve accessibility for outstanding most remarkably, repositioning itself as a sector leader in needs- students who couldn’t attend otherwise, through increased based financial assistance. Here’s a summary of achievements: financial assistance; • The unprecedented $100-million Think Ahead Campaign has raised over $95 million to date and is expected to be • To broaden the range of “big school” opportunities and completed this year. The cornerstone of the campaign is the challenges; establishment of a sector-leading, needs-based financial • To promote a “small school” culture where every boy is assistance program. It has grown from supporting 60 boys in known, in part through the creation of smaller units of 2006 to 196 boys and amounts to $4.5 million in 2015-16. students and faculty; • The UCC Foundation’s endowment has grown from $37 • To focus on the development of character and emotional million in 2004 to in excess of $87 million today, which is intelligence in students; and supporting the financial assistance program. • To transform the boarding program into an exceptional, focused program that would better meet the needs of outstanding students drawn from across Canada and around the world. 11 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College

• We’re completing an extensive campus renewal plan. It includes the LEED gold-certified William P. Wilder ’40 Hockey Arena & Sports Complex, opened in 2008, with an NHL- sized and Olympic-sized rink; the renovation of the College’s boarding facilities; and a comprehensive renovation of the Upper School including state-of-the art science labs and a complete reconfiguration of the first floor. • UCC’s boarding program has been revitalized, with a community of 88 boys from across the country and the globe who are integrated with the day population and enriching campus and student life. This boarding “campaign within a campaign,” which kicked off in 2011, achieved its $14-million fundraising . Those funds went towards enhanced faculty support and programming, comprehensive facility renovations and scholarships. • Opened in 2001, the Wernham and West Centre for Learning is a jewel in our crown of offerings. Working with each boy’s unique learning style, the centre teaches such lifelong skills as time management, deep reading, note taking and critical literacy. With a mandate to share findings globally, the centre works with teachers to share the latest studies and insights. • Our Character Project, launched in 2013, weaves opportunities for developing resilience, compassion, leadership and other traits into every aspect of the curriculum. Recent events have included an executive-level retreat with McKinsey Canada for our student leaders, mindfulness training for faculty and curriculum-based exercises for Prep students to develop emotional regulation. • Our community service program has evolved as we continue to find new opportunities for students to invest in the future of our communities, encouraging a lifelong dedication to making a difference locally or internationally. Our peer- tutoring program, Horizons, which pairs UCC students with inner-city schools, celebrates its 16th anniversary. This pioneering program was the first of its kind in Canada and sets the bar for similar initiatives, as it continues to expand its summer and school-year programming. • Our heightened national and international profile has triggered growing interest in admission at the College, with an 18 per cent increase in applications over the last four years. • Finally, UCC students continue to excel, scoring above the world average on the International Baccalaureate and attending outstanding institutions in Canada and worldwide after graduation. 12 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College 10 reasons UCC made news last year

From students and faculty, to parents and alumni, UCC news always makes a big splash with our extraordinary student achievements, committed parents and award-winning faculty. Take a look:

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

1. Our Model UN team is going places. budding Prep scientists are no slouches. They earned three Our Model UN team remained undefeated at some of the gold and four silver medals at the Toronto Science Fair. best conferences in North America, taking the “best large 4. Our community service programs make a difference. delegation” title at McGill University, and then at Columbia Community service is a huge value and programmatic component University, for the second year. at the College. Operating through our Community Action and 2. Our sports teams Service program, students launched a street outreach program win championships. to help the homeless, working with Jay Barton (the first son Our coaches know how of former UCC principal Eric Barton). UCC worked to set up a to inspire a team and drop-in experience at Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto for UCC get the best from their administration and faculty. It involved collecting sleeping bags players. Many are former and sharing lunch with homeless people. Five Grade 12 students professional athletes kicked off the program by visiting as part of their International themselves and all go above and beyond to teach both skill Baccalaureate Creativity, Action, Service project. The boys and character development. We won 15 championship titles purchased sleeping bags that they took with them and shared in 2014–15 within the Conference of Independent Schools of lunch with individuals suffering from addiction and mental illness. Ontario Athletic Association. Those placings included varsity “We purposely did not go to serve the homeless by preparing football for the second year. We were the only undefeated a meal or dishing one out for them,” said faculty character team in regular season play. integrator Craig Parkinson. “We wanted to reverse the usual 3. Our students power dynamic by sitting down and sharing a meal with them.” are award-winning. Our Horizons program continues to provide opportunities Continuing our grand for our students to work and bond with inner-city students at tradition of developing their schools, introducing them to music, sports and helping poised, practiced and with academic tutoring, while nuturing and encouraging the dangerously good satisfaction that comes from giving back. speakers, our Year 2 5. Our students invited students Adam Rothman and David Niddam-Dent captured — the Canadian Student Debate Federation’s Junior National and he accepted. Debating title. Also, our Prep musicians know how to make an Thanks to some deft audience listen. Competing against several senior high school international negotiation bands, the Prep jazz band, concert band and wind ensemble with Edward Snowden, all earned gold at the Toronto Festival of Music. And our the world’s most famed 13 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College

fugitive, privacy advocate and folk hero to many of our 8. … and World Ball Hockey students, our World Affairs Conference organizers had a medal-winning teachers sensational, once-in-a-lifetime, national press event on hand. lead innovative, life-defining He appeared by live feed to 900 students in Laidlaw Hall, trips for students with a complete cross-section of Canada’s national broadcast History teacher (and recent Masters and print media on hand. Said valedictorian James Lutz in World Ball Hockey bronze-medal winner) his address, “Snowden contended that the quality of our Fiona Marshall helms the newly launched Military History queries was better than those he’d fielded from members of Immersion Program. It brings alive the stories of more than Parliament and Congress.” Amazing. 400 Old Boys killed in the First and Second World Wars. It culminates in an eight-day tour of European battlefields FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT including Ypres, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, Dieppe and Juno 6. Our staff and faculty Beach. There’s also a research component to the program, are award-winning. taking advantage of UCC’s many archival resources relating to Our Upper School math the First and Second World Wars and the conflicts’ impact on teachers earned the the College community. prestigious Secondary 9. Our faculty members School Mathematics comprise a diverse Department Award from community of men and the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education. (It’s the women from all over first time an independent school has ever won and the only the world—including our new Middle Division math department award in Ontario.) And Courtney Turner head, Naheed Bardai. received a Teacher Recognition Award from the Brain Bee, an This fall we welcome international neuroscience organization, for acting as faculty Naheed Bardai, our new Middle Division head. Born and raised advisor for the neuroscience club. Last but not least, our in Toronto, he spent the past nine years at The Aga Khan communications and marketing team earned a Bronze award Academy in Mombasa, where he was principal of the Senior from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education School (Grade 6–12) and diploma co-ordinator. in the “best single ad” category. The ad appeared in , celebrating our youngest campaign donor, Taylor PARENTS’ PARTICIPATION Harris ’09, and his $250,000 gift to the College. 10. Our parents support our students. 7. Our faculty get wonderful opportunities to become (even more) inspired and worldly. From our Parents’ Organizations to our Arts Booster Club and Sports Booster Club, our parents are an integral part of What better way to prepare students to thrive in a global daily life at UCC. Annual highlights include parent-organized culture? Our new Global Leadership Initiative is a landmark events such as Festive Marketplace in December and Nuit professional development program for faculty. By immersing Bleue, a spring night which transforms the school into a themselves in cultures of emerging nations they come back cabaret, art gallery and concert hall all at once. Parents also with first-hand experience on how to teach about global co-ordinate one-off fundraisers, for example a Mother’s Day complexity and making a positive difference in the world. So Drive to collect travel-sized toiletries for moms in shelters. far a group has been to India, and this past summer, Brazil. Sports-minded parents work with our “Blue Army” student That trip was a study in contrasts. Within 24 hours, the generals to plan and co-ordinate spirit-raising activities for group met with students and teachers in the favellas (slums), parents and students at all major athletic events, especially spent hours with homeless families and then were swept up sports extravaganzas like to the penthouse of one of the former corporate and political Association Day, May Day leaders in the country to discuss leadership, international and Winterfest. mindedness and empathy. Says teacher David Brown: “This One of many highlights trip recharged our ‘teaching batteries.’ I’ll do my best to bring this year, the ABC welcomed the stories, anecdotes and sense of humanity I experienced in our first-ever mother-son São Paulo into my classes.” dinner theatre, to a sold-out crowd of 176 boys and their guests. Renowned director Ravi Jain ’99 brought a special performance of his acclaimed, two-person play A Brimful of Asha, starring just Jain and his real-life mom. Guests were also treated to a full Indian buffet dinner. Definitely an event worthy of a repeat performance next year. 14 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College Illustrious Alumni

We’ve a well-earned reputation for producing leaders in every walk of life, for close to 200 years. Among our ranks we count six lieutenant-governors, four premiers, seven chief justices, 24 Rhodes Scholars and 10 Olympic medalists. Each year we graduate ambitious, high-potential graduates.

Lionel Gelber ’26: scholar, diplomat and Michael Evans ’84: A vice-chair of Goldman founder of the world’s most influential award Sachs and global head of growth markets, he for academic work in international relations, was also an Olympic rower and member of The Lionel Gelber Prize the men’s eight, the first Canadian team to ’32: One of the leading capture gold at the 1984 Olympics figures in Canada’s literary canon, the Oxford- Brendan Fraser ’87: The famous Hollywood educated writer is best known for his Deptford actor’s roles have included the lead in George Trilogy, which includes Fifth Business of the Jungle and Journey to the Centre of the Ted Rogers ’51: The CEO of Rogers Earth, and the adventurer Rick O’Connell in Communications introduced to The Mummy series of films cellphones and high-speed Internet in the Jameel Jaffer ’90: He is deputy legal director 1980s and ’90s of the American Civil Liberties Union and Michael Wilson ’55: The former U.S. director of its Center for Democracy ambassador was minister of finance in 1984 Jr. ’93: CEO of Loblaw in Brian Mulroney’s government, a position he Companies held until 1991

Bill Graham ’57: former federal minister of Tom Szaky ’01: CEO of TerraCycle, one of foreign affairs, then national defence the world’s leading environmental, waste- reduction companies ’65: author, historian, leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the ’05: opposition from 2008 until 2011 hockey player ’68: novelist and CBC broadcaster To browse a comprehensive list of our history-making grads over ’74: The singer-songwriter’s band the past two centuries, please look at a special issue of our alumni magazine archives, Old Times, called “Leaders & Legends” available Blue Rodeo has won multiple Juno Awards at https://archive.org/details/oldtimeswin2005ucco and sold millions worldwide 15 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College #UCC4EVER: Our alumni stay in touch

What do our alumni say they still love best about the College? Why, opportunities to reconnect and have fun, of course! Our reunion events each year are much-anticipated and well-attended. And everyone saves the date for our signature events, including our annual Founder’s Dinner.

Our alumni community is a tight-knit and far-flung community. For a decade now, to capitalize upon our talent base and We boast 8,000 Old Boys living in 77 countries. With more to support our graduates as they pursue their careers, our than 60 alumni events each year, including branch events Common Ties Mentoring Program matches alumni who in Europe, Asia and North America, our Association retains volunteer as mentors, with mentees, on a diverse range of and nurtures ties to the College. Our Association’s signature career paths. A newly relaunched online database makes it alumni events include Founder’s Dinner in February, celebrating easier than ever for our driven, talented Old Boys to meet, our inception and welcoming such high-profile speakers as match and network within a community committed to success. former prime minister Brian Mulroney (a UCC grandfather) and The Hon. Michael Wilson ’55, former U.S. ambassador and finance minister. Association Day each September is our version of homecoming, with events all weekend and a day of sports and fun for our community. 16 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College 17 / Backgrounder // Upper Canada College Upper Canada College 416-488-1125 200 Lonsdale Rd. www.ucc.on.ca Toronto ON M4V 1W6