Ryerson University's campus is glowing with spring blossoms. Here is one of the oldest buildings on campus, now a mere façade but still beautiful, surrounded by flowers. This might be the closest we come to a ruin (in the positive, historical sense).
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The plaque by this facade reads:
The Toronto Normal and Model School
1851-1962
The central facade has been left standing to commemorate the long and close association of St. James Square with education in the Province of Ontario.
Here Egerton Ryerson superintended the work of the first Department of Public Instruction in Upper Canada.
Here generations of teachers prepared themselves for careers in education.
Here thousands of Armed Forces personnel were re-trained for civilian life after World War II.
Here was founded in 1948 the Ryerson Institute of Technology, which pioneered a whole new level of education in this province.
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