A university of the province of Upper Canada is founded by Royal Charter under the name of King's College. By an act of the legislature, King's College is secularized and its name changed to the University of Toronto. Haultain H.E.T. Haultain graduates in engineering. Charles Wright Charles Wright graduates. He would be a member of the Scott Expedition to Antarctica and discover his leader's body.
Canadian farmers receive the first shipment of Marquis wheat.
Developed by a University of Toronto graduate, this variety matures early, thus avoiding frost damage. Connaught Labs John Gerald Fitzgerald of the Faculty of Medicine establishes the anti-toxin laboratories, which subsequently become the Connaught Laboratories. Banting and Best Working in a University laboratory, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.J.R. Macleod, and J.B. Collip are the first to obtain insulin in a form consistently effective for treating diabetes mellitus. In 1923, Banting and Macleod would receive the Nobel Prize. The first helium liquefaction plant in North America is set up by John McLennan, who had received the first doctorate in physics from the university in 1900.