Trinity College Trinity College was founded as an independent university in 1851 by the first Anglican bishop of Toronto, and became federated with the University of Toronto in 1904. As the smallest of the University's nine Arts and Science colleges, Trinity stresses academic excellence and possesses a vibrant community life. The building encloses a courtyard, the Quadrangle, around which are found rooms for 197 men of the college and 26 women of the college. A small number of women live in the residence on all-female floors.
Trinity is one of the few colleges to offer single rooms to first year students.
About half of the incoming first year students will be housed in a single room. All rooms in Trinity are furnished with a bed, desk, desk chair, reading lamp, bookcase, bulletin board, chest of drawers, armchair, standing lamp and waste basket. There are public telephones on each floor of the residence and each room has been equipped with telephone jacks. Many areas of the residence take on their own ambience. Peer support is the norm as a result of the College's policy both of welcoming back to residence returning students and of mixing students of differing years and academic interests.