page_title: Samuel McLaughlin
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel McLaughlin / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Parkwood Estate, a National Historic Site of Canada in Oshawa, Ontario.
context_page_description: Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, CC ED CD was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which evolved into General Motors of Canada.
context_section_description: In 1951, he established the McLaughlin Foundation which, from 1953 to 2003, donated nearly $200 million to the University of Toronto and other causes, including the McLaughlin Planetarium at the Royal Ontario Museum.
  McLaughlin was a major contributor to Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. The university's Mechanical Engineering Department is housed in McLaughlin Hall, which was his donation in 1948. McLaughlin Hall in Queen's University's John Deutsch University Centre is also named for him. His wife, Adelaide McLaughlin, was honoured in 1957 by Queen's, which named the women's residence Adelaide Hall for her.
  In 1947 McLaughlin and his wife donated land for a Boy Scout camp on the outskirts of Oshawa.  The camp was named "Camp Samac".
  McLaughlin donated $1 million to the 1968 library building at the University of Guelph, which bears his name.
  He provided partial funding to build a college at York University in Toronto. Opened in 1968, it was named McLaughlin College in his honour.
  McLaughlin Hall at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario, which he unveiled in 1971 at age 99, is named after him in recognition of his contributions to the school.
  He endowed the Regimental Foundation of The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) and quietly paid the salaries of some of the regiment's soldiers during times of severely curtailed government funding.
  McLaughlin House at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific also bears his name.
caption: Parkwood Estate in 2007
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