Talk:Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

message: As I mentioned during the FAC, I wrote the U of T archivist.  He's just written back again, and raises the following points:
1) About the 1852 painting by William Armstrong:
"Yes, the image is reversed.  As for copyright, I suspect that what happened is that the information about the copyright holder was transferred from the photograph to the database."
2) About the black and white photo:
"This image of the Observatory is one for which we have a glass plate negative and a print.  If I remember correctly, the dome was added to facilitate the observation of the transit of Venus in 1882."
3) More generally:
"Regarding the Wikipedia article itself, a couple of small observations.  The Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory and the Stewart Observatory are NOT the same building as is clear from the description in the article.  The name "Stewart Observatory" was not adopted until the 1980s, after an often heated debate. 
"When the Meteorological Observatory was taken down and rebuilt on a somewhat smaller scale with the tower to the right, the dome was moved to the new structure.  This did not happen in 1930 as suggested. The telescope from the TMMO was reinstalled in the dome in 1931.
"I would drop the name 'School of Practical Science'.  It ceased to exist in 1906 and was replaced by the Faculty (not School) of Applied Science and Engineering.
"The Old Observatory was handed over to the Students' Administrative Council (now University of Toronto Students' Union) in 1953, which has used the building since then.  The sentence, 'As of 2008, it houses the head office of the University of Toronto Students' Union' is misleading."
He also cc-ed the special media archivist, who I imagine is still on holiday. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  email from U of T assistant archivist 

message: There is a line in this article that states the following:
"When this project ended in 1853, the observatory was taken over by the Canadian government, greatly expanded in 1855, and operated as the primary meteorological station and official Canadian timekeeper for over fifty years."
This could not have been taken over by the Canadian government because Canada did not exist until 1867.
I believe the article should read something like the following
When this project ended in 1853, the observatory was taken over by the government of the day, greatly expanded in 1855, and operated as the primary meteorological station and official Canadian timekeeper for over fifty years.Sbradley33 (talk) 12:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually that's not true, see Act of Union (1840). A Canadian government definitely did exist - the government of the Province of Canada. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:34, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taken over by the Canadian government. 

message: The funny thing is most days its used to sell discount transit passes to students. What a waste... 99.232.190.178 (talk) 12:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real uses 

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