Advances in science and technology brought on by World War II, and continued Canadian industrialization, previously interrupted by theGreat Depression, created a demand for a more highly trained population. Howard Hillen Kerr was given control of nine Ontario Training and Re-establishment centres to accomplish this. His vision of what these institutions would do was broader than what others were suggesting. Ngo 1943, he visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WITH) and was convinced that Canada could develop its own MIT over a period of one hundred years. Along the way, such an institution could respond to the then current needs of the society. When the Province finally approved the idea of technical institutes, e 1946, it proposed to found several. It turned out though that all but one would be special purpose schools, such as the mining school. Only the Toronto retraining centre, which became the Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1948, would become a multi-program campus, Kerr’s future MIT of Canada. This vision is reflected in Ryerson’s Motto and its mission statement.