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The Diocesan Theological Institute was an Anglican seminary founded by John Strachan in Cobourg, Canada West , on 10 January 1842. In 1852 the Institute was succeeded by the Faculty of Divinity of the Trinity University , Toronto , itself a federated university with the University of Toronto from 1904. The Trinity College Literary Institute, one of Canada 's oldest student and debating societies, began as the debating society of the Diocesan Theological Institute in the 1840s.

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5-469: The seminary building was designed by Henry Bowyer Lane , later acquired as a school. In 1906 Mary Haskell of Chicago bought the home, and it was altered into a private residence at 174 Green Street (Haskell House). 43°57′37″N 78°09′31″W  /  43.960144°N 78.158745°W  / 43.960144; -78.158745 This seminary -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Anglicanism -related article

10-523: Is Osgoode Hall , namely the west and central wings from 1844 to 1846. He designed and oversaw the construction of the incorporated city of Toronto's second city hall in 1844. Lane's limited commissions outside of Toronto, in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Cobourg, were never as grand as his work in Toronto. During his time in Toronto, Lane married Lucy Anne Sharpe in 1844, and they left the city in 1847. He

15-831: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Henry Bowyer Lane Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane (1817–1878) was an English architect who worked in Toronto from c.  1841 to 1847 . Lane was born to Henry Bower Lane, a Royal Artillery Captain and Elizabeth Lacey in 1817 and moved to Devon , England after 1819. Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg , Upper Canada , and then in Toronto (around 1843–1844). One of Lane's most significant contributions

20-753: Is held by the State Library of Victoria (Australia). It shows the Buckland Hotel and the Buckland Post Office, and eight Chinese gold miners crossing the bridge over the Buckland River during the Australian gold rush. A European man (maybe the postmaster, William McKay) is sitting on the steps of the Post Office, chatting to a European woman. The Buckland River goldfield was near the present town of Bright in

25-706: Is known to have been in the Colony of Victoria, Australia thereafter. In the Ovens Directory for the year 1857, (State Library of New South Wales), he is listed as Henry Bowyer Lane Esq., Subwarden and Chinese Protector and Magistrate for the Yachandandah Creek Goldfield, near Bright. He was still in the Victorian Alps in 1862, because his fine watercolour, The Buckland near the Camp, clearly signed and dated May 1862,

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