Carr, Father Henry National Historic Person

Toronto, Ontario
Henry Carr (© University of British Columbia Archives, unknown photographer [UBC 5.1/429] // Archives de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique, photographe inconnu [UBC 5.1/429])
Father Henry Carr
(© University of British Columbia Archives, unknown photographer [UBC 5.1/429] // Archives de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique, photographe inconnu [UBC 5.1/429])
Address : 100 Saint Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2012-06-26
Life Date: 1880 to 1963

Event, Person, Organization:
  • Right Reverend John Strachan  (Person)
  • George Munro Grant  (Person)
  • Sir John William Dawson  (Person)
  • Sir Robert Falconer  (Person)
  • Reverent George Bryce  (Person)
  • Reverend Thomas McCulloch  (Person)
Other Name(s):
  • Carr, Father Henry  (Designation Name)
Research Report Number: 2010-65

Importance: Father Carr played a critical role in the college’s federation with the University of Toronto in 1910 and was a central figure in its subsequent evolution, acting as superior and president from 1915 to 1925.

Plaque(s)


Existing plaque:  100 Saint Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario

A priest of the Congregation of St. Basil and a leading figure in higher education, Father Carr promoted the creation of Catholic colleges at secular universities in Canada. In the early 1900s, he modernized the St. Michael’s College curriculum, turning a small institution into a noted arts college, fully federated with the University of Toronto. A champion of this model, he went on to head similar Catholic institutions at the universities of Saskatchewan and British Columbia. In 1929, he co-founded what became the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, now a world-renowned research centre located on this campus.