Upper Canada College

Upper Canada College (UCC) is an all-male elementary and secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, the oldest independent school in the province, and the third oldest school in Canada. It is widely considered to be the leading school in Canada. It has educated many of the country's elite, powerful and wealthy and declares its goal as being a "private school with a public purpose."http://www.ucc.on.ca/Admissions/about.htm

Alumni

UCC has a reputation for educating many of Canada's powerful, elite and wealthy. As is common in single-sex male schools, UCC's alumni are known simply as "Old Boys." Examples include:

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• Lord Kenneth Thomson - "Canada's wealthiest man" and Chairman of Thomson Corporation
• Stephen Leacock - writer and economist
• Robertson Davies - notable author
• Vincent Massey - the first Canadian-born Governor-General
• Lord Conrad Black - publishing tycoon (expelled)
• Galen Weston - owner, George Weston Ltd. and Canada's "second richest man"
• Peter C. Newman - journalist, author and biographer
• Ernest McCulloch - accredited with the discovery of the Stem Cell

A more exhaustive list of some of the school's most notable graduates can be found here: List of Upper Canada College alumni.

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