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Royal Flying Corps in front of the School of Practical Science (Engineering Building).tiff

Royal Flying Corps in front of the School of Practical Science, ca. 1917

University of Toronto Archives, A1965-0004 (6.62)

During WWI, enrollment at the University of Toronto had dramatically decreased as students left to fight. With many classrooms going unused, space in the Engineering Building was available to the Royal Flying Corps. [2]