The new university, housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto, was sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec as a sectarian undergraduate institution for its clergy and adherents. The building is currently used as the headquarters for The Royal Conservatory of Music.
McMaster Hall, located in Toronto, was the original location of the university. Woodstock College, Woodstock, and Moulton Ladies' College, Toronto, were maintained in close connection. In 1887 the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College was granted royal assent, and McMaster University was officially incorporated. Canadian Senator William McMaster, the first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, bequeathed funds to endow a university, which was incorporated through a merger of Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College, Woodstock, Ontario. It was founded in 1881 as Toronto Baptist College. McMaster University resulted from the outgrowth of educational initiatives undertaken by Baptists as early as the 1830s. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders, Rhodes Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, and Nobel laureates. Its athletic teams are known as the Marauders, and are members of U Sports. Alumni and former students reside across Canada and in 139 countries. McMaster University has over 27,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students.
The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec controlled the university until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957. Inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted its relocation in 1930. It was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian senator and banker who bequeathed C$900,000 to its founding. It is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. It operates six academic faculties: the DeGroote School of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Science, and Science.
The main McMaster campus is on 121 hectares (300 acres) of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens. McMaster University ( McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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