Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University is an educational institution in downtown Toronto, Canada.

When it was first opened, in 1948, it was known as the Ryerson Institute of Technology, named after a 19th Century educator, Egerton Ryerson. In 1964, when it was reorganized, it became known as Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. Then, after it began issuing graduate degrees, in 1993, it was reorganized, again, as a University. It was officially renamed, in 2002, as Ryerson University. In 2022 it was decided its name should change again, after it was more widely recognized that Ryerson played a key role in the creation of the infamous residential schools, for First Nations people. Under the residential schools plan First Nations children were forced to leave their family homes, and lives in dormitories, under brutal conditions. Students were routinely brutalized and subject to sexual assault. Many schools punished children for speaking the native languages with one another, even during their spare time.