While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

The company that would become Commodore Business Machines, Inc. was founded in 1954 in Toronto as the Commodore Portable Typewriter Company by Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor Jack Tramiel.

Inspired by the New York underground film scene, he founded the Toronto Film Co-op with Iain Ewing and Ivan Reitman.

He founded York ( now Toronto ) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery.

Victoria University is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1836 and named for Queen Victoria.

* The Alpine Club of Canada, Toronto section, is founded.

* The Royal Conservatory of Music ; founded in 1886 as the Toronto Conservatory of Music ; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1947 by King George VI

* The University of Toronto ; founded as King's College by a Royal Proclamation issued in 1827 by King George IV

Most of these observatories were of limited size and were dismantled as soon as the initial survey was complete, but the one founded by Sabine at Toronto in 1840 is still in existence.

Hueck had founded the Friendship House in Toronto and its sister house in Harlem, which Merton visited.

In 1871 he moved to Toronto, where he edited the Canadian Monthly, and subsequently founded the Week and the Bystander, and where he lived the rest of his life living in The Grange manor.

The museum was founded in October 1983 in Toronto at Exhibition Place and later moved to Ontario Place theme park.

* Toronto Argonauts founded by the Argonaut Rowing Club

High schools include Central Etobicoke High School, Etobicoke Collegiate Institute, founded in 1928, Kipling Collegiate Institute, Lakeshore Collegiate Institute ( originally New Toronto Secondary School, founded in 1950 ), Martingrove Collegiate Institute, North Albion Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute, founded in 1958, Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, Thistletown Collegiate Institute, West Humber Collegiate Institute, founded in 1966, Etobicoke School of the Arts, founded in 1981 in the former Royal York Collegiate Institute, Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy ( formerly, Collegiate Institute ), and the School of Experiential Education, an alternative school founded in 1971.

He subsequently continued his philanthropic work and founded Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Massey Lectures before he died on December 30, 1967.

The original Citytv station, granted callsign CITY-TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), was founded in Toronto in 1972 and began broadcasting for the first time on September 28 under the ownership of Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd ; CHUM Limited acquired the station in 1981.

The University of Toronto Schools was founded in 1910 as a " practice school ", also known as a laboratory school, for the University of Toronto's Faculty of Education.

Algorithmics is a Toronto, Ontario based company founded by Ron Dembo that provides risk management software to financial institutions.

Mackenzie, a Scottish immigrant, founded a reformist newspaper called The Colonial Advocate in 1824 in the Upper Canada capital of York ( later Toronto ).

In 1793 the brothers decided to enter the University of Copenhagen ( founded in 1479 ) and the following spring found them at the university preparing to matriculate for the autumn session.

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

In 1831 the Protestant Reverend Edward Nangle founded a proselytising mission at Dugort.

The Annales was founded and edited by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, while they were teaching at the University of Strasbourg and later in Paris.

It was founded between 650 and 625 BC by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian tyrant Cypselus, at which time its economy was based on farmlands, fishing, timber for shipbuilding, and the exportation of the produce of Epirus.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.

* 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

This was an order that had been founded by Giovanni Scarpa at the end of the 15th century.

After a first unsuccessful attempt at colonisation in 497 BC by the Milesian Tyrant Histiaeus, the Athenians founded a first colony at Ennea-Hodoi (‘ Nine Ways ’) in 465, but these first ten thousand colonists were massacred by the Thracians.

His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.

Spalding also founded the Baseball Guide, which at the time was the most widely-read baseball publication.

The Delian League, founded about 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The built heritage was also at the forefront of the growth of member based organizations in the United States for example, founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia-based Preservation Virginia ( formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ) was the United States ' first statewide historic preservation group.

It was already founded at the time of the establishment of the city shortly after 1200 ; the exact date is not known.

Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.

She retired to a nunnery she had founded in c. 991 at Selz in Alsace.

* 1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.