Regiopolis College

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 5, 2004

Photo by Alan L Brown - July 8, 2007

Plaque Location

The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
In front of the hospital on the south side of Sydenham Street just west of Brock Street

Plaque Text

Regiopolis College, incorporated March 4, 1837, by an Act of the legislature of Upper Canada, opened in the central portion of this building. Its corner-stone was laid by the school's founder, Bishop Alexander Macdonell, on June 11, 1839. In 1866 the College was given full degree-granting powers, although these were rarely used. Financial difficulties forced its closing in 1869. In 1892 the building was acquired by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph who opened here the Hôtel Dieu Hospital. The school reopened on King Street in 1896 and, in 1915, moved to the northern part of the city. In 1931 the diocesan clergy transferred the College to the Jesuit Order.