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Victoria University is a federated university, which forms part of the wider University of Toronto. Affiliated with the United Church of Canada, the university was founded in 1836 as a college in the Wesleyan Methodist tradition.Victoria College is the undergraduate section of the university. Since 1928, the College, known informally as Vic, has retained secular studies in the liberal arts and in the sciences, nowadays through affiliation with the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Science. Emmanuel College functions as its postgraduate theological college, affiliated with the United Church of Canada and the Toronto School of Theology. Victoria operated as an independent institution until its federation with the University of Toronto in 1890, relocating from Cobourg to Toronto. Victoria is situated in the northeastern part of the wider university campus, adjacent to the campus of the University of St. Michael's College, which is also federated with the University of Toronto, and Queen's Park. Among its residential halls is Annesley Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada. A major centre for Reformation and Renaissance studies, the university is home to international scholarly projects and holdings devoted to pre-Puritan English drama and the works of Desiderius Erasmus.

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