Upper Canada College (1831 - 1891) Owen Staples? Ca. 1912. Lithograph with watercolour. 24.1 x 45.6 cm. TPL (TRL) JRR 3666 Upper Canada College, or UCC as it is more commonly called, would have been visible on the northwest corner of King and Simcoe streets. Built in 1831 as a private boys' school, it occupied this site until 1891. As this area became more and more industrialized, the school followed its wealthy patrons as they moved away from the grime and smoke of the industrial inner city and relocated to its present site at Avenue Road north of St. Clair where it was clean and quiet.