University of Toronto Press Interactive Timeline

UTP is founded as a printing operation by the University of Toronto.

Photo: The first home of the Press: the old Wycliffe College Building (1901). The arrow indicates the location of the Press offices within the building.

UTP's first book, A Short Handbook of Latin Accidence and Syntax, is published.

Publishing program is approved by the University of Toronto.

Photo: R.J. Hamilton, the first manager of the press.

Canadian Historical Review was founded.

University of Toronto Quarterly is founded.

Photo: The first issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly.

University of Toronto Bookstore begins operation as part of UTP.

Diamond Jenness's The Indians of Canada is published.

Photo: The Indians of Canada

University of Toronto Law Journal is founded.

Robert MacGregor Dawson's Government of Canada wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

Robert MacGregor Dawson's Democratic Government of Canada wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

W.L. Morton's The Progressive Party in Canada wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

Harold Innis's The Bias of Communication is published.

Photo: Harold A. Innis

Frank McKinnon's The Government of Prince Edward Island wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

Established in 1925, the Toronto Legal Directory is first published by UTP.

Press building opens at 21 King's College Circle, Scholarly Publishing's home until 1989.

Photo: 21 King's College Circle

First book of photographs by Yousuf Karsh, Portraits of Greatness, is published.

Photo: Yousuf Karsh and the Director of the Press, Marsh Jeanneret, chat with the National Librarian of Canada.

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill project commences.

Margaret Avison's Winter Sun wins the Governor General's literary prize for poetry.

Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenburg Galaxy is published. This work popularizes the term "the global village." It wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

Photo: Marshall McLuhan

John Porter's The Vertical Mosaic is published.

First volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is published. The series is described by critic Robert Fulford as "the most ambitious project in the history of Canadian scholarship."

Canadian Books in Print, the complete reference and buying guide to Canadian books, is established as a centennial project.

Carl Dair's Design with Type becomes the first Canadian book to be a recipient of one of the Book of the Year awards presented annually by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Photo: From Design with Type, by Carl Dair.

Collected Works of Erasmus project commences (this project is still underway).

Warehouse in Buffalo, New York, is opened to serve U.S. customers.

Photo: Opening of the University of Toronto Press office in Buffalo, N.Y.

Journal of Scholarly Publishing, the first journal to be devoted to the work of academic publishers, is established.

Photo: The first issue of Journal of Scholarly Publishing.

Economic Atlas of Ontario is chosen as the gold medal winner of the Most Beautiful Book in the World competition at the Leipzig International Book Fair.

Photo: The premier of Ontario, John Robards, presents a copy of the Atlas to Nadine Sherwin, a graduate student who worked on the project.

Memoirs of Lester B. Pearson, Canada's 14th prime minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, are published.

Photo: Lester B. Pearson with R.I.K. Davidson, Editor, Social Sciences.

UTP begins offering book distribution services to other publishers.

Frank Scott's Essays on the Constitution wins the Governor General's literary prize for non-fiction.

Photo: Essays on the Constitution

UTP signs an agreement with the Medieval Academy of America for the publication of the Medieval Academy of America Reprints for Teaching (MART) series.

C.B. Macpherson's Property: Mainstream and Critical Positions is published.

Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization is acquired.

Photo: The first issue of Cartographica published by UTP Journals.

First edition of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada is published.

Photo: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada

UTP is named as Canadian Publisher of the Year by the Canadian Booksellers' Association.

First volume of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine is published.

Ramsay Cook's The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada wins the Governor General's literary award for non-fiction.

Canadian Theatre Review is acquired.

Photo: The first issue of Canadian Theatre Review published by UTP Journals.

Volume One of the Historical Atlas of Canada, the most complex and sophisticated cartographic project in Canadian history, is published.

UTP is named as Canadian Publisher of the Year by the Canadian Booksellers' Association.

The first volume of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan is published.

The Spenser Encyclopedia is published.

Photo: Edmund Spenser

The final volume of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill is published, marking the completion of the series.

The third and final volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada is published, marking the completion of a collaborative research effort of over two decades involving authors and experts across Canada, the United States, and Europe.

UTP Distribution begins providing service to U.S., U.K., and Australian based publishers.

First two volumes of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye are published.

Photo: Northrop Frye

CD-ROM versions of Canadian Who's Who and Ontario Legal Directory are made available.

UofT Bookstore wins the Canadian Bookseller Association's "Campus Bookseller of the Year" award, marking the first of five wins in ten years (1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006).

UTP celebrates its 100th anniversary and issues its list of "One Hundred Most Influential Books Published by UTP."

Umberto Eco's Experiences in Translation and Julia Kristeva's Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative are published.

The first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is published.

Photo: The History of the Book in Canada

Frank Parker Day's Rockbound wins CBC's "Canada Reads."

Photo: Rockbound

UTP sells its offset printing division to focus on core operations.

UTP Journals launches online hosting platform and transitions six fully featured journals to online access.

UTP and the Rotman School of Management found a new publishing imprint for actionable business books, Rotman-UTP Publishing.

Photo: Rotman-UTP Publishing

David E. Smith's The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention wins the Donner Prize.

Photo: The People's House of Commons.

UTP acquires Broadview Press's history and social science lists, establishing a new course book division, UTP Higher Education.

UTP's Retail Division launches the Espresso Book Machine, making more than 4,000,000 titles available for on-demand printing.

Photo: UTP's Espresso Book Machine at the UofT Bookstore.

UTP Distribution embarks on a strategic initiative to offer digital publishing services to complement its existing operations.

U of T Bookstore wins the Nebraska Book Company's inaugural Award for Textbook Innovation due to their leadership in Textbooks Rentals in North America.

U of T Bookstore wins the Canadian Bookseller Association's "Campus Bookseller of the Year" award.