The University of Toronto’s David Dunlap observatory at Richmond Hill near Toronto, Canada today houses a 74 inch Grubb Parsons reflector that was installed in 1935. However there was a much older observatory in Toronto.
This was the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory
at the University of Toronto which
housed a 6 inch Thomas Cooke & Sons telescope that was installed in
1880. The Cooke was used in particular for the study of sun spots in
conjunction with magnetic measurements made at the observatory. I believe that
the Cooke may have been used until around 1910.
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