[PHOTO] Relics of the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, University of Toronto

On a warm summer evening, a friend showed me these artifacts of the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, lying on a patch of grass off of King's College Road in the middle of the University of Toronto: a transit pillar used (I believe) as part of the effort to capture of the 1883 transit of Venus, a line in concrete marking an actual meridian of Toronto, the device that set Toronto time.