Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan and his students at one of the infamous Coach House seminars, 1973. The university is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the great thinker's birth in 2011.

(U of T archival photo)

Professor Marshall McLuhan, director of U of T's Centre of Culture and Technology, at a Pollution Inquiry at Toronto's City Hall, summer 1969. Beside McLuhan is the dean of the graduate school, Ernest Sirluck. The university is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the great media theorist's birth in 2011.

(Photo by Robert Lansdale)

Marshall McLuhan, from the William McElcheran sculpture located outside the Kelly Library at St. Michael's College. The University of Toronto is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the great media theorist's birth in 2011.

(Photo by Kelly Rankin)

The national historical significance of the late U of T professor Marshall McLuhan was celebrated on Oct. 14 at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, where he taught, with the unveiling of a plaque to be placed at 96 St. Joseph St., also known as “Marshall McLuhan Way.”

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A historic plaque commemorating Marshall McLuhan was unveiled recently at St. Michael's College to honour the 100th anniversary of the late scholar's birth. Pictured rom left to right are Dean Seamus Ross of the Faculty of Information; Michael McLuhan, McLuhan's son; MP Joe Oliver; Philip Marchand, McLuhan's biographer; Professor Anne Anderson, president of St. Mike's; and emcee for the event, Dr. Richard Alway, the first lay president of the college.

(Photo courtesy of Faculty of Information)