The Toronto Baptist College – later to become McMaster University – was on Bloor Street in Toronto. The building is now the Royal Conservatory of Music.

The Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College merge, forming the newly named McMaster University. The university offers courses in arts and theology that lead to a BA degree.

McMaster confers its first undergraduate degrees. We now have over 250 000 alumni worldwide.

The university decides to move from Toronto to Hamilton, following a campaign by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.

Financed by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec and the citizens of Hamilton, McMaster University holds its first academic session in Hamilton on lands transferred to the university by the Royal Botanical Gardens

Post-war demand for science education led to a reorganization into two colleges: the denominational University College (Arts/Divinity) and the non-denominational Hamilton College (Science), allowing for public funding.

McMaster offers its first PhD program.

The university completes three new academic buildings for the sciences – Physical Science Building (now the Burke Science Building), Life Sciences Building, and the Nuclear Research Building.

To secure further public funding for humanities and social sciences programs, the university reorganizes, dissolving the existing colleges and creating a non-denominational institution.

PhD programs are consolidated in a new Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The McMaster Nuclear Reactor, the only university-based research reactor in the Commonwealth at the time, begins operating.