University of Toronto. Department of Biochemistry

The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto was founded during the 1907-1908 academic year.  It was the first biochemistry department in Canada and one of the world.  George Connell served as the sixth chairman of the department from 1965 to 1970, and went on to hold major administrative positions at the University of Toronto, including president from 1984 to 1990.

The administrative files of the chair of the Department of Biochemistry, George Connell include, among many other files, material about refugee scientists from Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1969.