Undocumented Feature

By David Topping

Today’s featured article on Wikipedia is about the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, the 1840–built building that did some important stuff we don’t entirely understand in the 19th century, and then got handed over to the University of Toronto Students’ Union—then the Students’ Administrative Council—in 1953. That means Toronto’s little observatory that could (“determine the cause of fluctuations in magnetic declination”) has finally joined the illustrious ranks of this month’s other featured articles: domestic sheep, Jackie Chan, the Calgary Flames.