 In 1930 the Meteorological Office no longer used the Cooke telescope , and agreed to donate it to the university if they would handle its removal . Both the telescope and the observatory dome were moved to the observatory building . The telescope moved once again in 1952 to the David <unk> Observatory north of the city , and in 1984 it was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum . The Department of Surveying and <unk> used the observatory until the 1950s . Since then the office areas have been used for a variety of purposes , including a police <unk> and a telephone <unk> . <unk> as the Louis Beaufort Stewart Observatory , the building was handed over to the Students ' Administrative Council ( now University of Toronto Students ' Union ) in 1953 , which has used the building since then . The dome , now unused , receives a yearly multi @-@ colour paint job by engineering students . 
