Rochdale was the largest co-op residence in North America. Rochdale occupied an 18-story student residence at Bloor St. and Huron St. in downtown Toronto. It was situated on the edges of the University of Toronto campus, near to Yorkville, Canada's hippie haven in the 1960s and early 1970s. The college took its name from Rochdale, a town in north-west England, where the early cooperative society was established in the 1800s and where the co-operative principles were developed.