Well for Toronto I can tell you that we have some great Anglo-Saxonists as well, in fact Andy Orchard was just chosen to take over the Rawlinson Bosworth professorship at Oxford, so we have many world class minds not just in Latin, though I speak only as an undergrad. Toronto's latin teaching is top notch (and rigorous), but it will prepare you well, I got lower marks in Latin but by God I learned it. But yes generally you should learn latin regardless of which language is your main focus. I'm into the Anglo-Saxon period, but many of the sources from then are in Latin, not just Old English so i still have to know it. But just in general i can tell you, for what it is worth, in my experience (as an undergraduate) that I have had an amazing experience at the University of Toronto, and I have loved every second since i switched from an Early modern focus in first year to the Medieval period. And because of its size they have specialists in almost any area you could possibly think of.
On a different note...
I'm considering a variety of programs in the medieval period, Medieval Studies, Literature, History etc... Can anyone give me a rundown of the various strengths of the different schools. It's seems really hard to find information on medieval studies in general, and I don't really know what i ought to be looking for. I've been looking at Oxford for Medieval Studies or Literature, Cambridge for the ASNC MPhil or Lit. MPhil, UCL for Medieval Studies, York, Edinburgh for Literature, and of course Toronto.
