This essay provides a gendered examination of residence life at Victoria and University colleges, University of Toronto, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Focussing specifically on archivally rare minute books of "house" and executive residence councils, it illuminates the ways in which residence culture sustained and reinforced existing gender norms. Concerned in particular about female chastity and domesticity, administrators imposed more stringent regulations on female students than they did on males. Female student leaders often became complicit in this process. While rules remained remarkably the same during this period, subtle but noticeable changes in gender expectations did occur.