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The University of Prince Edward Island – UPEI – was founded in 1820 as Kent College. It was later named Prince of Wales College. Another institution that was to become an important part of UPEI, the Central Academy, received the UK’s Royal Charter in 1834. By 1860 the Colleges were merged under the name of […]
Wilfrid Laurier University was founded by the Lutheran Synod in 1910 as the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary of Eastern Canada. The same institution bean offering non-religious courses in 1914 under the name Waterloo College School. Ten years later, the Waterloo College of Arts was formally created, and was soon affiliated with the University of Western […]
Royal Roads University started out as HMCS Royal Roads, a training institution for Naval Reserve Officers in 1940. Its name changed many times, but it settled as Royal Roads Military College in 1968, and gained the right to grant degrees in its own name in 1975. In 1995 the military college was decommissioned, but much […]
The University of Winnipeg’s history goes back nearly 150 years to its two founding institutions – Wesley College (founded 1888) and Manitoba College (founded 1871). In 1938 these two schools merged to form United College. This institution was associated with the University of Manitoba until 1967, when it received its charter and became the University […]
Camosun College is more than 100 years old, having got its start as the Young Building of Victoria’s Normal School in 1914. That same building is still the heart of the Lansdowne Campus today. At the time, it had fewer than 100 students. The college itself was formed in 1970 as the Juan de Fuca […]
VIU’s history began in 1936. At the time it was little more than a shed, with 8 students learning how to be auto mechanics under local garage owner Jack Macready. By 1938, though, vocational training classes moved to the Thomas Hodgson School, became known as the Dominion-Provincial Youth Training Centre. They adopted the name Malaspina […]
Mount Allison University was originally founded as The Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy in 1843. At the time it admitted only males, but a Ladies’ College soon followed in 1854. The schools first gained the power to grant degrees in 1862, officially becoming a university at that time. Not long after, in 1875, the university conferred […]
Conestoga College, Technically the Conestoga College Institute of Technology an Advanced Learning, got its start as the Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology in 1967. It was one of a group of such colleges created by the government of Ontario at the time to provide technology-based education throughout the region. The current name was […]