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Trent University was originally founded in 1963, as a public, non-denominational university in the town of Peterborough, in Ontario’s Trent Valley. In 1964 it had only 100 students. The university consists of several individual colleges. The first was Catherine Parr Traill College, the home of the university’s Modern Languages, Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies and English […]
Carleton University was founded in 1942 as a non-denominational college, partially funded by charitable donations from around the Ottawa community. It was an attempt to revitalise the community at the end of the Great Depression by giving young people who were already in the work force access to better education and employment prospects. Though its […]
The University of New Brunswick is not only the oldest English speaking university in Canada, it is among the oldest public universities in the Americas. Its first campus was founded in 1785 at Fredericton. At the time, the institution was known as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The name changed to the College […]
Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s oldest institutions. got its start as the Glebe House boys’ school in 1802. In time it became a college, and then a university in its own right. Saint Mary’s was first given the power to grand degrees in 1841. The university was later run by the Christian Brothers […]
The University of Lethbridge is unique in that it offers students of all levels the chance to work beside some of the tip researchers in Canada in state of the art facilities like the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience and highly accredited institutions like the Dhillon School of Business. It is also the only school […]
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 […]
Seneca College was founded just over 50 years ago, in 1967. Its beginnings were humble, though it began to grow quickly. Its first building still stands in what is now known as Newham Campus. Ground was broken for its second campus in Buttonville at the same time, this one dedicated to its still thriving aviation […]
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 […]