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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 […]
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 […]
Brock University opened in 1964, after years of effort to open a university level school in the Niagara region. Initially enrolling just 127 students, the university began growing rapidly. The first campus was established in a refurbished industrial facility in St Catherines, just at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment. However, construction had already begin […]
The University of Toronto got its start back in 1827. However, that was just ‘the end of the beginning’, the culmination of a development process which started in 1798. Initially, the institution was called King’s College, se defined by the charter issued by King George IV. It was originally a heavily religious institution of the […]
The University of Manitoba was originally founded as a non-denominational university comprised of three colleges – the French speaking and Roman Catholic oriented St. Boniface College, the English speaking and Anglican oriented St John’s College and the English speaking by Presbyterian oriented Manitoba College – in 1877. It was the first university to be established […]
The University of British Columbia was founded more than a century ago, in 1908. It has large campuses in both Vancouver and Kelowna, and is the oldest university in British Columbia. From its earliest development in 1906 until 1915, it was referred to as McGill BC and acted as a junior college, sending students to […]
Memorial University of Newfoundland got its start in 1925, as Memorial University College. It was established as a memorial to Newfoundland’s World War One dead, but its scope was expanded to include casualties of WW2 as well. Initially it offered only the first 2 years of a standard university education, and its first enrolment was […]