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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lakehead University got its start in 1946 as the Lakehead Technical Institute. It soon added university level curricula, though, and became the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology was established in 1956. It only gained the power to grand degrees in its own name in 1965, when it officially became Lakehead University. The Northern […]
The University of Victoria (USask to its staff and students) started out as a publicly funded, fully independent institution of higher learning modelled after the State University model common to the US, in 1907. It awarded its first set of degrees in 1912. From the very beginning, the school provided courses on dentistry, veterinary science, […]
The University of Ottawa (or Université d’Ottawa) stands out in many ways. It is the single largest bilingual university in the world, and classes are delivered in both English and French. As a result, it attracts students from all over the world. It has a long history, having begun as the College of Bytown, administered […]