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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 […]
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 […]
Laurentian University, also called Université Laurentienne, was incorporated in 1960 in Greater Sudbury in Ontario. However, its history goes back to 1913, and the founding of the Jesuit Collège du Sacré-Coeur. The Collège began granting undergraduate degrees in 1957. It took on the name of Laurentian University and its officially non-denominational character in 1960. Classes […]
The Ontario College of Art and Design University – OCAD U for short – has nearly 150 years of history behind it, and all of it dedicated to fostering a practical art education in Ontario. It was founded by a group called the Ontario Society of Artists in 1876, originally as the Ontario School of […]
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a relatively new institution, becoming an independent degree granting body only in 1981. However, it was a part of Douglas College for ten years before that, the largest single college in British Columbia. Originally it was a community college, but it was upgraded to University College status with the power to […]
The Emily Carr University of Art and Design was founded in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. It is one of the oldest universities in British Columbia. It is certainly the only one which offers a professional education in media, art and design exclusively. It became a Provincial Institute in 1978, […]
Dalhousie University was originally founded more than 200 years ago, in 1818. It was established by Gorge Ramsay, ninth Earl of Dalhousie and Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant Governor. He set aside some 10,000 pounds for its endowment and construction that were spoils of the war of 1812 (nearly CAD$ 1.5 million in today’s money). Though originally […]
The University of Waterloo was founded as Waterloo College in 1925, which was closely associated with the University of Western Ontario. In the 1950s the school began taking the steps necessary to become non-denominational and eligible for public funding. By 1959 it had rebuilt itself as the University of Waterloo, a publicly funded research and […]