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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 the Fraser Valley got its start in 1974 as Fraser Valley College, and by 1975 could claim more than 2,300 students. It added an award-winning Trades program in 1978, and by 1986 had opened an extensive Agriculture Centre in Chilliwack. It first gained University College status in 1991, becoming the University College […]