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Cégep Édouard-Montpetit was founded on September 14, 1967, in what is now Longueuil, Quebec. It grew from the Externat classique de Longueuil, established by the Franciscans in 1950.
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Cégep de Thetford was officially founded on May 21, 1969, after regional efforts to obtain college-level education. The Quebec government had announced in July 1968 that college teaching would be offered in Thetford.
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Lambton College was incorporated in 1966 under Ontario law. Its official name is The Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology.
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Assiniboine College began in February 1961 as the Brandon Vocational Training Centre in Manitoba. It became Assiniboine Community College in December 1969, when the province’s technical vocational schools became community colleges.
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McGill University is a public university in Montréal, founded in 1821. Its history includes Ernest Rutherford’s research on radioactivity, carried out at McGill before his Nobel Prize.
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The University of Victoria received degree-granting status in 1963. Its predecessor, Victoria College, had been established in 1903.
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British Columbia’s legislature established the University of British Columbia through a new University Act in 1908. The university opened in temporary facilities in Vancouver in 1915.
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The University of Alberta opened on September 23, 1908, with 45 students in rented rooms in Strathcona. The provincial University Act had been passed in 1906.
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Brandon University was established in Manitoba in 1967, building on Brandon College, founded in 1899.
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Vanier College, a publicly funded English-language CEGEP in Montréal, opened on September 8, 1970, welcoming close to 1,400 students in its first cohort. It is named for General Georges P. Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada.
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In 1968 the Collège de Drummondville became the first institution to offer college-level teaching in Drummondville, a year after the CEGEPs were created, with about 500 students. In 1972 the colleges of Drummondville, Saint-Hyacinthe and Sorel were grouped as the Collège régional Bourgchemin, a regional experiment that ended in 1980.
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Holland College opened in Prince Edward Island on September 2, 1969. Its first intake consisted of 83 students enrolled in four programs.
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Seneca began teaching in 1967 at several locations in the Toronto region, including a former Woolworth store and a renovated factory. It later developed into Seneca Polytechnic.
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Mohawk College in Hamilton held the first meeting of its Board of Governors on September 28, 1966, when the college’s name was discussed.
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University Canada West was established in 2004 in Vancouver. Its university programs focus on business and technology and are offered in person and online.
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Université TÉLUQ began in 1972 as an experimental “Télé-université” project to make university studies accessible to as many people as possible. It offered its first course in 1974, an introduction to co-operatives created with Desjardins, and has devoted itself entirely to distance education.
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The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières was founded in Trois-Rivières on March 19, 1969. Its activities include university teaching, research and service to the community.
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The École de technologie supérieure, an engineering school in Montréal, has worked for Quebec’s technological and economic development since 1974. It emphasizes co-operative education, applied research and entrepreneurship.
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The University of Ottawa began as the College of Bytown, founded in 1848 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate as a bilingual Catholic college where students studied in English and French. Renamed the College of Ottawa, it received university status by royal charter in 1866 and a pontifical charter in 1889.
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The University of Guelph was established in 1964 from the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College and the Macdonald Institute. The agricultural college traces its origins to the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, opened in May 1874.
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A $900,000 bequest from Senator William McMaster supported the establishment of McMaster University in Toronto on April 23, 1887. Teaching began in 1890 in arts and theology.
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The University of King’s College was founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789. The institution is now based in Halifax.
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Université Sainte-Anne was founded on September 1, 1890, by Father Gustave Blanche and the Eudist Fathers of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. It is the only French-language post-secondary institution in Nova Scotia.
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Saint Mary’s University traces its beginnings to 1802, when the Reverend Edmund Burke taught young men at the Glebe House in Halifax. The boys’ school grew into a college and then a university, and received degree-granting status from the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1841.
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