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University College, Western University, London.
CA-K1187Institutions

Western University, London

Western University was founded on March 7, 1878, by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth as The Western University of London Ontario, and first admitted students in 1881 in arts, divinity, law and medicine. It bought its present campus from the Kingsmill family in 1916 and was renamed The University of Western Ontario in 1923. Brescia University College fully integrated with Western in 2024.

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OCAD University’s Sharp Centre for Design at night.
CA-K1181Institutions

OCAD University, Toronto

OCAD University began in Toronto as the Ontario School of Art in 1876, founded by the Ontario Society of Artists with 14 registered students. It was incorporated as the Ontario College of Art in 1912 and adopted the OCAD University name in 2010. The Sharp Centre for Design opened in 2004.

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Tyndale University, Toronto.
CA-K1180Institutions

Tyndale University, Toronto

Tyndale University traces its origins to the Toronto Bible Training School, founded in 1894. It adopted the name Tyndale College & Seminary in 1998; Ontario legislation authorized its arts degrees in 2003 under the name Tyndale University College & Seminary.

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Redeemer University, Ancaster.
CA-K1179Institutions

Redeemer University, Ancaster

Redeemer University grew out of the Ontario Christian College Association, founded in 1976 with a Reformed constitution. In 1980 the Ontario Legislature passed the Redeemer College Act, recognizing Redeemer Reformed Christian College and its charter.

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Thompson Rivers University campus, Kamloops.
CA-K1170Institutions

Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops

Thompson Rivers University was founded in 1970 as Cariboo College, one of a network of two-year community colleges created in British Columbia to widen access to post-secondary education. In 1989 it became the University College of the Cariboo, part of a provincial effort to offer full university degrees.

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The Birch Building, Capilano University, North Vancouver.
CA-K1168Institutions

Capilano University, North Vancouver

Capilano University was founded as Capilano College, which opened on September 10, 1968, with 784 students taking evening classes in a portable building at West Vancouver Senior Secondary School, part of a 1960s effort to widen access to post-secondary education in British Columbia. Its permanent North Vancouver campus opened in 1973.

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Main entrance of the College of New Caledonia, Prince George.
CA-K1164Institutions

College of New Caledonia, Prince George

The College of New Caledonia was established in Prince George in January 1969, using leased space at the local senior secondary school, and opened officially on October 10, 1969, with 253 students. It serves British Columbia’s Central Interior, a region of about 117,500 square kilometres, and takes its name from New Caledonia, the name explorer Simon Fraser gave the region.

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The Students’ Union building, University of Lethbridge.
CA-K1163Institutions

University of Lethbridge and its coulee campus

The University of Lethbridge’s main campus sits in the southern Alberta coulees overlooking the Oldman River and is known for University Hall, designed by Arthur Erickson; a Calgary campus serves working professionals. The university’s Blackfoot name, Iniskim, meaning Sacred Buffalo Stone, was given by Elder Bruce Wolf Child in 2002.

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The Hole Academic Centre, Concordia University of Edmonton.
CA-K1159Institutions

Concordia University of Edmonton

Concordia University of Edmonton began in 1921 as Concordia College, founded by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod to prepare young men for preaching and teaching. It admitted women from 1939 and began offering university courses in affiliation with the University of Alberta in 1967.

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Northern lights over Canadian University College in Lacombe, winter 2005; the institution is now Burman University.
CA-K1158Institutions

Burman University, Lacombe

Burman University traces its roots to a Seventh-day Adventist school founded near Leduc, Alberta, in 1907 and moved to Lacombe in 1909. On December 15, 2014, the board of Canadian University College approved changing the institution’s name to Burman University.

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University of Regina Continuing Development Centre.
CA-K1152Institutions

University of Regina, independent since 1974

The University of Regina became an independent, degree-granting university on July 1, 1974, building on its earlier history as Regina College. Its federated colleges include Campion College, Luther College and First Nations University of Canada.

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Gabriel Dumont Institute, Saskatoon.
CA-K1148Institutions

Gabriel Dumont Institute, the education arm of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan

The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research was founded in 1980 to meet the educational and cultural needs of Saskatchewan’s Métis community. It is the official training and education arm of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan and is owned by the Métis people of Saskatchewan; its college delivers the first two years of University of Saskatchewan arts and science degrees.

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