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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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View west from the roof of Yukon College in Whitehorse, 2007; the institution later became Yukon University.
CA-K1143Institutions

Yukon University, from training centre to university

Yukon University traces its history to the Whitehorse Vocational and Technical Training Centre, founded in 1963. It became Yukon College in 1983, moved to its present Whitehorse campus in 1988 and was granted university status in 2020. Elder Angela Sidney named the campus Ayamdigut, a Tlingit name meaning “she got up and went.”

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The UPEI campus in Charlottetown, photographed in 2008.
CA-K1137Institutions

University of Prince Edward Island, founded 1969

The University of Prince Edward Island welcomed its first students in September 1969, following the provincial University Act. Its founding institutions were Prince of Wales College and Saint Dunstan’s University, both represented in UPEI’s coat of arms.

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Upper campus, St. Thomas University, Fredericton.
CA-K1136Institutions

St. Thomas University in Fredericton

St. Thomas University dates back to 1910, when the Basilian Fathers took charge of St. Thomas College in Chatham, New Brunswick, a high school and junior college. It received a university charter in 1934 and was renamed St. Thomas University in 1960. Under a 1963 agreement it moved to the University of New Brunswick campus in Fredericton, while continuing to grant its own degrees in arts and education.

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Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Mount Allison University.
CA-K1135Institutions

Mount Allison University in Sackville

Mount Allison University traces its beginnings to Charles Frederick Allison’s 1839 proposal for a school offering elementary and higher education in Sackville, New Brunswick. The university provides a liberal arts and sciences education near the Tantramar marshes.

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The Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University.
CA-K1133Institutions

Cape Breton University, from Xavier College to university

Cape Breton University traces its origins to Xavier Junior College, founded in 1951 under St. Francis Xavier University. A merger in 1974 created the College of Cape Breton; it became the University College of Cape Breton in 1982 and adopted its present name in 2005.

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University Hall, Acadia University.
CA-K1131Institutions

Acadia University, founded 1838

Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, was founded in 1838 by local Baptists who wanted a university for the region that would not require religious tests of its faculty or students. Clara Belle Marshall became its first woman graduate in 1884, and University Hall, completed in 1925, is a landmark of the campus.

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