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Mount Saint Vincent was established in Halifax in 1873 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. It provided higher education for women and girls at a time when their educational opportunities were limited.
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Memorial University College was founded in St. John’s in 1925 to commemorate Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War. Its institutional history also traces the development of higher education in Newfoundland to the Council of Higher Education, established in 1893.
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The University of Northern British Columbia was officially created in June 1990, when the BC legislature passed the UNBC Act. The modern campaign began in January 1987, when three Prince George residents, Tom Steadman, Charles McCaffrey and Bryson Stone, each invited 10 people to a meeting about a northern university, and 40 came.
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Simon Fraser University opened in 1965 on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia. Its institutional history recalls its early reputation as the “radical campus,” reflecting a willingness to challenge established approaches to university education.
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Mount Royal University was founded in Calgary in 1910. Its institutional history describes its development from a college into a university.
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MacEwan University in Edmonton was established in 1971 and developed from a community college into a public undergraduate university. It operates under Alberta’s Post-Secondary Learning Act.
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Brock University opened in September 1964 after years of meetings and fundraising. Its first 127 students attended class in a refurbished refrigeration factory at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment in St. Catharines.
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Athabasca University was established on June 25, 1970. Based in Athabasca, Alberta, it provides university education through online learning.
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The University of New Brunswick, founded in 1785, offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 60 disciplines, as well as continuing education.
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Conestoga College was established in 1967 in the Kitchener region of Ontario. Its educational activities include apprenticeship training and programs delivered through a network of campuses and training centres.
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Algoma University was established in 1965. It is located on the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School site in Sault Ste. Marie. Its special mission includes cross-cultural learning between Indigenous communities and other communities in Northern Ontario.
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John Abbott College, an English-language CEGEP in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, was incorporated in 1970 and welcomed its first students in September 1971. Its name honours Sir John Abbott, Canada’s third prime minister.
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The Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel François-Xavier-Garneau was created in August 1969 from the Collège des Jésuites, the École normale Mérici and the École normale Laval, starting with 550 students. In 2012 it chose to call itself a cégep and adopted Garneau as its key name; it honours the historian François-Xavier Garneau.
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Collège Lionel-Groulx is a public institution of higher education in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, founded in 1967. It offers pre-university and technical programs as well as continuing education.
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The Government of Quebec created the Université du Québec à Montréal on April 9, 1969. Its establishment formed part of the educational reforms aimed at making university studies more accessible.
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The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue traces its regional higher-education roots to 1969. It became a full institution of the Université du Québec network in 1983.
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The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) was founded by the Government of Quebec in 1969 to contribute to Quebec society through research and graduate training. It awarded the very first doctorate granted in the Université du Québec network.
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Cégep de Sherbrooke opened on May 15, 1968, following the creation of Quebec’s first twelve CEGEPs in August 1967. The new college began with about 1,300 students.
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Collège Ahuntsic in Montréal was one of the first twelve CEGEPs (general and vocational colleges) created in Quebec in 1967, thanks to the efforts of residents of the Ahuntsic district. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017.
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Concordia University was founded in Montréal on August 24, 1974, through the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University. Its predecessor institutions grew from Jesuit education and YMCA evening classes.
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Carleton College was established in Ottawa in 1942 to expand access to higher education, including for young people working to support themselves after the Great Depression. The Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning was formed on June 18, 1942, to operate the college, with Henry Marshall Tory among its leaders.
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York University was incorporated in Toronto in 1959. Its early development included Glendon College, Atkinson College and the Keele campus, with different approaches to residential, part-time and urban university education.
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Wilfrid Laurier University traces its roots to the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, opened in Waterloo in 1911. Known for a time as Waterloo Lutheran University, it took its present name in 1973, opened a Brantford campus in 1999 and welcomed its first Milton students in September 2024.
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The University of Windsor’s story began in September 1857, when the first students arrived at its predecessor, Assumption College. Assumption admitted its first women students in 1950 and, on July 1, 1953, ended its affiliation with the University of Western Ontario and gained its own university powers by an act of the Ontario Legislature.
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