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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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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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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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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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