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The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. It traces its origins to 1880, when it was mainly a collection of militia artifacts, and opened in its present building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa on May 8, 2005.
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national natural history museum. Its castle-like public building in Ottawa opened in 1912 and is a national historic site.
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Casa Loma in Toronto was built as the home of financier Sir Henry Pellatt. In 1911, Pellatt worked with Canadian architect E.J. Lennox on plans for the castle-like residence, which took three years to build.
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The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, studies ancient life and presents dinosaur fossils and other palaeontological collections. It is operated by the Government of Alberta.
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The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau explores the histories and cultures of what is now Canada. Its institutional roots date to 1856, and it stands on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg.
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Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collects and presents art from different cultures and periods. Its collections include Quebec and Canadian heritage, Indigenous art and international art.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto holds Indigenous, Canadian, European and contemporary art. Its exhibitions and programs bring these collections into dialogue with artists and audiences.
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The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa holds collections ranging from Indigenous and Canadian art to European works and contemporary installations.
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The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto brings together artworks, cultural artifacts and natural history specimens from different places and periods. Its collections connect the study of human cultures with the natural world.
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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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