Lennoxville was an independent city until 2002 when it was incorporated into Sherbrooke, Quebec. During French occupation, Lennoxville was known as Les Petite Fourches, little forks, while Sherbrooke was known as Les Grands Fourches, big forks.
It was incorporated long after the British took over Quebec and renamed after Charles Lennox, governor of Canada in 1818-1819. The city was only about half a century old when Bishop’s College was founded in 1843. Ten years later, it was granted university status.
The university is modelled after Oxford University’s colleges. St. Mark’s Chapel and the 650-seat Centennial Theatre are noteworthy buildings on campus. The main campus area is built in a square with a courtyard in the middle.
It was founded by the Anglican Bishop of Quebec and is the only university in the province outside of Montreal to teach a majority of its classes in English.
The university shared a coat of arms with Bishop’s College School until 1989 because they had a shared history in their foundation. The now English-language secondary school has the only cadet corps in Canada that was ever called to battle. It is also the only unit composed entirely of minors to have battle colours.
The WWII Minister of Defence and the general who raise Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. The PPCLI was the first Canadian unit deployed to WWI and has been involved in every international conflict that Canada has been a part of since. Uniform blazers of Bishop’s College School can have military ranks on them authorized by the Royal Canadian Army Cadets.
