Yale ranks as one of the world’s most prestigious universities and is the third oldest in the US. Founded in 1701 in New Haven, the Ivy League private institution is one of the most well-endowed in the world and it shows through its impressive museum collection in its art museum Read more…
The University of Waterloo near downtown Waterloo, Ontario, was a child of an affiliate of Western University before it became its own thing to train engineers after the Second World War. Its technical programs were advanced for the 1960s when it became one of the first Canadian universities to establish Read more…
The University of Michigan’s main campus is in Ann Arbor, about an hour west of Detroit. Its fist buildings were built in Gothic revival style. It was founded in 1817, but classes didn’t begin 1841 because it wasn’t established as a modern university but more like a network of lecture Read more…
The University of Moncton serves the francophone Acadian community in New Brunswick. It was the first and still is the largest francophone university in Atlantic Canada. As such, it is the birthplace of the reawakening of Acadian nationalism in the 1960s and is the world’s premier repository of Acadian records. Read more…
The University of Rochester has that stereotypical private university campus layout. Long grassy squares surrounded by dark brick buildings hugged by vines. Greek fraternities perpendicular to the main corridor. Neat rows of student housing arranged around pathways that radiate from a central plaza. The university’s most iconic building is the Read more…
The University of Ottawa is so old that its establishment predates the naming of Ottawa to its current name. It was originally formed in 1848 and incorporated by parliament as the College of Bytown in 1849. It was renamed the College of Ottawa in 1861 after Bytown was renamed to Read more…
The Laurentian University in Sudbury is the largest higher educational institution in Northern Ontario. It was actually formed by a federation of Huntington College, University of Sudbury College, and Thornloe College. Its campus on the top of a hill offers a stunning view of Ramsey Lake, but I still like Read more…
There are three Guinness World Records certificates of participation hanging on my wall, all of them from Hong Kong. But only one of them are worth talking about because I was part of the organizing committee. I was just part of a crowd for the other two. It’s not what Read more…
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 Read more…
The often overlooked history of indigenous peoples in North America and their exploitation by Europeans is still a contentious issue in Canada. As history museums are usually conservative, a safe way to explore indigenous cultures is by visiting UBC’s Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. They have a huge collection that Read more…