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IT'S 2:45 on a soggy September afternoon in downtown Toronto, and the cab driver is scratching his head. For five minutes straight, we've been stuck - smack dab - between two big yellow school buses: one dead ahead of us, one right behind, going nowhere fast. Now it's 2:50.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 18, 2002
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Years and years ago, long before they invented e-mail or notebook computers, way before parents began panicking about student-faculty ratios or the double cohort, I packed up my favourite books and my brand new miniskirts and headed off for a four-year stint at QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 10, 2002
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FIRST, LET ME START with a little history. It was 13 years ago this fall that Maclean's first ventured into the complicated, controversial and, yes, highly political business of ranking Canadian universities. The motivation was partly personal.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 15, 2004
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A Montréal quarterly edited by Sir Andrew Macphail, it succeeded the semiannual McGill University Magazine (1901-06). Notable for paying its contributors, the magazine was financially guaranteed by Macphail himself.
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Universities. Most of Canada's universities provide academic and extracurricular programs in music and therefore have entries in EMC. There are entries as well for subjects and subject areas related to higher education in music. See listing below.
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The Department of Extension (1912) quickly began offering lectures and library services across the province. The department later created two enduring Alberta institutions, CKUA radio (1927) and the Banff School of Fine Arts (1933, now the Banff Centre).
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The University of Alberta String Quartet. Founded in 1969 as quartet-in-residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with Thomas Rolston and Lawrence Fisher (violins), Michael Bowie (viola), and Claude Kenneson (cello). Fisher.
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In 1920 honours courses, extension services and summer sessions were introduced, and McGill's Victoria College in Victoria became an affiliate of the university. In 1925 UBC moved to its permanent site on the Vancouver campus. Expansion of the campus was virtually at a standstill during the 1930s.
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The University of British Columbia Chamber Singers. Student choir of twelve mixed voices assembled in 1962 by Cortland Hultberg to perform music of the 15th, 16th, and 20th centuries; 17th-century music was later also included on programs.
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By 1969 the U of C had established many of the programs offered by larger Canadian universities. In 1991, the year of its 25th anniversary, the U of C had more than 20 000 full-time and part-time students, with almost 4000 academic and staff positions.
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The University of Guelph, in GUELPH, Ontario, was incorporated in 1964. Its history dates back to 1874 when the Ontario School of Agriculture was established on a farm provided by the Ontario government. In 1880 it became the Ontario Agricultural College.
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University of King's College, Halifax, is Canada's oldest chartered university.
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The university grew out of the University Section of Lethbridge Junior College (now Lethbridge College), and in 1971 it moved to a new 185 ha campus on the west side of the Oldman River Valley.
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In 1900 the university became a teaching institution by an act of the provincial legislature. Thereafter, other colleges also received affiliated status: the Manitoba College of Pharmacy (1902); Manitoba Agricultural College (1906); St Paul's College (Roman Catholic) and Brandon College (1938).
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Gradually, UNB expanded its educational repertoire. In 1887, the four-year program was introduced and, in 1891, a Bachelor of Science degree was added to complement the traditional BA.
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