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The University of Ottawa was founded on September 26, 1848, as the College of Bytown by Bishop Joseph Bruno Guigues as a bilingual Roman Catholic institution aiming to bridge the gap between Protestants and Catholics as well as anglophone and francophone populations.
In 1949, became Glamorgan Technical College and, nine years later, Glamorgan College of Technology. In 1970 became Glamorgan Polytechnic and in 1975 the Polytechnic of Wales, gaining university status in 1992.
- Origins
- Bilingualism and Linguistic Tensions
- Expansion and Programs
- Influence
The College of Bytown was distinguished from the time of its founding in 1848 by Bishop Joseph Bruno Guigues’s focus on bilingualism. His hope was that bilingual education would bridge the divide between Protestants and Catholics as well as anglophone and francophone populations. (See also Francophone-Anglophone Relations.) The college was official...
Father Joseph-Henri Tabaret, whose time in Canada was devoted to the college’s growth, paved the way for its survival into the twentieth century. He carried on Bishop Guigues’s bilingual mission until 1874, when a growing number of anglophone students made bilingual education nearly impossible. French literature and religion courses continued to be...
The First World War affected the college very little; the interwar years were very significant for the college. Growth during this period was marked by the college’s influence as the only Catholic university in Canada outside of Quebec that offered courses in French. This encouraged twenty-four convents and colleges in Ontario and the Western provi...
Over the years, many notable figures have attended and served the university. Supreme Court Chief Justice Gérald Fauteux founded the university’s law faculty and went on to serve as the first Chair of the Board of Governors in the new university. He became the university’s Chancellor in 1973. The first woman to do so, Madame Pauline Vanieracted as ...
In 1866, the recently renamed College of Ottawa was elevated to university status by royal charter, and in 1889, it secured a pontifical charter. In 1965, the Oblates relinquished administration of the University and it became a provincially funded secular institution.
To that effect, we decided to take a look back in the pages of University Affairs circa 1964 to 1967 to see what was preoccupying universities in the lead-up to Canada’s centennial.
The University of Glamorgan (Welsh: Prifysgol Morgannwg) was a university based in South Wales prior to the merger with University of Wales, Newport, that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) was formed on 18 November 2010 through the merger of the University of Wales Lampeter and Trinity University College Carmarthen, under Lampeter’s Royal Charter of 1828. On 1 August 2013, Swansea Metropolitan University became part of UWTSD.
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