Established in 1785, the University of New Brunswick is the oldest English
university in Canada; established in 1663, Université Laval is the oldest
French university in Canada.
The University of British Columbia’s University Networking Program is
Canada’s largest wireless campus network.
Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), established in 1876, is Canada's
largest military university (the other being Collège militaire royal in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec), providing academic and leadership training
to officer cadets and other members of Canada's armed forces.
Established in 1827, with over 50,000 undergraduate students, the
University of Toronto is the largest university in Canada.
In 2005, there were more than 800,000 full-time university students in
Canada; there were over 265,000 part-time students.
Imagine UBC, with 5,100 attendees, and hosted by The University of British
Columbia, is the largest one-day orientation program held for new first-year
students.
As the province's newest university, the University of Ontario Institute
of Technology is Ontario's first laptop-based university.
The First Nations University of Canada, founded in 1976 and located in
Regina, Saskatchewan, is the only First Nations-controlled university in
Canada, and has the largest concentration of Aboriginal faculty in one
institution in the world.
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