UNIVERSITé LAVAL

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'Université Laval' (''Laval University'') is the oldest centre of education in Canada, and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French. Its main campus is located in Quebec City, Quebec, the capital of the Province, on the outskirts of the historic city.
According to the university's website, Laval ranked among top ten of Canadian universities in terms of research funding.^[1] Classified as a Medical-Doctoral university for its medical school and extensive graduate population, Laval is one of the few places to get actuarial instruction in French in North America.

Contents

History

Faculties

Sports

Notable alumni

See also

Notes

External links

History

The origins of the university are the ''Séminaire de Québec'' founded in 1663 by Monseigneur François de Laval, the first bishop of New France. The ''Séminaire de Québec'' was granted a Royal Charter in 1852 by Queen Victoria, creating Université Laval. In 1878, the university opened a second campus in Montreal, which later became the Université de Montréal in 1920. While the main campus moved out from Séminaire de Québec since then, the architecture school returned to that heritage building (now affectionately referred to as ''Le Vieux Séminaire'') in 1989.

As of 2002, Laval has over 350 programmes, and more than 37,000 students, 20 per cent of whom are studying at the postgraduate level. The university also attracts more than 2,500 foreign students yearly, and has close to 1,000 students from other parts of the country. Many students are also drawn to the university by the ''Français pour non-francophones'' programme that offers instruction in French as a second language to students from across Canada and around the world. It is also the only university training forestry engineers in the province of Québec, Canada.
Laval's main campus is considered one of the most striking in Quebec. It covers 1.2 km² and has over 30 buildings, all linked by 10 km of underground walkways, which are frequently used particularly in the winter, when temperatures drop below the freezing point. Of the campus lands, 56 per cent are wooded areas, grasslands, and sports fields. The campus is home to a plethora of different flora and fauna, including some 67 species of deciduous and coniferous trees and 60 different species of birds.

Faculties

★ Urban planning, Architecture, and Visual arts

★ Law

★ Postgraduate Studies

★ Forestry and Geomatic

★ Literature

★ Medicine

★ Dentistry

★ Music

★ Pharmacy

★ Philosophy

★ Administrative Sciences

★ Agriculture and Food sciences

★ Education

★ Science and Engineering

★ Nursing

★ Social Science

★ Theology and Religious Studies

Sports

Athletics take place at the vast PEPS complex. Laval's varsity sports team are named the Rouge-et-Or (Red and Gold). The men's football Laval Rouge-et-Or are the 2006 Canadian champions and have won the past four of eight Vanier Cups.

Notable alumni

:''Main article: List of Université Laval alumni

★ Marius Barbeau, anthropologist and folklorist

★ Jean Bazin, Senator

★ Conrad, Lord Black, Newspaper magnate

★ Lucien Bouchard, 32nd Premier of Quebec

★ Louis-Philippe Brodeur, Supreme Court Justice

★ Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, Supreme Court Justice

★ Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport

★ Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, First Premier of Quebec

★ Julien Chouinard, Supreme Court Justice

★ Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada

★ Michael Cogger, Senator

★ Raoul Dandurand, Speaker of the Canadian Senate

★ Esther Delisle, Historian and author

★ Stéphane Dion, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

★ Maurice Duplessis, 18th and 20th Premier of Québec

★ Pierre Duchesne, Lieutenant-Governor of Québec

★ Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Lieutenant-Governor of Québec

★ Edmund James Flynn, 11th Premier of Quebec

★ Jacques Flynn, Senator and Cabinet Minister

★ Michael Fortier, Senator and Cabinet Minister

★ Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Supreme Court Justice

★ Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Quebec poet, playwright and writer

★ Louis LeBel, Supreme Court Justice

★ Jean Lesage, 23rd Premier of Quebec

★ René Lévesque, 27th Premier of Quebec (did not graduate)

★ Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin, Supreme Court Justice

★ Michael Meighen, Senator

★ Theodore Meighen, Lawyer and philanthropist

★ Ben Mulroney, Entertainment broadcast-journalist and son of Brian Mulroney

★ Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada

★ Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Supreme Court Justice

★ Yves Pratte, Supreme Court Justice

★ Thibaudeau Rinfret, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

★ Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Quebec writer and judge

★ Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada

★ Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

★ Jean-Thomas Taschereau, Supreme Court Justice

★ Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, 16th Premier of Quebec

★ Robert Taschereau, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

★ Alireza Tahmasbi, Iran's Minister of Mines and Industry

★ Niklaus Wirth, Turing Award winner

See also

★ List of universities in Quebec

★ List of universities in Canada

★ Group of Thirteen (Canadian universities)

★ List of oldest universities by region

★ Quebec City

★ CHYZ campus radio station

Notes

1. Université Laval. "Université Laval at a Glance". (accessed 17 April 2007)

External links

★ Université Laval

★ Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval

★ Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics Website