"LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY" - Thunder Bay ON
Posted by: PeterNoG
N 48° 25.358 W 089° 15.666
16U E 332719 N 5365745
This Ontario Provincial Plaque is on Agora Circle 110 metres south of Oliver Road on the Lakehead University Campus in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WMEWY5
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/15/2012
Views: 5
~ the text from the plaque ~
Lakehead University
In response to a brief from Lakehead educators and business representatives outlining northwestern Ontario's need for an institution of higher education, a provincial Order-in-Council established the Lakehead Technical Institute in 1946. Two years later the Institute was opened in temporary quarters on Cumberland Street, Port Arthur. An Act of 1957 gave control of the Institute to the Board of Governors of the newly-created Lakehead College, constructed that year on land donated by the City of Port Arthur. The original Lakehead College Act was amended in 1962 to permit the granting of degrees in Arts and Science. In 1965 Lakehead University was created by a provincial Act and conferred its first degrees.
'Erected by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario'
Address or location of plaque: Agora Circle 110 metres south of Oliver Road
Physical location of plaque: City
"Ontario Plaques" Website for this "Plaque": [Web Link]
A web-site for more details.: [Web Link]
Description of any physical remains at site of "Historical Plaque": Lakehead University
This 'Plaque' describes: An 'Event'
Condition of sign: good
Is this a bilingual sign?: No !
What is the second/third language?: n/a
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