La Cité Collégiale - Ottawa, Ontario
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N 45° 26.451 W 075° 37.672
18T E 450895 N 5032116
A french-language College of Applied Arts and Technology located in Ottawa.
Waymark Code: WMNQXQ
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 04/21/2015
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La Cité collégiale (branded La Cité since November 12, 2013) is the largest French-language college in Ontario. Created in 1989, in Ottawa (with a satellite campus in Hawkesbury and a business office in Toronto), it offers more than 90 programs to some 5000 full-time students from Ontario, other parts of Canada and foreign countries.
The Government of Ontario created a network of colleges in 1967. Certain colleges, including Algonquin College, in Ottawa, and St. Lawrence College, in Cornwall, offer French-language programs. As early as the 1970s, the possibility of creating a 23rd – French-language – college in Ontario was put forth. In 1987, a working group was given the mandate, by the Government of Ontario, of considering the appropriateness of designating certain colleges as organisations offering services in French under Bill 8, the Ontario law on French-language services. The group concluded that the idea of creating a French college should be given priority over the college designation plan. The Minister of Colleges and Universities and Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs agreed. In August 1988, the Ontario Cabinet approved, in principle, the creation of a French-language college with an exclusive mandate to deliver services in French. In 1989, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada arrived at a cost-sharing agreement relating to the establishment of such a college in Eastern Ontario, a college bearing the official name « Collège d’arts appliqués et de technologie La Cité collégiale ».
Name: La Cité collégiale
Location/Address:
801, Promenade de l'Aviation
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
K1K 4R3
Phone Number: 613 742-2483 toll free 1-800-267-2483
Web Site: [Web Link]
Type of School: Jr. College/Two-Year School
School Affiliation: Public -- Community
Date Founded: September 1990
Enrollment: 5000
Nicknames/Mascots: The Coyotes
School Colors: Green and Black
School Motto: Le collège d'arts appliqués et de technologie
Location of GPS Coordinates: N 45° 26.451 W 075° 37.672
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