Collège des Grands-Lacs

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Collège des Grands-Lacs (English, College of the Great Lakes) was a francophone College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It was established in 1995 as Ontario's third college specifically serving the Franco-Ontarian population, after La Cité collégiale in Ottawa and Collège Boréal in Sudbury.

It began as a "virtual college", i.e., it had no physical campus, and offered instruction only by distance. In 1999, a campus was opened on College Street in Toronto.[1]

In 2001, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party government of Mike Harris decided to close the college.[2] The college ceased operations in 2002. Its programs and services were taken over by Collège Boréal, which operates a campus on the Carlaw Ave. campus of Centennial College in Toronto.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Notre college
  2. ^ Ontario Public Service Employees Union news release

[edit] External links

  • Notre college - a lobby group seeking reinstatement of a separare francophone college in central and southwestern Ontario