University, Dalhousie << dal HOW zee, >> in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of Canada’s leading research and teaching universities. It is especially noted for health studies and ocean studies.
A British nobleman named George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, founded the school in 1818 as a nondenominational men’s college called Dalhousie College. For 45 years, however, the college held classes irregularly and awarded no degrees. In 1863, Dalhousie was reorganized as a university, and it granted its first degrees three years later. The university then began to grow steadily. It added a medical faculty in 1868 and a law faculty in 1883. It began to admit women in 1881.
In 1923, the University of King’s College affiliated with Dalhousie and began to grant most of its degrees through Dalhousie. In 1997, the Technical University of Nova Scotia became a college within Dalhousie University offering programs in architecture, computer science, and engineering. In 2012, Novia Scotia Agricultural College merged with Dalhousie University, becoming the university’s Faculty of Agriculture. The agriculatural campus is located in the village of Bible Hill, near Truro, Nova Scotia. Notable alumni from Dalhousie University include authors Hugh MacLennan and Lucy Maud Montgomery and astronaut Kathryn Sullivan. The university’s athletic teams are called the Tigers. The university’s website at https://www.dal.ca/ offers additional information.
