Notre Dame University of Nelson

NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY OF NELSON opened as Notre Dame College in the city on 6 Sept 1950. Sponsored by the ROMAN CATHOLIC Diocese of Nelson, it offered classes in a former bakery building until moving in 1954 to a new facility erected by faculty and students. In Mar 1963 it obtained the province's second degree-granting charter. NDU was the first Canadian university to offer athletic scholarships and its faculty was the first in English-speaking Canada to unionize. The provincial government...

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