University of Montreal

The University of Montreal or Université de Montréal, is located in Quebec, Canada. The university is made up of thirteen faculties, and over sixty departments.http://www.umontreal.ca/english/overview/overview.html

In 2007, the university had third largest research institution in Canada, and received close to 447.2 million dollars for 150 different research centers that operate within the schools faculties and departments. Also in terms of student enrollment it is the second biggest school in Canada, with roughly 55,000 enrolled in either undergraduate or graduate programs.http://www.direction.umontreal.ca/recteur/documents/rapport-annuel/rap_an2007en.pdf

The university's main campus is located on the northern slope of Mount Royal; this campus was . This area is in the Outremont and Côte-des-Neiges boroughs and is fully serviced by the Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal, and Édouard-Montpetit metro stations. Because of a major problem with the lack of space on the university's main campus, the administration is planning to open a new campus in Outremont.http://www.umontreal.ca/grandsprojets/outremont/projet/index.html

From 1876 up until 1895, most classes would take place in the Grand séminaire de Montréal. The campus was hit by three different fires shortly after its start, the fires were between 1919 and 1921, and seriously complicated the university's finances. They were then forced to spend much of their resources on repairing what it had already had, and not focusing on improvement.http://125.umontreal.ca/histoire/1919-a.html

The university struggled with funding and expansion until June 3, 1943 when the main campus on Mount Royal was officially opened. The project was suspended for many years until the provincial government helped fund the construction in 1939. This was 9 years after the university started building the campus.http://125.umontreal.ca/histoire/1943-a.html

The former facilities would turn into Montreal's second university, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The Philosophy, Literature, Sciences, Veterinary medicine, Dental surgery, Pharmacy and Social sciences facilities were all added between 1920 and 1925. Once these facilities opened the university quickly expanded. By 1968 they started the first adult education degree program offered by a French Canadian university. In 2002, the university started on its largest construction projects since the late 1960s, with five new buildings planned for advanced research.

The darkest point in the history of the university was in December 1989, when a deranged man with an automatic rifle entered the École Polytechnique building and killed 14 people. All of the victims were women, and the man took his own life after the incident.

• The following web pages have been translated automatically from French to English

• The Forum: "Scholarship 6-Dec given to Annie Blais" (2007)

• The Forum: "Three Carabins among Canadian stars" (2007)

• The Forum: "250 Christmas baskets will be distributed to students in need" (2007)

• 1878: Founded as The University of Montreal

• 1887: The Ecole Polytechnique affiliated with the university

• 1895: New premises acquired

• 1915: The Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales affiliated with the university

• 1943: New campus inaugurated

• 1965: First secular rector appointed

• 2002: News construction plans initiated