Lakehead University

Photo by contributor Dave Fernie - Posted October, 2005

Plaque Location

The District of Thunder Bay
The City of Thunder Bay
At the Centennial Building at Lakehead University
on the south side of Oliver Road
between Balmoral Street and Golf Links Road

Coordinates: N 48 25.308 W 89 15.780

Plaque Text

In response to a brief from Lakehead educators and business representatives outlining northwestern Ontario's need for an institution of higher education, a provincial Order-in-Council established the Lakehead Technical Institute in 1946. Two years later the Institute was opened in temporary quarters on Cumberland Street, Port Arthur. An act of 1957 gave control of the institute to the Board of Governors of the newly-created Lakehead College, constructed that year on land donated by the City of Port Arthur. The original Lakehead College Act was amended in 1962 to permit the granting of degrees in Arts and Science. In 1965 Lakehead University was created by a provincial Act and conferred its first degrees.

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