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Education is, of course, part of ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ’s mission – but the University’s teaching and learning influence extends beyond the more than the hundreds of thousands of people who have graduated from the University. In 1857, the University and the Government of Quebec established the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Normal School, which gave standardized training to new teachers. (The school evolved into today’s Faculty of Education.)

In 1908, the University opened a satellite campus in Vancouver, the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ College in British Columbia, which became the University of British Columbia seven years later. Arthur Erickson (BArch1950) designed UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, and buildings on Simon Fraser University campus. (Current UBC president, Santa Ono, and former president Stephen Toope, are both ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ grads.) Another leading Canadian research university has ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ roots: Alexander Cameron Rutherford (BA1881, LLB1881) founded the University of Alberta in 1908, and ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ architecture professor Percy Nobbs designed U of A’s campus master plan and Arts building.