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Art School/Institute |
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PO Box 1796 Edmonton, AB, T5J 2P2 Canada |
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Ph:780-497-5040 - Fax:780-497-5001 |
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1-888-497-4622 |
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info macewan.ca |
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www.ualberta.ca |
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MyMacEwan |
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In 1903, the then “North-West Territories” of Canada comprised a vast area which extended from Manitoba west to the British Columbia border and north to the Arctic Ocean. Federal policies were encouraging migration west, and by 1911 the population of Edmonton had reached a staggering 30,000!
As population numbers increased, the Methodists in Edmonton saw the need for an institution of higher learning. And so, in 1903, the Edmonton District of the Methodist Church established Alberta College to provide high school and early university training. The school met first in the new Freemasons’ Hall on 102nd Street south of Jasper Avenue, until a new building could be erected.
With increasing population, the need for ministers in the west also increased, and in 1908 Alberta College decided to form a Faculty of Theology – at the same time making the decision to cross the North Saskatchewan River into the City of Strathcona and to join there in the foundation of Alberta’s new provincial university. The rest, as they say, is history: the community of learning and transformation which was to be named “St Stephen’s College” was born. In 2008, we celebrated one hundred years of that rich heritage here in the West. |
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