The University of St. Joseph's College was a

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Memramcook, New Brunswick Memramcook, sometimes also spelled Memramcouke or Memramkouke, is a village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. Located in south-eastern New Brunswick, the community is predominantly people of Acadian descent who speak the Chiac deri ...

that closed in 1966, when it amalgamated with two other colleges to form the

Université de Moncton The Université de Moncton is a Canadian francophone university in New Brunswick. It includes campuses in Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan. The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on higher ed ...

. Founded in 1864 as St. Joseph's College on the site of St. Thomas Seminary which had closed two years earlier, St. Joseph's was the first

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, degree-granting college in

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. The university was closed in the 1960s with the establishment of the

University of Moncton A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

. The university facilities now house the Memramcook Institute, now properly called the Memramcook Learning and Vacation Resort. There is a national historic site,

Monument Lefebvre Monument–Lefebvre National Historic Site is an imposing rusticated sandstone building in Memramcook, New Brunswick. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1994 by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, as a memoria ...

, located on the Institute grounds that features exhibits about

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n History. In 1898 the college obtained the status of a university and became the University of St. Joseph's College. In 1928 the title was shortened to University Saint-Joseph.. By 1920, the university had two faculties: Arts and Sciences. It awarded the degrees of

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(BA),

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(BS),

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(BL), and

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(MA). It had 389 students and 40 academic staff, all male.Dominion Bureau of Statistics, ''Canada Year Book 1921'', Ottawa, 1922

Notable alumni

Joseph-Aurèle Plourde Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, (January 12, 1915 – January 5, 2013) was a Canadians, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario. Early years Archbishop Plourde was born in Saint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick to Antoine Plourde a ...

, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa

References

External links

New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911

Monument Lefebvre National Historic Site, featuring the exhibit "Odyssey of the Acadian People"
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