The Canadian Way of Higher Education Co-ordination

By Alex Usher. One obvious way to try to keep things co-ordinated was to limit the number of universities to one if at all possible.  The western provinces all took this line for a number of decades, until the political pressure for each province’s second city to have its own independent school became unbearable.  British Columbia managed this until 1963, Alberta until 1964, Manitoba until 1967 and Saskatchewan, heroically(?), until 1974. More...