Kemptville College is a community college based in

Kemptville, Ontario Kemptville is a community located in the Municipality of North Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada in the northernmost part of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It is located approximately south of the downtown core of Ottawa and s ...

, and was formerly a satellite campus of the

Ontario Agricultural College The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) originated at the agricultural laboratories of the Toronto Normal School, and was officially founded in 1874 as an associate agricultural college of the University of Toronto. Since 1964, it has become affili ...

as part of the

University of Guelph , mottoeng = "to learn the reasons of realities" , established = May 8, 1964 ()As constituents: OAC: (1874) Macdonald Institute: (1903) OVC: (1922) , type = Public university , chancellor ...

Programs

It was established in 1917 as ''Kemptville Agricultural School'' and offers programs related to agricultural and

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fields. In 1997 it affiliated with the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph, and in 2007 the institution adopted its current name as a recognition of its integration into the university. In 2014, the

announced that academic programmes at the Alfred and Kemptville campuses would close, once current students had completed their studies. This decision does not directly relate to separately-funded trades programmes. Efforts are underway to save the two campuses, with reports on Kemptville and on Alfred, along with initiatives with two francophone colleges,

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and La Cité to maintain the French-language offerings at Alfred.

Notable faculty

* W. B. George (1926 to 1960), Agriculturalist, head of the soil chemistry department, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and Ottawa and District Amateur Hockey Association

References

External links

official websiteKemtville Campus Alumni website
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