The Maple League of Universities, previously known as the U4, is an association of four
universities
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in
eastern Canada
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. The four member schools,
Acadia University
Acadia University is a public, predominantly Undergraduate education, undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, with some Postgraduate education, graduate programs at the master's level and one at the Doctorate, doctor ...
,
Bishop's University
Bishop's University () is a small English-language Liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Diocese of Quebec, Anglican Bishop of Quebec ...
,
Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.
Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccal ...
, and
St. Francis Xavier University
St. Francis Xavier University is a public undergraduate liberal arts university located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a member of the Maple League, a group of primarily undergraduate universities in Eastern Canada.
History
St. Fran ...
, are all primarily undergraduate
liberal arts
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institutions.
Members
The four member universities of the Maple League are all primarily
undergraduate
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and located in
Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada (, also the Eastern provinces, Canadian East or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of Hudson Bay/ Hudson Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newf ...
: one in
Quebec
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, one in
New Brunswick
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, and two in
Nova Scotia
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. All were established in the early 1800s.
History
The Maple League was founded in 2013 as the U4, and adopted its current name in 2016. The name "Maple League" was inspired by the
Ivy League
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in the United States.
See also
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U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities
U15 Canada (U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, ; commonly shortened to U15 Canada) is an association of 15 Canadian public research universities. It is headquartered in Ottawa and was established in 1991 to represent its members' interes ...
References
External links
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College and university associations and consortia in Canada
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