About Algonquin College
The Name
Algonquin College is named after the First Nations Peoples who first inhabited the Ottawa Valley.
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Beginnings
The Ontario College system was founded as “a new level and type of education to serve those parts of the population whose needs were not met by the existing education system. Focused mainly on career-oriented education, colleges would create a system which would be a coherent whole”. (Ontario Dept. of Education, Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Basic Documents, 1967).