The Five Laurier's?

If you are still wondering why the Laurier campus at Waterloo, Ontario (also where the University of Waterloo is located at, unsurprisingly) does not offer this BTM course that I've been talking about in past posts, it's probably because it's the wrong campus. That's right, Wilfred Laurier University has a grand total of five separate campus scattered across Ontario. The most commonly referred to campus is the big one over at Waterloo. 

The main Laurier Campus at Waterloo.

Established back in 1911, the school's official colors of purple and gold were determined in 1927. It was named in honour of Sir Wilfred Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, who occasionally graces us with this presence on Canadian five dollar bills. 

$CAD 5 Bill with Prime Minister Laurier 

The mascot of the school is the Golden Hawk, which is also the name of the varsity teams that represent Laurier. The Hawks compete in baseball (men only), basketball, cross country running, curling, ice hockey, North American football (men only), golf, lacrosse (women only), rugby,  soccer (association football), swimming and volleyball.

Logo of the Laurier Golden Hawks

Another campus can be found at Kitchener, Ontario, where the historic St. Jerome's College has been the base of the Laurier social work program, the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work. The building itself was built in 1907, and it was renovated before Laurier Kitchener opened up in 2006. The campus serves 280 graduate students.

St. Jerome's College, renovated as Laurier Kitchener

More information on Laurier Kitchener can be found here: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=2202

Laurier also boasts a presence in the capital of the province of Ontario. (Fun Fact: it's Toronto. Ottawa, while also located in Ontario, is the national capital of Canada.) Laurier Toronto's offices supports co-op work placements and partnerships with the potential employers. Other tasks include: "student recruitment, alumni relations, university development activities and government relations." The office is able to host guest speakers, workshops and information sessions.

Laurier Toronto Campus at 130 King St. West, Toronto

More information can be found at: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=12128

Next up is the one over at Brantford, the campus that exclusively offers the BTM course to interested students, along with Journalism, Criminology and other courses. As stated in the first post, this campus was established on 1999 with a total of 39 students in its first year. Since then, the student body has extensively grown. The campus is heavily integrated with the surrounding downtown core of the City of Brantford. This blog will focus extensively on this particular campus.

The Carnegie Building, accompanied by impressionable youth and professor.

For more information on Brantford, and the BTM course in general, please read this blog.

Finally, there's the proposed Laurier Milton campus, to be located at Milton, Ontario, a fast-growing town that wanted to introduce a post-secondary institution into their community. Milton approached Laurier back in 2007, noting the university's success in developing the Brantford campus since 1999. Negotiations were held and by March 2008, both parties signed a memorandum of understanding to 'explore the possibility of establishing a campus and developing a "Milton Education Village"'. Since then, both the town and Laurier have kept updates on the situation to inform the public of developments in their agreements. 

The future site of Miltonian Post-Secondary Education?

More detail on updates at Milton may be found here: http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=28&p=18470