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collège classique

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an educational establishment at the secondary-school and college levels that offers a seven- or eight-year course, mainly in the classics and liberal arts, leading to the B.A. degree, which is conferred by the university to which the college is affiliated. The Séminaire de Québec, founded in 1663, was the first classical college.

See: classical college

Quotations

1957

We have seen how the collège classiques were founded and how they increased in number after 1840. They were taught by regular or secular clergy, who received only nominal salaries, so that fees were kept low.

1963

. . . the collège classiques of Lower Canada [in 1820's] were turning out lawyers, journalists, and doctors. . . .

1963

In Quebec, 21 tertiary educational colleges, the College Classique, may now join CUS because of the change.