King's College ( University of King's College ) was an Anglican School and Dalhousie University, which was originally non-denominational, had placed itself under the control and direction of the Church of Scotland.

Dalhousie University ( commonly known as Dalhousie or Dal ) is a public research university with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a fourth, the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

It reopened for the third time in 1863 following a reorganization which also brought upon the school's first name change to " The Governors of Dalhousie College and University.

" In 1997, the Technical University of Nova Scotia was officially amalgamated with Dalhousie.

The act which amalgamated the two schools also formally changed the name of the university to Dalhousie University.

Dalhousie is a coeducational university, with more than 18, 000 studentsand over 110, 000 alumni. Dalhousie's varsity teams, known as the Tigers, compete in the Atlantic University Sport conference of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

In 1863, the college reopened for its third time and was reorganized by another legislative act, which also added the word university into the school's name, changed to " The Governors of Dalhousie College and University.

Through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation however, King's College was able to relocate to Halifax and entered into a partnership with Dalhousie University which continues to this day.

An agreement for Dalhousie to amalgamate with Technical University of Nova Scotia was made on 10 June 1996, with the act of amalgamation occurring 31 March 1997.

The act that amalgamated the two schools also formally changed the name of the university from The Governors of Dalhousie College and University to Dalhousie University.

On September 1, 2012, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College merged with Dalhousie University to become the Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture, at Dalhousie ’ s Agricultural Campus in Truro-Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building, the heart of Dalhousie University's Studley CampusDalhousie University's primary campuses are situated in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, spanning the Halifax Peninsula near Halifax Harbour, while the Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus is located in rural Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada.

It was the failure of Dalhousie to appoint a prominent Baptist pastor and scholar, Edmund Crawley, to the Chair of Classics, as had been expected, that really thrust into the forefront of Baptist thinking the need for a College established and run by the Baptists.

Dalhousie was founded as a result of the desires of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to establish a non-denominational college in Halifax.

In 1821, Dalhousie College was officially incorporated by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly under the Act of Incorporation passed in 1821.

In 1841 Dalhousie was conferred university powers by an Act of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

Dalhousie's campus newspaper, the Dalhousie Gazette, was founded in 1868, making it the oldest student newspaper in Canada and one of the oldest continuously-running student newspapers in North America.

The Dalhousie seal is based on the heraldic achievement of the Clan Ramsay of Scotland, largely because the founder of the university, the George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie was the head of the clan.

Initially, the Ramsay family coat of arms was used to identify Dalhousie but over time, the seal evolved with the number of amalgamations the university went through.

The university had adopted the motto from the Earl of Dalhousie in order to replace the university's original motto, as the original motto was viewed by the university administration to not convey confidence.

The Dalhousie University songbook was compiled by Charles B. Weikel in 1904.

The first woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson was also a graduate from Dalhousie Law School.

Anger among some social groups, however, was seething under the governor-generalship of James Dalhousie ( 1847 – 1856 ), who annexed the Punjab ( 1849 ) after victory in the Second Sikh War, annexed seven princely states on the basis of lapse, annexed the key state of Oudh on the basis of misgovernment, and upset cultural sensibilities by banning Hindu practices such as Sati.

" Dalhousie reopened with six professors and one tutor, and awarded its first degrees in 1866.

Munro is thus credited with rescuing it from the brink of closure, and in honour of his contributions, Dalhousie observes a university holiday called George Munro Day each year on the first Friday of February.

The annual list divides research and academic institutions into American and international lists ; Dalhousie University is ranked first in the international category.

This Latin motto is literally translated as Perhaps and first appeared in the first Dalhousie Gazette of 1869.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

Other notable graduates of Dalhousie includes Donald O. Hebb, who helped advanced the field of neuropsychology, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space.

It was two years later, in 1914 that the Sisters partnered with Dalhousie University, enabling Mount Saint Vincent to offer the first two years of a bachelors ' degree program to be credited toward a Dalhousie degree.

In the fall of 2010, UNB partnered with Dalhousie University and the government of New Brunswick to open the first English-language medical school in the province at the Saint John campus.

In 2010, a new medical school, a joint project between Dalhousie University, UNBSJ, and the Regional Hospital, took in its first class.

After graduating from St. Francis Xavier with a degree in political science in 1959, Mulroney at first pursued a law degree from Dalhousie Law School in Halifax.

Mulroney neglected his studies, then fell seriously ill during the winter term, was hospitalized, and, despite getting extensions for several courses because of his illness, flunked out of Dalhousie his first year.

Following The October Game's first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver-based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev's Mark Jowett.

After a short ceremony at Lock One, in Port Dalhousie, the schooner Anne & Jane ( also called " Annie & Jane " in some texts ) made the first transit, upbound to Buffalo, N. Y., with Merritt as a passenger on her deck.

The first canal ran from Port Dalhousie, Ontario on Lake Ontario south along Twelve Mile Creek to St. Catharines.

The tournament was hosted in Halifax again for 24 consecutive years ; first at Dalhousie University from 1984 – 1987 and then at the Halifax Metro Centre from 1988-2007.

After Howe's first year in Halifax, engineering instruction of upperclassmen was taken away from Dalhousie and other universities in the province, and placed in a separate technical institute in which Howe had no role.

The first section of interest includes the east end of Dalhousie Lake and the swamp-and marsh-lined portion of the Mississippi River from the lake almost to Sheridans Rapids.

Dalhousie Law School lays claim to being " the first university-based common law school in the Commonwealth.

" Unlike Ontario's Osgoode Hall, which was first established in 1862 under the auspices of the Law Society of Upper Canada and subsequently shut down several times before re-opening in 1889, Dalhousie Law School sought to treat the study of law as a liberal education.