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.

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 University was first established as a non-sectarian college in 1818 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, whom the university was named after.

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

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.

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.

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 is also one of the founding members of the Halifax Marine Research Institute, founded on 2 June 2011.

While serving as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia he founded Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 1953, Dalhousie was awarded an honorary degree by Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, which had been founded in 1818 by the 9th Earl.

In 2012, Dalhousie announced a new Faculty of Agriculture, the result of a merger with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

As a result, many Dalhousie Law graduates have gone on to pursue distinguished careers in public service.

It is said that this is a result of the accent of the Scottish sailors and shipbuilders who frequented the Port's establishments ( Dalhousie, himself a Scot, used the more upper class English-sounding pronunciation ).

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 unification of the colony was a plan favoured by the British-appointed governor, George Ramsey, Earl of Dalhousie.

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was the third and youngest son of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie ( 1770 – 1838 ), one of Wellington's generals, who, after being Governor General of Canada, became Commander-in-Chief in India, and of his wife Christina née Broun of Colstoun, Haddingtonshire ( East Lothian ).

General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB ( 23 October 1770 – 21 March 1838 ), styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator.

Dalhousie was born at Dalhousie Castle, Midlothian, the son of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie, and Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Glen.

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In the 1820s, Sorel was the site of the Governor General of Lower Canada's governor's house, occupied George Ramsay, the Lord Dalhousie ( after whom Dalhousie University is named ).