Laval University

Laval University in Quebec is the oldest university in Canada and one of the four oldest universities in the New World. It was founded on the basis of the Quebec Seminary, founded by the first bishop of New France, François de Laval, in 1663. University status was granted to the Seminary by Queen Victoria in 1852. Today there are about forty-five thousand students in almost four hundred specialties.

The main building of the university was designed by Maurice Perrault in 1893. Later, in the first half of the twentieth century, the architect Joseph Simeon Bergeron built within the university campus the buildings of the school of chemistry, a mining school, a building on Sagrada Familia Street and a cafeteria.

Today, the main campus of Laval University covers an area of almost two square kilometers and includes about thirty buildings connected by underground passages, whose length reaches ten kilometers. More than half of the territory of the university is occupied by forest plantations, meadows and sports grounds, and the Roger van Den Ende Botanical Garden is also located here.