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3 unusual facts about Université de Moncton


Collège du Sacré-Coeur

Collège du Sacré-Coeur (New Brunswick), a former religious college that was merged with the Université de Moncton and the New Brunswick Community College

Université de Moncton

Roger Lord, internationally acclaimed concert pianist and Professor of Piano at U de M, brother of Bernard Lord

Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.


Christian Kit Goguen

He studied drama at the Université de Moncton, did some acting with the Théâtre l'Escaouette in Moncton and on the television show Samuel, broadcast on Radio-Canada, the French CBC.

New Brunswick Youth Orchestra

The orchestra recorded a CD, Forbidden City Tour, produced by Richard Gibson, a music professor at the Université de Moncton.

Tintamarre

In 2006, a Tintamarre was held to help inaugurate a new medical training program at the Université de Moncton; when asked why noisemaking had been included in an academic event, organizers explained that the Tintamarre was "an essential Acadian custom".


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