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11 unusual facts about Wilfrid Laurier University


1991–92 Toronto Maple Leafs season

As the losses piled up, two intrepid Leafs fans from Wilfrid Laurier University went so far as to camp out on their Waterloo rooftop in hopes of inspiring the team to finally win.

Fascinating Womanhood

Juanne N. Clarke of Wilfrid Laurier University wrote that the Fascinating Womanhood movement used Kanter's Model of Commitment Mechanisms to analyze the techniques used to gain women's allegiance to the movement.

Frederick Ralph Sharp

The papers he collected on the reorganization and the unification of the Canadian Forces are included in the Robert Lewis Raymont fonds at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Gerald Hagey

This idea proved somewhat controversial, and Hagey ultimately became the founding president of the University of Waterloo in 1957, when the science and engineering faculties he had established broke away from the rest of Waterloo College, which later became Wilfrid Laurier University.

Jewish English Bible translations

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983.

Le tombeau de Couperin

Also in 2013, Trevor P. Wagler re-arranged the orchestral version down to a quintet and was played at Wilfrid Laurier University, in four movements: Prelude, Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon.

Peter Gilfillan

After leaving Wilfrid Laurier University in 1990 he joined Ottawa Intrepid of the Canadian Soccer League.

Universal transit pass

Both universities in the city of Waterloo, Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo) have implemented U-Pass programs in their tuition fees, allowing full-time students year-round unlimited travel on the Grand River Transit bus system anywhere in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo using their student card.

Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School

Bob Schlegel & Myrna Schlegel, who made a $2 million donation to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998 to create the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship

Western Fair

The Western Fair Museum and Archives began with the efforts of Inge Sanmyia, who was working on her Ph.D. in history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario in 1997.

When This Is Over

The album was financed by $17,500 Shad won from 91.5 The Beat's Rhythm of the Future talent competition while completing his final year of undergraduate study at Wilfrid Laurier University.


Festival Winds

In addition, the members teach at music schools including the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Western Ontario, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Harold Albrecht

Albrecht grew up in the riding in which he was elected and was educated in Waterloo Region at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, and then at Waterloo Lutheran University (which is now Wilfrid Laurier University).

Hugh D. MacPhie

An Honours Business graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University, MacPhie also studied Group Dynamics, sociology, and film at the Université de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Landon Pearson

She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.) from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights.

Thomas David Frank Evans

Roll Call at Oeyama, P.O.W. Remembers is quoted in Long Night's Journey into Day by Dr. Charles G. Roland (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001) and in We shall Suffer There by Tony Banham (Hong Kong University Press, March 2009).

William C. Leggett

Leggett was born in 1939 in Orangeville, Ontario, He received his high school education at Orangeville District High School and a B.A. from Waterloo University College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) in 1962.