Trent University
Trent University is located in Peterborough, Ontario, an hour and a half northeast of Toronto and about three hours from Ottawa. The University’s main campus, the Symons Campus sits on a 580-hectare property, much of it preserved as nature area, along both banks of the Otonabee River at the northern edge of the city. Currently, the University also has a campus in downtown Peterborough and one in Oshawa in partnership with the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College.
The University opened with two downtown residential colleges and a teaching and administrative complex. The core of what is now the Symons Campus was donated by GE Canada, and has provided Trent with an uncommonly beautiful setting in which to develop its facilities. Guided by master planning architect, the late Ronald J. Thom, a long-range plan was devised, and the Symons Campus is now home to three residential colleges, the main library, three science buildings, a child care facility and central administrative offices, along with recreational facilities which include an athletics complex, playing fields, tennis courts and rowing facilities. A new building, which includes the residential Peter Gzowski College and the First Peoples House of Learning, will open on the Symons Campus in summer 2004. In addition to the residential colleges, part-time study is offered through the Julian Blackburn College for continuing education.
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