Happy 25th to Heritage College
This July marks the 25th anniversary of Heritage College as an autonomous English-language seat of higher learning. First established in 1972 as an English pavilion of the Cegep de l'Outaouais (originally Cegep de Hull), the branch moved into its own modest space on Eddy Street in a renovated bowling alley, then to a renovated school on Maisonneuve Boulevard in 1977 and to another renovated school on rue Laurier in 1984. After much lobbying by the anglophone community, focused by the efforts of advocacy group Outaouais Alliance , the pavilion earned independent status as a self-governing institution on July 1, 1988. The College finally got its own purposely-built campus in 1994, with a lovely facility and grounds nestled beside Gatineau Park on Cité des Jeunes Boulevard. I arrived at Heritage College in August 1988 and I ended up becoming a member of the executive of the first student association of the new College. I was at the school as part of the pre-university progra...