Le Collège militaire Royal Roads (Royal Roads Military College en anglais) fut, de 1940 à 1995, une école militaire canadienne située dans la ville de Colwood, banlieue de Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique. Le collège se spécialisait dans l'entraînement naval.
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Royal Roads Military College was a Canadian military college from 1940 to 1995, located in Hatley Park, Colwood, British Columbia, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The facility now serves as the campus of Royal Roads University, a public university that offers applied and professional academic programs on-campus and via distance education.
The campus' centrepiece is Hatley Castle, which was erected by architect Samuel Maclure in the early 20th century for British Columbia coal magnate James Dunsmuir and his wife, Laura.
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Royal Roads University is a public university with its main campus in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada. The university is located at Hatley Park National Historic Site on Vancouver Island and is the successor to the Royal Roads Military College, which was originally a training base for naval officers and later Canadian Air Force and Army personnel. After the end of the Cold War, the college was decommissioned, however, it was reinstituted following negotiations between the Department of National Defence and the Government of British Columbia by which the Royal Roads University Act was passed, leading to the establishment of Royal Roads University in June 1995.
The campus covers approximately 260 hectares of leased property on the grounds of Hatley Castle, which was designed by architect Samuel Maclure in the early twentieth century for British Columbia politician and coal magnate James Dunsmuir and his family. Royal Roads is a small-scale university offering over 70 programs ranging from certificates and diplomas to undergraduate and graduate degrees. RRU currently has an enrolment of around 4,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as a network of over 34,000 alumni from both the current university and the former military college.
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Hatley Park National Historic Site is located in Colwood, British Columbia, in Greater Victoria. It is the site of Hatley Castle, a Classified Federal Heritage Building. Since 1995, the mansion and estate have been used for the public Royal Roads University. From the 1940s to 1995, it was used for the Royal Roads Military College, a naval training facility.
The extensive grounds of the historic site have formal gardens, former farmland, and trails through mature stands of first and second-growth forest, including large Douglas fir and western red cedar.
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Belmont Park is a Canadian Armed Forces PMQ neighbourhood in the City of Colwood, part of the Western Communities area of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
It is located on property owned by the Department of National Defence and under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Forces Military Police.
The neighbourhood is home to École John Stubbs Memorial School, a French Immersion Elementary-Middle School, a part of School District 62 Sooke.
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École John Stubbs Memorial School is a K-8 French Immersion school located in the Belmont Park neighbourhood of Colwood, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Western Communities suburbs of Victoria. The school is part of School District 62 Sooke.
École John Stubbs Memorial School features an Elementary School wing with early French Immersion ; and a Middle School wing with both Early and Late French Immersion. The school is found within the Canadian Armed Forces PMQ neighbourhood of Belmont Park, bordering Royal Roads University in Colwood, British Columbia. Due to the neighbouring property being owned by the Department of National Defence, the school is under the jurisdiction of the local Military Police unit. The school's population currently stands at approximately 800 students, but is currently experiencing growth year-to-year.