Frank C. Peters Building, Wilfrid Laurier University
Description
- Creator
- Hertel, James, Photographer
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- Colour postcard of the Frank C. Peters Building at Wilfrid Laurier University. Brightly coloured fall leaves are on the trees and the ground. The photograph was taken from Albert Street.
- Notes
- -- Construction of the Frank C. Peters Building began in 1978 and was completed in 1980. It is home to the Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business & Economics. The building is named in honour of Frank C. Peters, President of Wilfrid Laurier University from 1967 to 1978.
-- Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university in Waterloo, Ontario. Laurier traces its roots to 1911 with the founding of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada, the first Lutheran seminary in Canada.
As the seminary grew, it expanded teaching into new areas. From 1914-1929 it founded and operated Waterloo College School, an all-boys high school offering pre-theological education leading to senior matriculation. In 1924, the seminary expanded its higher education offerings when it established Waterloo College of Arts, a non-theological honours degree program affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. Waterloo College and Associate Faculties, offering science and engineering programs, was launched in 1956. Three years later, Waterloo College and Associate Faculties separated from Waterloo College and became incorporated as the University of Waterloo.
Also in 1959, the seminary received a revised charter from the Province of Ontario. The charter established Waterloo Lutheran University, a degree-granting university composed of two units – Waterloo University College (formerly Waterloo College) and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary (formerly the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada). In 1960, WLU ended its long-standing affiliation with the University of Western Ontario, and began to grant its own degrees.
On November 1, 1973, Waterloo Lutheran University became a public institution and was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, renamed Martin Luther University College in 2018, remains a federated college of the university.
In 1999 a second campus, Laurier Brantford, opened in Brantford, Ontario. In 2006 the Faculty of Social Work moved to a century-old building in downtown Kitchener. - Inscriptions
- Reverse: Postcard / The Peters Building, Wilfrid Laurier University / Photo by James Hertel, WLU / Published by the Bookstore in the Concourse / Wilfrid Laurier University
- Publisher
- The Bookstore in the Concourse, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Place of Publication
- Waterloo, Ont.
- Date of Original
- Between 1980 and 1988
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 15.5cm
Image Height: 10.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- U57_1090.3
- Collection
- Wilfrid Laurier University photograph collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4734692223967 Longitude: -80.5306005477905
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- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- Recommended Citation
- Wilfrid Laurier University Archives & Special Collections
- Reproduction Notes
- U57 Disc10
- Contact
- Wilfrid Laurier University LibraryEmail:libarch@wlu.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3C5
