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Also Known As University of King’s College at York
Date c. 1850 - present
Notable Alumni Lester B. Pearson • David Cronenberg • Michael Ondaatje • Anne Carson • Atom Egoyan • Norman Jewison • Paul Martin • Naomi Klein • Mary Salter Ainsworth • Sergio Marchionne • E.J. Pratt • Sir Frederick Grant Banting • John McCrae • Elizabeth Stern • Roberta Bondar • Walter Kohn • Vaira Vike-Freiberga • Rohinton Mistry • Julie Payette • Eugenia Charles • Arthur L. Schawlow • Stephen Leacock • Lorne Michaels • Archibald Lampman • Bertram N. Brockhouse • Wilfred Campbell • William Kahan • Robert Finch
Related People John Strachan

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