Canada

Chartered as King's College, the university renamed itself in 1850 and secularized. Banting and Best isolated insulin in 1921 in a...

Founded from fur trader James McGill's bequest, the university rose on the slopes of Mount Royal. Ernest Rutherford, working at Mc...

Established by provincial act in 1908, UBC opened its doors in 1915 and moved to its Point Grey peninsula campus in 1925, after st...