The University of Montreal. When in 1876 the creation of a branch of Laval University was announced for Montreal, the city's religious authorities had been pushing for decades to found a French university in the city. The law instituting the university's corporation was not passed until 14 February 1920, however, and after that another thirteen years passed until the university inaugurated its new campus on Mount Royal on 3 June 1943. The citizens of Montreal had wanted an independent French university in the city for so long that the name of Université de Montréal was chosen with little protest. It is now the second largest francophone university in the world, after the Sorbonne, and Canada's second largest research institution.
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