The Ontario College system was founded as “a new level and type of education to serve those parts of the population whose needs were not met by the existing education system. Focused mainly on career-oriented education, colleges would create a system which would be a coherent whole”. (Ontario Dept. of Education, Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Basic Documents, 1967)
In 1957, the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology in Ottawa was established with roughly 120 students and a staff of seven. Proudly known as “EOIT”, its first home was in the old Slater Street Public School.