The Campus

Champlain Regional College was founded in 1971 and named in honour of Samuel de Champlain, the first governor of New France. He was a man whose accomplishments reflect the strength of his intellect, the breadth of his imagination and the quality of his judgment.

Located in Quebec, Canada, Champlain Regional College is a public post-secondary English-language educational institution which is composed of administrative offices in Sherbrooke and three campuses: Champlain-Lennoxville in Sherbrooke, Champlain-St. Lambert in St. Lambert, and Champlain-St. Lawrence in the Quebec City area.

Champlain Lennoxville was opened in 1972. It is located in the rolling hills of the Eastern Townships on a campus which it shares with Bishop’s University, in the bilingual borough of Lennoxville (population 5,800).

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Since the vast majority of students come from outside the Sherbrooke-Lennoxville area, a 317 bed apartment-style residence complex provides the comforts and privacy of residence life.

The fact that Champlain Lennoxville is located in a scenic rural setting has proven to be very attractive to increasing numbers of students who seek an alternative to having to continue their post-secondary education in an urban environment. As a CEGEP located on a university campus, Champlain Lennoxville offers its students complete access to university facilities. Classrooms, library, laboratories, residences, sports complex, health clinic, and dining facilities are shared by university and college students.

FACILITIES

Library Learning Commons

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The John Bassett Memorial Library has undergone major renovations and has reopened as the new Library Learning Commons. It currently houses a collection of nearly 600,000 items including books, journals, sound recordings, video and DVD recordings, and other audiovisual and non-print materials. In addition, online periodical databases and numerous electronic resources provide extensive access to information in all disciplines.

The facilities include seminar rooms and areas suitable for group study as well as individual study carrels. There are comfortable lounge areas where students can relax and chat with friends. Guides and study aids for research in all academic disciplines are available in print or on the library’s webpage.

Please note that the library is completely wheelchair accessible.

Sports Complex

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All full-time Champlain-Lennoxville students are admitted without charge to the John H. Price Sports and Recreation Centre upon presentation of their student identification card at the control desk. The Sports Centre underwent a major overhaul (doubled in size) for the first time since 1975. The $30 million expansion and the modernization renovation of the older portion are almost complete. The complex provides the opportunity for sports and recreational experiences to all campus and local community members.

The John H. Price Sports and Recreation Centre previously housed a double gymnasium for basketball volleyball and badminton, with bleachers seating 1,200 spectators; a six-lane, 25-meter swimming pool equipped with diving boards and platform; 6 squash courts, 10 outdoor tennis courts including 6 lighted play areas, and facilities for gymnastics, combatives, aerobics, yoga, pilates, fitness, weight-training and indoor jogging. Some highlights of the new expansion include an 800-seat arena that replaced the dated W. B. Scott rink, a double gym, a 4000 square foot fitness room, new changing rooms, and a terrace.

Other campus sports facilities include Coulter Field Stadium, a lighted 2000-seat stadium with a FieldTurf® synthetic surface; a meticulously groomed 9-hole golf course, and a number of playing and practice fields. Unique in Canada, the campus offers 7 km of cross-country ski trails, the only one that boosts Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) certified trails on a university campus. It features groomed trails, both classic and skate style.

The Sports Medicine clinic is situated in the Sports Centre and provides services to our student-athletes (free of charge), and to the general student population and community patients at competitive prices. This arrangement and quality of care are rarely found in Quebec Cégeps. The clinic benefits from the most modern equipment available and is staffed by three certified athletic therapists, an orthopedic surgeon, physiotherapists, and student assistants.

The Health Clinic is also situated in the Sports Centre and is available to both Champlain and Bishop’s students upon presentation of their Medicare card.

Dining Facilities

There is a wide variety of dining facilities on campus, from A.M. Bistro in the Champlain Building to Tim Horton’s in the Sports Centre. Students can also stop by the Purple Pod to share a meal with friends, or Dewhurst Dining Hall for a one-price “all you can eat” cafeteria. The Library Learning Commons houses the Library Café and the Bus Stop Café can be found in the Hamilton Building.

Bandeen Hall

Bandeen Hall is the centre piece of musical life on the campus of the University. A welcome complement to the excellent cultural facilities already provided by Centennial Theatre, the 156-seat Bandeen Hall combines modern technical services with the rich acoustics and the intimate grace of a nineteenth-century building.

Centennial Theatre

Centennial Theatre, built in 1967 and equipped to the newest standards since the renovations of 2006, contains a charming and efficient main theatre seating 550, a spacious lobby, a vast workshop, a rehearsal room, dressing rooms, a Green Room, and administrative offices. Centennial Theatre brings performances of international caliber into the campus community throughout the academic year. An extensive schedule of musical productions and a wide-ranging series of visiting lecturers add richness to cultural life on campus.

St. Mark’s Chapel

Carefully maintained and beautifully preserved, St. Mark’s Chapel was declared Cultural Property by the Quebec Ministère des affaires culturelles in 1989. It remains today as an important historical and artistic legacy of the long and significant role of Bishop’s University in the Eastern Townships region. St. Mark’s Chapel is now an ecumenical chapel serving the Bishop’s University and Champlain College Community. Worship services are held at 10: 00a.m. on Sundays from September until June.

Outdoor Sports Facilities

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The Foreman Art Gallery

The Foreman Art Gallery is a space for thinking and producing knowledge about contemporary art and its relation to the global and local communities we share. The Gallery strives for excellence as it researches, exhibits, and documents contemporary art by emerging and mid-career professional artists in innovative curated contexts. These exhibitions are presented with the objective of provoking public debate on cultural and social issues for an expanding audience that includes our local community, a larger art community within Quebec and Canada, as well as broad and diverse general and virtual audiences.

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