McMaster University (Corporate Name)

NLC 02/81 (AACR 2: McMaster University)

Wikipedia, Oct. 19, 2016 (McMaster University, commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac; public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; six academic faculties: the DeGroote School of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Science, and Science; member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada; bears the name of Honourable William McMaster, senator and banker; incorporated in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College; it opened in Toronto in 1890; relocated to Hamilton in 1930; controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957; co-educational; particularly known for its medical school, the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine)