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Facilities: 1970 - 1979

Malaspina College on Kennedy Street, Mar. 1970.
Image by Les Englefield courtesy of The Navigator

More aerial photos of Malaspina College and VTS

Malaspina College on Kennedy Street, Mar. 1970.
Image courtesy of VIU Archives

Malaspina College's Fifth Street Campus was just an idea in the early 1970s.
Image courtesy of VIU Archives

"College Loses Campus Bid" - The Vancouver Sun

Malaspina College council had its eye on Crown Land at Hammond Bay Road and Hwy 19 for the site of a permanent campus. The possibility was no longer viable when the highways department insisted the gravel at the site was needed for road construction.
Article courtesy of The Vancouver Sun, June 25, 1970

"Province May Buy Land For Campus" and "Land Lease Granted For College Campus" Nanaimo Daily  

Early 1970s headlines re: new campus plans.
Headlines courtesy of Nanaimo Daily Free Press 


"Malaspina  College Looks To New Campus" 
- Nanaimo Daily Free Press
Malaspina College had its sights fixed on a new and permanent campus on 156 acres of land in Nanaimo on property formerly part of Nanaimo army camp - it is adjacent to where the college's vocational buildings stand.
Image and article courtesy of Nanaimo Daily Free Press Annual Progress Report, 1972

More 1970s facilities articles

"New Campus For Malaspina College" - Nanaimo Daily Free Press

A model of the new college campus, 1973.
Image courtesy of Nanaimo Daily Free Press Annual Progress Report, 1973

 


Construction of Building 300, 1975.
Image courtesy of VIU Archives

More Building 300 construction photos


Building 460 (math and chemistry) was built in 1975.
Image courtesy of VIU Archives

Tamagawa Gardens were a gift to Malaspina College from Tamagawa University (Tokyo) in 1978.
Images courtesy of VIU Archives