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Originally posted by aephi alum
The University of Toronto seems to have been a popular place for "first international chapters" 
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That's because Toronto is one of Canada's oldest cities (since Canada, like the USA, was populated from East to West.)
Canada's oldest university is University of Laval (a Francophone universtity)...no sororities there!
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Originally posted by sailorpiphi
I would really like to know where in germany there is a tri sig chapter because i am here in germany studying right now. ITs really quite weird to try to explain to people the concept of a sorority. they just dont have it here. people ask me where i live and explainig that i live in a single house with 45 girls is also difficult to explain.
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The Tri Sigma chapter in Germany is at the University of Maryland in Mannheim, Germany. If you tell Germans that fraternities and sororities are like "Student Corporations", they will actually understand this. I visited a "fraternity house" in Heidelberg and it was from a "Student Corporation". They do dueling and stuff like that (no lie!)...actually, it's a source of of pride to have a scar on your face from dueling (no, they don't duel to the death!) The one that I visitied was called "Vineta".
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Originally posted by Greekgrrl
Kappa Alpha Theta is international, and has been since 1887, when her Sigma chapter was established at the University of Toronto. Theta's other Canadian chapters were established at the University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, University of Guelph, University of Western Ontario, and McGill University.
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Actually Theta was the first NPC to "set up shop" in Canada ever and that was at the University of Toronto (that chapter has since closed). The oldest/longest
continuing chapter in Canada is Alpha Phi at Univ. of Toronto. The Alpha Phi house at Univ. of Toronto is the former
Delta Gamma house!!