NPCs at Canadian Schools

[Taualumna]

As most of us know, Canadian schools aren't all that Greek-friendly, most schools don't have high sorority/fraternity involvement. According to www.canadiangreeks.com, there 12 of the 26 NPC groups and are represented in the following schools:


Alpha Gamma Delta: 7 Schools

Dalhousie University (shares chapter with St. Mary's University and Mount St Vincent (hope I'm not leaving anyone out))

University of Toronto

University of Western Ontario

University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg

University of Calgary

University of Alberta

University of British Columbia


Alpha Delta Pi: 3 schools

Bishop's University

University of Manitoba

University of British Columbia


Alpha Omicron Pi: 5 schools

McGill University

Carleton University

University of Toronto

University of Western Ontario

University of Calgary


Alpha Phi: 6 schools

Bishop's University

University of Toronto

Wilfred Laurier University

University of Western Ontario

University of Manitoba

University of British Columbia


Gamma Phi Beta: 3 Schools

McGill University

University of Toronto

University of British Columbia


Delta Gamma: 3 Schools

Wilfred Laurier University

University of Alberta

University of British Columbia


Delta Delta Delta: 2 Schools

University of Ottawa

University of Toronto


Delta Zeta: 1 School

University of Windsor


Delta Phi Epsilon: 2 Schools

Concordia University

University of British Columbia


Kappa Alpha Theta: 3 Schools

McGill University

University of Western Ontario

University of Alberta


Kappa Kappa Gamma:4 Schools

McGill University

University of Toronto

University of Waterloo

University of British Columbia


Pi Beta Phi: 4 Schools

University of Toronto

University of Guelph

University of Western Ontario

University of Alberta


Phi Sigma Sigma: 2 Schools

Carleton University

University of Windsor



Anyway, I hope I have everything right. Please feel free to make corrections!!

[Janerz222]

Also, Kappa Alpha Theta just re-established our Beta Upsilon chapter at the Univ. of British Columbia in Nov. 2003.

[thetalady]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Taualumna
[B]

Kappa Alpha Theta: 3 Schools

McGill University

University of Western Ontario

University of Alberta

Make that 4 schools!! Theta rechartered the chapter at British Columbia in 2003. It was originally founded in 1930.

ETA: Thanks Janerz! You beat me!

[phidelt-ubc]

yeah the newly re-established Thetas at UBC are great.. im good friends with some of them...

[phidelt-ubc]

umm... I don't think Canada is not greek-friendly.. our number of post-secondary institutions are less than those of the US because our population is much smaller. Furthermore Canada has alot of two-year colleges and two-year University Colleges, with students eventually transfering to universities.

For example at the University of British Columbia where i'm from, we have 9 NIC Fraternity Chapters, 1 colony, and 1 soon to be colony. We have 8 NPC Sorority Chapters. We also have 2 Professional Fraternities, and 1 professional sorority. We also have the last international chapter of Phrateres, a girl-only service club affiliated with the Greek System.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by phidelt-ubc
umm... I don't think Canada is not greek-friendly.. our number of post-secondary institutions are less than those of the US because our population is much smaller. Furthermore Canada has alot of two-year colleges and two-year University Colleges, with students eventually transfering to universities.

For example at the University of British Columbia where i'm from, we have 9 NIC Fraternity Chapters, 1 colony, and 1 soon to be colony. We have 8 NPC Sorority Chapters. We also have 2 Professional Fraternities, and 1 professional sorority. We also have the last international chapter of Phrateres, a girl-only service club affiliated with the Greek System.

Many schools don't recognize the groups individually, nor do many people participate (other than at some schools). On another note, schools with the title "university college" tend to have four year programs as well as two year ones.

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by Taualumna
Alpha Omnicron Pi: 5 schools


Anyway, I hope I have everything right. Please feel free to make corrections!!

Just one correction, it's Omicron

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
Just one correction, it's Omicron

Whoops!! Thanks for point that out!! Me and my bad spelling-LOL

ETA: Corrected!

[AGDee]

Never mind

Dee

Edited to eliminate a correction that was wrong.

[Canadian AOII]

not anymore they don't. it always sucks to lose a chapter.

[varsitybluette]

Wow, sorry for bumping an old thread (I just realized it was last posted on in 2004. yikes! I haven't been able to find, really, ANY other exclusively canadian sorority-related threads so if I've missed a more recent one ... sorry!) but I just wanted to add quickly ... University of Toronto has 7 sororities and sevenTEEN fraternities? Whaaaat the heck! That just blew me away!

I think the main issue with the lack of interest in Greek life in Canada is just that a lot of people (or at least a lot of people I've encountered whom I've talked about this with) really can't shake off the negative connotations that are often associated with it and with the whole "Americanized" image that it's been branded with. And Canadians really take their pride seriously when it comes to fighting against independence from the States. (I was devastated when I heard HBC was bought out recently. Man. I mean, it was like the FIRST Canadian company ever! To have that taken away ... but I digress.)

I was even kind of iffy about the whole thing (I'm a freshman at U of T) and about recruitment in general ... and I won't lie, the hesitation was because of the aforementioned reasons. But I just went through the first stage of recruitment and I'll be visiting the chosen four houses this weekend and I'm pretty excited about it! It looks like a fabulous way of meeting new people and the girls seemed nice. Some of them a little fake and overdoing it, but I'd assume that's so everywhere and especially because it was only the first day and all that ... I'm sure we were all nervous. But I'm definitely interested in two groups already and hopefully things will work out.

It's really about getting the word out, especially to younger people you know. Before I even got to uni a couple of my friends who were older than I was chose to go with Greek life when they started out and they were really happy with the choices they made and they let me know so .. really, it comes down to spreading the word! So ... yeah! Go Canadian Greeks!

[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by varsitybluette

Wow, sorry for bumping an old thread (I just realized it was last posted on in 2004. yikes! I haven't been able to find, really, ANY other exclusively canadian sorority-related threads so if I've missed a more recent one ... sorry!) but I just wanted to add quickly ... University of Toronto has 7 sororities and sevenTEEN fraternities? Whaaaat the heck! That just blew me away!

I think the main issue with the lack of interest in Greek life in Canada is just that a lot of people (or at least a lot of people I've encountered whom I've talked about this with) really can't shake off the negative connotations that are often associated with it and with the whole "Americanized" image that it's been branded with. And Canadians really take their pride seriously when it comes to fighting against independence from the States. (I was devastated when I heard HBC was bought out recently. Man. I mean, it was like the FIRST Canadian company ever! To have that taken away ... but I digress.)

I was even kind of iffy about the whole thing (I'm a freshman at U of T) and about recruitment in general ... and I won't lie, the hesitation was because of the aforementioned reasons. But I just went through the first stage of recruitment and I'll be visiting the chosen four houses this weekend and I'm pretty excited about it! It looks like a fabulous way of meeting new people and the girls seemed nice. Some of them a little fake and overdoing it, but I'd assume that's so everywhere and especially because it was only the first day and all that ... I'm sure we were all nervous. But I'm definitely interested in two groups already and hopefully things will work out.

It's really about getting the word out, especially to younger people you know. Before I even got to uni a couple of my friends who were older than I was chose to go with Greek life when they started out and they were really happy with the choices they made and they let me know so .. really, it comes down to spreading the word! So ... yeah! Go Canadian Greeks!

If that's the case, then it's a very recent thing - U of T used to have a much higher Greek (as in fraternities and sororities) membership - something close to 30%. That was back in the 1950s and earlier. Around half the sororities shut down around that time.

[varsitybluette]

Yeah, a significant number of my UBC friends were getting involved with Greek life. They're actually the ones who were talking about it and were encouraging me and others to give it a try.