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Who founded the University of Alberta?

  • Alexander Cameron Rutherford

  • John A. Macdonald

  • Wilfrid Laurier

  • Louis St. Laurent

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The University of Alberta was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta. He worked alongside Henry Marshall Tory, the university's first president, to establish the institution.
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