In June 1990, the members of the BC legislative assembly passed the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Act, officially creating ÂÜÀòÉäÇø. The dream of having a northern university goes back much further, to the 1960s, when then-MLA Ray Williston set aside the land on which ÂÜÀòÉäÇø's Prince George campus is currently situated as a university reserve. Later, former Bishop Fergus O'Grady proposed a catholic university for Prince George. Instead, Prince George College (now closed) became a high school, though the Prince George neighbourhood around the school (called College Heights) bears university street names as a legacy of his idea. Keep reading the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø story.