Kingsmere Institute announces its founding faculty
Scholars in public policy, commerce, and the liberal arts join the inaugural cohort of teachers.
A New Institution · Ottawa · Gatineau
Where Canada reads, reflects, and reasons.
Founded in 2026 in the National Capital Region, Kingsmere Institute is a bilingual residential institution offering degrees in Business, Liberal Arts, and Public Policy — convened on the Mackenzie King estate at Gatineau Park.
Gatineau · Kingsmere
Through the forest, to the light.
The faculties
Three disciplines, taught as one.
A deliberately narrow curriculum, read closely and argued in two languages — so that a degree from Kingsmere means the same thing in a decade as it does on the day it is conferred.
Why Kingsmere
An education built to last a lifetime.
Four convictions shape everything we teach — and everything a Kingsmere degree comes to mean.
Read in full
Small seminars, whole texts, arguments defended aloud — never summaries.
Bilingual to the bone
English and French at parity — in lectures, examinations, and the degree itself.
Rooted in place
Field terms convene on the Mackenzie King estate in Gatineau Park.
Patient and independent
Endowed to think in decades, answering to its charter before any term.
“Kingsmere belongs to a country that thinks — and to a forest that has waited for it.”From the Founding Brief, 2026
The Estate
A campus in the company of pines.
The institute convenes on the Mackenzie King estate in Gatineau Park — Moorside, the curated ruins, and the long shore of Kingsmere Lake. Place is not a backdrop here; it is part of the curriculum.
Upcoming
All events Events & convocations.
17SEP
The Mackenzie Lecture in Public Policy
Mackenzie King Hall · Ottawa
The inaugural lecture opening the founding academic year.
28AUG
Founding Term Opening Convocation
Moorside · Gatineau Park
The ceremonial opening of the institute’s first term.
05OCT
Open Seminar — Reading the Firm
Faculty of Commerce
A public seminar convened by the Faculty of Commerce.
In the news
All news News & announcements.
The Founding Board adopts the bilingual constitution
Enacted in English and French at full parity — neither a translation of the other.
The institute takes up residence at Moorside
A part of the Mackenzie King estate becomes a working campus once more.
Admissions · MMXXVI
The first cohort begins in September.
Applications for the founding undergraduate, graduate, and executive cohorts are read on a rolling basis. Every file is read in full, in the language of the applicant’s choosing.
2026
Founding academic year
3
Faculties — Commerce, Liberal Arts, Public Policy
EN · FR
Taught in full parity
12 : 1
Student-to-faculty ratio