info MCFT

The Maritime Forest Ranger School (MFRS), known today as the Maritime College of Forest Technology (MCFT), was established in Fredericton, NB in April 1946 as a cooperative effort by the wood-using industries and governments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to re-train and integrate returning WWII veterans.  For 57 years it offered a 1-year Forest Technology diploma program within which students learned the fundamentals of forestry and how to use the tools and technologies of the industry.  

In 1980 MFRS expanded to include a francophone campus in Bathurst, NB that continues to train Forest Technologists in french to this day.  Twenty-years later, in 2003, MFRS was re-branded MCFT, and together with this change in identity the earlier 1-year program was expanded into a more comprehensive 2 year program.