 In total 1,158 students and alumni of the university enrolled the Canadian Forces during the Second World War, of which 50 died overseas.The unit was eventually disbanded during the unification of the Armed Forces in 1968.The Ottawa architecture firm of Burgess, McLean & MacPhadyen designed the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology (later to merge with the Ontario Vocational Centre and renamed Algonquin College), opened its new Rideau Campus on a 12-acre city owned Lees Avenue site in 1964.