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hono(u)rs course 
in certain Canadian universities, a special program of study, usually taking four years after matriculation, offered to better-than-average students who wish to specialize in certain major fields.
- 1946 In Ontario . . . the "honours courses" of the Universities exerted an influence present nowhere else. . . .
- 1955 "Canada, a territory in the far, far north, the continent's roothouse. They have their certain academic skirmishes of a sort which Wasatch College would consider quaint, quaint as bows and arrows. Honours Courses."
- 1965 A cadet in Honours Arts in the Third Year must pass in all his courses and . . . maintain a 66% combined average in the courses of his Honours Course of Study, with a mark of at least 60% in each of those Honours courses. . . .
- 1946 In Ontario . . . the "honours courses" of the Universities exerted an influence present nowhere else. . . .