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Columbia International College of Canada is a private school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which is inspected and registered with the Ontario Ministry of Education. Columbia International College was founded in 1979 as a response to a need by international students wanting to graduate from a North American secondary school. Its west end campus is located at the former Ainslie Wood School which was previously operated by the Hamilton Board of Education. It is the largest private boarding university-preparatory school in Canada, with more than one thousand students who hail from different countries. Its facilities include a teaching campus and residences in the west end, satellite residential campuses downtown and on the West Mountain, and a 700-acre centre for outdoor education and leadership training at Bark Lake, north of Toronto. Columbia International College is a member of the Independent School Associations of Ontario and the Industry-Education Council of Hamilton.