CMCC Academic Calendar 2022-2023 3
About CMCC History The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) was established in 1945 by chiropractors from across Canada who set up a central association for the profession — the Dominion Council of Chiropractors, (later the Canadian Chiropractic Association). Their vision was to create an academic institution that would espouse a high standard of chiropractic education and become a catalyst for the cohesive development of chiropractic in Canada.
“Memorial” in the name is in honour of Canadian Daniel David Palmer, who founded chiropractic in the United States in 1895. Chiropractic soon developed into one of the largest primary contact healthcare professions in North America. CMCC opened its doors on September 18, 1945 — the 50th anniversary of the first chiropractic adjustment — welcoming a large class of veterans returning from World War II. CMCC served Canada as the sole provider of chiropractic education until 1993, when a francophone program was established in Québec. In 1982, CMCC achieved “Recognized Candidate for Accreditation Status” with the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education (Canada) Inc. (now the Council on Chiropractic Education Canada of the Federation of Canadian Chiropractic). CMCC became accredited in 1986. CMCC established postgraduate Chiropractic Residency Programs in Clinical Sciences and Radiology (now Diagnostic Imaging) in 1975. A Sports Sciences residency program was added in 1994. In 2005, CMCC became the first private institution to offer a profession oriented health care degree under the Government of Ontario’s Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000. In 2007, CMCC established the McMorland Family Research Chair in Mechanobiology. CMCC is the first independent chiropractic institution to endow a research chair. In January 2022, the Council on Chiropractic Education in the US awarded programmatic accreditation to the CMCC Doctor of Chiropractic Degree program.
