Garfield Weston Merit Scholarships for Colleges
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Garfield Weston Merit Scholarships for Colleges (GWMSC) was a scholarship program that recognize exemplary college students who were passionate about their field of study and were interested in helping their communities. The program ran from 1998 to 2012.[citation needed]
In 1998, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation collaborated with the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation (now the Loran Scholars Foundation) to start a scholarship program for college students. Over the course of 14 years, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation invested $14.6 million in 471 W. Garfield Weston Scholars and 409 college students who received regional or provincial awards.[1]