Did you check Concordia as part of this exploration? Historically anyway, Concordia has always offered its full undergraduate program in the evening, as well as in the day. This was part of the reason Sir George was established in the first place and was true many moons ago when I graduated. I tried a few minutes at the Concordia website but was unable to find the information either way. If you did find that it was no longer possible to take a degree wholly in the evening, let me know and I'll give them a piece of my mind when next they phone for money!
We did review Concordia, but there were problems with critical courses not offered evenings (such as first year biology!) with their setup and it looked like a big risk to move to the Montreal office for this, if it didn't actually pan out.
Additionally, the problem we found with labs everywhere was that the employer's vacation request cutoff dates are in March, well before Concordia or other universities publish their schedules. It would be very risky to register for the courses if one could not be confident of time off during attendance-critical periods such as lab weeks.
Pretty much the only thing going for him is the fact that he was a mature student, (Technically, Concordia considered him both a Mature Student and Independent Student, because of his schedule constraints that made it impossible to coordinate with the programs) with an awesome transcript, GPA-wise.
In general, though, Concordia
may be a solution if you live in Montreal proper, and you need exactly the courses they offer in evening setup, and don't need the ones they don't offer.
What I would like to pitch would be a transfer-equivalency network where you could take your core lecture via correspondence, and connect for labs on
weekends with a local university or college. This would mitigate the employer-vacation-request and spouse-anxiety problems that people find with these week-long labs.
The other major roadblock we discovered was that many correspondence schools offer degree programs, just "not right now." You pull out their calendar, and they have a complex scheme of offering courses in alternating years &c. This is one of the reasons my colleague started getting desperate: he had waited three years for his institution to offer organic chemistry, and they eventually admitted that they have never offered it, and may not offer it after all.
