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Cyrus Macmillan. McGill and its Story, 1821-1921
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE. ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
CHAPTER I
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning
CHAPTER II
The Dawn of McGill
Montreal as James McGill knew it
The Burnside Estate
CHAPTER III
Delay and Difficulty
CHAPTER IV
The College Opened
Rev. George Jehosophat Mountain 1789–1863 First Principal of McGill University 1829–1835
Andrew Fernando Holmes, M.D., LL.D. 1798–1850
CHAPTER V
Anxious Years
Rev. Dr. John Bethune Actg. Principal of McGill University 1835–1846
The Plan of the Proposed University
The Proposed McGill College Original Building
CHAPTER VI
The College in the First McGill Buildings
Venerable Archdeacon Leach D.C.L., L.L.D. Vice-Principal of McGill University 1846–1886
CHAPTER VII
The Struggle for Existence
Edmund A. Meredith, L.L.D. Principal of McGill University 1846–1849
CHAPTER VIII
College Life in Mid-Century
McGill College in 1855
CHAPTER IX
Sir William Dawson and the Making of McGill
Sir William Dawson, C. M. G., M.A., L.L.D., F.R.S., Principal of McGill University 1855–1893
William Molson, Esq, 1793–1875 Founder of Molson Hall
Peter Redpath. Founder of the Redpath Library. and the Redpath Museum
Sir William Macdonald
Sir William Peterson Principal of McGill University 1895–1919
J. H. R. Molson
CHAPTER X
Higher Education for Women
Dr. Alexander Johnson Vice-Principal of McGill University 1886–1903
Percy Molson Founder of the Molson Stadium Killed in action July, 1917
Lord Strathcona
CHAPTER XI
The Larger McGill of Our Day
Dr. Charles E. Moyse Vice-Principal of McGill University 1903–1920
Sir Arthur Currie Principal McGill University 1920
Dr. Frank D. Adams Vice-Principal of McGill University 1920. EPILOGUE
McGill College in 1921
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
Extract from the Will of Hon. James McGill
APPENDIX B
The Charter of McGill College
APPENDIX C
The Dawson Memorial Address
APPENDIX D
The Peterson Memorial Address
INDEX
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Cyrus MacMillan
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“With respect to making a suitable provision for the education of youth in Lower Canada, and more particularly for laying a foundation for teaching the English tongue generally throughout the Province, I not only fully coincide with the sentiments expressed by the Bishop of Quebec and concurred in by the Executive Council on this point, but I am of opinion that the proposed Free Schools for this purpose should be established under the express condition of teaching the English language gratis to the children of His Majesty's subjects resident within the district for which such schools are established, without any limitation as to the number of such children.
“The Master should certainly be authorised to make a reasonable demand for teaching Writing and Arithmetic or, what would be still better, the terms may be settled from time to time by the Trustees or Governors of such Free Schools in the appointing of which it is His Majesty's pleasure that the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administrating the Government for the time being, the Bishop of Quebec, the Chief Justice of the Province, and the Speaker of the Assembly should always be of the number.
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