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Feb 16, 2010 · By Jim Hynes The Macdonald Campus motto of “Mastery For Service” never seemed more appropriate or timely than it did last week, when students, faculty, alumni, staff and guests gathered to celebrate the birthday of Sir William C. Macdonald, the visionary who founded Macdonald College in 1907. Under the theme “Healing Our World,” the Campus’ […]
Feb 12, 2019 · On Thursday, Feb. 7, the annual Founder’s Day celebrations were held at Macdonald Campus. In typical Mac fashion, the two-hour event was decidedly low on pomp and understandably high on pride. “Family” and “service” were two words frequently uttered over the course of the event, with speakers referring to the Mac family and the ...
Jo ann Farhood 1968-1969. Mohamed Fennir 1998-2002. Nick Florian 1961-1963. Rena Frajtag 1962-1964. Martha Freiheit 1951-1955. Deborah Froehlich 1975-1978. Roberta Garber 1967-1968. Shelagh Glover 1969-1971. Cedric Gordon 1975-1979.
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To meet demands for public education, the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning was established in 1801. In 1813, merchant James McGill died, leaving his estate outside Montréaland an endowment of £10,000 for a college, naming the Royal Institution as trustee. It acquired a charter for "the University of McGill College" in 1821. McGill'...
McGill is a constituent of the provincial university network but has considerable freedom in maintaining its tradition of excellence in education and research. The university comprises the School for Continuing Studies, the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office (GPSO) and 10 faculties: agricultural and environmental sciences, arts, dentistry, ed...
Prominent alumni include: Leonard Cohen; William Shatner; Irving Layton; Hume Cronyn; John Ralson Saul; Charles Taylor; Maureen Forrester; Madeleine Parent; Hubert Reeves; Ken Dryden; James Naismith; Maude Abbott; Carrie Derick; former prime ministers Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John Abbott; and prime minister Justin Trudeau. In 2016, McGill celebr...
The Macdonald Campus coat of arms honours Sir William Macdonald, the major benefactor of McGill's agricultural college: The colour of the field (gold) and the arm holding a cross (red) are from the second quarter of the arms of Sir William Macdonald, the tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded the College.
Bill Stewart 1963-1965. Marion Sweeney 1950-1956. Mark Waldron 1955-1959. Craig Wallace 1977-1978. Frank White 1964-1965. Heather Wilde 1967-1968. Barrie Willis 1963-1967. Reconnect with friends from Macdonald College, find reunions, view yearbook photos and more.
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Founding Macdonald College. Sir William Macdonald may have donated large sums of money to McGill University, but he shunned the spotlight. James W. Robertson, who was the federal government’s commissioner of agriculture and dairying in the 1890s, was a flamboyant showman. Together, this odd couple created what is today known as McGill’s ...
