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The Stephen Leacock Building, also known simply as the Leacock Building, is a building located at 855 Sherbrooke Street West, on the McGill University downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec The building was named after Stephen Leacock , a well-known Canadian humorist and author, and Professor of Economics at McGill from 1901 to 1944.
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research University located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter , [ 12 ] the university bears the name of James McGill , a Scottish merchant, [ 13 ] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College .
The McGill School for Teachers was also moved to MacDonald Campus in 1907. In 1965 it was renamed the Faculty of Education, and in 1970 it was relocated to McGill's Downtown Campus. [5] In 1938, the Rural Adult Education Service of Macdonald College was established.
The McIntyre Medical Sciences Building is part of the McGill University campus in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A concrete building built in 1965, it is known for its circular shape. The McIntyre Building is the central hub of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. Its sixteen floors include classrooms, research facilities, laboratories ...
In 1811, the founder of McGill University, James McGill, bequeathed his forty-six acre estate, Burnside Place (which stretched from what is now Doctor Penfield Avenue to a few streets south of Sherbrooke Street), along with £10,000, to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, which governed the education system in Quebec at that time.
The Elizabeth Wirth Music Building has eight storeys that evoke the eight geological layers of the earth. With the building being located at the eastern edge of McGill campus on the corner of Sherbrooke Street and Aylmer Street, Gilles Saucier, the project manager, considered the new wing to be the access point to the campus and to the ...
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Redpath Hall is a historic building at 3461 McTavish Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the main campus of McGill University. It was originally the reading room of the Redpath Library, which opened in 1893 as McGill's first dedicated library building. During the first half of the 20th century, the library was extended several times to the ...