Macdonald College of McGill University
Author | : John Ferguson Snell |
Publisher | : McGill University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : John Ferguson Snell |
Publisher | : McGill University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : McGill University |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Economics |
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Author | : Hugh MacLennan |
Publisher | : London : George Allen and Unwin |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : College buildings |
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Author | : William Fong |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-06-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773560432 |
"Sir William Macdonald (1831-1917) is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. William Fong's biography places Macdonald's life in its historical context, painting a vivid portrait of Victorian Canada." "Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufacturer of chewing tobacco in Canada, and by 1885 he may have been the richest person in the country." "Macdonald turned to philanthropy when he was in his fifties; his endowments to institutions from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia made professionalism and practical education central to Canadian life. Fong describes in particular how McGill University evolved, largely through Macdonald's financial contributions, from an impoverished institution into an intellectual powerhouse. Most famously, he financed the research that led to Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize and to the start of the atomic age. Sir William Macdonald offers the first detailed look at the development of engineering, physics, and law at McGill."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author | : Stanley Brice Frost |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780773504226 |
James McGill is an important figure in Canada's history in his own right. The bequest made in 1813 for the founding of a university of which one college was to bear his name only increased that significance. The political tensions of Lower Canada delayed implementation of his plans for sixteen years; and then it was only by incorporating the Montreal Medical Institution as Faculty of Medicine that in 1829 a beginning could be made. Thirty years after his death, the Faculty of Arts was finally established, but not until the trustee-body known as the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning was moved from Quebec City to Montreal and established as its board of governors did McGill College begin to revive and hold out promise of a respectable future.
Author | : Stanley Brice Frost |
Publisher | : [s.l.] : Commission d'étude sur les universités |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Maude Elizabeth Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : W. H. Brittain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Cyrus MacMillan |
Publisher | : London : John Lane ; Toronto : Canadian Branch, Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
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Author | : Frank Cyril James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1955* |
Genre | : Agricultural colleges |
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