The Project Gutenberg Canada eBook of McGill And Its Story

About this eBook

Author

MacMillan, Cyrus, 1880-1953

Title

McGill and its Story, 1821-1921

Original Publication

London; New York : John Lane Company, 1921

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at www.pgdpcanada.net

Language

English

LoC Class

LE: Education: Individual institutions: America (except US)

Subject

McGill University -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28253

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28253

Release Date

March 5, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.McGILL AND ITS STORY — James McGill — McGILL AND ITS STORY 1821-1921
3. 3.By CYRUS MACMILLAN — Author of “Canadian Wonder Tales,” Etc.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
7. 7.CHAPTER I — The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning
8. 8.CHAPTER II — The Dawn of McGill — Montreal as James McGill knew it — The Burnside Estate
9. 9.CHAPTER III — Delay and Difficulty
10. 10.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
11. 11.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
12. 12.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
13. 13.CHAPTER VII — The Struggle for Existence — Edmund A. Meredith, L.L.D. Principal of McGill University 1846-1849
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII — College Life in Mid-Century — McGill College in 1855
15. 15.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
16. 16.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
17. 17.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
18. 18.EPILOGUE — McGill College in 1921
19. 19.APPENDICES
20. 20.APPENDIX A
21. 21.APPENDIX B
22. 22.APPENDIX C
23. 23.APPENDIX D
24. 24.INDEX

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