
McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill has long been considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the country and among the finest in North America. Known to some as "The Harvard University of the North", McGill is well-known for its pioneering research in the medicine, chemistry, physics and biology. The university has among the highest entry standards in Canada and the United States and is famous for its undergraduate education. It has an established history in the humanities, social sciences, music, law, business and physical education. International university rankings such as the Gourman Report, Princeton Review and the Times Higher Education Supplement, have consistently placed McGill amongst the top-tier of global universities. In 2004, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked McGill 21st best university in the world (12th in North America) and in 1997 it described McGill as one of the 10 greatest centers of academic excellence in the world. McGill ranked 2nd in the annual Maclean's survey of Canadian universities in 2003 and 2004 and 1st in the 2003 and 2004 National Post/Research Infosource rankings. The university has also had the distinction of having the highest publication intensity of any academic institution in the country for many years. This was one of the factors which led to the school being named Canada's "Research University of the Year" in 2003. Noted for being a research-intensive university, it frequently garners the most research dollars nationwide (per faculty) from federal and provincial sources of funding (including CFI, NSERC and other organizations).[http://www.researchinfosource.com/top50.shtml] [http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/] == Campus == The main campus is situated in downtown Montreal at the foot of Mount Royal. Most of the buildings are situated in a park-like campus north of Sherbrooke Street between Peel and Aylmer streets, and north of Docteur-Penfield Avenue west of Peel Street (near Peel (Montreal Metro) and McGill (Montreal Metro) Montreal Metro stations). A secondary campus, the Macdonald College, is in the district of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Founded in 1905, this campus, known as Macdonald College until 1972, is some 32 kilometres from downtown Montreal on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The Macdonald College is the home of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the McGill School of Environment. The architecture of the downtown campus is an eclectic mix reflecting the various periods in which the buildings were erected, although they are all constructed using local grey limestone, which serves as a unifying element. == Students == McGill's student population includes 21,765 undergraduates and 9,160 graduate students (2004/05). McGill has a higher percentage of American students, out-of-province students, and international students than any other Canadian university; it has students from over 150 countries. Although the university is one of two English language universities in Montreal, 19.6% of students at McGill speak French language as their first language. The Quebec government has long encouraged international students from selected countries (such as some members of La Francophonie) to attend their universities over students from other Canadian provinces. Since 1996 it has been more expensive for an out-of-province student to attend McGill than it is for many foreigners from countries that have special agreements with Quebec. This, in addition to McGill's international reputation, partially accounts for why McGill has a high percentage of foreign students. Nevertheless, owing to Montreal's much lower rental accommodation costs, some students paying out-of-province tuition find it less expensive to attend McGill than universities in their home province. Students life is varied and vibrant, reflecting the many cultures and tastes of the students and of Montreal. McGill University ranked first overall in the category of "Campus race/class relations friendliest" in The Princeton Review: The Best 357 Colleges. McGill ranked third for "Great college towns." == History == In 1813, James McGill, a Scottish immigrant who prospered in Montreal, bequeathed his 46 acre (186,000 m²) estate and 10,000 pounds to "the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning." McGill College (now McGill University) was inaugurated in 1829 in Burnside Place, James McGill's country home. In 1843, the University constructed its first buildings, the central and east wings of the Arts Building. In 1905, the University acquired a second campus when William Christopher Macdonald endowed a college in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, 32 kilometres west of Montreal, today the site of McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, and the Institute of Parasitology. Women's education at McGill began in 1884, when Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (Lord Strathcona) provided funding for separate lectures at the University, given by McGill staff members, for the benefit of women. Four years later, the Donalda Department was established, and women were able for the first time to enroll on a full-time basis. The education of Donaldas, named after their benefactor, flourished so much that twelve years later, they gained their own institution: the Royal Victoria College. Erected in 1899 thanks to Lord Strathcona’s donation of £50,000, the building was a self-contained unit, serving as both dormitory and educational facility until 1971, when the original, central section and the eastern wing were given to the Faculty of Music. RVC’s westernmost wings, the Vaughan wing (built, on the corner of University and Sherbrooke Streets, in 1931) and the Roscoe wing (set further back on University Street in 1964), continued to serve their function as McGill’s only all-female residence. As time went on, into the 1930s and ‘40s, women students "made a place for themselves on the Campus at large and became active co-educationally," wrote Muriel Roscoe, Warden of RVC from 1940 to 1963. Today, women are fully integrated into McGill academics, but until the 1970s, every female undergraduate at the University was nominally a member of Royal Victoria College. == Facts and Trivia == * McGill was the first non-denominational university in the British Empire. * It is one of only two Canadian universities holding a membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization comprising top-tier North American research universities. (The other Canadian university member is the University of Toronto.) * McGill is associated with six Nobel Prize laureates and two Prime Minister of Canada. * McGill has produced 125 Rhodes Scholarship, the most of any Canadian university. [http://www.mcgill.ca/newswire/?ItemID=13671] * 90% of McGill students ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating class. * McGill's class of 1952 includes William Shatner, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. Students have (unofficially) named McGill's Student Union building after him. * The ''McGill Daily'', founded in 1911, is the longest-running student newspaper in the British Commonwealth. * McGill's MBA program has been consistently been ranked among the top 40 in the world by The Economist and Financial Times. * McGill's Bellairs Research Institute & campus on the island of Barbados serves as Canada's only teaching and research facility in the tropics. These facilities are used by such entities as the Canadian Space Agency for research. * McGill has consistently ranked among the top four medical/doctoral universities nationwide, in the Maclean's Magazine rankings, an annual ranking of Canadian universities. * McGill's Redpath Museum, commissioned in 1880 and opened in 1882, is the oldest building built specifically as a museum in North America. Its natural history collections boast material collected by the same individuals who founded the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Smithsonian. * ''The Sunday Times'' in 1998 [http://www.news-archive.mcgill.ca/s98/newsbites.htm listed] McGill as one of the 10 Centres of Excellence in the world. McGill appeared in tenth spot, behind University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Sorbonne and University of Heidelberg. * ''The Times'' ranked McGill among the top 25 universities in the world, in its ''World University Rankings'', released in 2004. * It is a little known fact that the inventions of hockey, basketball and North American football are all related to McGill in some way. The first game of North American football was played between McGill and Harvard University in 1874. * Established in 1871, [http://www.mcgill.ca/minmet/mining/ McGill's mining engineering program] is the oldest in Canada. It is the second oldest program of its kind in North America, behind the one offered at Colorado School of Mines. * McGill has had one of the top-ranked debating unions in Canada for the past two decades, winning several CUSID national championships as well as the World Universities Debating Championships. * McGill's Trivia Club has been the top Canadian team at the NAQT Canadian Sectional Championship Tournament (Division II) for the past two years, and represented the university at the Intercollegiate Championship Tourment in New Orleans in April 2005, placing 12th, the best-ever finish by a Canadian university. * During World War II, the International Labour Organization was headquartered at McGill. * In terms of contributions to computing, MUSIC/SP, a piece of software for mainframes, once popular among universities and colleges around the world at its time, was developed at McGill. A team also contributed to the development of Archie search engine, one of the pre-WWW search engines. A 3270 terminal emulator developed at McGill was commercialized and later sold to Hummingbird Software. * The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the McGill Redmen (men's) and the McGill Martlets (women's). * McGill is the home of Effusion A Cappella, an independently-run student a cappella group that performs across Canada and the eastern United States. In March of 2004, Effusion became the first Canadian a cappella group to compete in the finals at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). Check out Effusion's website at [http://www.effusion.ca www.effusion.ca] * McGill's standout Faculty of Music is home to Canada's most famous university ensemble, the McGill Symphony Orchestra, and the McGill Jazz Ensemble == Symbols == The university's symbol is the martlet; its motto is ''Grandescunt Aucta Labore'' (by work, all things grow). Inscribed in its arms is ''In Domino Confido'' (I trust in the Lord), James McGill's personal motto. Its sports teams are named Martlets (women) and Redmen (men), and its school colours are red and white. The school song is entitled "Hail, Alma Mater." The lyrics to the song are as follows: :Hail, Alma Mater, we sing to thy praise; :Loud in thy Honour, our voices we raise. :Full to thy fortune, our glasses we fill. :Life and Prosperity, Dear Old McGill. :Hail, Alma Mater, thy praises we sing: :Far down the centuries, still may they ring. :Long through the ages remain - if God will, :Queen of the Colleges, Dear Old McGill. == List of Chancellors == # Charles Dewey Day (1864-1884) # James Ferrier (1884-1888) # Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord Strathcona (1889-1914) # Sir William Christopher Macdonald (1914-1917) # Sir Robert Laird Borden (1918-1920) # Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (1921-1942) # Morris Watson Wilson (1943-1946) # Orville Sievwright Tyndale (1946-1952) # Bertie Charles Gardner (1952-1957) # Ray Edwin Powell (1957-1964) # Howard Irwin Ross (1964-1970) # Donald Olding Hebb (1970-1974) # Stuart Milner Finlayson (1975) # Conrad Fetherstonhaugh Harrington (1976-1984) # A. Jean de Grandpré (1984-1991) # Gretta Chambers (1991-1999) # Dick Pound (1999-) == List of Principals== # George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1824-1835) # John Bethune (1835-1846) # Edmund A. Meredith (1846-1853) # Charles D. Day (1853-1855) # J. William Dawson (1855-1893) # William Peterson (1895-1919) # Auckland C. Geddes (1919-1920) # General Sir Arthur Currie (1920-1933) # Arthur Eustace Morgan (1935-1937) # Lewis Williams Douglas (1937-1939) # Frank Cyril James (1939-1962) # Rocke Robertson (1962-1970) # Robert Edward Bell (1970-1979) # David Lloyd Johnston (1979-1994) # Bernard Shapiro (1994-2002) # Heather Munroe-Blum (2003-) ==Noted alumni and professors== ===Academics and scholars===
===Current Presidents of other Canadian universities===
===Business and media===
===Politics and government===
===Art, music, and film===
===Inventors===
===Others===
===Nobel Prize winners===
== Hospitals ==
McGill University is affiliated with seven teaching hospitals in Montreal, four of which compose the McGill University Health Centre:
*the [http://www.muhc.mcgill.ca/ McGill University Health Centre], made up of
**the [http://www.muhcfoundation.com/muhc/general.html Montreal General Hospital],
**the Royal Victoria Hospital
**the [http://www.thechildren.com/ Montreal Children's Hospital],
**the [http://www.mcgill.ca/mni/ Montreal Neurological Hospital];
*the [http://www.jgh.ca Jewish General Hospital],
*the [http://www.mcgill.ca/douglas/ Douglas Hospital], and
*[http://www.smhc.qc.ca/ St. Mary's Hospital Centre].
== Other universities in Montreal ==
* Concordia University
* Université de Montréal
* Université du Québec à Montréal
== See also ==
*CKUT, McGill's campus/community radio station.
*James McGill, McGill's benefactor.
*The McGill Daily, McGill's independent student newspaper.
*Molson Stadium
*McGill University Faculty of Law
*McGill University Health Centre
*Students' Society of McGill University, McGill's undergraduate student union.
*Post Graduate Students' Society of McGill University, McGill's graduate and post-doctoral student union.
*List of universities in Quebec
*Osler Library of the History of Medicine
== External links ==
*[http://www.mcgill.ca McGill University]
*[http://www.mcgill.ca/bellairs/ McGill's Bellairs Research Institute - Barbados, West Indies]
*[http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald McGill's Macdonald Campus]
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I say, any facts to substantiate that an Ontario student had actually to pay more tuition than an American student at any time in history? In 1997 there was a lawsuit on this very issue where Ontario McGill studetns sued the government and lost. International studetns from ~50 countries can pay Quebec fees at McGill, which are much lower than the fees paid by other Canadians. See an article on the subject at http://www.unb.ca/bruns/9899/Issue6/News/differentials.html User:SimonP 12:11 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) But does this apply to American students? The article does not mention that. I attended McGill and I know for a fact that Americans pay international student fees. As for the students who get to pay Quebec tuition (not mention get Quebec medicare), yes, it's true... they exist. They're from countries like France, Norway etc. who have special reciprocal agreements with Quebec. I understand the agreement was something about encouraging investment in Quebec's hydropower or some such. - former McGill student. My mistake... your submission does not mention American students specifically but international students. However, I don't think I can accept the statement that McGill encourages international students over students from other provinces. McGill tuition, even with the out of province differential, is still lower than the local tuition at Ontario universities! (e.g. 4k/yr at McGill for out of province compared to 5k/yr local tuition at Queen's. I'm guessing it's higher at the U of T) The students who get to pay Quebec fees are from a select list of countries under special agreements; the rest of the international students pay international fees. -- Actually, tuition at U of T/Queen's and McGill are comparable. McGill's tuition for non-Quebec Canadians is $4,012.50, while U of T's tuition for Canadians (including Ontarians) is $4,185.00 and Queen's tuition is $4,193.00. (Of course, tuition for specialized programs--e.g., commerce/management, engineering--is higher.) * U of T link: http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_2_434_1.html * McGill link: http://www.mcgill.ca/applying/fees/ * Queen's link: http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/fees/ug-dom.html Also, international students who pay Quebec rates at McGill are generally from countries that were former French colonies (i.e., Ivory Coast, Vietnam), as the Quebec government has a reciprocal agreement with these countries. Though, a friend of mine was American but had a French passport (and thus, paid Quebec rates), and another friend of mine was also American, but was born in Quebec, and was also able to pay Quebec rates despite his citizenship. :Most of the time, tuition is based on how long you have lived somewhere, because of the taxes. Tuition in Canada is subsidized by taxes, so although you're a Canadian citizen, if you've lived in say the USA, you pay international rates. You have to live somewhere in Canada generally 3 years or more to get the "home rate". User:Spinboy 05:37, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::This is patently false, at least with respect to McGill, and probably other Quebec universities. When I was there, I had at least two friends who were Canadian citizens but spent most of their lives in the States, and paid Canadian tuition rates to attend. Not to mention, Quebec universities do have bilateral agreements with many countries, including France and Vietnam, to allow citizens of those countries to pay Quebec tuition rates (which are half of what "Canadians" pay and less than a quarter of what international students typically pay). User:Darkcore 06:10, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::I was more refering to Universities outside Quebec, from what I have seen. I do remember a big case in Quebec where students sued the government claiming that their paying more was unconstitutional. I believe they lost. User:Spinboy 06:14, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::The rules on Quebec tuition include some exceptions. Even if you hold the passport of a country with a reciprocal agreement, you are not eligible to pay Quebec tuition if, for example, you have done high school in a Canadian province other than Quebec. User:Kalanga 20:38, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Someone says on the Page that McGill is the 3rd oldest university in Canada after Dalhousie and Laval. Dalhousie is certainly older (1818 compared to 1821) but Laval was founded in 1852 (when the Seminaire du Quebec was granted a University Charter by Queen Victoria). I am not absolutely sure how McGill's age stacks up in Canada (and doubt it really matters!) but it is certainly older than Laval. However, the University of Kings College is older than both (founded in Windsor Nova Scotia in 1789 as the first university in Canada.) so McGill may actually be the third oldest! Someone who knows more than I do needs to fix this page! ---- The article currently states that McGill is a public institution, but Private school says: "Private schools, in the United States, Australia, Scotland, and other English-speaking countries, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds." According to this definition, McGill is a private school. It is: 1) In an English Speaking Country. 2) Not administered by local or National Government. 3) Funded in part by charging its students tuition. User:Adjusting 01:48, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC) :It's a public institution/school. --User:Spinboy 01:52, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::"Public school" is probably not the best description; it is a "public university," which means that it can either be a state-run system (like the Universite du Quebec) or a privately-managed school that is maintained by public funds (like McGill). When a school is publicly-funded (i.e., paid for largely through tax dollars), it is considered to be "public." Indeed, McGill charges lower tuition rates for Quebec residents than Canadians at large (another sign that it is a public university) whereas a private school would not make such a distinction. User:Darkcore 03:22, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Fraternity info== Factoid deleted from article with comment WP:WIN that might conceivably be useful: :McGill is also home to Canada's largest and oldest Fraternity. As soon as Zeta Psi came to Toronto, as the pioneer of Greek letter fraternities in Canada, her zealous brothers immediately conceived the idea of starting a sister chapter at their rival university. In those days, there was but a slender thread of communication between the two institutions, and the hopes of the Theta Xi might have thus been thwarted for many years had it not been for Robert Fulford Ruttan from Toronto, who decided in 1881 to pursue his medical studies at McGill. Ruttan, though not a Zete, numbered many of the active chapter at Varsity among his intimate friends, and they commissioned him to lay the groundwork for the foundation of a chapter in Montreal. He painstakingly collected a small group of enthusiastic fellow medical students and petitioned Grand Chapter to grant a charter to the fledgling group. The petition was successful, and on the morning of January 3, 1883, Bros. A.L. Cameron (then Phi of Theta Xi) and Henry Brook (Theta Xi, '81) arrived in Montreal to install the new chapter. It was to be called Alpha Psi. [http://www.zetapsimcgill.com/] This chapter has produced Conrad Harrington, Former Chancellor of McGill University, Eric Molson Chairman, Molson Beer Companies and in 1915, more than half the workers at the McGill Base Hospital were Zetes from Alpha Psi. ::Please sign your posts with four tides(~~~~) . Now, that being said, this isn't the place for that. Put it in the article about Zeta Psi. --User:Spinboy 03:54, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I forgot to sign. I have no idea what Zeta Psi is, but that does seem like encyclopedic information, so I thought it shouldn't just disappear. If you've moved it there we can just delete it here. --User:Aarchiba 04:01, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
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McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill has long been considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the country and among the finest in North America. Known to some as "The Harvard University of the North", McGill is well-known for its pioneering research in the medicine, chemistry, physics and biology. The university has among the highest entry standards in Canada and the United States and is famous for its undergraduate education. It has an established history in the humanities, social sciences, music, law, business and physical education. International university rankings such as the Gourman Report, Princeton Review and the Times Higher Education Supplement, have consistently placed McGill amongst the top-tier of global universities. In 2004, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked McGill 21st best university in the world (12th in North America) and in 1997 it described McGill as one of the 10 greatest centers of academic excellence in the world. McGill ranked 2nd in the annual Maclean's survey of Canadian universities in 2003 and 2004 and 1st in the 2003 and 2004 National Post/Research Infosource rankings. The university has also had the distinction of having the highest publication intensity of any academic institution in the country for many years. This was one of the factors which led to the school being named Canada's "Research University of the Year" in 2003. Noted for being a research-intensive university, it frequently garners the most research dollars nationwide (per faculty) from federal and provincial sources of funding (including CFI, NSERC and other organizations).[http://www.researchinfosource.com/top50.shtml] [http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/] == Campus == The main campus is situated in downtown Montreal at the foot of Mount Royal. Most of the buildings are situated in a park-like campus north of Sherbrooke Street between Peel and Aylmer streets, and north of Docteur-Penfield Avenue west of Peel Street (near Peel (Montreal Metro) and McGill (Montreal Metro) Montreal Metro stations). A secondary campus, the Macdonald College, is in the district of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Founded in 1905, this campus, known as Macdonald College until 1972, is some 32 kilometres from downtown Montreal on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The Macdonald College is the home of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the McGill School of Environment. The architecture of the downtown campus is an eclectic mix reflecting the various periods in which the buildings were erected, although they are all constructed using local grey limestone, which serves as a unifying element. == Students == McGill's student population includes 21,765 undergraduates and 9,160 graduate students (2004/05). McGill has a higher percentage of American students, out-of-province students, and international students than any other Canadian university; it has students from over 150 countries. Although the university is one of two English language universities in Montreal, 19.6% of students at McGill speak French language as their first language. The Quebec government has long encouraged international students from selected countries (such as some members of La Francophonie) to attend their universities over students from other Canadian provinces. Since 1996 it has been more expensive for an out-of-province student to attend McGill than it is for many foreigners from countries that have special agreements with Quebec. This, in addition to McGill's international reputation, partially accounts for why McGill has a high percentage of foreign students. Nevertheless, owing to Montreal's much lower rental accommodation costs, some students paying out-of-province tuition find it less expensive to attend McGill than universities in their home province. Students life is varied and vibrant, reflecting the many cultures and tastes of the students and of Montreal. McGill University ranked first overall in the category of "Campus race/class relations friendliest" in The Princeton Review: The Best 357 Colleges. McGill ranked third for "Great college towns." == History == In 1813, James McGill, a Scottish immigrant who prospered in Montreal, bequeathed his 46 acre (186,000 m²) estate and 10,000 pounds to "the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning." McGill College (now McGill University) was inaugurated in 1829 in Burnside Place, James McGill's country home. In 1843, the University constructed its first buildings, the central and east wings of the Arts Building. In 1905, the University acquired a second campus when William Christopher Macdonald endowed a college in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, 32 kilometres west of Montreal, today the site of McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, and the Institute of Parasitology. Women's education at McGill began in 1884, when Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (Lord Strathcona) provided funding for separate lectures at the University, given by McGill staff members, for the benefit of women. Four years later, the Donalda Department was established, and women were able for the first time to enroll on a full-time basis. The education of Donaldas, named after their benefactor, flourished so much that twelve years later, they gained their own institution: the Royal Victoria College. Erected in 1899 thanks to Lord Strathcona’s donation of £50,000, the building was a self-contained unit, serving as both dormitory and educational facility until 1971, when the original, central section and the eastern wing were given to the Faculty of Music. RVC’s westernmost wings, the Vaughan wing (built, on the corner of University and Sherbrooke Streets, in 1931) and the Roscoe wing (set further back on University Street in 1964), continued to serve their function as McGill’s only all-female residence. As time went on, into the 1930s and ‘40s, women students "made a place for themselves on the Campus at large and became active co-educationally," wrote Muriel Roscoe, Warden of RVC from 1940 to 1963. Today, women are fully integrated into McGill academics, but until the 1970s, every female undergraduate at the University was nominally a member of Royal Victoria College. == Facts and Trivia == * McGill was the first non-denominational university in the British Empire. * It is one of only two Canadian universities holding a membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization comprising top-tier North American research universities. (The other Canadian university member is the University of Toronto.) * McGill is associated with six Nobel Prize laureates and two Prime Minister of Canada. * McGill has produced 125 Rhodes Scholarship, the most of any Canadian university. [http://www.mcgill.ca/newswire/?ItemID=13671] * 90% of McGill students ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating class. * McGill's class of 1952 includes William Shatner, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. Students have (unofficially) named McGill's Student Union building after him. * The ''McGill Daily'', founded in 1911, is the longest-running student newspaper in the British Commonwealth. * McGill's MBA program has been consistently been ranked among the top 40 in the world by The Economist and Financial Times. * McGill's Bellairs Research Institute & campus on the island of Barbados serves as Canada's only teaching and research facility in the tropics. These facilities are used by such entities as the Canadian Space Agency for research. * McGill has consistently ranked among the top four medical/doctoral universities nationwide, in the Maclean's Magazine rankings, an annual ranking of Canadian universities. * McGill's Redpath Museum, commissioned in 1880 and opened in 1882, is the oldest building built specifically as a museum in North America. Its natural history collections boast material collected by the same individuals who founded the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Smithsonian. * ''The Sunday Times'' in 1998 [http://www.news-archive.mcgill.ca/s98/newsbites.htm listed] McGill as one of the 10 Centres of Excellence in the world. McGill appeared in tenth spot, behind University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Sorbonne and University of Heidelberg. * ''The Times'' ranked McGill among the top 25 universities in the world, in its ''World University Rankings'', released in 2004. * It is a little known fact that the inventions of hockey, basketball and North American football are all related to McGill in some way. The first game of North American football was played between McGill and Harvard University in 1874. * Established in 1871, [http://www.mcgill.ca/minmet/mining/ McGill's mining engineering program] is the oldest in Canada. It is the second oldest program of its kind in North America, behind the one offered at Colorado School of Mines. * McGill has had one of the top-ranked debating unions in Canada for the past two decades, winning several CUSID national championships as well as the World Universities Debating Championships. * McGill's Trivia Club has been the top Canadian team at the NAQT Canadian Sectional Championship Tournament (Division II) for the past two years, and represented the university at the Intercollegiate Championship Tourment in New Orleans in April 2005, placing 12th, the best-ever finish by a Canadian university. * During World War II, the International Labour Organization was headquartered at McGill. * In terms of contributions to computing, MUSIC/SP, a piece of software for mainframes, once popular among universities and colleges around the world at its time, was developed at McGill. A team also contributed to the development of Archie search engine, one of the pre-WWW search engines. A 3270 terminal emulator developed at McGill was commercialized and later sold to Hummingbird Software. * The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the McGill Redmen (men's) and the McGill Martlets (women's). * McGill is the home of Effusion A Cappella, an independently-run student a cappella group that performs across Canada and the eastern United States. In March of 2004, Effusion became the first Canadian a cappella group to compete in the finals at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). Check out Effusion's website at [http://www.effusion.ca www.effusion.ca] * McGill's standout Faculty of Music is home to Canada's most famous university ensemble, the McGill Symphony Orchestra, and the McGill Jazz Ensemble == Symbols == The university's symbol is the martlet; its motto is ''Grandescunt Aucta Labore'' (by work, all things grow). Inscribed in its arms is ''In Domino Confido'' (I trust in the Lord), James McGill's personal motto. Its sports teams are named Martlets (women) and Redmen (men), and its school colours are red and white. The school song is entitled "Hail, Alma Mater." The lyrics to the song are as follows: :Hail, Alma Mater, we sing to thy praise; :Loud in thy Honour, our voices we raise. :Full to thy fortune, our glasses we fill. :Life and Prosperity, Dear Old McGill. :Hail, Alma Mater, thy praises we sing: :Far down the centuries, still may they ring. :Long through the ages remain - if God will, :Queen of the Colleges, Dear Old McGill. == List of Chancellors == # Charles Dewey Day (1864-1884) # James Ferrier (1884-1888) # Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord Strathcona (1889-1914) # Sir William Christopher Macdonald (1914-1917) # Sir Robert Laird Borden (1918-1920) # Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (1921-1942) # Morris Watson Wilson (1943-1946) # Orville Sievwright Tyndale (1946-1952) # Bertie Charles Gardner (1952-1957) # Ray Edwin Powell (1957-1964) # Howard Irwin Ross (1964-1970) # Donald Olding Hebb (1970-1974) # Stuart Milner Finlayson (1975) # Conrad Fetherstonhaugh Harrington (1976-1984) # A. Jean de Grandpré (1984-1991) # Gretta Chambers (1991-1999) # Dick Pound (1999-) == List of Principals== # George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1824-1835) # John Bethune (1835-1846) # Edmund A. Meredith (1846-1853) # Charles D. Day (1853-1855) # J. William Dawson (1855-1893) # William Peterson (1895-1919) # Auckland C. Geddes (1919-1920) # General Sir Arthur Currie (1920-1933) # Arthur Eustace Morgan (1935-1937) # Lewis Williams Douglas (1937-1939) # Frank Cyril James (1939-1962) # Rocke Robertson (1962-1970) # Robert Edward Bell (1970-1979) # David Lloyd Johnston (1979-1994) # Bernard Shapiro (1994-2002) # Heather Munroe-Blum (2003-) ==Noted alumni and professors== ===Academics and scholars===
| * Eric Berne (psychiatry) - originator of the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis * Gerald Bull - former professor of mechanical engineering, expert on projectiles, designer of the Iraqi Project Babylon * Mario Bunge - philosopher * Carrie Derick - first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill) * Hamid Etemad - professor of international business and renowned business guru and researcher. * S. I. Hayakawa - linguist, U.S. senator, former president of San Francisco State University *Ismail al-Faruqi (philosophy and religion) - renowned Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar * Donald Olding Hebb (psychology) - father of cognitive psychobiology, pioneer in artificial intelligence, developed concept of Hebbian learning *Julian Jaynes - psychologist, author of ''The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind'' *Roger Keesing - celebrated anthropologist * James Mallory - for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar * Ronald Melzack (medicine) - developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire * Armand de Mestral - professor of international law * Brenda Milner - provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient H.M. * Henry Mintzberg - internationally renowned business guru * Karl Moore - internationally known business guru * Percy Erskine Nobbs - former professor of architecture and designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa * William Osler (medicine) - graduate in medicine (1872) and then McGill professor, he was a medical pioneer, developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner. Later one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University * Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) - neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University * Steven Pinker (cognitive psychology) - author of "The Blank Slate", "How the Mind Works". * Judah Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) - pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute * Richard Birdsall Rogers - civil engineer and designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock *Witold Rybczynski - Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic * Harold Shapiro, current president emeritus of Princeton University and former president of the University of Michigan. * Bernard Shapiro (education) - former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario. Twin brother of Harold. * Charles Taylor (philosopher) (philosophy) - renowned writer, versatile philosopher, and political theorist * Margaret Ridley Charlton (medicine) - one of the founders of the Medical Library Association (professional associations) |
| * Paul Davenport - University of Western Ontario * David Johnston - University of Waterloo * Frederick Lowy - Concordia University * Axel Meissen - Memorial University of Newfoundland * Martha Cook Piper - University of British Columbia * Harvey Weingarten - University of Calgary |
| * John Burns - current Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" journalist, formerly of "The Globe and Mail" * John Cleghorn - former chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, the largest bank in Canada * Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - former CEO of Seagram's Distillers * Conrad Black - embattled press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet, owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world * Livio Desimone - former CEO of St Paul-based 3M * Adam Gopnik - staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine * Charles Krauthammer -Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, The Washington Post and Time Magazine * Ron Meade - founder of Altamira * Seymour Schulich (investment) - benefactor to the Schulich School of Business, York University * Lorne Trottier - founder of Matrox * Mort Zuckerman - CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of "US New & World Report" |
| * John Joseph Caldwell Abbott - first Canadian prime minister to be born in Canada * Ian Binnie - Supreme Court justice * Zbigniew Brzezinski - former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter * Irwin Cotler - Justice Minister of Canada, distinguished legal scholar and international human rights lawyer * Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Father of Confederation and one of only a few notable political assassinations in Canadian history * Marie Deschamps - Supreme Court justice * Morris Fish - Supreme Court justice * Sheila Fraser - Auditor General of Canada * Charles Gonthier - Supreme Court justice * Sir Wilfrid Laurier - former Prime Minister of Canada * Jack Layton - leader of the New Democratic Party * Dr. Ahmed Nazif - current Prime Minister of Egypt * Daniel Oduber Quirós - former President of Costa Rica * Bernard Shapiro - Federal Ethics Commissioner * Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover - first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly * Vaira Vike-Freiberga - President of Latvia |
| * Burt Bacharach - Academy Award-winning musician * Anne Carson - poet and professor of classics * Leonard Cohen - author, songwriter * Robert Cooper - president of TriStar Films * Hubert Davis - BA '00 and Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject * Louis Dudek - poet * Jake Eberts - producer of "''Gandhi (film)''", "''Chariots of Fire''" * Arthur Erickson - architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center) * Colin Ferguson (Actor) - actor, Coupling * Jessalyn Gilsig - actress, Boston Public, NYPD Blue * Gavin Heffernan - director (''Expiration'') * Stephen Leacock - humorist and economist * John McCrae - poet, author of famous Canadian poem "In Flanders' Fields" * Kate & Anna McGarrigle - musicians and folk-singers * Hugh MacLennan - Canadian writer (''Two Solitudes'', ''Barometer Rising'') *Raymond Moriyama - architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh) * Sam Roberts - musician * Moshe Safdie - architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67) * Edward Saxon - Academy Award-winning film producer * John Ralston Saul - Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author * F(rances) R(eginald) Scott - long-time law professor, authority on constitutional law, celebrated political activist, and one of Canada's leading modern poets * William Shatner - lead actor in ''Star Trek'', played Captain James T. Kirk. * Rufus Wainwright - (briefly attended - dropped out upon record deal) Canadian recording artist, musician. * John Weldon (animator) - Academy Award winner and National Film Board animator * Jan Wong - columnist with the Globe and Mail, wrote the "Lunch with Jan Wong" series * Win Butler - musician, co-founder of "Arcade Fire" |
| * Bernard Belleau - inventor of AIDS medication 3TC * William Chalmers - inventor of Perspex * Thomas Chang - creator of first artificial cell * James George Alwyn Creighton - inventor of North American ice hockey rules * Charles R. Drew - MDCM '33, black American medical pioneer, track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles, and, as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of WWII, the father of blood banks * Alan Emtage - inventor of Archie, the grandfather of search engines * James Naismith - BA 1887, inventor of basketball * Paul Moller - inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft * Frank Patrick - BA 1908, wrote much of the NHL rule book * Frank \"Shag\" Shaughnessy - McGill coach who revolutionised football by introducing the forward pass |
| * Norman Bethune - as "Bai Qiu'en," subject of essay by Mao Zedong; medical professor martyred in Chinese Revolution * Lawrence Moore Cosgrave - Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender * Ken Dryden - LLB '73, former Montreal Canadiens goalie * Jennifer Heil - 2004 and 2005 women's World Cup-winning skier * John Peters Humphrey - co-writer of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights * Seang Lin Tan - expert on reproductive medicine and founder of the McGill Reproductive Centre * Julie Payette - astronaut * Sidney Pierce - BA '22, BCL '25, LLD '56, 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries * Richard Pound - former Olympic swimmer, former International Olympic Committee vice president, chancellor of McGill * Robert Thirsk - astronaut * Dafydd Williams - astronaut * Jack Wright - MDCM ' 28, eleven-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in 1920s and 1930s |
| * Val Logsdon Fitch - Physics (1980) * David Hunter Hubel - Physiology (1981) * Rudolph Marcus - Chemistry (1992) * Ernest Rutherford - Chemistry (1908) * Andrzej W. Schally - Physiology (1977) * Frederick Soddy - Chemistry (1921) |
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I say, any facts to substantiate that an Ontario student had actually to pay more tuition than an American student at any time in history? In 1997 there was a lawsuit on this very issue where Ontario McGill studetns sued the government and lost. International studetns from ~50 countries can pay Quebec fees at McGill, which are much lower than the fees paid by other Canadians. See an article on the subject at http://www.unb.ca/bruns/9899/Issue6/News/differentials.html User:SimonP 12:11 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) But does this apply to American students? The article does not mention that. I attended McGill and I know for a fact that Americans pay international student fees. As for the students who get to pay Quebec tuition (not mention get Quebec medicare), yes, it's true... they exist. They're from countries like France, Norway etc. who have special reciprocal agreements with Quebec. I understand the agreement was something about encouraging investment in Quebec's hydropower or some such. - former McGill student. My mistake... your submission does not mention American students specifically but international students. However, I don't think I can accept the statement that McGill encourages international students over students from other provinces. McGill tuition, even with the out of province differential, is still lower than the local tuition at Ontario universities! (e.g. 4k/yr at McGill for out of province compared to 5k/yr local tuition at Queen's. I'm guessing it's higher at the U of T) The students who get to pay Quebec fees are from a select list of countries under special agreements; the rest of the international students pay international fees. -- Actually, tuition at U of T/Queen's and McGill are comparable. McGill's tuition for non-Quebec Canadians is $4,012.50, while U of T's tuition for Canadians (including Ontarians) is $4,185.00 and Queen's tuition is $4,193.00. (Of course, tuition for specialized programs--e.g., commerce/management, engineering--is higher.) * U of T link: http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_2_434_1.html * McGill link: http://www.mcgill.ca/applying/fees/ * Queen's link: http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/fees/ug-dom.html Also, international students who pay Quebec rates at McGill are generally from countries that were former French colonies (i.e., Ivory Coast, Vietnam), as the Quebec government has a reciprocal agreement with these countries. Though, a friend of mine was American but had a French passport (and thus, paid Quebec rates), and another friend of mine was also American, but was born in Quebec, and was also able to pay Quebec rates despite his citizenship. :Most of the time, tuition is based on how long you have lived somewhere, because of the taxes. Tuition in Canada is subsidized by taxes, so although you're a Canadian citizen, if you've lived in say the USA, you pay international rates. You have to live somewhere in Canada generally 3 years or more to get the "home rate". User:Spinboy 05:37, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::This is patently false, at least with respect to McGill, and probably other Quebec universities. When I was there, I had at least two friends who were Canadian citizens but spent most of their lives in the States, and paid Canadian tuition rates to attend. Not to mention, Quebec universities do have bilateral agreements with many countries, including France and Vietnam, to allow citizens of those countries to pay Quebec tuition rates (which are half of what "Canadians" pay and less than a quarter of what international students typically pay). User:Darkcore 06:10, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::I was more refering to Universities outside Quebec, from what I have seen. I do remember a big case in Quebec where students sued the government claiming that their paying more was unconstitutional. I believe they lost. User:Spinboy 06:14, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::The rules on Quebec tuition include some exceptions. Even if you hold the passport of a country with a reciprocal agreement, you are not eligible to pay Quebec tuition if, for example, you have done high school in a Canadian province other than Quebec. User:Kalanga 20:38, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Someone says on the Page that McGill is the 3rd oldest university in Canada after Dalhousie and Laval. Dalhousie is certainly older (1818 compared to 1821) but Laval was founded in 1852 (when the Seminaire du Quebec was granted a University Charter by Queen Victoria). I am not absolutely sure how McGill's age stacks up in Canada (and doubt it really matters!) but it is certainly older than Laval. However, the University of Kings College is older than both (founded in Windsor Nova Scotia in 1789 as the first university in Canada.) so McGill may actually be the third oldest! Someone who knows more than I do needs to fix this page! ---- The article currently states that McGill is a public institution, but Private school says: "Private schools, in the United States, Australia, Scotland, and other English-speaking countries, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds." According to this definition, McGill is a private school. It is: 1) In an English Speaking Country. 2) Not administered by local or National Government. 3) Funded in part by charging its students tuition. User:Adjusting 01:48, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC) :It's a public institution/school. --User:Spinboy 01:52, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::"Public school" is probably not the best description; it is a "public university," which means that it can either be a state-run system (like the Universite du Quebec) or a privately-managed school that is maintained by public funds (like McGill). When a school is publicly-funded (i.e., paid for largely through tax dollars), it is considered to be "public." Indeed, McGill charges lower tuition rates for Quebec residents than Canadians at large (another sign that it is a public university) whereas a private school would not make such a distinction. User:Darkcore 03:22, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Fraternity info== Factoid deleted from article with comment WP:WIN that might conceivably be useful: :McGill is also home to Canada's largest and oldest Fraternity. As soon as Zeta Psi came to Toronto, as the pioneer of Greek letter fraternities in Canada, her zealous brothers immediately conceived the idea of starting a sister chapter at their rival university. In those days, there was but a slender thread of communication between the two institutions, and the hopes of the Theta Xi might have thus been thwarted for many years had it not been for Robert Fulford Ruttan from Toronto, who decided in 1881 to pursue his medical studies at McGill. Ruttan, though not a Zete, numbered many of the active chapter at Varsity among his intimate friends, and they commissioned him to lay the groundwork for the foundation of a chapter in Montreal. He painstakingly collected a small group of enthusiastic fellow medical students and petitioned Grand Chapter to grant a charter to the fledgling group. The petition was successful, and on the morning of January 3, 1883, Bros. A.L. Cameron (then Phi of Theta Xi) and Henry Brook (Theta Xi, '81) arrived in Montreal to install the new chapter. It was to be called Alpha Psi. [http://www.zetapsimcgill.com/] This chapter has produced Conrad Harrington, Former Chancellor of McGill University, Eric Molson Chairman, Molson Beer Companies and in 1915, more than half the workers at the McGill Base Hospital were Zetes from Alpha Psi. ::Please sign your posts with four tides
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