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He is the ancestor of 35,000 living North Americans, and ancestor of the entire population of families with the surname Labelle, through his daughter Anne. There are only two surviving records for the family name of Charbonneau: one for Olivier and his wife, landing in 1659, and another for an unrelated man, Jean and his wife, around 1675.
The McGill family originated in Ayrshire and had been living in Glasgow for two generations by the time James was born at the family home on Stockwell Street. The McGills were metalworkers and, from 1715 onward, burgesses of the city and members of the Hammermen's Guild, James' father having served as deacon.
Depiction of the Bonsecours Market and Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal, 1853.. Montreal was established in 1642 in what is now the province of Quebec, Canada.At the time of European contact the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete and distinct group of Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people.
Higher Education in Quebec was established at the base of Mont Royal in Montreal when James McGill left £10,000 and a forty-six acre estate for the founding of a university in 1821. Eight years later classes at McGill University began when a Montreal medical school was merged with McGill. [10]
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.
1992 – World Trade Centre Montreal completed. 1992 – Aéroports de Montréal founded. 1992 – Lion de la Feuillée was donated by the city of Lyon on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Montreal. 1993 – Casino de Montréal opened. 1995 – Unity rally held in advance of the Quebec independence referendum. 1996 – Fantasia Festival ...
John Abbott College (French: Collège John Abbott) is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal. [1] John Abbott College is one of eight English public colleges in Quebec. The college primarily serves the Greater Montreal Region.
Loyola College was a Jesuit college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1896 and ceased to exist as an independent institution in 1974 when it was incorporated into Concordia University. [1] A portion of the original college remains as a separate entity called Loyola High School.