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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.
McGill College Avenue (officially in French: avenue McGill College) is a street in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Named for McGill University, the street was widened in the 1980s and transformed into a scenic avenue with McGill's Roddick Gates on Sherbrooke Street at its north end and the Place Ville Marie plaza at its south end.
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 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 ...
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.
The Rare Book Collection is located on the fourth floor of Mclennan Library. McGill began collecting rare materials in the 1850s, and now constituting rich and highly diverse research collections. These collections are used to aid teaching, learning and research for McGill students and the general public from all fields of study.
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