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The Macdonald Campus coat of arms honours Sir William Macdonald, the major benefactor of McGill's agricultural college: The colour of the field (gold) and the arm holding a cross (red) are from the second quarter of the arms of Sir William Macdonald, the tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded the College.
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815 Sherbrooke Street West, on McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. Designed and built in Renaissance Revival style by Sir Andrew Taylor between 1896 and 1897, [ 1 ] Macdonald-Harrington was one of the many donations made ...
Macdonald Campus under construction in 1906. A second campus, the Macdonald Campus, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue houses the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, the Institute of Parasitology, and the McGill School of Environment. As of fall 2020, despite a decrease in enrollment from the ...
The carved phoenix rising from the flames is one of the few ornaments on a building constructed specifically for fire-proof functionality. Although the phoenix is easy to overlook, the Macdonald Engineering Building is a mainstay on the east side of McGill's downtown campus. [5] Faculty of Engineering Launched (1931)
The School of Architecture is located inside the Macdonald-Harrington Building, designed by Sir Andrew Taylor, on the McGill University downtown campus. [6] The School of Urban Planning , which became independent from the School of Architecture in 1970, occupies the fourth floor. [ 7 ]
McGill University Library is the library system of McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. It comprises 13 branch libraries, located on the downtown Montreal and Macdonald [2] campuses, holding over 11.78 million items. [3] It is the fourth-largest research intensive academic library in Canada. [4]
McGill University's second campus, the Macdonald Campus, has its own coat of arms. It is partly derived from the arms of Sir William Macdonald, who founded the campus, and it also borrows from the university's coat of arms. The Macdonald Campus emblem consists of a shield with a scroll beneath it, like the university's emblem.
Sir John Abbott Macdonald College's Main Building in the 1940s. The college was accredited in 1970 and opened the next year. It is housed in early 20th-century buildings on a 1,600 acres (650 ha) campus shared with McGill University's Macdonald College.