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Monklands Then, Villa Maria Now: The Story of a Convent School Which Grew from the Estate of Sir James Monk to a Modern, Private High School
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Monklands Then, Villa Maria Now: The Story of a Convent School Which Grew from the Estate of Sir James Monk to a Modern, Private High School
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In 1795, James Monk, Chief Justice of Lower Canada, purchased an estate in Montreal, fronting on what is today boulevard Décarie. Sir James Monk willed the property known as "Monklands" to his niece, Elizabeth Ann Monk. In 1844, the family leased Monklands to the Crown as a residence for the Governors General of Canada. Three Governors General - Sir Charles Metcalfe, Lord Cathcart and Lord Elgin - resided at Monklands. The estate was later turned into a country hotel for five years. In 1854, the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame purchased Monklands to open a boarding school for girls. They called it Villa Maria. The first enrollment of forty-five students was a mixture of French and English students. For many years the classes were taught in French in the morning, and in English in the afternoon. Today the school remains a bilingual private Catholic high school. In 2016, the school became co-educational.
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Montreal
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Congregation of Notre-Dame
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2004
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en
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Lanthier, Helen. Monklands Then, Villa Maria Now: The Story of a Convent School Which Grew from the Estate of Sir James Monk to a Modern, Private High School. Montreal: Congregation of Notre-Dame, 2004.
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