James McGill and the University of McGill College
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James McGill and the University of McGill College
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| Abstract |
The Scottish-born Montreal fur trader James McGill (1744-1813) left at his death £10,000 and his Montreal Burnside estate of some 46 acres towards the endowment of a college or a university, specifying that the college or one of the colleges of the university should bear the name McGill. The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, the agency of the provincial government responsible for schools, was required to open the college or university on the Burnside site before the bequest became operative. It was not till 1821 that a charter was obtained and not till 1829 that teaching began in what is now McGill University.
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Barnard's American Journal of Education
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Vol. 13
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188-199
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1863
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en
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| Citation |
Dawson, John W. “James McGill and the University of McGill College.” Barnard’s American Journal of Education Vol. 13 (1863): 188–199.
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