Self -Guided CAMPUS T UR WELCOME CENTRE, McGILL UNIVERSITY Self-guided campus tour 1. Roddick Gates 19. Dawson Hall Self-Guided Campus Tour 2. Otto Maass Chemistry Bldg 20. Founder’s Tomb 3. Burnside Place 21. Arts Bldg 4. Statue of James McGill 22. Moyse Hall This brochure is designed to assist you as you explore 5. Macdonald-Stewart Library 23. Leacock Bldg 6. Frank Dawson Adams Bldg 24. Brown Student Services Bldg McGill University’s downtown campus.The tour takes 7. Ye llow security pole 25 Student Union Bldg approximately one hour and highlights some of the key 8. Macdonald-Harrington Bldg 26. Peterson Hall 9. Macdonald Engineering Bldg 27. McGill Bookstore sites on campus. 10. McConnell Engineering Bldg 28. Bronfman Bldg 11. Milton Gates 29. McLennan Library 12. Wilson Hall 30. Redpath Library The Welcome Centre provides guided tours (by appointment) 13. Birks Bldg 31. Redpath Hall during weekdays. Please note that opening hours on 14. Rutherford Physics Bldg 32. Redpath Museum 15. Wong Bldg 33. Strathcona Music Bldg weekdays for most campus buildings are from 9:00 a.m. 16. Trottier Bldg 34. New Music Bldg 17. Strathcona Anatomy Bldg 35. New Residence Bldg to 5:00 p.m.and for residences from 9:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m. 18. James Administration Bldg Saturday & Sunday: McGill buildings and residences are 17 closed on the weekend.The Athletics complex is accessible 35 on weekends to members only. 16 Enjoy the tour! 15 14 Welcome to McGill University! Located in the heart of downtown Montreal, McGill’s downtown campus covers over 80 acres of land. Our reputation rests on strong academics and we pride 18 13 ourselves on being international in outlook, composition and quality. McGill’s 21 faculties and professional schools 12 offer programs in 300 areas of study.There are more than 32,000 students enrolled at McGill, including more than 22 21 19 11 22,000 studying at the undergraduate level. Fifty-seven 10 23 20 per cent are from Quebec, 24 per cent from other 24 32 9 provinces in Canada, six per cent from the United States 25 and 13 per cent from more than 150 other countries. 31 8 26 6 7 30 5 27 4 3 29 2 33 34 28 1 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 1 Lively and sophisticated, friendly and affordable, Montreal is The tall building immediately next door is home to a vibrant nightlife; an excellent subway system; inex- Burnside Hall (3),which was built in 1970 pensive housing; international festivals celebrating jazz, come- and named for the original country home of dy and film; major museums; a world-renowned symphony university founder James McGill. It houses the orchestra; and more than 5,000 restaurants — a few featur- Departments of Geography, Mathematics, and ing world-famous smoked meat and bagels. It’s easy to see Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences. Burnside why Montreal is regularly cited as one of the world’s best also maintains McGill’s century-long tradition places to live. of weather observation through sophisticated monitoring equipment mounted on the The tour begins… building’s roof. The tour begins at McGill University’s Roddick Gates (1)* In Room 155 of Burnside Hall’s main lobby, you will find at the intersection of Sherbrooke Street and McGill College McGill’s Welcome Centre, the natural first stop for visi- Avenue.There is a useful campus tors looking for directions, campus tour information, map located just in front of the gates; brochures and maps. Feel free to drop in anytime during we recommend you have a look. regular business hours, Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (excluding statutory holidays.) Please see The gates were named in memory of www.mcgill.ca/visiting for more information. Sir Thomas Roddick, a surgeon who introduced antiseptic practice at the As you continue up the sidewalk, you will see the Statue of Montreal General Hospital in 1877. James McGill (4) immediately to your right. He was also a Dean of Medicine at McGill and founded the Medical The Statue of James McGill Council of Canada in 1912. He was a stickler for punctuality, Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1744, James McGill emigrated hence the clocks on the gates! to North America in his teens and settled permanently in Montreal in his early twenties. He and his brother, Andrew, Let’s start walking! established a prosperous fur trading business With the Roddick Gates at your back, start walking straight and, in 1776, James married Charlotte up the right–hand of the sidewalk of the main campus road. Desrivières. He was active in civil politics The shorter building located just to your right is the Otto and fought in the War of 1812. As a Maass Chemistry Building (2). It contains labs and class- Brigadier in the Montreal Militia, he was rooms used by both undergraduate and graduate chemistry responsible for the city’s defence against students. It was named for Professor Otto Maass, a promi- forces from the United States. nent Chairman of the Department of Chemistry who was McGill was also very interested in educa- active in research during World War II.Well over 1,000 stu- tion and, in 1813, he willed his Burnside dents have received PhDs in McGill’s chemistry program. Joe Estate and £10,000 sterling to the Royal Schwarz, the director of McGill’s Office for Science and Institution for the Advancement of Society, writes columns on the chemistry of everyday things Learning, to found a college named for the Montreal Gazette and the Washington Post and appears after him within ten years of his death. He passed away two regularly on the Discovery Channel. years later, in 1815, and McGill University was chartered in 1821. At the time, Montreal was a town of approximately * Numbers correspond to the campus map 2 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 3 12,000 people, all of whom lived close the Departments of Geology and Earth Sciences, and is also to the shores of the St. Lawrence frequently used for first-year courses and popular electives River.The Burnside Estate was actually since it includes the second largest auditorium on campus. quite remote from the city proper, and practically inaccessible in winter. We take your security seriously This is almost impossible to imagine today, since the McGill campus is now Continue walking north until you reach a three-way fork in at the centre of downtown Montreal. the main McGill road.The yellow security pole (7) on your right is part of a network of security phones located strategically across the campus. McGill Further ahead Security personnel are present on Immediately behind the Statue of James McGill, on the cor- campus at all times, both on foot ner across from Burnside, you will see the Macdonald- and in security vehicles.There are Stewart Library Building (5), home of the Schulich also two important student volun- Library of Science and Engineering. Originally called the teer organizations with a focus on security: Physics Building when it was constructed in 1893, it was here Drive Safe volunteers drive students by car anywhere in that Sir Ernest Rutherford demonstrated that radioactivity Montreal following campus events, while their counterparts was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms, and discovered at Walk Safe accompany students who find themselves alone radioactive half-life and alpha, beta and gamma rays, all of at night on foot or on public transit after dark. which earned him the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sir Rutherford's original hand-made experimental appa- Midcampus ratus is still housed in McGill’s Rutherford Museum, which is open to group visits by appointment. Please see Yo u are now standing in the middle of the campus.The large www.physics.mcgill.ca/museum/rutherford_museum.htm grass field, or “lower field”, across from you is a popular loca- for more information. tion for sports, tanning and reading heavy books! It’s also the home base of Frosh Week, The Macdonald-Stewart Library Building was constructed where groups of first year with copper instead of iron or steel to avoid interference students are teamed with with experiments into electricity and magnetism.The building senior students to explore changed vocation in 1977, with the completion of the univer- McGill and Montreal before sity’s new Physics Building. the semester begins. In winter, Recessed directly to the left of the Macdonald-Stewart the lower field is a hot spot Library Building is the Frank for events including Carnival Dawson Adams Building (6), and SnoAP,a Students' or FDA, as it is known to students. Society winter ritual held on Built in 1951 and recently renovat- the lower campus every ed, the building is named for Frank January. Dawson Adams, a geologist and Directly past the yellow pole Dean of Applied Science and to the left of FDA, you will see the Macdonald- (Engineering), and later Vice- Harrington Building (8).Built in 1896, it was McGill’s Principal of McGill. It is home to 4 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 5 original Chemistry Building, and now houses the School of Wilson Hall (12) Architecture and Urban Planning.There is a popular student- Named after former university run café in its basement. Chancellor Morris Wilson, Wilson Hall originally served Continue walking along the sidewalk to your right and then as a student residence in the cross the street so you are still on the right-hand side of the 1940s and ’50s but, in 1962, it road.The two stone structures to your right are the was refurbished to accommo- Macdonald (9) and McConnell (10) Engineering date the Schools of Nursing Buildings.The phoenix on the south face of the Macdonald and Social Work, a function it still serves today.