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WELCOME CENTRE, McGILL UNIVERSITY Self-guided campus tour

1. 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. during weekdays. Please note that opening hours on 14. Rutherford Physics Bldg 32. 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 , 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 , 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.

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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- (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 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. Building symbolizes the fire that destroyed it in 1907, only nine years after it was first constructed. It was rebuilt in 1909. Birks Building (Divinity Hall) (13) Built in 1930 with the aid of a gener- The McConnell Engineering ous gift from William and Henry Birks Building was constructed in of Birks jewellery fame, this building 1959 and houses laboratories houses McGill’s ecumenical Faculty of and lecture halls belonging to Religious Studies. Don’t miss the the School of Computer Science stained glass windows in its beautiful and the Departments of interfaith chapel. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. It’s also home to Rutherford Physics (14) one of the world’s first automat- McGill’s second Physics building, Rutherford Physics first ed classrooms.You can find a cafeteria, an ice cream shop and opened its doors in 1977.The observatory on the roof a copy centre on the first floor. encloses a 16-inch telescope used in astronomy courses.The Rutherford Museum, commemorating famed researcher Sir Directly east of the McConnell Building are the Milton Ernest Rutherford, is also located in this building. Gates (11). From the McConnell main entrance, cross the street toward the Milton Gates Map, which you'll see on a Wong Building (15) signpost just inside the gates. Opened in 1997 and named for the late M. H.Wong, a McGill graduate in Find the Residences and the Athletics Complex on the map. Architecture, this building belongs to Four campus residences (commonly referred to collectively the Faculty of Engineering as “Upper Rez”) are located at the top of University Street, and houses the the street running perpendicular to Milton, just outside the Departments of Milton Gates. Mining, Metallurgical, Residences and the Athletics Complex are not included and Chemical in the campus tour. For more information, please see Engineering. pages 16-17. Trottier Building (16) ‘ From the Milton Gates map This new $17 million structure was completed in 2003. It features cutting-edge teaching facili- Up the hill from the Milton Gates Map, and to your right, you ties that help McGill meet the surging demand will see the following row of academic buildings from the for information technology and engineering rear (their main entrances all front onto University Street): professionals worldwide.

6 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 7 Strathcona Anatomy and Dawson Hall, dating to 1843, was one of the first buildings Dentistry (17) constructed on campus, and was originally the Principal’s pri- When McGill’s original vate residence.Today, the Dean of Arts’ Office is located in Medical Building (on the site what was once the living room.The building is named after of the current James Sir William Dawson, a world-famous Canadian geologist who Administration Building) served as McGill's Principal from 1855 to 1893. burned down in 1907, this Walk a few paces to the open space building was constructed to adjacent to Dawson Hall and look replace it in 1910. It served in that vocation for decades south toward the Roddick Gates. You before taking on its current role. Its construction was are now standing in front of the financed by Donald Smith, the 1st Baron Strathcona and Founder’s Tomb (20).In accor- , who also financed most of Royal Victoria dance with the terms of his will, College, still home to 280 female students today. Lord James McGill was originally buried Strathcona was largely responsible for the admission of alongside his long-time friend and fur-trading associate, John women to McGill in 1884. Porteous, in Montreal’s Old Protestant Cemetery.When the Back down the hill, the stone structure immediately to the cemetery was eradicated in 1875, the University obtained south of the Wong Building is the James Administration permission to transfer McGill’s tomb to the campus. Building (18).Named for F. Cyril James, who served as Now, turn around and you will be facing McGill’s landmark Principal of McGill from 1940 to 1962, the building was built Arts Building (21). Built in stages from 1837 in 1922 on the site of McGill’s original Medical Building and through 1860 (with later additions in 1880), the initially served as McGill’s Biology Building. It is currently Arts Building was originally known as McGill home to the Principal’s Office; the Admissions, Recruitment College or the Central Building. In and the Registrar’s Office; the Student Accounts Office; and 1860, it housed both class- the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office. rooms and residences for stu- You can find detailed information about McGill’s admis- dents of the Arts, Medicine and sion requirements on-line at www.mcgill.ca/applying. Law faculties.Today, this building Our Web-based application outlines admission require- is home to the departments of ments and provides links to residence and scholarship English and Art History, and information. most Arts students attend Past the James Administration Building, turn left and walk some classes here. along the sidewalk.To your immediate right you should see In his book Canadian Literary Landmarks, author John Robert Dawson Hall (19),which accommodates the Student Colombo calls the Arts Building one of Canada’s 36 most Affairs Office of the Faculties of Arts and Science. important literary landmarks. Students at McGill have an advisor who helps them Emblazoned on the floor of the Arts Building’s main lobby is choose courses and fulfill the requirements for their McGill’s famous coat of arms, and the university's degree.Arts and Science advising is available at Dawson Latin motto “Grandescunt Aucta Labore,” which Hall, while advising for other programs is given in their translates roughly as “By work, all things increase and respective faculty buildings. grow.”The motto is symbolized in the coat of arms by three martlets, mythical birds that are always in flight because

8 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 9 they have no feet upon which to rest.The white points above the martlets represent the three peaks of Mount Royal, and the fleurs-de-lys in the crown are symbolic of 4 Quebec’s French heritage. Most classes at McGill are taught in English; however, all exams and major papers can be written in English or French. 1 3 Moyse Hall (22) was built in 1925-27 as part of a series of renovations to the Arts Building. It was named after Dr. 2 Charles E. Moyse, who served McGill as its first Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Vice-Principal. Originally an English literature lecture hall, Moyse Hall is now exclusively used as a theatre, the largest on campus, seating 350 people.

Continue past the Arts Building.The structure tucked in the (1) Faculty of Education; (2) Chancellor Day Hall; (3) Stewart corner next to it is the (23), Biology Building; (4) MacIntyre Medical Building built in 1965, and named for famed author and humourist If you have time, you may wish to continue up the staircase Stephen Leacock, who taught at the top of McTavish Street.There you will find yourself at economics at McGill from the Dr. Penfield Avenue. Cross Dr. Penfield at the lights and early 1900s until 1944. walk up the continuation of McTavish to the The building houses humanities Faculty of Education. and social science classrooms and Pass the faculty’s garage professors’ offices. It also houses and basement-level Leacock 132, the largest auditori- entrance, and cut um on campus. Students attend- through their walkway ing large first-year classes held at to reach the main entrance or to continue on to Peel Leacock 132 are divided into small groups for conferences, Street. Immediately across Peel from the Faculty of tutorials or labs. Education, you’ll see a large circular structure, the Continue along the winding road past Leacock until you see McIntyre Medical Building,and its neighbour, the a staircase to your right. Climb the stairs and continue Stewart Biology Building, both part of the McGill Life straight ahead until you reach McTavish Street, and cross it. Sciences Complex. Cross Peel and continue down the hill. The large modern building on the corner is the Brown On your immediate right you will see Chancellor Day Student Services Building (24). It houses the First Year Hall,which houses the Faculty of Law. Office, the Office for Students with Disabilities, the Dean of Students’ Office, McGill Health and Mental Health Services, a dental clinic, the offices of the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU), Counselling and Tutorial Services, Financial Aid, the Career and Placement Service, and International Student Services.

10 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 11 ‘ From McTavish Desautels Faculty of Management’s BCom, MBA, and PhD To t he left of the Brown programs. Funds for construction of the building were donated Student Services Building is by the Bronfman family, founders of the Seagram Company the Student Union Ltd.The faculty itself received a $22 million gift in 2005 from Building, known officially as Marcel Desautels, CEO of the Canadian Credit Management the University Centre Foundation. (25) and unofficially as the “Shatner Building”. It is ‘ The McGill Library home to more SSMU offices, the and McGill Daily McGill With your back to the bookstore, cross McTavish Street campus newspapers, a travel agency, a food court, a Tr ibune again, walk under the overpass and up the stairway.You are computer store, a convenience store, a pub and a wide vari- now facing the main lower field of the campus, with two of ety of student clubs and organizations. McGill’s main library As you walk down McTavish Street, you’ll see Peterson branches surrounding Hall (26) to your right, named for Sir William Peterson, you. McGill has 13 McGill’s Principal from 1895 to 1919, and home to French branch libraries, all Language and Literature and Quebec Studies. connected to the same network. In total, Out-of-province or international students who want to com- they contain more plete an Honours program in French Language and than five million books Literature are eligible for the reduced and periodicals. Most Quebec-resident tuition rate. undergraduates will spend the majority of their time in the Continue to the bottom of McTavish, two main branches (Redpath and McLennan), which can be where you will see the McGill seen from your immediate location. McGill also has inter-uni- Bookstore (27), Eastern Canada’s versity library loan agreements with other university libraries largest university bookstore, on your across Canada. right.Textbooks and required read- The building on your right is the McLennan Library (29), ings can be found on the bookstore’s built in 1969, and home to the Humanities and Social basement level.The main floor features McGill insignia mer- Sciences Collection, the University Archives, the Graduate chandise and clothing, plus stationary supplies, greeting cards School of Library and Information Studies, and the Arts and other items.The second floor has a lounge, a café selling Multimedia Language Facility (AMLF). It is the largest library Starbucks coffee, and the McGill Computer Store. Both the branch on campus. second and third floors contain a vast selection of books and texts from the oldest Tur n to the left, so the lower field is classics to the latest on your right and your back is to bestsellers. McLennan’s main entrance.The stone building adjacent to McLennan is the Directly to the left of the Redpath Library (30). Both McGill Bookstore is the branches are mainly study libraries, Bronfman Building with carrels and group study areas. (28),built in 1972.The building is home to the

12 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 13 Just past the Redpath Library is the , they can Redpath Hall (31). Built in be found at the corner of University 1893, it was originally the uni- Street and Sherbrooke Street at 555 versity’s “Reading Room”. Now, Sherbrooke Street West. Officially due to its wonderful acoustics, it opened in September 2005, the New is used primarily as a concert Music Building is the world’s leading and reception hall, with more sound recording and music technology than 150 performances a year. Redpath Hall has housed a research facility. Faculty Dean Don working replica of an 18th century French organ since 1981. McLean says,“It will be to music what a giant wind tunnel or a particle accelera- Immediately past Redpath Hall, to your right you will see tor is to other research fields.” In 2005, the music faculty was McGill’s historic Redpath Museum (32),the first structure also the recipient of a $20 million gift from Canadian busi- in Canada actually designed as a museum. Open Sunday to nessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich. Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the museum is filled with fantastic natural history specimens, including a fossilized dinosaur skeleton and sev- ‘ eral mummies.The building Don’t forget that the downtown campus is only one part of is also notable as the origi- the McGill story. Located on the western part of the Island of nal location of separate Montreal, McGill’s Macdonald Campus is home to the Faculty classes for women when of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the School of they were first admitted to Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the Institute of Parasitology. McGill in 1884. It is also one of the three home bases for the McGill School of All three Redpath buildings Environment.This beautiful campus is situated 40 kilometres (25 were donated to McGill by Peter Redpath — owner of miles) from downtown, in the town of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Redpath Sugar and one of late 19th century Montreal's lead- and covers over 1,600 acres from lakeshore to forest. Apart ing citizens — and his wife Grace Wood. from the teaching and research facilities, the campus is home to the Morgan Arboretum, a working farm, student and staff ‘ And so the tour ends… This brings us to the end of the Self-Guided Campus Tour of McGill University’s downtown campus. If you have any ques- tions or comments about this brochure, or require additional information, do not hesitate to contact the Welcome Centre at 514-398-6555 or via e-mail at [email protected].

‘ …Or does it? Yo u may now wish to explore a few interesting buildings located outside the gated campus.We recommend the his- toric Strathcona Music Building (33) and the spectacu- lar New Music Building (34) right next door. Home to

14 McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR McGILL SELF-GUIDED CAMPUS TOUR 15 residences, and an extensive network of trails suitable for pedes- trians or cyclists.Visitors are welcome to wander around the campus, or guided tours can be booked by phone: 514-398-7925, by e-mail: [email protected], or on-line: 1 https://mcgillinmind.mcgill.ca/mcgill/campustours/macdonald.jsp.

2 ‘ University residences McGill Residences collectively house approximately 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students in dorms, apartments and shared facilities houses. Residence accommodation is guaranteed to all first-year undergraduate students admitted to McGill who con- firm their room (1) Molson Stadium; (2) Fieldhouse Complex reservation. Athletics Complex Undergraduate stu- dents receiving Molson Stadium is the home of the McGill Redmen renewable entrance Football Team and the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes. In 1874, scholarships are fur- the first game of North American-style football was played ther guaranteed here between McGill and Harvard, following McGill rules. In assignment to their 1875, McGill outdoor track students codified the rules for first choice of resi- ice hockey and, in 1891, a McGill graduate invented basket- dence. McGill offers ball.There has been a McGill athlete at every Olympics five co-ed and one all-female dormitory-style residences with since 1908. meal service. McGill’s Solin Hall and Greenbriar apartments, The Fieldhouse Complex and shared-facilities MORE houses are popular with students is a completely renovated seeking a more independent style of residence living. Most gymnasium, with two double residence rooms are singles, with the exception of the New gymnasiums, four multi-pur- Residence Hall, in which almost all rooms are doubles. pose courts, a 200-metre six- For more information regarding McGill University’s lane indoor track, a 25-metre Residences, please see www.mcgill.ca/residences. pool with three diving boards, and a newly-expanded 10,000-square-foot fitness centre. Off-Campus Housing Service There are numerous inter-collegiate and intramural sports Located at 3641 University Street, this service provides stu- available to all students on campus. If you would like more dents who are not interested in residence, or who have information about McGill’s Department of Athletics, please decided to move out of residence, with up-to-date lists of phone 514-398-7000 or visit www.mcgill.ca/athletics on-line. available housing. It gives advice on leases and where to buy second-hand furniture, helping thousands of students yearly. Please see www.mcgill.ca/offcampus for more information. Thank you for visiting McGill University! Revised September 2006. Published by the Admissions, Recruitment and Registrar’s Office (ARR).This publication is available online at www.mcgill.ca/visiting. Design: Eliot Edwards Printed in Canada 2e

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