Montreal High School is an English-language high school founded in 1843 serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in what eventually became known as the Golden Square Mile. It's less formally known as Montreal High School and 1853-1870 is called McGill College High School , or High School Division .
Founded as a school for boys only, girls were first accepted in 1875, though for a separate division called High School for Women , and a new building shared by both opened in 1878. In the last century school took children from grade one to twelve. In 1915, after occupying several different places, the school moved into a new neoclassical building on University Street, near the McGill University campus. Girls and boys are taught in separate wing buildings and also separate for school sports, but come together for some activities. The two divisions were united into one school in 1965.
The school closed in June 1979, largely as a result of a decline in the English-speaking population. Immediately after that, F.A.C.E. School moved to an empty place, to join SMA MIND on the third floor.
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Origins
The school was founded in 1843 by a group of Montreal professionals and traders who saw the need for Protestant secondary schools honoring the idea of ​​19th century education. It was modeled at Royal High School, Edinburgh. Some of the founders, led by James Ferrier, with William Lunn, William Collis Meredith, David Torrance, and Reverend Henry Esson, are of Scottish Presbyterian descent, and one of their goals in founding schools is to provide solutions for Growing Anglicanism in education at that time. In short, they see the need for a means of access to McGill College that is not controlled by Church of England supporters.
In August 1843, The Gentleman's Magazine reported, under 'Civil Preferences', "Rev. GF Simpson became the Rector of the General College of Canada, to be established in Montreal", indicating that the name of the school still has to be decided.
The school was first organized as a private institution, under the Board of Directors.
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History
The first principal, Reverend George Foster Simpson, MA, is an English youth, graduate and former scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, born in 1811. He opened the school in November 1843 at Bingham House, which had been hired. by school directors, and in a few months, 167 boys have been registered. The year-end ceremony in the summer of 1844, led by Peter McGill, with Lord Metcalfe to present the prize, was held in the great hall of the Bingham House ballroom. Children at school in the early days included Thomas White, George Holt Henshaw, George Washington Stephens, Andrew Gault, later called Cotton King of Canada, and Charles Hamilton, the first Archbishop of Ottawa.
In 1846 the school moved into a new building built on La GauchetiÃÆ'¨re Street. That same year, at the death of the elderly Alexander Skakel, Master of the Montreal Grammar School, for many of the city's leading high schools, the high school council petitioned for Skakel's salary to be transferred there, and thus absorbed the Royal Grammar School. Newton Bosworth, describing the school in guidance to Montreal 1846, reported that they had accommodation for between three and four hundred students, that the Rector had several capable assistants, and that the cost was Ã,  £ 10 per year "in more branches high. "and Ã,  £ 6 a year in the" preparatory branch ". On 28 July 1847 a Provincial Statute was enacted which allocated revenues from the Jesuit Final Plantation to the educational institution around Quebec, and the first item listed in the schedule was "For Salaries and Allowances for Hire, until now paid to Master of the Grammar School in Montreal, will be allowed to the Board of Directors of the College in Montreal, for the reason that they are educating twenty free graduates of the poor class... Ã,  £ 282-4s-6d ". Not long afterwards, the directors received  £ 98-3s-6d as a grant balance for 1846, and also Ã,  £ 141-2s-3d for the six months ended June 30, 1847.
In 1850, Foster resigned as Rector and returned to England, where he became headmaster of Lincoln Grammar School, but died suddenly in 1857. In 1853 school control was given to McGill, and it was renamed the College McGill College. The Prospectus McGill for 1863 states that "The Department of High School offers a comprehensive English education, with French and German, and Classical and Mathematics training necessary to enter the College program."
In 1864, during the American Civil War, upon hearing St Albans Raid from Montreal to the US by the Confederate army, the school organized a company called Montreal High School Cadet Rifles. It continued to operate for about twenty years and was disappointed not to be mobilized during the Fenian raids between 1866 and 1871.
In September 1870, control of the school was moved again, this time to the Protestant Councils. Soon afterwards, JW Dawson, the principal of McGill's school, began pressuring the Protestant Council to create high school for girls, and in 1875 it emerged as a separate division, with "headmaster" and four other teachers, all trained at McGill Normal School. This is made possible by the local school tax and a boost for new building planning, opened in 1878. To begin, girls classes have been taught in private homes. Separate girls' schools continued in the common buildings until 1965, when for the first time the divisions for boys and girls united under one principal. Secondary Schools Children provide primary and secondary education, with a junior division called Secondary School Preparation. Women's schools did not initially belong to the elementary class, which came several years later in the new building, and by 1878 the school population was 241 boys and 226 girls.
There was a fierce dispute in 1880 when the Protestant School Council decided to stop teaching Latin in the first two forms and to limit Greece, Algebra, and Geometry to the latter two forms. This is opposed by the elderly Rector, Dr. Aspinall Howe, but is supported by several parents and staff. On 28 November 1890 disputes between those who believed in classical education, including Latin and Greek, and those who supported a greater focus on science, culminated in the burning schoolhouse on Peel Street. No cause has ever been identified for the fire. Dr Howe, a fierce enemy to move away from the classical language, quickly submitted his resignation, came into effect since the end of the school year. The successful applicant, Elson I. Rexford, is the English Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction. A new school building was built in a lost location and opened in the fall of 1892.
The school has been described as a "high school for the city's Protestant elite", but as reported by Margaret W. Westley, "In 1906, the Protestant School Board Commissioners operated fifteen publicly funded primary schools and three secondary schools, some located close to the population Square Mile, the most famous is the Montreal High School, one of the most frequent comments made by graduates about the Montreal High School is that there is one who meets and knows people from all walks of life and all backgrounds, something untrue from school private. "
However, in 1906 Rector and Teacher Wellington Dixon, who had replaced Rexford in 1903, reported "High School is not free, supported by fees paid by students, Government grants of $ 2,000, and with grants from tariffs In return for a $ 2,000 Government grant, thirty free dues are ordered by the Lieutenant Governor, not on the results of the examination, but under certain conditions of good conduct, etc... High School (Protestant) does not limit itself to advanced students, it is said before, Elementary School is free, but Secondary Schools take children in kindergarten and elementary school if parents are willing to pay high school fees, except in the case of the scholarship that has been mentioned, is the school for parents' children who are willing to pay the fee. students in attendance, 550 are in High School, and 650 in kindergarten and elementary school, all the last paying costs.
In 1906 the school had three separate subjects for students, the first two being Classical and Scientific, which run in parallel, and the other Commercial. The aim of the Classical and Scientific course is to prepare children for higher education and professions. Believing in the principle of mens there in the corpore sano, the school aims to develop body and mind, and in its place on University Street has its own swimming pool, two gymnasiums, shooting galleries, and a game room, as well as a library, auditorium, and planetarium.
During the First World War, 1,150 former high school students and staff went to war in Europe, and 141 of them were killed. Their names are still listed on the board in the schoolhouse foyer at 3449 University Street. One former schoolboy, Dr. F. A. C. Scrimger, was awarded Victoria Cross in 1915 for extraordinary courage under enemy fire.
After sharing the building since the 1870s, the Montreal High School for Girls and High Schools eventually became a school in 1965. Nevertheless, in the autobiography Victor Malarek reported that in the mid-sixties schools remained segregated by sex.
In the late 1970s, with schools under the control of the Larger Montreal Protestant School Council, a decision was made to cover it with the effect of June 1979, largely due to the decline of the English-speaking population in the area. Furthermore, F.A.C.E. who mostly speak French. School (Art Pure Core Education) moved to an empty place. Like high school, FACE is a primary and secondary school.
Building
The first house of the school is Bingham House, the former viceroy deputy in the corner of Notre Dame and St Denis Streets. In 1845 a new schoolhouse began at La GauchetiÃÆ'¨re Street, with the entrance at Belmont Street, then the Normal School of McGill, with its foundation laid by Lord Metcalfe, the Governor General, and in 1846 the High School moved into it. The new schoolhouse, designed by John Ostell, is described as "in the domestic approach to the architectural style of the Tudor" and sixty meters by nineteen, excluding a projected thirteen-foot portico, with a Lecture and Examination Room of nineteen square meters. Shortly after, the Royal Grammar School joined the Montreal High School there, following the death of the Master.
In 1863 the school moved again, to the new building which later became known as the Fraser Library and Institute, and in 1870, the building acquired and occupied Burnside Hall, built in the 1850s to be used as the McGill College of art. In 1878, to bring boys and girls school together under the same roof, came a new building on Metcalfe Road, but Burnside Hall was not sold until 1883. The new Metcalfe Street building also faces Peel Street.
In 1890, the school buildings on Jalan Peel and Metcalfe were burned, probably burning cases, but the cause was never determined. A new school on the same site opened in 1892. Meanwhile, classes were divided between schools on Metcalfe Street and Berthelet Street and Fraser Institute. The new building on Peel Street has thirty-two classrooms, a room in the south wing for girls and in the north wing for boys. The corridors led to the heart of the central administration, with gates that were covered with iron spikes to separate girls and boys. The site at 1455 Peel Street was later occupied by the Mount Royal Hotel, which in 1980 was turned into the current Les Cours Mont-Royal.
In 1911, with a growing school, a site for new buildings was acquired, and in 1914 construction began from the last house of the school, at 3449 University Street. The school was able to move during September 1915. Built in the style of Beaux-Arts neoclassical architecture, used for many public buildings at the time, but unusual for schools in Montreal, the new school was designed by William Sutherland Maxwell and his brother Edward Maxwell, who leading the Canadian architect who is also responsible for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts nearby. Both are former school students. Finally completed in 1924, the building is shaped like the letter H and was originally planned to provide wings for boys and girls joining smaller central blocs, where joint activities will take place. The flourishing ones include four high caryatids above the main entrance and other decorative features, while the ladder design is believed to be unique, with separate dual flights, one for riding and one for down, which does not intersect. The auditorium is wood-paneled. The new building provided more than sixty classrooms, on five floors, taking children from grades one through twelve.
The school was the first in Montreal to have its own pool, completed in 1924 in the basement of the new University Street building. There is also a shooting gallery, where sixteen people can shoot at a target as far as 25 yards, but initially only used by children, as well as space for sloyds. The library is common ground, but the physics and chemistry laboratories are on the boy's wing. Art is taught in separate rooms, and although the pool is shared, girls and boys use it at different times. Initially there was only one gymnasium, for boys, but soon the school auditorium was transformed into a women's fitness center and a new auditorium was added behind the H-block. There are two gymnasiums in the basement and two large recreation areas on the school's flat roof, each with a view of the city and a view closer to each other.
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