CHAPTER XI

THE LARGER MCGILL OF OUR DAY

In writing of the final epoch in McGill's first century, and the larger

McGill of our day, we must of necessity be brief. We are too close to

that epoch justly to judge its significance, or to give to the events

and the incidents of which it is made up the fair and adequate reference

which they doubtless deserve. Only the passing of the years can place

them in their true perspective. Any estimate of them in our day would

perhaps be proved false by time. Matthew Arnold said: "No man can trust

himself to speak of his own time and his own contemporaries with the

same sureness of judgment and the same proportion as of times and men

gone by." The growth and development of McGill, then, during the last

quarter of a century will be here given in bare outline only. The

details of that growth are vivid in the memory of living men.

In May, 1895, Dr. William Peterson, Principal of University College,

Dundee, Scotland, was appointed to succeed Sir William Dawson as

Principal of McGill University, and at the opening of the session in the

following September he arrived in Montreal to begin his work. The new

Principal was born in Edinburgh in May, 1856. He received his education

at the Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he

graduated in 1875 with Honours in Classics. On his graduation he was

awarded the Greek Travelling Fellowship, and after a period of study on

the continent he entered Oxford University for further post-graduate

courses in Classics. On leaving Oxford he was appointed Assistant to the

Professor of the Humanities in Edinburgh University. Two years later, in

1882, he was appointed to the Principalship of University College,

Dundee, which included among its other duties the Professorship of

Classics and Ancient History. Thirteen years later he became Principal

of McGill.

The twenty-four years during which Principal Peterson guided the

destinies of McGill were years of steady growth and development. They

were years, too, of notable and generous gifts from men of wealth and

vision who believed in the value of education and of the beneficent

influence of McGill in Canada and the world. Soon after Principal

Peterson's appointment two projects for which his predecessor, Sir

William Dawson, had planned were carried to completion. Both of these

were made possible by the loyal aid of two benefactors who had already

contributed greatly to the expansion of the University. William C.

Macdonald had already given the Macdonald Engineering Building and the

Macdonald Physics Building for the advancement of Applied Science. He

now added to these the Macdonald Chemistry and Mining Building with full

equipment for the carrying on of courses which, we have seen, Dr.

Harrington had originated years before in the cramped and poorly

furnished rooms in the narrow corridor of the Arts Building. The

building was opened on December 20, 1898. The Faculty of Applied Science

had now passed from small beginnings and inadequate accommodation to a

complete organization and a modern home. On September 4th, 1899, the

Royal Victoria College for women was formally opened. It was the gift of

Lord Strathcona, formerly Sir Donald Smith, who, in 1884, had made

possible the establishment of the first courses for women given in

McGill, and who, in 1886, had made provision for the complete four

years' courses in Arts, the Donalda courses leading to the B.A. degree.

The former Principal, Sir William Dawson, lived to see realised the two

dreams for the fulfilment of which he had worked so arduously--the

completion of the Science Buildings and the erection of a women's

College as part of the University.

[Illustration: _Dr. Charles E. Moyse

Vice-Principal of McGill University_

1903-1920]

Over the period that followed since the turn of the century we may pass

briefly. It was a period of continued development, not always, however,

without its discouragements and problems which need not be here

recorded. But disappointments and obstacles were met by Dr. Peterson

with courage and energy and hope. The result was progress. The Medical

Faculty, which had grown beyond its quarters, needed more room if it was

to keep pace with modern research and with the increased number of its

students. Lord Strathcona, who had given the first Medical endowment

fund in 1882, again came to the rescue, and in September, 1901, a new

wing to the Medical Building was opened. In October, 1904, the

Conservatorium of Music was established. Later, by the will of Sir

William Macdonald, it was left an endowment fund which placed it on an

independent basis and enabled it to be expanded into a Faculty of the

University. In 1903 Dr. Alexander Johnson, who had been

Vice-Principal for seventeen years, retired and was succeeded by Charles

E. Moyse, Professor of English. In the spring of 1907 two disastrous

fires occurred; in April, within eleven days of each other, the

Macdonald Engineering Building and the largest part of the Medical

Building were destroyed. Again the University's two great benefactors

came to its assistance. Sir William Macdonald replaced the Engineering

Building with a new building which was opened on April 27th, 1909, and

Lord Strathcona provided for the erection of the new Medical Building,

which was opened on June 5th, 1911.

Meanwhile Sir William Macdonald had undertaken to provide in connection

with the University an institution intended to meet the needs of the

country at large, particularly the rural districts, and to afford better

facilities for the training of teachers. With this object in view he

founded, in 1907, Macdonald College, at St. Anne de Bellevue, twenty

miles from Montreal. It was designed to include three schools, one for

Agriculture, one for Household Science and one for Normal Training. The

gift for buildings, grounds, consisting of nearly eight hundred acres,

equipment and endowment amounted to over six million dollars. The

College was incorporated in the University as the Faculty of

Agriculture.

There were many other gifts from Sir William Macdonald during this

period. In 1909 an attempt was made by a syndicate to purchase the block

known as the Joseph property at the southwest corner of the College yard

or campus, for the purpose of building an hotel. The Principal was

alarmed. He appealed to Sir William, whose pride was great in McGill

and in the buildings he had erected. Sir William had no desire that the

grounds of McGill should become the backyard of an hotel, however

exclusive. He at once purchased the corner, and presented it to the

University, thus completing the McGill square and providing a home for

the McCord National Museum. Two years later he purchased, as he said,

"for a playground for McGill students, the grown-up children of all

Canada," the Frothingham, Molson and Law properties, consisting of

twenty-five acres, just east of the Royal Victoria Hospital and the

Medical Building. This property, known as Macdonald Park, is the

athletic centre of the University. In October, 1920, the Stadium in this

park was formally opened. It was the gift of Percival Molson, B.A., who

graduated in Arts in 1901, and who was killed in action in front of

Avion, near Lens, on July 3rd, 1917, while serving as a Captain in the

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The McGill Union, erected

on Sherbrooke Street, as a centre of student activities, was also the

gift of Sir William Macdonald, McGill's greatest benefactor, whose

donations to the University during the Principalships of Sir William

Dawson and Sir William Peterson amounted to over twelve million and a

half of dollars. In 1912 the four affiliated Theological Colleges formed

a co-operating Divinity School in affiliation with the University for

the instruction of joint classes, and Divinity Hall on University Street

was opened.

The last five years of Sir William Peterson's Principalship were the

years of war tragedy. When the war came in 1914 the University gave all

its energy to the allied cause. When the trumpet blew for freedom, the

Principal, although he could not actually enter the combatant lists,

gave all his strength unstintingly. The part taken by McGill in the war

cannot be here detailed; it must be left for another story. Only the

bare outline need be mentioned. When the war cloud broke, the Canadian

Officers Training Corps already in connection with the University was

reorganised, and grounds and buildings became centres of military

activity. In the spring of 1915 the McGill General Hospital, known later

as No. 3 (McGill) went overseas. It was a distinctively McGill unit. It

was organised within the Medical Faculty. All its officers were members

of the teaching staff or graduates of the Medical School. The nurses

were graduates of either the Royal Victoria Hospital or the Montreal

General Hospital, and practically all the men in the unit were drawn

from the student body. Early in the following year a heavy artillery

unit was organised within the University, and was permitted by the

Militia department to use the name McGill until its arrival in France.

It was also allowed to embody the McGill crest with the artillery badge.

It was organised as No. 6 (McGill) Siege Battery, but after its arrival

at the front it was known as No. 7 Battery, Canadian Siege Artillery.

The Commanding Officer and the second in command were members of the

teaching staff of the University; the other officers and

non-commissioned officers were largely graduates, and more than half the

gunners were McGill students. Because of rapid promotions and consequent

transfers of officers and men, as well as of the usual circumstances and

changes of war, this unit lost before the end of hostilities its

distinctively McGill character. The majority of McGill men in the

original unit received commissions. Five full companies of infantry and

part of a sixth were recruited in the University. They were known as

"The University Companies," and were sent to the front as reinforcements

for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The majority of the

officers of these companies and a large number of the men were graduates

or students of McGill. The 148th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, recruited

in Montreal, although not under the authority of the University, was

affiliated with the McGill Canadian Officers Training Corps, and a large

number of its officers and men were members of that organization. Later,

two reinforcement drafts were organized in the University and each

contained a large proportion of students. One was a heavy artillery

draft, which on arrival in England in the autumn of 1917 was absorbed

into the artillery pool and was used to supply new siege artillery

batteries about to be organised or to reinforce field and heavy

batteries already at the front. The other draft was recruited for the

Tank Battalion raised in the universities of Canada. But apart from the

men in the units and drafts organized in the University, McGill men,

students, graduates and professors, were found in practically every

branch of the service, whether army or navy. The attendance of students

in the University was reduced to a minimum; the teaching staff was

depleted. In all, over twenty-five hundred McGill men enlisted. Three

hundred and forty-one were killed in action, or died of wounds or

disease; five hundred and twenty-two were wounded; three hundred and

eighty-two received decorations or honours, two of which were the

Victoria Cross. In recognition of its services in the allied cause the

University received a grant of one million dollars from the Carnegie

Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. McGill's war record, tragic

but glorious, is one of her proudest possessions.

Principal Peterson's health had been impaired even before the war by the

cares of an active and busy life spent unsparingly in the interests and

the advancement of the University. Like his predecessor, his life at

McGill was one of unremitting labour and ceaseless, strenuous tasks

which drew in the end a heavy toll from his strength. Then the war came.

With its activities and the continuous demands it made upon his time and

energy, it severely taxed his already weakened constitution. During the

summer of 1918 he had been urged by his physicians and friends to rest

because of his failing health. He did not heed the advice; he felt,

indeed, that he could not in that troubled and anxious time obey it. He

refused to curtail his exertions, and he continued to give his great

ability and his unstinted service in every way to help the allied cause.

On Sunday, the 12th of January, 1919, although he was not then in good

health, he presided at a meeting on behalf of a fund for the benefit of

the dependents of Scottish soldiers and sailors killed or disabled in

the war. While the meeting was in progress he was stricken with apoplexy

and partial paralysis. In the course of a few weeks he recovered his

speech almost entirely, and later he regained the partial use of his

right leg. When it became evident that he could not recover sufficiently

to resume his place at the head of the University he resigned, and after

May 1st he ceased to be Principal of McGill. On July the 24th he sailed

from Montreal for England, where he resided until his death in February,

1921.

Sir William Peterson was Principal of McGill University for a period of

twenty-four years, one quarter of its century of life. During that time

many honours came to him. He occupied the presidency of many learned

societies; he was knighted in 1915; he received honorary degrees from

the leading universities of Britain, America and Canada; he was Chairman

of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement

of Teaching; he won great distinction as a scholar and a writer. It

would be unwise here to attempt to estimate the significance of his work

as Principal of the University. We are perhaps too close to judge it

with correctness or with justice. The McGill he left in 1919 was not the

McGill he found in 1895. In the intervening years its development on the

sure foundations that had already been laid was extraordinary and

unprecedented for a university. Among the external evidences of growth

during that time are the McGill Union, the centre of student activities;

the Conservatorium of Music, with courses leading to the degree of

Bachelor and Doctor of Music; the establishment of a Department of

Dentistry, now grown to the stature of a Faculty; the acquisition of the

Joseph property at the southwest corner of the Yard, and the new Molson

and Law properties, consisting of 25 acres, the site of the Molson

Stadium, and of the gymnasium and student residences of the future; the

new Medical building; the establishment and development of the Graduate

School, and of the Departments of Commerce, Social Service and Physical

Education, and above all, the addition of Macdonald College with its

vast acres at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, where the work of the Faculty of

Agriculture, Household Science and the training of teachers is carried

on. In these twenty-five years the number of students more than doubled.

Financially, too, there was a change. In 1895 endowments amounted to

over a million and a half of dollars, in 1919 they were over twelve

millions, a sum to which the citizens' response to the appeal for funds

in 1911 largely contributed; the income in 1895 was two hundred thousand

dollars and the disbursements one hundred and eighty thousand; in 1919

the income and disbursements each amounted to approximately one million

dollars. In addition to these visible evidences of progress many new and

improved courses were established; the teaching staff was greatly

increased, and the reputation of the University was enhanced at home and

abroad. Externally and internally the newer and greater McGill bears

testimony to the energy and determination of Sir William Peterson during

his twenty-four years' occupancy of the Principalship. With the

criticisms of his administration--that as Principal Sir William was an

Imperialist first and afterwards a Canadian, and that in making

professorial appointments he did not often consider Canadian scholars,

with at least equal qualifications--we are not here concerned.

In the spring of 1919 Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service

in the British Cabinet, and formerly Professor of Anatomy in McGill, was

appointed Principal. He never assumed the duties of his office and a

year later he resigned to become British Ambassador at Washington,

U. S. A.

In May, 1920, Sir Arthur Currie, formerly Commander of the Canadian

Corps in France, was appointed Principal, and in the following August he

took up his new duties. In June of that year Vice-Principal Moyse

resigned after forty-one years of service as Professor of English. He

was succeeded as Vice-Principal by Dr. Frank D. Adams, Dean of the

Faculty of Applied Science.

One of the first acts of the new Principal was the making of a general

appeal, with the Governors, in the autumn of 1920, for public

subscriptions to increase the endowment fund and revenues for the

purpose of increasing professors' salaries and for the erection of new

buildings or extensions. The response to this appeal was generous; a sum

of over six million dollars was subscribed, of which one million was

from the Province of Quebec. The renewed interest of graduates in their

University was evidenced by the fact that they subscribed over half the

amount raised. As a result of the increased endowment, two structures

were at once undertaken, one an extension to the Library, and the other

a new building for the Medical Faculty.

[Illustration: _Sir Arthur Currie

Principal McGill University_ 1920]

With an encouraging interest in its welfare by graduates and by

citizens, with a large increase in students who last year numbered over

three thousand, with forward face looking hopefully to the future,

McGill University has rounded out its first century of life. The road

over which it has passed, as we look back from the hilltop of to-day,

has been long and arduous. It has been beset with many trials and

difficulties. But the obstacles in the way of its advance were not

unsurmountable; they were perhaps objects of discouragement, but never

objects of total despair to the men of stout heart and firm faith and

far-off vision who made McGill.

[Illustration: _Dr. Frank D. Adams

Vice-Principal of McGill University_ 1920]

EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE

What has been written in these pages is based on authentic documents and

sources rather than on tradition--on fact rather than on rumour.

Necessity required that it should be the story of epochs rather than of

individuals. It is sometimes said unwisely that "epochs are but

resting-places or halts in history." But that is not a truthful

definition when applied to the epochs of McGill, for they have all been

times of progress. With steps sometimes accelerated, sometimes slow,

sometimes even faltering, its movement has been always onward. There

have been no stopping-places in its life. It has not been possible here

to give adequate notice or even reference to all its benefactors and to

all the noble and unselfish men and women who helped in its advancement,

to the distinguished graduates and sacrificing professors who brought

honour to its name, to the discoveries, the theories and doctrines for

improvement, whether intellectual or social or political, first

fashioned in its shadow. Through the medium of these men and women, and

their theories and doctrines carried into practice, it has won undying

glory. Their names are safe in our University's past; we can leave their

memories in its keeping.

When James McGill made his bequest he was dreaming of a University that

would first serve Canada and assist in its development. He himself had

set his face westward. When he made his will he knew that he was of the

past, but he had faith in the coming youth and manhood of his adopted

land. He saw the possibilities of the vast new country in which he had

prospered but which he was so soon to leave, and he had a firm belief in

its future greatness. The Founder's dream has been realised even to a

greater extent than perhaps he hoped. The men who in its hundred years

of life brought to McGill the largest portion of its fame, whether

graduates or professors, were products of the new country in the young

manhood of which he had such unbounded faith. They were, for the most

part, native Canadians whose feet were rooted in the soil. They were men

whose ancestors, like the Founder himself, had crossed the ocean in

comfortless craft to face unknown hardships in forest and on plain, to

build homes from the wilderness in which they might find happiness and

fortune. Dawson in Education, Osler in Medicine, Laurier in

Statesmanship, and a host of others, these are gone; they are behind us;

their achievements are part of our century story. Elsewhere than in

McGill their services, their doctrines, and their theories have been

assimilated; they have ministered to the nation's and the world's life.

And the men and boys who went out from McGill to die for their

principles during the world's five years of tragedy were similar to them

in sacrifice and spirit; they contributed in another form to the

advancement of civilization. In their ideals they were typical of the

Canadian youth of James McGill's vision. They justified the Founder's

faith.

[Illustration: _McGill College in_ 1921]

With this reference to our great dead we bring these chapters to a

close. The next, unwritten, chapter in McGill University's history is

one of which we do not see the end. It must be left to other hands and

other pens. When it is written it may or may not revolve about

individuals. Like its preceding chapters it, too, will more probably be

the story of an epoch. For while the individual must always vanish in

his due time, the College must survive. One fact is certain--after one

hundred years of struggle and of ultimate triumph, life still beats

strongly in the veins of the University--more actively than in the days

of its youth, and more hopefully than at any period in its history.

There is a new spirit in McGill. To-day its pulsing life, under the

guidance of its great Canadian leader, reaches through all grades and

faculties and departments of its students as it has never done before.

There is a general forward movement, unhampered and undivided by

considerations or competitions of sections or of faculties. The

University is closer, too, than it once was to the current of national

feeling. It is seeking to minister to Canada, the land which gave it

birth and from which its greatness sprang. But while it will serve

Canada, it will continue to draw its students, like the true _Studium

Generale_, from every country on the globe, and to send them back to

serve their individual countries to advance the enlightenment of the

world. McGill's first century has been a century of trial, but a century

of great accomplishment. Its struggles and its triumphs are an

inspiration for the coming days. If we but follow the ideals of the men

who made our University, with their noble sacrifice, their splendid

achievement and their unwavering faith as our heritage, the unwritten

story of McGill's future will be more glorious even than the record of

its past.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF HON. JAMES MCGILL

"I give and devise all that tract or parcel of land, commonly called

Burnside, situated near the city of Montreal aforesaid, containing about

forty-six acres, including an acre of land purchased by me from one

Sanscrainte, together with the dwelling-house and other buildings

thereon erected, with their appurtenances, unto the Honourable John

Richardson and James Reid, of the City of Montreal aforesaid, Esquires,

the Rev. John Strachan, Rector of Cornwall, in Upper Canada, and James

Dunlop, of the said City of Montreal, Esquire, and to their heirs, to,

upon, and for the uses, trusts, intents, and purposes, and with, and

subject to, the provisions, conditions, and limitations, hereinafter

mentioned and expressed, of and concerning the same, that is to say,

upon trust that they the said John Richardson, James Reid, John

Strachan, and James Dunlop, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the

heirs, executors, or curators of such survivors or survivor, do and

shall, as soon as it conveniently can be done after my decease, by a

good and sufficient conveyance and assurance, convey and assure the said

last-mentioned tract or parcel of land, dwelling-house, buildings, and

premises, to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning,

constituted and established, or to be constituted and established, under

and by virtue of an Act of the Parliament of the Province of Lower

Canada, made and passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty's Reign,

intituled 'An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools and the

Advancement of Learning in this Province'--upon and under the

conditions, restrictions, and limitations, and to and for the ends,

intents, and purposes following, that is to say, upon condition that the

said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning' do and shall,

within the space of ten years, to be accounted from the time of my

decease, erect and establish, or cause to be erected and established,

upon the said last-mentioned tract or parcel of land, an University or

College, for the purposes of education, and the advancement of learning

in this Province, with a competent number of Professors and Teachers, to

render such establishment effectual and beneficial for the purposes

intended; and if the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning' should so erect and establish, or cause to be erected and

established an University, then upon condition also that one of the

Colleges to be comprised in the said University shall be named, and

perpetually be known and distinguished, by the appellation of 'McGill

College'; and if the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning' should not so erect and establish, or cause to be erected and

established, an University, but should erect and establish, or cause to

be erected and established, a College only, then upon the further

conditions that the said College shall be named, and perpetually be

known and distinguished, by the appellation of 'McGill College'; and

upon condition also, that until such University or College be erected

and established, the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning' do and shall permit and suffer my said wife, and in case of

her death, the said Francis Desrivières, to hold, possess and enjoy the

said last-mentioned tract or parcel of land, dwelling-house, buildings,

and premises, and to recover, have, and receive all and every the rents,

issues, and profits thereof to and for her and his use and benefit: and

upon this other and express condition, that if the said 'Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning' should neglect to erect and

establish, or cause to be erected and established, such University or

College as aforesaid, in manner aforesaid within the said space of ten

years, to be accounted from the time of my decease, then and in such

case the said conveyance and assurance so made to the said 'Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning' shall, from and after the

expiration of the said space of ten years, become and be absolutely null

and void, and all and every the estate, right, title, and interest of

the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning' of, in, and

to the said last-mentioned tract or parcel of land and premises shall

cease and be determined, and be as completely extinguished as if such

conveyance and assurance had never been made or executed: All which

conditions, restrictions, and limitations shall, in apt and sufficient

language, be fully expressed in such conveyance and assurance. And upon

trust that the said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and

James Dunlop, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs,

executors, or curators of such survivors or survivor of them do and

shall permit and suffer my said wife or, in case of her death, the said

Francis Desrivières, to hold, possess, and enjoy the said tract or

parcel of land, dwelling-house, buildings, and premises, and recover,

have, and receive the rents, issues, and profits thereof until the

making and executing of the said conveyance and assurance so as

aforesaid to be made to the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement

of Learning'; and if the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning' should refuse to accept and receive the said conveyance and

assurance of the said last-mentioned tract or parcel of land and

premises, upon the conditions, restrictions, and limitations herein

before expressed and directed, of and concerning the same, or should,

after the making and accepting of the said conveyance and assurance

neglect to erect and establish, or cause to be erected and established,

such University or College as aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, within the

said space of ten years, to be accounted from the time of my decease, or

if, from any legal cause, matter, or thing, the said trust so as

aforesaid to convey and assure the said last-mentioned tract or parcel

of land and premises to the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement

of Learning,' in the manner herein before directed, should be incapable

of being accomplished or carried into effect, or otherwise become, or

be, or be deemed or construed to be invalid, illegal, or inoperative,

then and in either or any of those cases upon trust, and that they the

said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or

the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs, executors, or curators

of such survivors or survivor do and shall, from and immediately after

the expiration of the said space of ten years, by a good and sufficient

conveyance and assurance, convey and assure the said last-mentioned

tract or parcel of land, dwelling-house, buildings, and premises to the

said Francis Desrivières (if then living), and to his heirs and assigns

forever, or if the said Francis Desrivières should be dead, then to the

legal heirs then living, and to their heirs and assigns forever.

"I give and bequeath, from and out of the rest and residue of my

estates, real and personal, movable and immovable, which shall and may

remain after the fulfilment and satisfaction of the several legacies in

this my Will contained, the sum of _ten thousand pounds_, current money

of the said Province of Lower Canada, to the said John Richardson, James

Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, _their heirs, executors, or

curators_, upon the trust, and to and for the intents and purposes, and

upon the conditions following, that is to say, upon trust, that they the

said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or

the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs, executors, and curators

of such survivors, do and shall pay the said sum of ten thousand pounds

(with the interest to accrue thereon from and after the expiration of

three years from my decease) to the said 'Royal Institution for the

Advancement of Learning,' when and so soon as the said 'Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning' shall have erected and

established, or cause to be erected and established, an University or

College upon the last-mentioned tract or parcel of land, herein before

directed to be conveyed to the said 'Royal Institution for the

Advancement of Learning,' in manner aforesaid, to be by the said 'Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning' _paid and applied towards

defraying the expense incurred in establishing the said University or

College_, and towards maintaining the same after it shall have been

erected and established, in such manner and form, and under such

regulations as the said 'Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning' shall in this behalf prescribe. Provided always, that such

University or College be erected and established within the space of ten

years, to be accounted from the time of my decease: and if such

University or College should not be so erected and established within

the said space of ten years, then upon trust that they the said John

Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or the

survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs, executors, or curators of

such survivor, from and immediately after the said expiration of the

said space of ten years do and shall pay the said sum of ten thousand

pounds, with all and every the interest accrued thereon, to the said

Francis Desrivières, if then living, to and for his use and benefit, or

if dead, then to his legal heirs then living, to and for their use and

benefit."

APPENDIX B

THE CHARTER OF MCGILL COLLEGE

Victoria, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.

To all whom these presents shall come,

_Greeting:_

Whereas his late Majesty George the Fourth was graciously

pleased, by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, on

the Thirty-first day of March, in the Second year of his Reign,

to establish at Burnside, near the City of Montreal in the Province

of Lower Canada, an University, the first College of which,

by the said Charter, is called "McGill College," which Charter is

in the following words:

"George the Fourth, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.

"To all to whom these presents shall come,

"_Greeting:_

"Whereas the Honourable James McGill, late of the City of Montreal

in the Province of Lower Canada, now deceased, by his last Will and

Testament, bearing date at Montreal the Eighth day of January, in

the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and eleven, did

give and bequeath a certain tract of Land near the said City of

Montreal, with the dwelling-house and other buildings thereon

erected, to Trustees, in trust, to convey and assure the same to

the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, established

by virtue of an Act of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada,

made and passed in the Forty-first year of the Reign of his late

Majesty, intituled 'An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools

and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province,' upon

condition that the said Institution should, within ten years from

the decease of the said James McGill, erect and establish or cause

to be erected and established upon the said land, an University or

College for the purposes of Education and the Advancement of

Learning in the said Province, with a competent number of

Professors and Teachers to render such Establishment effectual and

beneficial for the purposes intended; and also, upon condition that

one of the Colleges, to be comprised in the said University, should

be called McGill College; And whereas, the said James McGill,

Esquire, by his said last Will, did further give and bequeath to

the said Trustees the sum of Ten Thousand pounds, in trust, to pay

the same with interest to accrue thereon from and after the

expiration of three years from his decease, to the said Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning, to be applied as soon

as the said Institution should have erected an University or

College on the said land towards defraying the expenses thereby

incurred, and towards maintaining the said University or College so

erected and established. And whereas, we have been humbly

petitioned by the said Royal Institution for the Advancement of

Learning, that we should be pleased to grant Our Royal Charter for

the more perfect erection and establishment of the said College,

and for incorporating the members thereof for the purposes

aforesaid, and for such further endowment thereof as to us should

seem meet. We, having taken the premises into Our Royal

consideration, and being desirous that an University or College

should be established for the Education of Youth in the principles

of true religion and for their instruction in the different

branches of science and literature, are willing to comply with the

prayer of the said petition, and to afford every assistance towards

carrying the intentions of the said James McGill into execution.

"Therefore, know ye that We of Our special grace, certain knowledge

and mere motion, have willed, ordained and granted, and do by these

presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will, ordain and grant,

that upon the said land and in the said buildings thereon erected

or to be erected, there shall be established, from this time one

College at the least for the Education of youth and students in the

Arts and Faculties, to continue forever, and that the first College

to be erected thereon shall be called McGill College; and that Our

trusty and well-beloved the Governor of Lower Canada,

Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper

Canada, the Bishop of Quebec, the Chief Justice of Montreal, and

the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, for the time being, shall be

Governors of the said McGill College, and that the said McGill

College shall consist of one Principal, to be elected in manner

hereinafter mentioned, and who shall be, during his continuance in

the said office, a Governor of the said College; of four

Professors, to be also elected in manner hereinafter mentioned; and

of Fellows, Tutors, and Scholars, in such numbers, and at such

salaries, and subject to such provisions, rules and regulations, as

shall hereafter be appointed by the Statutes, Rules and Ordinances

of the said College; and We do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs,

and Successors, will, ordain and grant, that the Principal and

Professors of the said College shall be, from time to time, elected

by the said Governors or the major part of them, as shall be

present at any meeting to be holden for such election; and in case

of an equality of votes, the officer present at such meeting, whose

office is first described in order in these presents, shall have a

double and easting vote: provided always, that the persons by whom

such elections shall be made shall notify the same respectfully to

Us, Our Heirs or Successors, through one of Our or Their principal

Secretaries of State, by the first opportunity, and in case that

WE, Our Heirs or Successors, shall disapprove of any person so

elected, and shall cause such disapprobation to be notified to him

under the Royal signet and sign manual, or through one of the

principal Secretaries of State, the person so elected as aforesaid

shall immediately, upon such notification, cease to hold the office

of Principal or Professor to which he shall have been elected as

aforesaid, and the said Governors shall thereupon proceed to the

election of another person to fill the office of such Principal or

Professor respectively, and so, from time to time, as often as the

case shall happen.

"And we do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will, ordain and grant, that the said Governors, Principal and

Fellows, and their Successors, forever shall be one distinct and

separate body politic and corporate in deed and in word, by the

name and style of 'The Governors, Principal and Fellows of McGill

College, at Montreal, in the said Province of Lower Canada,' and

that by the same name they shall have perpetual succession, and a

common seal, and that they and their successors shall, from time to

time, have full power to break, alter, make new, or change such

common seal at their will and pleasure, and as shall be found

expedient, and that by the same name the said Governors, Principal

and Fellows, and their successors, from time to time, and at all

times hereafter, shall be a body politic and corporate, in deed and

in law, and be able and capable to have, take, receive, purchase,

acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and retain.

"And we do hereby for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, give and grant

full authority and free license to them and their successors, by

the name aforesaid, to have, take, receive, purchase, acquire,

hold, possess, enjoy, and retain, to and for the use of the said

College, notwithstanding any statutes or statute of mortmain, any

manors, rectories, advowsons, messuages, lands, tenements, rents,

hereditaments of what kind, nature, or quality soever, so as that

the same do not exceed, in yearly value, the sum of £6000 above all

charges; and, moreover, to take, purchase, acquire, have, hold,

enjoy, receive, possess and retain, notwithstanding any such

statutes or statute to the contrary, all or any goods, chattels,

charitable and other contributions, gifts and benefactions

whatsoever; and that the said Governors, Principal and Fellows, and

their successors, by the same name, shall and may be able and

capable in law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer

and be answered, in all or any Court or Courts of record, or places

of judicature within Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Ireland, and Our said Province of Lower Canada and other Our

Dominions, and in all and singular actions, causes, pleas, suits,

matters, and demands whatsoever, of what kind and nature or sort

soever, in as large, ample, and beneficial a manner and form as any

other body politic or corporate, or any other Our liege subjects

being persons able and capable in law, may or can have, take,

purchase, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, retain, sue, implead, or

answer, in any manner whatsoever.

"And we do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,

will, ordain, and grant that the Governors of the said College, or

the major part of them, shall have power and authority to frame and

make statutes, rules and ordinances, touching and concerning the

good Government of the said College, the performance of Divine

Service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises, and degrees in

Arts and Faculties, and all matters regarding the same, the

election, qualification, and residence of the Principal,

Professors, Fellows, and Scholars; the salaries, stipend and

provisions for the Principal, Professors, Fellows, Scholars, and

Officers of the said College; and touching and concerning any other

matter or thing which to them shall seem good, fit, useful, and

agreeable to this Our Charter: provided that no such statutes,

rules and ordinances shall have any force or effect until allowed

and confirmed by Us, Our Heirs or Successors; and also, from time

to time, to revoke, augment or alter the same as to them or the

major part of them shall seem expedient, subject always to Our

allowance and confirmation as aforesaid, provided that the said

statutes, rules, and ordinances, or any of them, shall not be

repugnant to the laws and statutes of this Our Realm, and of Our

said Province of Lower Canada; and We do hereby for Us, Our Heirs,

and Successors, charge and command that the statutes, rules and

ordinances aforesaid, subject to the said provisions, shall be

strictly and inviolably observed, kept, and performed, so long as

they shall respectively remain in force and effect, under the

penalties to be thereby or therein inflicted or contained. And we

do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will, ordain

and appoint, that the Members of the Royal Institution aforesaid,

for the time being, shall be Visitors of the said College. And we

do further will, ordain, and grant, that the said College shall be

deemed and taken to be an University, and that the Students in the

said College shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees

of Bachelor, Master and Doctor, in the several Arts and Faculties,

at the appointed times, and shall have liberty within themselves,

of performing Scholastic Exercises, for the conferring such degrees

in such manner as shall be directed by the statutes, rules, and

ordinances, of the aforesaid College; and we do, by these presents

for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, grant and declare that these Our

Letters Patent, or the enrolments or exemplifications thereof,

shall and may be good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual, in

the law according to the intent and meaning of the same, and shall

be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favorable and

beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Governors,

Principal, and Fellows, and Scholars of the said College of

Montreal aforesaid, as well in all Our Courts of Record, as

elsewhere, and by all and singular Judges, Justices, Officers,

Ministers, and other subjects whatsoever, of Us, Our Heirs and

Successors, any misrecital, non-recital, omission, imperfection,

defect, matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, to the contrary

thereof, in anywise notwithstanding, without fine or fee, great or

small, to be for the same in any manner rendered, done, or paid to

Us in Our hanaper, or elsewhere, to Our use. In witness whereof we

have caused these our letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at

Westminster, the thirty-first day of March, in the second year of

Our Reign. (1821.)

"By Writ of Privy Seal,

"(Signed) BATHURST."

And whereas it is deemed expedient for the interests of the said

College, and for the augmentation of its funds, and for the better and

more easy management of its affairs and the government of the said

College, to make certain alterations in the provisions of the said

hereinbefore recited and existing Letters Patent, which said alterations

are and have been assented to by the said Royal Institution for the

Advancement of Learning and by the said Corporation of the said

College:

Now Know Ye, that We, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge and mere

motion, have willed, ordained and granted, and by these presents do, for

Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, will, ordain and grant that henceforth

from the date hereof, the members of the Royal Institution aforesaid for

the time being shall be and remain Governors of the said College, and

shall have and exercise all and every the powers, authority and

jurisdiction given and granted unto the Governors nominated and

appointed in and by the said Letters Patent, save only in so far as the

provisions of the said Letters Patent in that behalf are or may be by

these presents altered; and shall also have and exercise all and every

the powers, authority and jurisdiction given and granted under and by

virtue of these presents;

And We do further by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will and ordain, that henceforth from the date hereof, the Governor of

Lower Canada, the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada, the

Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, the Bishop of Quebec, the Chief

Justice of Montreal, the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and the

Principal of the said College, shall not, nor shall any or either of

them, as such Governor of Lower Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of Lower

Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, Bishop of Quebec, Chief

Justice of Montreal, Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and Principal of the

said College, be Governor of the said College, or use or exercise any

power, authority or jurisdiction in or over the same in any manner or

way whatsoever.

And We do further, by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will, ordain and grant, that the said College shall consist of one

Principal, of such and so many Professors in the various Arts and

Faculties as from time to time may be judged necessary and expedient by

the said Governors, and of Fellows, Tutors and Scholars, in such numbers

and at such Salaries, and subject to such provisions, rules and

regulations as shall be appointed by the Statutes, Rules and Ordinances

of the said College; that save and except for the purposes hereinafter

specially mentioned and excepted, three of the said Governors shall be a

sufficient number to be present at any meeting for the transaction of

the ordinary business of the said College; that the determination of all

questions, matters and things submitted to the said Governors at their

meetings shall be made by the votes of the majority of those present,

including the vote of the Governor presiding at such meeting, who shall

have a double or casting vote in the case of an equality of votes

thereat; that the President or Principal for the time being of the said

Royal Institution, in all cases when present, shall preside at the said

meetings, and in his absence the member of the said Royal Institution

first or senior in order of appointment of those present at the meeting,

shall preside thereat; that the Principal and all the Professors of the

said College shall from time to time be elected by the said Governors or

the major part of them present at a meeting specially convened and

holden for the purpose of such election, and shall and may hold their

respective offices subject to the right and power of a motion by the

said Governors for the time being, at a meeting specially convened and

holden for the said purpose; provided always that no less than five of

the said Governors shall be present at every such special meeting for

the purpose of election or amotion, and that special notice in writing

of the time, place and object of every special meeting, by the Secretary

of the said College, addressed to each of the said Governors, shall have

been delivered by the said Secretary into the Post Office of the said

City of Montreal at least fifteen days before the time appointed for

such meeting; that within forty-eight hours after every such election or

amotion, notice thereof in writing, sealed with the College Seal, signed

by the Secretary of the said College or in his absence by the Governor

who shall have presided at the meeting whereat such election or amotion

shall have been voted, and addressed to Our Visitor of the said College

hereinafter mentioned, for the time being, shall be delivered into the

Post Office of the said City of Montreal; that every such election or

amotion shall be subject to the review of Our said Visitor, whose

determination thereon being signified in writing to the said Governors

within sixty days after such delivery as aforesaid at the said Post

Office of the City of Montreal, of the said notice of such election or

amotion, shall be final and conclusive, unless the same by any order or

orders to be by Us, Our Heirs or Successors made in Our or Their Privy

Council shall be altered, revoked or disallowed as hereinafter is

provided; that during the said last-mentioned period of sixty days the

said election or amotion, as the case may be, shall have no force or

effect; and that failing such signification within the said

last-mentioned period, such election or amotion shall be and be held and

taken to be by him approved and confirmed;

And We do further by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will and ordain, that henceforth from the date hereof such election

shall not be required to be notified to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, in

the manner provided and required in and by the said Letters Patent, or

in any other manner or way whatsoever;

And We do further by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will, ordain and grant, that the said Governors, Principal and Fellows,

and their Successors forever, shall be one body politic and corporate,

by the name of "The Governors, Principal and Fellows of McGill College,"

and by the said name shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal,

and shall by the same name sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,

and answer and be answered unto, in every Court of Us, Our Heirs and

Successors, henceforth from the date hereof, and shall no longer be

known by the name in the said Letters Patent mentioned, and shall retain

all and every the property, franchises, rights and privileges granted

under and by virtue of the said Letters Patent, and belonging to the

said Corporation immediately before the date hereof, and shall be and

remain liable to all claims and duties to which immediately before the

date hereof they were subject, save only in so far as by these presents

may be otherwise specially provided;

And We do further by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will, ordain and grant, to the said Governors, Principal and Fellows,

and their Successors, by the name aforesaid, full authority and free

license to have, take, purchase, and hold, to them and their Successors

to and for the use of the said College, any goods, chattels or personal

property whatsoever; and also that by the name aforesaid they shall be

able and capable in law, notwithstanding any Statutes or Statute of

mortmain, law, usage or custom whatsoever to the contrary, to have,

take, purchase and hold to them and their Successors to and for the use

of said College, any other Manors, Rectories, Advowsons, Messuages,

Lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments of what kind, nature, or

quality soever, over and above the manors, rectories, advowsons,

messuages, lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments in the said Letter

Patent mentioned of the yearly value of six thousand pounds above all

charges as in the said Letters Patent is set forth, but not for the

purpose or with the view of reselling the same; provided always, that

the whole shall not exceed the yearly value of Twelve thousand pounds

above all charges, such annual value to be calculated and ascertained at

the period of taking, purchasing or acquiring the same;

And We do further by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

appoint as our Visitor in and over for the said College, Our Governor

General of Our said Province of Canada, for the time being, or in his

absence the Administrator of the Government of the same for the time

being; who shall exercise, use and enjoy all and every the powers and

authority of a Visitor, for and in the name and behalf of Us, Our Heirs

and Successors, of the said College in all matters and things connected

with the said College, as to him shall seem meet, according to the

tenor and effect of these presents, and of the laws in force in Our

Realm of England in relation to such powers and authority;

And We do further by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

revoke and annul the power and authority in and by the said Letters

Patent given and granted to the members for the time being of the Royal

Institution for the Advancement of Learning, to be Visitors of the said

College; and do will and ordain that henceforth from the date of these

presents the power and authority so given and granted to the said

members of the said Royal Institution to be such Visitors, shall

absolutely cease and determine, and shall not be exercised or used by

them or any of them;

And We do further by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,

will, ordain and declare that the Statutes, Rules and Ordinances from

time to time framed and made by the said Governors of the said College,

touching the matters and things in the said Letters Patent and in these

presents enumerated, or any thereof, or for the revoking, augmenting or

altering of any Statutes, Rules or Ordinances theretofore framed and

made, so always as the same be not repugnant to the Laws of Our Realm or

of Our said Province of Canada, or to the objects and provisions of this

Our Charter, shall have full force and effect, without the Allowance and

Confirmation of Us, Our Heirs and Successors, as ordained in and by the

said Letters Patent; provided always, that a certified Copy of all such

Statutes, Rules and Ordinances, sealed with the College Seal and

addressed to Our said Visitor of the said College for the time being,

shall have been delivered into the Post Office of the said City of

Montreal, and that the same shall not have been disallowed by Our said

Visitor, and such disallowance signified in writing to the said

Governors, within sixty days after such delivery of such Copy into the

said Post Office;

And We do by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, expressly

save and reserve to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, the power of

receiving, and by any order or orders to be by Us, or Them made in Our

or Their Privy Council revising, confirming, altering, revoking or

disallowing, all or any of the decisions, sentences or orders so as

aforesaid from time to time by the said Visitor to be made and rendered

in reference to any such Statutes, Rules and Ordinances, or the

disallowing thereof, or in reference to any matter or thing whatsoever,

as to which any power or authority is by these presents given and

granted to him;

And We do by these presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will,

ordain and grant, that nothing herein contained shall be held,

construed or considered to have in any manner or way whatsoever revoked,

cancelled, abrogated or altered the provisions, powers, authorities and

grants in and by the said Letters Patent ordained and granted, or any

thereof, save and except in the particulars hereinbefore specially and

expressly set forth; but that all and every the said provisions, powers,

authorities and grants in and by the said Letters Patent ordained and

granted, shall subsist and continue in full force and effect, save and

except in the particulars aforesaid, in the same manner as if these Our

Letters Patent had never been made, ordained or granted; And We do

further by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant and

declare that these Our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or

exemplification thereof, shall be in all things valid and effectual in

the Law according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall

be taken, construed and adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial

sense for the best advantage of the said College, and of the said

Governors, Principal, Fellows and Scholars thereof, as well in Our

Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular Judges, Justices,

Officers, Ministers and other subjects whatsoever of Us, Our Heirs and

Successors, any misrecital, non-recital, omission, imperfection, defect,

matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise

notwithstanding.

In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

Witness Ourself at Our Palace at Westminster, this sixth day of July, in

the sixteenth year of Our Reign. (1852.)

By Her Majesty's command,

(Signed) EDMUNDS.

APPENDIX C

THE DAWSON MEMORIAL ADDRESS

On November 20th, 1899, the day after Sir William Dawson's death, a

Memorial Service, attended by Governors, Professors, and students, was

held in Molson Hall. Principal Peterson in his address said:

"Since we met in our various classrooms last week, a great and good life

has been brought to its appointed end. Sir William Dawson had

considerably overpassed the span of life of which the Psalmist speaks:

it was 'by reason of strength' that it was for him well-nigh fourscore

years. Ever since he assumed the Principalship in November, 1855--that

is, for a period of exactly forty-four years--he has been the most

prominent figure connected with this University. The last years of his

life--since 1893--have been spent, it is true, in retirement from active

work, but he has been with us in spirit all this time. Many of us know

how closely, and with what a fatherly interest, he has followed all our

later history. And now his life has closed, in great physical weakness,

but happily unaccompanied by distress or suffering:

"'Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long.'

"Busy, active and strenuous all his days, he must have chafed, I fancy,

during recent years under a growing sense of uselessness--almost an

impatience at being laid aside from work, which had been to him so long

the very breath of life; yet none ever said with more simple, childlike

resignation, 'Thy way, not mine!' For such a painless passing out of

life, no vote of sorrow need be struck. There is no sting in a death

like his: the grave is not his conqueror. Rather has death been

swallowed up in victory--the victory of a full and complete life, marked

by earnest endeavour, untiring industry, continuous devotion and

self-sacrifice, together with an abiding and ever-present sense of

dependence on the will of Heaven. His work was done, to quote the

Puritan poet's noble line: 'As ever in his great taskmaster's eye'; and

never for a moment did he waver in his feeling of personal

responsibility to a personal God. Others will speak to you of his

record as a scientific man. I shall permit myself only to say that few

can have an adequate idea of the power and forcefulness revealed in the

mere fact that one who had so onerous a part to play as a college head

should have been able to keep up scientific work at all. A weaker nature

would have exhausted itself in the problems of administration.

"He, himself, has left it on record, in his paper entitled,

'Thirty-eight Years of McGill,' that these years were 'filled with

anxieties and cares, and with continuous and almost unremitting labour.'

There are on my library table at the present time three volumes, in

which three college presidents may be said to have summed up the

lifework it has been given them to do for the institutions with which

they were severally connected--Caird of Glasgow, Eliot of Harvard, and

Gilman of Johns Hopkins. The first was a massive intellect which, in the

security of a long-established university system, delighted to deal, in

a series of addresses to the Glasgow students, with such subjects as the

unity and progressiveness of the sciences, the study of history, the

study of art, and the place in human development of Erasmus and Galileo,

Bacon, Hume and Bishop Butler. The two American Presidents have lived

more in the concrete, and they have put on record their attitude to, and

their methods of dealing with, the various problems they have had to

face in the educational world in which their work has been done.

Alongside their memorial volumes I like to place a still more

unpretending collection of 'Educational Papers,' which Sir William

Dawson circulated among his friends. They mark the various stages, full

of struggle and stress at every point, of his college administration,

and they form a record of what he was able to accomplish--apart from his

work as a geologist--in the sphere of education, for the High School and

the Normal School of this city, for the schools of the province, and

above all for McGill itself, which he found in 1855 a mere college with

eighty students, and which he raised to the level of a great university

with over a thousand.

"Not even in his well-earned retirement could he permit himself to be

idle. To me, one of the most touching sights in the first year of my

arrival here, was the indomitable perseverance with which every day the

well-known figure of the old Principal would make its way, bag in hand,

across the campus to the museum he loved so well, there to work for a

time among the valuable collections which the University owes to his

zeal, industry and devotion. It was in 1841 that he published his first

scientific paper, and the activity which began then was continued down

to the Thursday in the week before his death, when some reference to the

mining industry of this country suggested to him that once more with

failing hand and wearied brain he should put pen to paper on the subject

of the 'Gold of Ophir.' And now he has entered into his

rest,--affectionately tended to the last by the gentle care of a devoted

and heroic wife, and solaced by the presence of a distinguished son and

loving daughter. The world had no power to hold him any more. His work

was done and his spirit yearned to pass beyond all earthly bounds.

"He is gone and we shall see his living face no more. But teachers and

students alike may have ever with them the inspiration of his noble life

and the stimulus of his high example. What he was to those who were so

long his colleagues I leave others on this occasion to set before us. My

closing words to the students of McGill must be the expression of a

confident hope that the record of Sir William's life and work will

always be an abiding memory in this place. If you will bear it about

with you in your hearts, not only will you be kept from lip service,

slackness, half-heartedness in your daily duties,--and from the graver

faults of youth at which his noble soul would have revolted,--from

dishonesty, sensuality and impurity in every form,--but you will be

able, each in his sphere, to realise more fully the ideal of goodness

and truth, so that at the last you, too, may hear the voices whispering

as they have now spoken to him,--'Well done, thou good and faithful

servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.'"

APPENDIX D

THE PETERSON MEMORIAL ADDRESS

On January 16th, 1921, a University Service in Memory of Sir William

Peterson was held in the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, of which Sir

William was a member and where he had worshipped during his twenty-four

years in Canada. The following memorial address was given by the Rev.

Principal D. J. Fraser (Arts '93), D.D., LL.D., of the Presbyterian

College.

"Sir William Peterson had a fine reverence for sacred things and a keen

appreciation of church worship. In the absence of a college chapel,

which leaves McGill still lacking one note of catholicity, it is fitting

that the Service to his memory, although a distinctively University

Service, should be held in this Church where he worshipped with both the

understanding and the spirit during the twenty-four years of his life

amongst us. He had the Scot's proverbial taste for a good sermon, and he

exacted that the pulpit should deal with Christianity as a rational

religion and should make its appeal to the intelligence of the people.

Knowing as he did that the Bible is the foundation not only of

individual and national character but also of a comprehensive culture,

and regretting that many children through home neglect had their only

knowledge of it from the lessons heard in church, he pleaded that the

Scriptures be reverently and clearly read. He was one of our highest

authorities on hymnology and church music; he loved to join in singing

the familiar psalms and paraphrases and hymns, and he appreciated as few

in the congregation could the majestic anthems rendered by the choir. He

never wantonly absented himself from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,

the Presbyterian ritual of which, in close keeping with the form of the

original Holy Meal, naturally appealed to him. Intellectual and

mystical, historical and sacramental elements entered into his worship.

"I think his last diet of public worship, except the one at which he was

stricken, was a Memorial Service in this Church to those who would not

return from overseas, when I gave the sermon on a text chosen from those

immortal verses of poetic beauty which have just been read by his

successor (Revelation 22:4-5). Those, however, who laid down their

lives for the cause of Empire and Humanity do not all sleep in Flanders

and in France. Although in delicate physical health, he threw himself

with abandon into the grim struggle from its very outset; he undertook

the work of colleagues who had enlisted; he carried in his heart a

tender solicitude for the lads from McGill who were exposed to peril; he

acted almost as confidential adviser to the Government's Department of

Militia; he advocated ceaselessly by voice and pen the cause so dear to

his patriotic soul, until he inevitably broke under the strain; and

to-day we memorialise as bonnie a fighter and as genuine a hero as any

whose name is on our military Roll of Honour.

"Sir William Peterson was greatest as a scholar. It is hardly necessary

that I refer to his brilliant career as a classical student at Edinburgh

and Oxford, his priceless legacy to scholarship in the works of the

Latin authors he edited and translated, his successful administration of

University College, Dundee, at an extremely difficult time in its

history, and his guidance of the affairs of McGill during its period of

phenomenal growth from 1895 to 1919; for many of you who were his

colleagues are better qualified than I to estimate the value of these

activities. He preserved to the end the instincts and habits of the

scholar. When he enjoyed a period of freedom from his administrative

duties it was to the libraries of America and Europe that he gravitated

in the scholar's quest for old documents that would yield the scholar's

joy of new discovery; and on his last holiday visit to Scotland,

deprived by the war of access to the libraries of the Continent, he

happened upon an unpublished document of the seventeenth century by what

he modestly called 'a lucky chance.' We know, however, that these happy

finds come only to those who have the genius of the literary discoverer,

and characteristic of the textual critic is his parting message to us in

his delightful description of his new-found treasure given in a magazine

article under the prophetic title--'A Last Will and Testament.'

"As an educationalist Sir William Peterson was a mediator between the

champions of pure learning and the advocates of the practical sciences.

To him the University had a two-fold function; first 'to make good

citizens,' and second 'to hand on the torch of knowledge to successive

generations of students.' He believed that in order of teaching pure

learning should precede applied science, that classical subjects should

precede professional; but in spite of his Oxford training he could never

be accused of sacrificing the practical in the University to the

disciplinary. He recognised that the development of the pure sciences

was effected in history by the practical needs of life and that the

marvels of modern scientific activity are based on abstract and

theoretical learning. He found a place for the classical and the

specialised, the humanistic and the utilitarian, and his ideal was that

the University should give practical men a sound training in theory and

also keep theory in touch with practice. It was a blessing to McGill and

to education in Canada that we had as our guide a believer in the

humanities at a time when our youthful enthusiasm for the practical was

in danger of blinding us to the ideal of our educational ancestors that

the function of the school is to develop men and women of character.

"Principal Peterson was widely known as an ardent champion of

Imperialism, although here he failed to carry with him some of his

warmest Canadian friends; but it is not so generally known that he did a

great and needed work on this Continent in the interests of Anglo-Saxon

unity. He frequently visited the United States and gave addresses to

universities, learned societies, Canadian clubs and similar influential

groups, and he always appealed for mutual good-will between the two

children of the same British mother. In fact he earned a more generous

recognition there than in Canada or in Great Britain. Harvard and

Princeton, Yale and Johns Hopkins conferred their highest honour on the

representative of our national University, and acknowledged that it was

not a mere international compliment but a real recognition of a scholar

who had made lasting contributions to the cause of higher learning and

human progress. He was also elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of

the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Holding an

almost unique place among the College Presidents on this Continent, his

words reached influential audiences and carried great weight. His first

visit to the United States was in 1896, during the first year of his

incumbency at McGill for the purpose of addressing the Phi Beta Kappa

Alumni of New York, and he chose for his theme 'The Relations of the

English-speaking Peoples.' It was the time of the Venezuela incident

when there was imminent danger of misunderstanding between Britain and

America. His plea for friendship is of special interest to us to-day

when there is a highly organised propaganda for stirring up strife

between the two nations, a propaganda that is causing real anxiety to

the spiritual descendants of Britain in Canada and New England. In these

chaotic days we do well to heed and herald his message on that occasion.

'It is well-nigh inconceivable,' he said, 'that in this age of the

world's progress the two representatives of Anglo-Saxon civilization

will ever enter on a fratricidal struggle to decide which shall be the

greater.... The best guarantees for the continuance of mutual good-will

are surely to be found in that of which I know we are all equally

proud--community of race, language, literature, religion and

institutions, together with the glorious traditions of a common

history.... A racial federation between Britain and America would

probably prove a potent factor in hastening the era of general

disarmament.... The authority, more fortunate even than President

Monroe, will lay impossible, and then it will be seen that every man who

by rash action or hasty word makes the preservation of peace difficult

has committed a crime not only against his own country but against

civilization itself.' That last sentence obviously referred to President

Cleveland. I was a student at Harvard at the time and every Professor

whose classes I attended took the same attitude. By such appeals

Principal Peterson helped to strengthen the body of American opinion

that exists to-day against the intolerable thought of strife between the

two peoples who have lived for more than a century in peace and harmony

and mutual affection, and his weighty words are a warning to Canadians

who share his imperialistic ideals against irresponsible criticisms of

our friends and neighbours to the South. His Imperialism, while it gave

him the vision of a commonwealth of nations within the British

Possessions, did not blind him to the larger vision of the unity of

English-speaking peoples, and to the still nobler vision of universal

brotherhood of which his fellow-countryman sang under conditions of

unrest very similar to our own:--

"'Then let us pray that come it may,

As come it will for a' that,

That man to man the warld o'er,

Shall brithers be for a' that.'

"While Dr. Peterson was primarily a scholar and administrator, he was

also a public-spirited citizen who mingled freely with his fellows in

varied walks of life and who identified himself with many movements in

the interests of human welfare. His last public address was to a group

of our Greek fellow-citizens with whose propaganda against Turkish rule

over their brethren in Asia Minor he rightly or wrongly sympathised. His

chief public interest, however, was in education, and he not only served

diligently on the Council of Protestant Instruction for the Province of

Quebec but he gladly gave the encouragement of his presence and counsel

to the teachers in primary and secondary schools throughout Canada at

their annual gatherings; and one of his favourite pleas on these

occasions was for the rightful place of English Literature--and

especially Poetry--in the school curriculum. He magnified the office of

the teacher and deplored the apathy of the public towards those

entrusted with the training of the future manhood and womanhood of the

nation. 'No expenditure,' he cried, 'is considered too great to be

grudged on war and armaments by land and by sea, on construction works

such as railways, bridges, harbours and naval stations, but the needs of

the common school rouse little, if any, interest or enthusiasm. And yet

it is there that the national character is being moulded.' He never

ceased to protest against the narrow idea that education consists merely

in the acquiring of knowledge and is to be measured by success in

examinations; and he constantly held up to the teachers of youth the

need of caring for such things as 'good manners, courtesy, consideration

for others, respect for seniors, friendly politeness towards all.' He

was also an enthusiastic supporter of the teaching of music in the

public schools. He saw what had been accomplished by training in this

department in Scotland and Germany, for example, among peoples not

naturally musical, and he feared that through our neglect we might

become a songless race. Himself finding in music one of his exquisite

delights, he endeavoured to bring to the rural districts its elevating

and enriching influence.

"Although not a social reformer in the popular sense of that term, he

was deeply interested in efforts for the betterment of the community;

and especially in the last years of his active life the social situation

in Montreal weighed heavily on his heart and conscience. He beheld the

city from his uptown coign of vantage and the vision troubled him. The

social evils of this great commercial centre challenged him to do

something for the alleviation of distress, the improvement of housing

conditions, the prevention of such slums as are a blot on the fair city

which gave him birth, the reduction of the infant mortality which is a

scandal to our population and the bringing of the simple joys and

pleasures of life to the greatest possible number. He saw so many worthy

separate agencies trying to grapple with the social problem without

unity of purpose and co-ordination of effort, he saw the churches so

relatively powerless to effect any appreciable cure because of their

sectarian divisions, that he dreamed a dream that McGill University

might do in this respect what the existing agencies and churches were

helpless to effect, that it might become not only the inspirer of a

great passion for social redemption and not merely a school for the

scientific training of social workers, but also a unifying centre of our

manifold social efforts where existing agencies might be strengthened

and stimulated and co-ordinated. This is really the thought that lay

behind his organizing the Department of Social Service in the

University. Whatever we may think of his method of ministering to the

crying social needs of our time and place, we cannot doubt the sincerity

of his purpose and the intensity of his desire. It was also his

solicitude for the students coming up from the country and smaller towns

to this populous centre, exposed to the moral perils of a great city,

that kept him strongly appealing for dormitories under University

supervision and control, an appeal to which we turned a strangely deaf

ear, but to which, we are thankful to say, he lived long enough to see a

fairly generous response.

"One hesitates to refer to the personal qualities that endeared him to

his intimate friends. I always detected in his life a certain undefined

loneliness. The scholar's shyness and the isolation of his exalted

position hardly account for it. A humanistic scholar in a University

where the practical departments were making greatest progress, engrossed

in his intellectual interests in the solitude of his upper chamber while

the busy commercial world went heedless by, always leisurely in the

midst of a most active life, a man of religious reticence who was

misunderstood because he did not make a noisy profession of his faith,

an old countryman in a new land that he never could quite call 'home,' a

controversialist skilled only in the use of the rapier and compelled at

times to enter the lists with those who wielded the bludgeon, a subtle

humourist who must 'carry on' with the prosaic and matter-of-fact, a

lover of his own fireside who must of necessity be socially advertised

with the vulgar, his spirit dwelt apart from the busy world in which he

served.

"Loyalty was the supreme virtue in his ethical code, and disloyalty was

to him the unpardonable sin. No man could have done for McGill what he

did and not make academic enemies. He found a group of professional

schools, each more or less autonomous, and he transformed it into a

University. His ideal of the unity of learning made it necessary that he

should run counter to the traditions of the various schools in seeking

to co-ordinate all departments of study, and he exposed himself to

criticism, just as President Eliot of Harvard did in his similar work

for his University; but I never heard him speak a disloyal word of any

of his colleagues. No man could have advocated Imperialism as he did

without making political enemies, and many a vigorous attack was made on

him by young Canadians; but I do not recall any spoken word or any

printed sentence of his that dragged his advocacy of Imperialism into

the realm of party politics or personal controversy. I know how true and

generous he was to one of his friends who always found in him a

congenial fellow-worker in the things of the spirit. I also know how

large a place he kept in his heart for the students,--rejoicing in

their success, proud of their manly conduct, heart-sad over the tragedy

of guilt and shame that befell any one of them. He had a warm heart,

although he did not wear it on his sleeve for daws to peck at. To me as

I go about the College yard he is a spiritual presence, summoning me to

do my best, to be accurate, fearless, loyal to the truth as I know the

truth, and loyal to those for whom I hold the truth in stewardship; and

such a spiritual comrade he will be while memory lasts. My experience is

that of many of you who were fond of him and of whom he was fond, and

our tribute to his memory, while quite unworthy, has at least, what he

would most desire, the merit of sincerity.

"Students of McGill, our former Principal is gone and we shall see his

living face no more. But the stimulus of his high example remains with

us. It is fitting in conclusion that I repeat to you the inspiring and

earnest words with which he ended his address to the students at the

Memorial Service to his illustrious predecessor, Sir William Dawson,

twenty-one years ago:--'My closing words to the students of McGill,' he

said, 'must be the expression of a confident hope that the record of Sir

William's life and work will be an abiding memory in this place. If you

will bear it about with you in your hearts, not only will you be kept

from lip-service, slackness, half-heartedness in your daily duties, and

from the graver faults of youth at which his noble soul would have

revolted, from dishonesty, sensuality and impurity in any form, but you

will be able, each in his sphere, to realise more fully the ideal of

goodness and truth, so that at the last you, too, may hear the voices

whispering, as they have now spoken to him, "Well done, thou good and

faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."'"

INDEX

Abbott, Rev. John, 181, 195, 204

Abbott, Rev. Joseph, 76, 163, 169, 176

Abbott, Rev. W., 76

Academical Year, 214, 215

Adams, Dr. Frank D., 266

Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, 208

Am. Association for the Advancement of Science, 241

Am. Geological Association, 241

Anderson, T. B., 207

Anglican Bishop of Quebec, 73

Anglican Cathedral in Quebec, 58

Arnold, Matthew, 256

Arts Building, 207, 257

Atkinson, Rev. A. F., 76

Aylmer, Lord, 92, 95, 98

Badgley, Hon. W., 188, 195

Bagot, Sir Charles, 137

Banffshire, Scotland, 38, 222

Bank of British North America, 175, 182

Bathurst, Lord, 52, 56, 57, 59, 62, 63, 285

Beaver Club, 31

Bennington, Vermont, 204

Bethune, Rev. John, 33, 100, 102, 104, 105, 109, 110, 118, 120, 121, 132,

137, 156, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 188

Bishop of Nova Scotia, 34

Black, Rev. E., 76, 97

Blackwood, Thos., 32

Blake, John, 30

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 248

Board of Visitors, 165, 179

Braithwaite, Rev. I., 76

Branches of Academical Education, 49

British Association, 240, 241

Brockville, 103

Burnside House, 40, 64, 71, 95, 104, 109, 120, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129,

195, 207, 277, 281

Burrage, Rev. R. R., 118

Burrage, Wm. S., 118

Burton, Sir F. N., 68

Caldwell, Dr. Wm., 86, 92

Caird, Pres. of Glasgow, 292

Cambridge, 47

Campbell, Dr., 203

Canadian Officers Training Corps, 261

Caput, The, 159, 187, 212, 213

Carleton, General Guy, 30

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 263

Carpenter, Dr., 233

Cartier, Hon. Mr., 230

Central Arts Building, 134

Chapel of Jesuits' College, 33

Chapman, Mr. E., 157, 161, 176

Chemistry and Mining, 233

Christ Church, 33, 100, 103

Christie, Wm. P., 106

Church, Anglican, 35

Church at Cornwall, 35

Church of England, 34, 48, 49, 80, 103

Church of the Recollet Fathers, 33

Church of Scotland, 34, 80, 102, 106

Church, St. Gabriel Street Presbyterian, 34, 35, 38, 39

Clergy Reserves, 25

Cleveland, Pres., 297

Cochrane, Mr. A. W., 66, 104

Colborne, Sir John, 120, 125, 129, 130

College Chaplain, 176

Colonial Office, 96, 107, 176, 180

Coltman, Wm. Bachelor, 56

Congreg. College, 234

Constitutional Act by the Home Government in 1791, 32

Cornwall, Upper Canada, 277

Corporation of the University, 250

Currie, Sir Arthur, 266

Dalhousie College, Halifax, 226

Davidson, 206

Dawson, Jas., 222, 223

Dawson, Wm., 210, 211, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 231,

234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 246, 248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254,

255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 291, 292, 293, 300

Day, Hon. Judge Chas. Dewey, 204, 205, 206, 251

Dean of Ardagh, 185

Delisle, Rev. David Charbrand, 30, 33

Dep't of Soc. Service, 298

De Sola, Rev. A., 196

Desrivières, Francis, 32, 37, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 98, 278, 279, 280

Desrivières, Henri, 98

Desrivières, James McGill, 98

Desrivières, Joseph A. T., 30, 31

de St. Real, Vallières, 67

Diocesan College, 234

Divinity Hall, 260

Donaldas, 253, 258

Dorchester Street, 40

Drummond, Sir Gordon, 52, 56, 58

Duke of Portland, 23

Duke of Richmond, 62, 63

Dunkin, 206

Dunlop, James, 37, 39, 277, 278, 279, 280

DuPlessis, Rev. J. O., 55, 56, 57

Durocher, J. B., 32

East Ward of Montreal, 39

Edinburgh High School, 256

Edmunds, 290

Elgin, Lord, 196, 200, 227

Eliot, Pres., of Harvard, 292, 299

Endowment Fund, 44

Eozoon, 240

Essay on Projects, 248

Esson, Rev. H., 76

Evangelical Alliance, 240

Executive Council of Lower Canada, 23

Faculty of Applied Science, 186, 236, 238

Faculty of Agriculture, 259

Fallon, Rev. Doctor, 157

Fargues, Dr., 88, 89

Ferrier, Jas., 207

Finlay, James, 30

Fleming, Mr., 135

Forsyth, Richardson and Co., 38

Foucault, Claire Genevieve, 31

Fraser, Rev. D. J., 294

Frothingham property, 260

Geddes, Sir Auckland, 265

Geological Society, 240

Geological Survey of Canada, 226

Gerrard, Samuel, 106

Gilman, Pres., of Johns Hopkins, 292

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., 175, 177, 181

Glasgow University, 29, 361

Gosford, Lord, 100

Government House, 184

Governors, Principal and Fellows of McGill, 288

Graduates' Society, 233

Graves, Very Rev. Richard, 185

Gray, Edward, 30

Greenock, 222

Grey, Lord, 196, 198

Griffin, Mr., 66

Guerin, T., 195

Guillemin, Mrs. Marie Charlotte, 30, 31

Guillemin, William, 31

Halifax, 42

Harkness, Rev. Doctor, 80

Harrington, Dr., 233, 257

Harvard University, 296, 297

Head, Sir Edmund, 226, 227, 230

Hewitt, F., 195

"His Majesty's Justices of the Peace," 41

Holmes, Benjamin, 207

Holmes, Dr. Andrew F., 86, 88, 92, 120, 184

Howe, Joseph, 226

Hudson Bay Co., 205

Huntingdonshire, 73

Huntley, Richard, 30

Island of Skye, Scotland, 102

Jacques Cartier Square, 195

Jesuits' Estates, 46, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66

Johnson, Dr. Alexander, 238, 259

Johns Hopkins University, 296

Joseph property, 259

Keith, 222

Kelly, 71

Kempt, Sir James, 92

King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland, 35, 97, 102

Kingston, Ontario, 35, 139

Lachine, 39

Ladies' Educational Assoc. of Montreal, 252

Landsdowne, 206

Law property, 260

Leach, Rev. W. T., 177, 187, 195, 196, 204, 238

Legislative Council, 18

Library, 135, 136, 169

Lincolnshire, 73

Littlehales, Rev. Thomas, 97

Lockhart, Rev. S. J., 99

Logan, Sir Wm., 226

Logie, Wm., 93

Lonerig, Parish of Salamannan, 223

Lord Dalhousie, 62

Lord Hobart, 25

Lundy, Rev. F. J., 141, 161, 163, 168, 176

Lyell, Sir Charles, 226

Lyman, Hannah Willard, 249, 251

Lyman, Hannah Willard Memorial Fund, 251

McCord, John Samuel, 106

McCord National Museum, 260

McGill, Andrew, 30, 34, 35

McGill No. 6 Siege Battery, 261

McGill Canadian Officers Training Corps, 262

McGill General Hospital, 261

McGill, James, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 57, 58, 59,

60, 61, 63, 64, 77, 81, 85, 86, 98, 103, 107, 139, 152, 167, 201, 221,

222, 227, 271, 272, 281, 282

McGill, Mrs. James, 31, 32, 64

McGill Medical School, 235

McGill, Hon. Peter, 106

McGill Union, 260

McKenzie, Alex., 98

Maccallum, Dr. D. C., 216

MacCulloch, Dr. Thomas, 203, 225

Macdonald Chemistry and Mining Bldg., 257

Macdonald College, 259, 265

Macdonald Engineering Building, 40, 238, 257, 259

Macdonald Park, 260

Macdonald Physics Building, 238, 257

Macdonald, Sir Wm., 238, 242, 257, 258, 259, 260

Mack's Hotel, 195

Medical Faculty of Montreal, 122, 173, 174, 185, 234, 235

Mercer, Margaret, 226

Meredith, Edmund A., 184, 185, 186, 204

Meredith, Rev. Thomas, 185

Metcalfe, Lord, 143, 145, 160, 161, 169, 175, 197, 198

Mills, Rev. Doctor J. L., 76, 79

Milnes, Sir R. S. Gov.-General, 19

Milton Street, 40

Moffat, Hon. George, 106, 120

Molson Hall, 233, 239, 240, 251, 291

Molson, John H. R., 242

Molson, Mrs. John, 252

Molson, Percival, 260

Molson property, 260

Molson Stadium, 260, 264

Molson, Wm., 232, 233, 242

Molson, Mrs. Wm., 233

Monk, James, 55, 56

Montgomery, General Richard, 30

Montier, L. D., 187, 194, 195, 196

Montreal Gazette, 75

Montreal General Hospital, 39, 86, 261

Montreal Medical Institution, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92

Monroe, Pres., 297

Morrin College, 234

Mount Royal, 40

Mountain, Rev. Dr. Jacob, Lord Bishop of Quebec, 19, 55, 56, 73

Mountain, Rev. Geo. Jehosophat, 71, 73, 76, 79, 93, 97, 99, 106, 127,

128, 161, 169, 178

Moyse, Chas. E., 259, 266

Murray, Prof. Clark, 252

Nelson's Market, 195

Norman, Rev. A., 76

North-West Co., 30

O'Connor, 70

Ogden, Mr., 67

Osler, Wm., 235

Oxford, 47

Parliament of Lower Canada, 39

Pelton, Mr., 136, 137, 138

Peter Redpath Library, 233

Peter Redpath Museum, 233, 237

Peterson, Dr. Wm., 240, 258, 260, 263, 264, 265, 291, 294, 295, 296, 297

Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York, 296

Phillips Square, 109

Philosophical Apparatus, 136

Physics Building, 40

Pictou, Nova Scotia, 210, 222, 223, 225, 226

Pointe aux Trembles, 34

Porteous, John, 30

Presbyt. College, 234

Prince Edward Island, 238

Princess Pat. Canadian Light Infantry, 262

Princeton University, 296

Protestant Congregation of Montreal, 33

Protestant Episcopal Congregation of Montreal, 34

Protestant Episcopal Parish Church of Montreal, 142

Provincial Legislature, 45, 196

Provincial Parliament, 46

Quebec, 41

Ramsay, Rev. James, 97, 176, 206

Rankine, Mary, 223

Rankine, Wm., 223

Rebellion Losses Bill, 186, 200

Rebellion of 1837, 111, 204

Redpath, Peter, 237, 239, 242

Reid, Hon. James, 37, 39, 64, 65, 67, 76, 106, 180, 277, 278, 279, 280

Reid, John, 57

Richardson, John, 37, 38, 56, 60, 64, 65, 67, 277, 278, 279, 280

Richmond, College, 234

Robertson, Dr. Wm., 86, 92, 106, 120

Robinson, Hon. J. Beverley, 200

Roman Catholics, 46, 47

Romish Church, 57

Royal Charter, 76, 167

Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, 25, 37, 44, 59, 63, 64,

65, 66, 67, 74, 77, 104, 105, 106, 107, 204, 205, 277, 278, 279, 280,

281, 282, 285, 286, 287

Royal Society, 240, 241

Royal Victoria College, 254, 258

Royal Victoria Hospital, 261

Rutherford, Prof. Ernest, 238

Salaries, 26

Sanscrainte, 277

Sewell, Jonathan, 55, 56, 66

Sherbrooke Street, 40, 41, 113, 117, 126, 193, 207, 232, 260

Simcoe, General, 18

Simpson, Rev. G. F., 187

Skakel, Mr. Alex., 97, 231

Smith, Sir Donald, 242, 252, 253, 254, 258

Somerville, Rev. James, 34, 35, 40

Sparke, Dr. Alexander, 56

St. Antoine Street, 41

St. Francis College, 234

St. Lawrence River, 40

St. Anne de Bellevue, 259, 265

Stanley, Lord, 143, 144, 160, 180

Stephenson, Dr. John, 86, 90, 92, 93, 120

Stevens, Rev. B. B., 76

Stewart, Rev. Charles J., 106

Stewart, Dr. James, 74

Strachan, Rev. John, Right Rev. Bishop of Toronto, 19, 35, 36, 37, 38,

45, 64, 65, 80, 85, 103, 107, 112, 277, 278, 279, 280

Strachan, Mrs., 36

Strathcona, Lord, 242, 254, 258, 259

Superior Education Act, 230

Super. of Education in Nova Scotia, 226, 231

Sutherland, Dr., 203

Todd, Isaac, 31, 32

Trinity College, Cambridge, 73, 157

Trinity College, Dublin, 97, 184, 185

Trustees, The, 26

Trustees of the Royal Institution, 61

Tucker, Hon. R. A., 137

University College, Dundee, Scotland, 256, 257

University Companies, 262

University College, Dundee, 295

University of Edinburgh, 97

University of New Brunswick, 227

University Street, 40

Vassar College, 249

Victoria Bridge, 229

Victoria Institute, 240

Vindication of the Rights of Women, 248

Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 205

Wesleyan College, 234

West Ward of Montreal, 32

Wickes, Professor Wm., 157, 161, 169, 176

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 248

Women's Educational Assoc. of Montreal, 255

Wood, Miss, 35

Wood, Rev. S. T., 97

Workman, Thos., 186, 238, 242

Workman Wing, 238

Yale University, 296

Transcriber's Note: Made the following changes--

Page 60: Changed the date from December 30, 1816 to December 30, 1815.

Page 80: Corrected typo--Mr. Cochran changed to Mr. Cochrane.

Page 120: Corrected typo--Moffatt changed to Moffat.

Page 156: Corrected typo--Heroditus changed to Herodotus.

Page 175: Corrected typo--Cote changed to Coté.

Appendix A: Corrected five instances of Desrivieres to Desrivières.

Index: Corrected typo--Edmondes changed to Edmonds.

Index: Corrected typo--Phi Betta changed to Phi Beta.

Index: Sherbrooke Street--Added page numbers.

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