McGill University is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Canada. It was officially founded by royal charter issued by King George IV in 1821. The University bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland whose bequest in 1813 formed precursory McGill College.McGill's main campus is set at the foot of Mount Royal in Downtown Montreal, with the...
A project mapping the genealogy of families associated with Montreal's (Westmount) historic Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.
The Université de Montréal ( Français ) (UdeM; French pronunciation: [yniv%C9%9B%CA%81site də mɔ̃ʁeal]) iis a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit (also called Mount Murray), in the borough of Outremont. T...
Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre (67 ha) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger adjacent Roman Catholic cemetery -- Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. Mount Royal Cemetery is now bordered on the southeast by Mount Royal Park, on the west by Notre-Dame-de...
This is a list of mayors of Montreal, Quebec, since the city was incorporated in 1832.==List of Mayors==* Jacques Viger (June 5, 1833 – 1836)* Peter McGill (born Peter McCutcheon) (1840–1842)* Joseph Bourret (1st term) (1842–1844)* James Ferrier (1844–1846)* John Easton Mills (1846–1847)* Joseph Bourret (2nd term) (1847–1849)* Édouard-Raymond Fabre (1849-1851)* Charles Wilson (1851-1854)* Wolfr...
This project focuses on the athletes who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Canada was the host of these Olympic Games.