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7 unusual facts about McGill


Blake Stein

He is now Assistant Principal for Discipline and Attendance at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School.

Cherry Creek, Nevada

The community of Cherry Creek is located in the northern part of the long Steptoe Valley, north of the modern communities of McGill and Ely.

Gregory Slay

Slay attended both Davidson High School and McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile.

McGill-Toolen Catholic High School

Sonny Callahan, U.S Representative for the 1st District of Alabama (1985–2003)

McGill's Bus Services

On 15 October 2012 it was announced that McGill's were to acquire the local bus services of Balloch based McColls Coaches for £3 million, with 30 buses joining the fleet.

Old Shell Road

McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, located in the blocks that are bounded by Catherine, Old Shell and Lafayette and in the second block by Lafayette, Old Shell, Dauphin and Blacklawn.

Staples thesis

Daniel Drache (1995) Staples, markets and cultural change: The centenary edition of Harold Innis' collected essays, McGill-Queen's University Press.


1925 in Canadian football

McGill coach Frank Shaughnessy introduced the huddle system to Canadian football.

Alexander T. McGill

:For other persons named Alexander McGill, see Alexander McGill.

Boris Brott

Brott is Founding Music Director and Conductor Laureate of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles, the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal and was Principal Youth & Family conductor with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, where he had guest conducted for 40 years and continues as such with an emphasis on family and education concerts.

British Latin American

Juan Pablo Bennett, Alberto Blest Gana; writer members of the Edwards family; Hernán Somerville, banker Harold Mayne-Nicholls, president of ANFP and Chilean Football Federation; Mary Rose McGill, socialite, etc.

CampusJ

CampusJ's staff of student reporters covered the Jewish news on thirty or more campuses, including American University, George Washington University, McGill, Northwestern, Rutgers and Washington University, by reporting for campus-specific school homepages (blogs).

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Michael Kelway Oliver, a former professor of Political Science at McGill and President of Carleton University was the first CCPA president.

Colin McDougall

The novel was praised by such writers as Saul Bellow, Vera Brittain, and Hugh MacLennan, all of whom wrote to McDougall to express their admiration for his work (these letters are also in the McDougall Papers at McGill).

CrossFit

According to Dr. Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, the risk of injury from some CrossFit exercises outweighs their benefits when they are performed with poor form in timed workouts.

Dan Biocchi

He taught political science at McGill University and Marianopolis College in Montreal while working on his doctorate at McGill.

Donald McGill

McGill's Kipling joke is used in a 1962 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, "Pygmalion and Elly", in a scene with Elly May Clampett (Donna Douglas) and Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye).

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.

Elizabeth Binmore

She earned her Master of Arts from McGill in 1894; sharing the honour of being the first woman to do so with one other lady.

Eric Abrahamson

Dr. Abrahamson has written a number of books and articles, including Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, which he co-authored with Roderick MacLeod (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) and Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World, which he co-authored with Louis Galambos of Johns Hopkins University (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Frank Dawson Adams

He received a Masters degree from McGill in 1884, and his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1892.

Frank William Green

Upon his graduation from McGill in 1898, Green worked as a physician on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Crowsnest Pass line, in the Kootenay Valley, working on horseback.

George Barnston

During his working life with the HBC, Barnston was a student of the natural history of the various areas and his specimens are in the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum and the Redpath Museum at McGill.

Gib Holgate

At the time of the 1940 United States Census, Holgate was living in McGill, White Pine County, Nevada, where he was living in a men's dormitory and working as a "surveyor helper" at a copper smelter.

Jamie Nicholls

Working as a landscape architect while he was enrolled at McGill University's School of Urban Planning, Nicholls was one of five current McGill students, alongside undergraduates Mylène Freeman, Matthew Dubé, Charmaine Borg and Laurin Liu, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the NDP's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec.

Jimmy McGill

James Morrison "Jimmy" McGill (born 27 November 1946, in Partick) is a retired Scottish footballer, who played for a number of clubs during the 1960s and 1970s, including Arsenal, and Huddersfield Town.

John Farthing

For five years after his return to Canada from England, he was a lecturer in Political Science & Economics at McGill; he was considered one of the brilliant young thinkers recruited and nurtured by Stephen Leacock.

John H. McGill House

The John H. McGill House is a historic house at 56 Vernon Street in Medford, Massachusetts.

John McGill

Biraban (died 1846), indigenous Australian leader known to Europeans as John McGill

Keith McGill

McGill attended La Mirada High School in La Mirada, California, where he earned letters in football, track and basketball.

Live at Sir George Williams University

This recording was done live as a joint concert of the folk music societies of McGill and Sir George Williams Universities in 1967, at Sir George Williams University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and also featured Dave Van Ronk on the same bill.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

Matthew Dubé

He was one of five current McGill University students, alongside fellow undergraduates Mylène Freeman, Laurin Liu, and Charmaine Borg, and graduate student Jamie Nicholls, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the New Democratic Party's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec.

Max Bell

In addition to serving as a director for the CPR, Bell was also director for the Bank of Nova Scotia, was a member of the board of governors at McGill and was a senior director of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede.

McGill EMF Conference

The tobacco industry had a long-term relationship (through grants and contract work) with Don Ecobichon, a professor of pharmacology at the university, and it had recently established a new relationship with Professor Lucien Abenhaim from McGill's Faculty of Medicine.

McGill University School of Computer Science

The first Internet Search Engine, Archie search engine, was written in 1990 by three McGill computer science students: Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch.

Michael Meaney

Meaney is Associate Director of the Research Centre at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Director of the Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, and James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University.

Mike Babcock

Babcock is one of four McGill University players to coach an NHL team (Lester Patrick guided the New York Rangers; George Burnett served in Edmonton; and Guy Boucher served in Tampa Bay).

Mike McGill

Along with Rodney Mullen, McGill was the stunt double for Christian Slater in Gleaming the Cube.

The trick is derived from a combination of the "Mc" in McGill and the word "twist"—twist had previously been introduced by Lance Mountain and Neil Blender, with their invention of the "Gay twist" (a mute-grab, fakie 360-degree aerial).

Örjan Sandred

Sandred was teaching composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for 1998–2005 and he has been a guest lecturer at IRCAM, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, at the Bartok Seminar in Szombathely in Hungary, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, at McGill University in Montreal, at Harvard University, at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and other places.

Otelia M. McGill

Otelia McGill is credited with preserving many of her famous father's papers, chronicling his career in building and operating Virginia's railroads, serving in the Confederate Army, and his political career as leader during Reconstruction of the Readjuster Party.

Otelia (née Mahone) McGill of Petersburg, Virginia was the daughter of Otelia (née Butler) Mahone and Confederate General and United States Senator William Mahone.

Richard A. Waite

Grand Trunk Railway Company Limited Building, Montreal 1906 - 360 ru McGill now Édifice Gérald-Godin (home to Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities)

Rima Rozen

Rima Rozen received her PhD from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and pursued postdoctoral training at McGill University and Yale University.

Stephen McGill

At this point the Second World War was under way in Europe so, following the fall of France to the Germans in June 1940, Father McGill, as a British citizen, had to make his escape via Marseille and Spain to avoid internment as an enemy alien.

T. B. Irving

As a scholar, Irving taught and studied at a number of leading universities in the U.S. and Canada, including McGill, Princeton, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

The Snow Tiger

Finding himself alone in this place Ian invites Mike McGill (who is planning to go to Antarctica soon) to visit him in Huka for a little time.

Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island

Some famous Islanders hailing from, or who have hailed from, the community include 'Dambuster' F/O Vincent Sanford MacCausland, former Premier Keith Milligan, former Dean of McGill Law, Percy Ellwood Corbett, Member of Parliament Joseph McGuire, Island visual artist Charlene Williams, historic shipbuilder James Yeo, and deceased folk artist Larry Gorman.


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