Students' Society of McGill University

Author: Marc Cataford

Canadian Prime Minister and McGill Law alumnus, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, passes into law a provision banning Black people from entering the country.

[timeline_excerpt]While there was never a formal act banning Black immigration, Canadian officials have engaged in efforts to make it difficult for African Americans to immigrate to Canada. Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier signed an Order-in-Council banning Black Immigrants based on the notion that African Americans were not suited for the “climate and requirements of Canada.” This […]

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Chemist Annie MacLeod becomes the first woman to earn a PhD at McGill.

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Post date August 31, 2016
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Harriet Brooks is the first woman to earn a Masters at McGill, and goes on to be a leading nuclear physicist.

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Lucy E. Potter becomes the first woman to head a student publication.

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The first B.A.s are awarded to women.

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Women are allowed to take classes, as a condition of Lord Strathcona’s $120,000 endowment to the University

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[timeline_excerpt]Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona) was McGill’s chancellor from 1889 to his death in 1914 and one of the biggest donors in the history of the school. Perhaps most notably, in 1884, Smith made an endowment for $120,000, “on the condition that the standard of education for women should be the same as that for men […]