[timeline_excerpt]In an article titled “And the Notorious McGill connection,” The McGill Daily outlined the implications of McGill officials continuing financial dealings with apartheid South Africa at a time when much of the global community had started divesting from the racist government and openly condemning the inhumane discrimination experienced by Black South Africans.[/timeline_excerpt]
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[timeline_excerpt]In November of 1978, Dawson College’s board of governors voted to withdraw their accounts from the Bank of Montreal (BMO) because of its involvement with the South African apartheid government. Meanwhile, McGill and SSMU both continued to deal with BMO. McGill did not fully divest from South African investments until 1985.[/timeline_excerpt]
[timeline_excerpt]In 1859, construction workers building houses at the corner of Rue Metcalfe and Boulevard de Maisonneuve unearthed remnants of skeletons, fire pits, tools, pottery, longhouse posts, and other evidence of an Iroquoian village formerly being located on the site. At this time, leading Canadian scientist and geologist William Dawson was the director of McGill College, […]
[timeline_excerpt]Robert Houle is a Saulteaux nation contemporary artist, curator, critic, and educator. Houle is mainly a painter working in the tradition of Abstraction and his art takes up issues related to the aftermath of colonialism. Houle is shown both nationally and internationally. Of particular importance is his involvement in important high-profile exhibitions, such as Land, […]
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SSMU Security introduced.
[timeline_excerpt]SSMU security was introduced when SSMU council restricted SSMU executives from calling in Montreal police to arrest anti-zionist protestors. Originally SSMU hired two agents to patrol and secure the University Centre. In the 1980s and 90s, SSMU security began to employ McGill Redmen football players. SSMU eventually felt the need for more a professional non-student […]
[timeline_excerpt]Ray Masai Hewitt, Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party, speaks at McGill university “to roughly 400 McGill students in an address about the civil rights struggle.”[/timeline_excerpt]