Sir Arthur Currie, 1920-1933
Born in Adelaide, Ontario in 1875, Arthur Currie was educated locally as a school teacher and left at the age of nineteen to seek his fortunes in Victoria…
Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, 1919-1920
Born on 27 June 1879, Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes was Professor of Anatomy at McGill from 1913 to 1914, and later served as British Minister of National…
Sir William Peterson, 1895-1919
Sir William, graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford, classical scholar and skilled academic administrator, was the ideal candidate for principal. After much…
Sir John William Dawson, 1855-1893
A geologist and educator, Sir John William Dawson was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, 13 October 1820. Superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia from 1850 to…
Charles Dewey Day, 1853-1855
In 1853 the Board of Governors named Charles Dewey Day as the fourth Principal of McGill. Day accepted the position on a temporary basis and resigned as soon as…
Edmund Allen Meredith, 1846-1853
The twenty-nine-year-old lawyer Edmund Allen Meredith, graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, was appointed the third Principal of McGill College in 1846. His…
John Bethune, 1835-1846
John Bethune was forty-four years of age when he was appointed Principal of McGill College. At the time of his appointment he was a clergyman and the rector of…
George Jehoshaphat Mountain, 1824-1835
George Jehoshaphat Mountain, Anglican priest and son of Bishop Mountain, the president of the Royal Institution, was named the first Principal of McGill College…