A report on McGill University, University of Toronto and Public university

Coat of arms of the University of Toronto

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James McGill, the original benefactor of McGill University.

Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.

Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities

The first Principal of McGill College, The Rt. Rev. Dr. George Mountain

Barishal University in Barishal, a public university in Bangladesh.

Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University, 1855–1893

A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.

The Arts Building, completed in 1843 and designed by John Ostell, is the oldest building on campus

Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.

University of Mumbai, a public university in India.

The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.

Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.

McGill University and Mount Royal, 1906, Panoramic Photo Company

Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Tokyo Metropolitan University, a public university in Japan.

The Second University Company prior to their departure for France

The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

Stained Glass Great War Memorial entrance to the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art

The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.

The University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City

The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.

The main auditorium at Chulalongkorn University

The recently renovated McTavish Street is a critical artery connecting the lower campus to the upper campus

Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.

Roddick Gates act as the main entrance to the downtown campus

The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.

Built in 1892, Old Chancellor Day Hall houses the Faculty of Law

The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.

The University of Barcelona in Barcelona

The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.

Birkbeck, University of London in London

A hockey game on campus in 1884, just seven years after McGill students wrote the then-new game's first rule book, with the Arts Building, Redpath Museum, and Morrice Hall (then the Presbyterian College) visible

Old College of the University of Edinburgh

Solin Hall, situated in Saint-Henri near Lionel-Groulx station, serves as an off-campus apartment-style dorm.

The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.

Macdonald Campus under construction in 1906

Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.

Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.

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The newly built McGill University Health Centre at the Glen Site

21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.

Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil

Parc Rutherford at night. The Genome Building (left), Wong Building (middle), and McTavish Reservoir (right) are seen in the background.

Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.

The University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA

The Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile

The laboratory of Rutherford, early 20th century

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA

Radon, discovered at McGill by physicist Ernest Rutherford

Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB

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The Falcon, a statue outside of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, part of the McLennan–Redpath Library Complex

John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)

The College of William & Mary is one of the oldest public universities in the United States

Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, also a library, sits adjacent to the old Strathcona Music Building

John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal

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PhD candidates march at Commencement in McGill's distinctive scarlet regalia.

Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory

The University of California, Berkeley, the flagship public university of California

Opening of the Student Union building, 1906

Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD

Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD

Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc

Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

McGill announces new name for men's varsity sports teams

3rd prime minister of Canada Sir John Abbott (BCL, 1847).

7th prime minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier (BCL, 1864).

Inventor of the game of basketball James Naismith (BA, 1887).

Co-inventor of the charge-coupled device and Nobel prize laureate in Physics Willard Boyle (BSc, 1947; MSc 1948; PhD 1950).

Emmy Award winner known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in the Star Trek franchise William Shatner (BComm, 1952).

Balzan Prize winner, referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology" Brenda Milner (PhD, 1952)

Grammy Award winner and poet Leonard Cohen (BA, 1955).

6th President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (PhD, 1965).

48th Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif (PhD, 1983).

Former astronaut and 29th governor general of Canada Julie Payette (BEng, 1986).

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio (BEng, 1986; MSc, 1988; PhD, 1991).

The current and 23rd prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau (BA, 1994).

Former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières Joanne Liu (MDCM, 1991; IMHL, 2014).

McGill University (Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

- McGill University

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

- University of Toronto

The university is one of two members of the Association of American Universities located outside the United States, alongside the University of Toronto, and is the only Canadian member of the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) within the World Economic Forum.

- McGill University

It receives the most annual scientific research funding and endowment of any Canadian university and is one of two members of the Association of American Universities outside the United States, the other being McGill University in Montreal.

- University of Toronto

Many early universities were privately endowed (e.g., McGill) or founded by church denominations (e.g., Laval, Saint Mary's, Queen's, Dalhousie, Mount Allison, McMaster, Ottawa) but in the 20th century became publicly funded and secular.

- Public university

Provincial governments established the University of Toronto on the Oxbridge model and elsewhere (e.g., Alberta, Manitoba) in the pattern of American state universities.

- Public university