The Gwillim Project Receives Major SSHRC Funding
The 2019 results are in! The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has poured research funding into a new Partnership Development Grant based out of the McGill Library’s Blacker Wood Collection. The Gwillim Project centres around the …The Gwillim Project Receives Major SSHRC Funding Read More »
Karis Shearer awarded Raymond Klibansky Research Travel Grant
The McGill Library welcomes Dr. Karis Shearer to our Rare Books and Special Collections reading room! Dr. Shearer is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) where she directs …Karis Shearer awarded Raymond Klibansky Research Travel Grant Read More »
Art Wins the Day: Roussil’s ‘Danse de la Paix’ at McGill
“Ceremony provides the climax to a controversy dating from 1949,” proclaimed the Friday, October 2nd, 1992 edition of The Montreal Gazette. That day, as part of Open House weekend at McGill, and in conjunction with Montreal’s 350th anniversary, La Danse …Art Wins the Day: Roussil’s ‘Danse de la Paix’ at McGill Read More »
Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection
This is an excerpt from the article entitled “Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection” written by Maria L. Brendel. It was first published in Fontanus, Vol 10 (1998). In 1919 McGill received a seventeenth-century print …Not a bad “Impression”: a fine Rembrandt Print in McGill’s Collection Read More »
Isabella McLennan & McLennan Travelling Libraries
This is an excerpt from the article entitled “Isabella Christine McLennan” written by Rosemary Turpin. It was first published in Fontanus, Women in the University Issue, Vol 8 (1995). Isabella Christine McLennan, who, in spite of the fact that she …Isabella McLennan & McLennan Travelling Libraries Read More »
Let’s celebrate! 2019 McGill Library Excellence Awards
Huge congratulations are in order for the 2019 recipients of the McGill Library Excellence Awards recognizing outstanding contributions to the Library, its users and its mandate. On May 22, 2019, Katherine Hanz, Liaison Librarian for the School of Information Studies and …Let’s celebrate! 2019 McGill Library Excellence Awards Read More »
Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan in conversation with CBC’s Amanda Parris
By Cecily Lawson, Friends of the McGill Library committee member The 2019 Hugh MacLennan Lecture was given by Canadian writer and Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan. She was interviewed on stage at Moyse Hall on April 29th by CBC radio …
Montreal Mansions: Spaces in Time
In 1973 the Van Horne Mansion, a historic brownstone located on the corner of Sherbrooke and Stanley Streets here in Montreal, was controversially dozed. This event came on the heels of a spate of similar demolitions in the Golden Square …
