The Study is an English-language private education all-girls school in Westmount, Quebec . The school was founded in 1915 by a young Englishwoman named Margaret Gascoigne. The Study offers a bilingual mother tongue education to 386 students from Kindergarten to grade 11. As of 2016, a certificate of eligibility for English instruction is no longer required for any grade as The Study does not receive government subsidies.
5-940: Students are divided into four houses: Mu Gamma (blue), Kappa Rho (green), Beta Lambda (white), Delta Beta (yellow). The Study offers both Mandarin and Spanish as a third language, starting in grade 5. In 1915 a young Englishwoman named Margaret Gascoigne opened a school for six students in the study of her home. In 1960 The Study moved to its present location in Westmount, one of Montreal’s prime residential neighborhoods. In addition to its founder, eight women have led The Study: Margaret Gascoigne (1915–1934), Mary Harvey (1934–1952), Katharine Lamont (1952–1970), Jean Scott (1970-1982), Eve Marshall (1982–1997), Mary Liistro Hebert (1997–2003), Elizabeth Falco (2003–2010), Mary Liistro Hebert (2010-2011), and Nancy Lewis Sweer (2011 – 2020) and Kim McInnes (2020–present). McGill Queen's University Press published in 2015 No Ordinary School; The Study 1915-2015
10-537: A joint venture between McGill University in Montreal , Quebec and Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston , Ontario . McGill–Queen's University Press publishes original peer-reviewed works in most areas of the social sciences and humanities . As of 2023, it has more than 4,000 books in print. For more than twenty-five years, the publishing house has been under the direction of executive director Philip Cercone,
15-424: A 168-page hard cover commemorative 100th anniversary book about The Study School. The Study is divided into two "schools": elementary school (K – grade 6) and senior school (grade 7 – grade 11). The school has approximately 385 students total. Each grade is divided into two classes. McGill-Queen%27s University Press The McGill–Queen's University Press ( MQUP ) is a Canadian university press formed as
20-449: A former director of Canada's Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program, the governmental agency that funds scholarly books published in Canada. Under Cercone's guidance, the list has grown to the point where MQUP is sometimes claimed to be Canada's leading academic publisher. For many years, one of its senior editors was the historian and author Donald Akenson . The press is currently a member of
25-628: The Association of University Presses . Among the best-known academics to have published with the press are Jacob Neusner , Margaret Somerville , Stéphane Dion , Charles Taylor , Bruce Trigger and Christl Verduyn . It also has a poetry list including such writers as Carmine Starnino , Mark Abley , Peter Dale Scott and Brian Bartlett. In recent years the press has also become known for contentious books on Canadian politics by Tom Flanagan among others. Some of its books are translated from French. McGill–Queen's has been awarded numerous prizes for
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