No ordinary school : The Study, 1915-2015 / Colleen Gray ; with the assistance of Jill de Villafranca, Mary Liistro Hébert, Eve Marshall, and Susan Orr-Mongeau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Colleen, 1951- author.

Villafranca, Jill de, author.

Hébert, Mary Liistro, author.

Marshall, Eve, author.

Orr-Mongeau, Susan, author.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gascoigne, Margaret.

Study (Private school)--History.

Study (Private school).

Girls' schools--Québec (Province)--Westmount--History.

Girls' schools.

Private schools--Québec (Province)--Westmount--History.

Private schools.

Girls--Education--Québec (Province)--Westmount--History.

Girls.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Québec] ; Chicago [Illinois] : Published for The Study by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

Text in English; introductory pages in English and French.

Summary:

"Presenting lively images, oral testimonies, and material gleaned from the school's archives, No Ordinary School explores the evolution of The Study through world wars, the Great Depression, the Quiet Revolution, and many stages of feminism, from its predominantly English Montreal origins into the bilingual and multicultural community that it is today. Always at the forefront of the most progressive educational developments, The Study has encouraged generations of women to transcend the boundaries of their times. Influential alumni include the physicist and Canadian Department of External Affairs civil servant Dorothy Osborne Xanthaky, avant garde artist Marian Dale Scott, former chief curator and director of the McCord Museum of Canadian History Isabel Barclay Dobell, world-renowned architect Phyllis Lambert, internationally acclaimed pianist Janina Fialkowska, Olympic rowing medalist Andrâeanne Morin, and tennis star Eugenie Bouchard."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; The Study Mission Statement; Presentation Letter from James McDonald; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 "Things that Really Matter," 1878-1913; 2 "A Real School," 1913-1919; 3 Days of Promise, 1920-1929; 4 The Great Depression, 1930-1939; 5 "The Good War," 1939-1945; 6 A Golden Age, 1946-1960; 7 A World Turned Upside Down, 1960-1970; 8 A Time to Question, 1970-1983; 9 A Time to Define, 1983-1997; 10 State of the Art, 1997-2003; 11 Challenging Times and New Horizons, 2003-2014; 12 Into the Future; Notes on Sources; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M

NO; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-9764-6

OCLC:

909956951