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Author Gray, Colleen, 1951- author.

Title 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
Published Montreal ; Kingston : Published for the Study by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages) : illustrations
Contents "Things that really matter," 1878-1913 -- "A real school," 1913-1919 -- Days of promise, 1920-1929 -- The Great Depression, 1930-1939 -- "The good war," 1939-1945 -- A golden age, 1946-1960 -- A world turned upside down, 1960-1970 -- A time to question, 1970-1983 -- A time to define, 1983-1997 -- State of the art, 1997-2003 -- Challenging times and new horizons, 2003-2014 -- Into the future
Summary "In 1913, Oxford-educated Margaret Gascoigne left England for Montreal in search of new opportunities. In 1915 she established a small school for six students in the study of her downtown Montreal home -- the modest but aspiring beginning of what would become known as The Study. 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 Andréanne Morin, and tennis star Eugenie Bouchard."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English; The Study mission statement, presentation letter, preface, and acknowledgements in English and French
Subject Gascoigne, Margaret.
SUBJECT Gascoigne, Margaret fast
Subject Study (Private school) -- History
Girls' schools -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History
Private schools -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History
Girls -- Education -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- History.
Girls -- Education
Girls' schools
Private schools
Québec -- Westmount
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Villafranca, Jill de, author.
Hébert, Mary Liistro, author
Marshall, Eve, author
Orr-Mongeau, Susan, author
ISBN 9780773597648
0773597646
Other Titles Study, 1915-2015