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McGill University
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- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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James McGill was a successful English and French-speaking merchant in Quebec. Between 1811 and 1813 he drew up a will leaving his Burnside estate, a 19 hectare (46 acre) tract of rural land and 10,000 pounds to the The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning (RIAL). Upon McGill's death in December 1813 the RIAL, established in 1801 by an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, shifted focus from administering elementary education in Lower Canada, to establishing a University persuant to the conditions of McGill's will. As a condition of the bequest, the land and funds would have to be used for the establishment of a "University or College, for the purposes of Education and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province." The will specified that the college must be established within 10 years of his death or else the estate and the money would revert to the heirs of his wife. Also, the new institution would be required to bear his name. [1]
On March 31, 1821, after protracted legal battles with the Desrivieres family (the heirs of his wife), McGill College received a Royal Charter from King George IV. The Charter provided that the College should be deemed and taken as a University, with the power of conferring degrees. In 1829 McGill College was officially inaugurated and classes began. The Montreal Medical Institution became the college's Faculty of Medicine, McGill's first academic unit. The Faculty of Medicine granted its first degree, a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, in 1833. The Faculty of Medicine remained the school's only functioning faculty until 1843 when the Faculty of Arts commenced teaching in the newly constructed Arts Building and East Wing (Dawson Hall). [1]
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