| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English; The Study mission statement, presentation letter, preface, and acknowledgements in English and French. |
| Subject |
Study (Private school) -- History.
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Gascoigne, Margaret.
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Gascoigne, Margaret. |
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Girls' schools -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History.
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Girls' schools. |
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History. |
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Private schools -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History.
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Private schools. |
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Girls -- Education -- Québec (Province) -- Westmount -- History.
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Girls -- Education. |
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Girls. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Girls. |
| Added Author |
Villafranca, Jill de, author.
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Hébert, Mary Liistro, author.
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Marshall, Eve, author.
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Orr-Mongeau, Susan, author.
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| Added Title |
Study, 1915-2015 |
| Other Form: |
Gray, Colleen, 1951- No ordinary school.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : Published for The Study by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015] ©2015 (CaOONL)20159035686 (OCoLC)908628906 |
| ISBN |
9780773597648 (epdf) |
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0773597646 (epdf) |
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9780773546356 (bound) |
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0773546359 (bound) |
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