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The Roddick Gates form the iconic main entrance to McGill. They are on Sherbrooke Street and are at the head of the very short and broad McGill College Avenue, which starts at Place Ville-Marie. The Westminster Chimes that ring in the lower campus every fifteen minutes will not be heard for approximately four months.


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The Roddick Gates, also known as the Roddick Memorial Gates, are monumental gates in Montreal that serve as the main entrance to the McGill University campus. They are located on Sherbrooke Street West and are at the northern end of the very short but broad McGill College Avenue, which starts at Place Ville-Marie . History


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Roddick Gates [Entrance to McGill University] URI http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/88373 Date 1924-1925 Description Terminating block, east flank; The Roddick Gates are the main entrance to McGill University from Sherbrooke Street West.


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Procession at Roddick Gates, ca. 1930. THE GATES OF McGILL: AN UNPUBLISHED NOVEL OF THE 1920's BY "DINK" CARROLL By Robert H. Michel Austen (Dink) Carroll (McGill Law 1923) was a well-known Montreal sportswriter from the 1940s to the 1980s. Early in his career, he also wrote fiction.


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McGill inaugurated its permanent and monumental entrance on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal in 1925. Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates in memory of her husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick.


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The Roddick Gates were opened in 1925 with great fanfare and have served as the "front door and gateway" to McGill University ever since. By 1930 however, the clock mechanisms had failed due to an environmental assault of wind, rain, snow, and dust, and had been inoperable from that time as a result.


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Roddick Gates, also Roddick Memorial Gates, are monumental gates in Montreal that serve as the main entrance to the McGill University campus This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 11:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0.


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Restoration of Roddick Gates Start: November 2016 End: Completed A gift from Lady Amy Redpath Roddick in memory of her late husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, Dean of Medicine from 1901 to 1908, the iconic monument at the main entrance of McGill's downtown campus is almost a century old.


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McGill's Dean of Medicine from 1901-08, Roddick was a renowned surgeon who pioneered the use of antisepsis, and who also worked tirelessly to ensure shared qualifications across Canada for the practice of medicine. The Roddick Gates were constructed in his memory with a gift from his widow Amy.


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Convocation procession from Roddick Gates, circa 1945. Photographer unknown. McGill University Archives, PR017256. Heritage The McGill University Archives was established in 1962 with the appointment of McGill's first University Archivist, Alan Ridge.


Montreal, Canada December 20 2019; construction at Roddick Gates McGill

1925 Roddick Gates Lady Amy Redpath Roddick donated the gates at the entrance to McGill's downtown campus in honour of her late husband and former Dean of Medicine, Sir Thomas George Roddick. The classical colonnade welcomes visitors with a recently-restored clock and chimes that preserve a historic link between the campus and the City of Montreal.


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Students protest outside the Roddick Gates in 1968. (Brian M. Smith / McGill University Archives, PR033827) On this day in Montreal - May 28, 1925 - The Roddick Memorial Gates officially.


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The Roddick Gates restoration is a project of three departments in McGill Facilities Management and Ancillary Services (Project Management, Design Services, and Campus and Space Planning), EVOQ Architecture and the Tetra Tech electromechanical and civil engineering firm.


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For 90 years, the Roddick Gates and Clock Tower on Sherbrooke Street West, at the top of McGill College Avenue, have served as the University's main entrance. Along with the Arts Building façade directly behind the gates at the end of Graduates' Drive, the Roddick Gates, flanked by sweeping curved colonnades, have iconically represented McGill.


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The project was to restore the Roddick Gates clocks and bell tower. The Roddick Gates were opened in 1925 with great fanfare and have served as the "front door and gateway" to McGill University ever since. By 1930, however, the clock mechanisms had failed due to an environmental assault of wind, rain, snow, and dust, and made them inoperable.

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