Bishop's College School
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Bishop's College School was established in 1836 as the Lennoxville Classical School by the Rev. Lucius Doolittle. The school became co-educational in 1973 after merging with King’s Hall Compton, a nearby girls' school.
BCS is a culturally diverse, bilingual, co-educational, independent boarding and day school for Grades 7 to 12 located on a 350 acre campus in Lennoxville a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in the heart of Québec’s historic Eastern Townships.
The school has been member of the Round Square since 1986 and the BCS Cadet Corps #2, the oldest continuous service corps in Canada, has been affiliated with the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada since 1936.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Sir H. Montagu Allan (1860-1951), businessman
- Paul Almond (b. 1931), film producer/director
- Selwyn Blaylock (1879-1945), chemist, mining executive
- Gen. Andrew McNaughton (1887-1966), scientist, military officer, cabinet minister, diplomat
- Sen. Hartland Molson (1907-2002), brewer, statesman, Hockey Hall of Fame member
- Robert Urie Patterson (1877-1950), Surgeon General of the United States Army
- J. K. L. Ross (1876-1951), sportsman who owned Sir Barton
- Peter G. White (b. 1938), businessman
- Jake Eberts (b. 1941), film producer
- Mathieu D.S. Bouchard (b. 1987), known for his skills in interpretive dance.
- Sarah C. M. Henderson (b. 1986), American Justine Lessard look-alike who doesn't like green foods.
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