Baron Byng High School
Coordinates: 45°31′03″N 73°35′01″W / 45.517403°N 73.583744°W
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4251 St. Urbain Street Montreal Canada | |
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| Established | 1921 |
Baron Byng High School was located at 4251 St. Urbain Street, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was operated by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. It operated from 1921 to 1980.[1]
It was named after Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, the Governor General of Canada from 1921 to 1926. Byng was a World War I hero at the battle of Vimy Ridge, an important battle that many historians, like Pierre Berton, believe formed Canada's national character. Byng was also involved in a political scandal dealing with the succession of the Canadian Government, the King-Byng Affair in 1926.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the school predominantly catered to Montreal's lower-income Jewish population. From the 1980s onwards, the building is the home of the non-profit community organization Sun Youth (Jeunesse au soleil).[2]
Baron Byng High School is notable because it had a virtual who's who of Canada's academic, arts, business and political leaders. It has been immortalized in many books, including many by Mordecai Richler.
Notable alumni
- Morris Fish, Supreme Court of Canada judge
- Sam Gesser, record producer and concert promoter
- A. M. Klein, poet
- Michael Laucke, concert guitarist
- Irving Layton, poet
- David Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, labour lawyer, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada 1971-75
- Frederick Lowy, medical educator and president & vice-chancellor of Concordia University
- Rudolph A. Marcus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992
- Louis Nirenberg, mathematician
- Simon Reisman, civil servant
- Mordecai Richler, author
- William Shatner, actor
- Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher
- Lorne Trottier,[3] business owner
Notable teachers
- Anne Savage, painter and art teacher
References
- ↑ Jewish Learning
- ↑ Sun Youth
- ↑ Curran, Peggy (15 November 2006), "McGill benefactor intrigued by how the world works", The Montreal Gazette, retrieved 8 December 2011