1885-1913

The Board of Governors adopted the use of the name "McGill University" in place of “McGill College.”

First women graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Sir John Abbott BCL’47, DCL’67, 3^rd Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-92.

James Naismith BA’77 invented basketball in Springfield, Mass, and first played as a McGill intramural sport two years later.

Macdonald Physics and Macdonald Engineering buildings and the Workman Technical Building opened.

Redpath Library opened.

Royal Victoria Hospital opened as a McGill teaching hospital.

WILLIAM PETERSON, Sixth Principal and Vice-Chancellor, 1895-1919

Department of Architecture established.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier BCL'64, 7^th Prime Minister of Canada, 1896-1911

The first volume of students' Old McGill annuals was published.

Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy published the paper "Radioactivity."

Victoria College, affiliated with McGill college, 1903-1915, became the University of Victoria in 1963.

Children's Memorial Hospital was established.

Conservatorium of Music opened.

Library School was established as a summer school, sessional program in 1927, and renamed School of Information Studies in 2007.

Percival Molson BA’01 McGill’s first Olympian, St. Louis Olympics.

Bishop's University Medical School amalgamated with McGill Faculty of Medicine.

The Women Associates began as a Ladies' Auxiliary for wives and daughters of McGill staff.

McGill University College of British Columbia was established in Vancouver, which in 1915 became the University of British Columbia.

Graduate School and Ph.D. program established

McGill Student Union Building (now McCord Museum) was given to the University by Sir William Macdonald.

Department of Commerce established.

Total student enrolment: 1,383.

Macdonald College at Ste. Anne de Bellevue opened for students in Agriculture, Household Science, and Teaching.

Macdonald Engineering and the Medical buildings were destroyed by fires

Ernest Rutherford was awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

First dental degrees awarded.

New Macdonald Engineering Building opened.

Physical Plant Building opened, later renamed Ferrier Building.

First Ph.D. degree awarded to Robert W. Boyle BEng’05. MEng’06 in Physics.

Macdonald Park, comprising 25 acres, was given by Sir William Macdonald for athletic facilities.

Strathcona Medical Building opened.

Meeting of Canadian university heads at the Royal Victoria College, under the chairmanship of Sir William Peterson, gave birth to the National Conference of Canadian Universities.

McGill Daily student newspaper was established.

School of Physical Education established.

McGill Contingent of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps formed the first such university-based officers' training program in North America.

George Hodgson BA’16 won two gold medals in swimming at the Stockholm Olympics.