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McGill Homecoming event: Secret Science Spots

Thursday, September 26, 2019 15:00to17:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
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FEE: $12/adult; $6/child/student; max $20/family. Includes a copy of the booklet Secret Science Spots. 

This guided walk explores some of McGill's hidden pockets of history that will surprise even the most avid McGillite. Find out where Ernest Rutherford conducted the experiments that won him the 1905 Nobel prize, or where Maude Abbott, Canada's first cardiologist, gathered her heart collection, or where folk musician Kate McGarrigle penned her salt song. This tour will enlighten and entertain. Special guest on tour this year is Cynthia Boyle, who will share stories about her father, McGill's latest Nobel prize winner Willard Boyle.

In English.

FEE: $12/adult; $6/child/student; max $20/family. Includes a copy of the booklet Secret Science Spots.  

Register in advance here. 

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Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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