John Abbott College

The John Abbott College is a Cégep Sainte -Anne- de -Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English College of Montreal West Iceland. It is located right on the St. Lawrence River.

The campus of the college is about 650 hectares in size and is shared with the McDonald College of McGill University. Is named the College after the third Prime Minister of Canada and vormaligem mayor of the nearby city Montréal, Sir John Abbott. Most of the buildings of the college also bear the names of Canadian historical figures.

History

Sir William Macdonald has transferred the building in 1906 documented at the McGill University.

The college opened on September 6, 1971, after 1970, the approval for the opening of a new CEGEP in Sainte -Anne- de -Bellevue was granted. In the first year, 1,200 students were enrolled. First, the building of the college rented from McGill University.

Three years later, the number of students of the college had grown to 3,700. Here, the school system was partially in up to twelve different buildings, now partially belong to Macdonald High School instead. The need for larger buildings was officially stated already at 1972, the construction of a new college building in Pointe Claire was born on June 14, 1972 then decided. The relocation of the College of Sainte -Anne- De -Bellevue to Pointe Claire was due, among other things, a better public transport connections. The buildings were to be erected close to the Fairview Pointe- Claire. The completion of the work was planned for 1975. However, immediately more space was needed, the faculties of Fine and creative art (Fine Arts and Creative Arts ) have been outsourced to Kirkland.

Finally, the plans of a new building in Pointe -Claire, however, were discarded. 1979 Casgrain Center was completed. Thus, it has long been the only part of the building, the property of John Abbott College was. In the autumn of the same year the art department was relocated again to Sainte -Anne- De -Bellevue to the other areas.

All the other buildings that were angemietetet from McGill University, were fundamentally renovated until 1981. 2002 bought the College - to date the last college in Québec, which is still rented College buildings - all rented building with the exception of Brittain Hall of McGill from.

Building

The College consists of various parts of the building.

Herzberg

Herzberg is the main building of the college. It is centrally located; the main entrance is on most of the campus. It is named after the German Gerhard Herzberg, who moved to Canada as a refugee in 1935 and there was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. On the ground floor of the Herzberg building there is the only entrance to the large three-story library of the college. In addition, there are many administrative offices such as the Secretariat or the Student's Activities. On the first floor there is the Physics Department, in the second of the chemical, in each case including the so-called labs where scientific experiments are performed.

Library

The college has its own three-story library under the direction of the librarian Janette Wygergangs. She finds herself in the center of the college building directly behind the main entrance.

In the basement and ground floor, there are more than 80,000 books. On the first floor the Media Services find a large number of VHS tapes and DVDs, and laptops for rent. In addition, here are individual seats with televisions available. In all three floors, there are a total of about 300 individual workstations for students which are separated by wooden or glass walls. On the ground floor there are 16 open-access computer, also is available in all areas of library Internet via wireless LAN. There are several study rooms for student groups are available whose keys are available for free.

Hochelaga

Right half of the library closes the Hochelaga- building on to the Herzberg Building. As the only building the Hochelaga- building is not named after a person with Canadian background. Rather, Hochelaga was a village of the St. Lawrence Iroquois, from the since about the 16th century, the city of Montreal has emerged. The college says the designation as Ehrerbringung for the Canadian Aboriginal, First Nations.

In Hochelaga- building is found among other things, Economics ( Business Administration).

Penfield

The Penfield building is located slightly left of the main entrance between the library and the Casgrain Centre. The name is on Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon back.

On the ground floor and the first floor classrooms, in which primarily languages ​​(English and foreign languages ​​) are taught. On the second floor the Penfield Computer Lab finds with more than 250 computer workstations. Three rooms are constant student use are available, the others serve as classrooms.

Casgrain

The Casgrain Building ( often referred to as Casgrain Centre ) lies to the left of Penfield building. The name of the building has been chosen in honor of the Canadian lawyer and women 's rights activist Thérèse Casgrain.

In Casgrain building there is the swimming pool and the triple sports hall. In the basement, squash courts, a rental for various sports equipment and protective clothing, the changing rooms, showers and saunas are located. In addition, the radio and television studio located in the basement of the Casgrain Centre. On the ground floor there is the so-called Munch Box, a newspaper stand.