In 1842 there was much support among Montrealers for the proposal to establish a new high school and on September 25, 1843 its doors opened.  It absorbed the Royal Grammar School which dated from 1822, and later was incorporated by a charter of the legislature in 1845.  Its headmaster from England was the former principal of Hull College who had been trained at Cambridge, and its two assistant masters likewise originated in the United Kingdom, one from England and the other from Scotland.  For a number of years, the High School was known as the High School Department of McGill College and was housed with the Faculty of Arts in Burnside Hall at the corner of Dorchester (now René Lévesque) and University streets.

The High School of Montreal

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