Location Sherbrooke Street Type Monumental gates Opened 28 May 1925 Dedicated to Thomas George Roddick | Designer Gratton D. Thompson Opening date May 28, 1925 Province Québec Beginning date 1924 | |
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Similar Redpath Hall, Martlet House, McLennan Library Building, McConnell Arena, Redpath Museum | ||
Munaca picketing at roddick gates
The Roddick Memorial Gates (officially in French: Portail Roddick) is a monument in Montreal and the main entrance to the McGill University.
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The Roddick Gates are on Sherbrooke Street and are at the head of the very short but broad McGill College Avenue which starts at Place Ville-Marie.
Roddick gates clocks
History
In 1924, Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates in memory of her late husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, a renowned doctor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1901 to 1908. Amy Redpath Roddick (May 16, 1868 - February 16, 1954) was the first-born child and only daughter of Ada Mills and John James Redpath. She became the second wife of Thomas Roddick on September 3, 1906.
Amy Redpath Roddick commissioned Grattan D. Thompson (1895-1971) to carry out the work on the monument. In 1922, Gratton D. Thompson got married to Elizabeth Grace Redpath.
The Roddick Gates were formally opened by Amy Redpath Roddick on May 28, 1925. The four clocks and Westminster Quarters Strike were made by Seth Thomas and the four bells by Meneely Bell Foundry. In 2010 the clocks were repaired by Electric Time Company and rededicated. Two other significant buildings at McGill University bear the family name: the Redpath Library and the Redpath Museum.
In Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, where Thomas Roddick was born, there is a Roddick fountain.