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Westmount High School

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School type
  
Advanced Placement

Grades
  
7–11

Language
  
English

Principal
  
Michael Christofaro

Founded
  
1874

Enrollment
  
950 (2014)

Phone
  
+1 514-933-2701

Mascot
  
Knight

Motto
  
Dux Vitea Ratio (Guide to Life)

Address
  
4350 Saint-Catherine St, Westmount, QC H3Z 1R1, Canada

District
  
English Montreal School Board

Profiles

1984 westmount high school teachers


Westmount High School (French: École secondaire Westmount) is a public secondary school located at 4350 St. Catherine St. West in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. Westmount High is Quebec’s first and only public school to offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

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It was formerly a part of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal.

Notable graduates

  • Jesse Camacho, actor
  • John E. Cleghorn, banker, chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Leonard Cohen, poet, musician, writer
  • Stockwell Day, Canadian politician (provincial and federal), former leader of the Canadian Alliance (now defunct)
  • Kamala Harris, American politician, former California State Attorney General, U.S. Senator for California
  • Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flutist, Philadelphia Orchestra, Flute Professor Juilliard School and Curtis Institute
  • Mary Jane Lamond, folk musician
  • David H. Levy, astronomer, discoverer of 22 comets
  • Mila Mulroney, wife of ex-prime minister Brian Mulroney
  • Alfred Powis, businessman
  • Moshe Safdie, class of '55, architect (famous for Montreal's Expo 67's "Habitat 67" apartment complex)
  • Edgar William Richard Steacie, chemist, president 1952-62 of the National Research Council of Canada
  • Gordon Wasserman, class of '55 Rhodes Scholar Oxford University, appointed member of the UK House of Lords, 2011
  • References

    Westmount High School Wikipedia