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Roddick Memorial Gates

The Roddick Gates and Burnside Hall
Location	Sherbrooke Street and McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Designer	Gratton D. Thompson
Type	Monumental gates
Beginning date	1924
Opening date	May 28, 1925
Dedicated to	Thomas George Roddick

The Roddick Gates, also known as the Roddick Memorial Gates, are monumental gates in Montreal that serve as the main entrance to the McGill University campus. They are located on Sherbrooke Street West and are at the northern end of the very short but broad McGill College Avenue, which starts at Place Ville Marie.

History

In 1924, Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates to McGill University in memory of her late husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, a renowned doctor and dean of McGill's 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.^[1] In 1922, Gratton D. Thompson had married Elizabeth Grace Redpath.

The Roddick Gates were formally opened by Amy Redpath Roddick on May 28, 1925. There are other significant buildings at McGill University that bear the Redpath family name, including the Redpath Library and the Redpath Museum.

The four clocks and Westminster Quarters Strike were made by the Seth Thomas Clock Company and the four bells by Meneely Bell Foundry. In 2010, the clocks were repaired by the Electric Time Company and rededicated.^[2][3]

In Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, where Thomas Roddick was born, there is a Roddick Fountain.

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External links

• Media related to Roddick Gates at Wikimedia Commons