Beatty Hall -- McGill Archives

In 1912, Albert E. Holt, a member of the Royal Trust Company, built a house on the Square Mile on Pine Avenue. Holt sold his Classic Edwardian mansion to Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and an exercise enthusiast, in 1924. In 1946, McGill bought the house, renamed it Beatty Hall, and gave it to the Graduate School of Nursing, which did not change any interior details. Today, Beatty Hall is still an elegant edifice and is occupied by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.