The Campus: 1930-1960s
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Campus in winter with powerhouse, Jesse. Joseph House, Roddick Gates (1925) -- McGill Archives


Aerial of campus including Pulp and Paper Institute (1930)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial of campus (1930)
-- McGill Archives

Biology Building (now James Administration), Greenhouses, and Power House (1925)
-- McGill Archives

Campus with many trees - Notman Archives (1935)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial of east campus - RVC, Pulp and Paper Institute, and Workman House (1930)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial of campus (1948)
-- Notman Archives (McCord Museum)

Aerial of campus with Redpath Library extension (1955)
-- McGill Archives

West campus (1952)
-- McGill Archives

Three Bares statue on lawn below Arts (1951)
-- McGill Archives

McGill's Tomb with Ginkgo tree (1950's)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial of east campus (1956)
-- McGill Archives

Campus and McIntyre Medical Sciences Building from Mount Royal (1960s)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial view looking west past the Stadium and the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building (1960)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial with Leacock, Union, Stewart Biology, and McIntyre under construction (1964)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial view from campus looking north (1963)
-- McGill Archives

Aerial with Leacock, McIntyre Medical Sciences, and Prince of Wales Terrace (1967)
-- McGill Archives

Percy Nobbs' watercolour of the campus from the west (1925)
-- CAC
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The Early Campus
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McGill's initial burst of expansion in its early years slowed in the 1930s during the depression. In the 1940s, the University was too involved in World War II to be concerned with its growing needs. After the War, the enrolment of the University increased dramatically and the University found itself in need of space. A period of expansion ensued which lasted through the 1960s and gave McGill such structures as McConnell Engineering (1958), the Otto Maass Chemistry Building (1963), the Leacock Building (1963), the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building (1965), the McLennan Library (1967), and Burnside Hall (1969).