Westmount High School

Westmount High
Address
4350 St. Catherine St. West Westmount , Quebec Canada
Information
School type	Advanced Placement
Motto	Dux Vitea Ratio (Guide to Life)
Founded	1874
School board	English Montreal School Board
Principal	Michael Christofaro
Grades	7–11
Enrollment	950 (2014)
Language	English
Area	Westmount
Colour(s)	Purple and White
Mascot	Knight
Team name	Westmount Knights
Website	westmount.koumbit.org

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.

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

• School history at the website of Westmount High School
• WHOBA a Westmount High School alumni web site
• WHS alumni web site