Westmount High School
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| Westmount High | |
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| Address | |
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4350 St. Catherine St. West , Canada | |
| Coordinates | 45°29′00″N 73°35′24″W / 45.4833°N 73.5900°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Advanced Placement |
| Motto | Dux Vitae Ratio (Guide to Life) |
| Founded | 1874 |
| School board | English Montreal School Board |
| Principal | Robert DiMarco |
| Grades | 7–11 |
| Enrollment | 902 (2017) |
| Language | English |
| Area | Westmount |
| Colour(s) | Purple and White |
| Mascot | Knight |
| Team name | Westmount Knights |
| Website | westmount |
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 part of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal.[1]
Notable alumni
- 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
- Art Ross,[2] professional ice hockey player and executive early 20th century
- Moshe Safdie, class of '55, architect (famous for Montreal's Expo 67's "Habitat 67" apartment complex)
- Norma Shearer, actress
- A. J. M. Smith,[3] poet
- 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
External links
- Westmount High School
- Westmount High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- WHOBA a Westmount High School alumni web site
- WHS alumni web site
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