Baron Byng High School, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
| Street | 4251 Saint-Urbain Street |
| Locality | Outremont |
| City | Montréal |
| Church Parish | arrondissement Plateau Mont-Royal |
| State/ Province | Québec |
| Country | Canada |
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Established in 1921, Baron Byng High School was named after the Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, the Governor General of Canada from 1921 to 1926.
Julian Hedworth George Byng was a World War I hero at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and later was in a political scandal dealing with the succession of the Government of Canada, the King-Byng Affair in 1926.
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Famous Baron Byng High School Alumni include:
* Morris Fish, Supreme Court of Canada judge.
* Sam Gesser, record producer and concert promoter.
* A. M. Klein, poet.
* Irving Layton, poet.
* David Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, labour lawyer, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada 1971-75
* Frederick Lowy, medical educator and president & vice-chancellor of Concordia University.
* Rudolph A. Marcus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992.
* Louis Nirenberg, mathematician.
* Simon Reisman, civil servant.
* Mordecai Richler, author.
* Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher.
* William Shatner, actor
Web Links
| Type | Url | Description |
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| Web Home | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Byng_High_School | Baron Byng High School, on Wikipedia |
| Web Search | http://www.imtl.org/montreal/image.php?id=154 | Baron Byng High School , Images |
| Web Search | http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/500ans/portail_archives_en/rep_chapitre12/chap12_theme1_doc12_page1.html | Baron Byng High School on Montreal Archives |