Baron Byng High School, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Street Baron Byng High School, 4251 St. Urbain Street
City Montreal
State/ Province Quebec
Country Canada

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Narrative

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.
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 Canadian Government, the King-Byng Affair in 1926.

Narrative

Famous Baron Byng High SchoolAlumni
* 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

 

References

  1. Shatzky, Simon (Simmy)