The Roddick Gates, also known as the Roddick Memorial Gates, are

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al gates in

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that serve as the main entrance to the

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campus. They are located on Sherbrooke Street West and are at the northern end of the very short but broad

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, which starts at Place Ville Marie.

History

In 1924, Amy Redpath Roddick donated the Roddick Gates to McGill University in memory of her late husband, Sir Thomas George Roddick, a renowned doctor and dean of McGill's Faculty of Medicine from 1901 to 1908. Amy Redpath Roddick (May 16, 1868 – February 16, 1954) was the first-born child and only daughter of Ada Mills and John James Redpath. She became the second wife of Thomas Roddick on September 3, 1906. Amy Redpath Roddick commissioned Grattan D. Thompson (1895–1971) to carry out the work on the monument. In 1922, Gratton D. Thompson had married Elizabeth Grace Redpath. The Roddick Gates were formally opened by Amy Redpath Roddick on May 28, 1925. There are other significant buildings at McGill University that bear the Redpath family name, including the

Redpath Library Redpath Hall is a historic building at 3461 McTavish Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the main campus of McGill University. It was originally the reading room of the Redpath Library, which opened in 1893 as McGill's first dedicated library ...

and the

Redpath Museum The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath. I ...

. The four clocks and Westminster Quarters Strike were made by the Seth Thomas Clock Company and the four bells by Meneely Bell Foundry. In 2010, the clocks were repaired by the Electric Time Company and rededicated. Since April 2024, daily pro-Palestine protests have taken place at Roddick Gates in connection with the McGill student encampment. Since the dismantlement of the encampment the protests have been led by Samar Alkhdour.

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