Westmount High School (french: École secondaire Westmount) is a public co-educational anglophone secondary school located in Westmount, Quebec,
Canada
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, located near Alexis Nihon Complex Shopping Mall.
Westmount High is Quebec's first and only public school to offer
Advanced Placement
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(AP) courses, because the AP program has been around Westmount High since 2003. They offer
AP Calculus
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,
AP Comparative Government and Politics
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,
AP English Literature and Composition
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,
AP Environmental Science
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,
AP French Language and Culture
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, and
AP Psychology
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.
The school moved to its present location in 1961, after selling their former building to
Selwyn House School
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.
Westmount is part of the
English Montreal School Board
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and was formerly part of the
Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal
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which was founded in 1 ...
.
Despite being located in one of the wealthiest suburbs of Montreal, the school attracted a diverse mix of students from all neighbourhoods and racial backgrounds. A long-time teacher at the school noted that most wealthy families would send their children to private schools, so the school received mostly students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Around January 2020, Westmount High School create "The Westmount Highlights," students and vice-principal YouTube channel initiative, in providing students weekly school news, fun facts, and entertainment.
CFL
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player
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Jesse Camacho
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Wilfrid Laurier University
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Leonard Cohen
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, poet, musician, writer
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Stockwell Day
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, Canadian politician (provincial and federal), former leader of the
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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’s classmates from her Canadian high school cheer her potential run for president /ref>
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Kamala Harris
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Vice President of the United States
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Attorney General of California
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(2011–2017),
District Attorney of San Francisco
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(2004–2011)
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Maya Harris
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, lawyer
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Jeremy Howick
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, Oxford philosopher and medical researcher
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, Principal Flutist, Philadelphia Orchestra, Flute Professor Juilliard School and Curtis Institute
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Mary Jane Lamond
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, folk musician
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David H. Levy
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, astronomer, discoverer of 22 comets
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MJ Long
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, first in class 1956, British architect, OBE, Yale professor.
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Mila Mulroney
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, wife of former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney
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Alfred Powis Alfred Powis, OC (September 16, 1930, Montreal, Canada – October 10, 2007, Toronto, Canada) was a Canadian businessman. After graduating from Westmount High School, he earned a BComm degree from McGill University. At McGill University, Powis ...
, businessman
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Johnny Peirson
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, professional ice hockey player and colour commentator
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Joanna Pettet
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actress Walter Winchell AP Oct 4 1962
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Art Ross
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, professional ice hockey player and executive early 20th century
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Claire Holden Rothman
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, novelist
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Marla Rubin
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, stage producer
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Moshe Safdie
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, class of '55, architect (famous for Montreal's Expo 67's "
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" apartment complex)
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Norma Shearer
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Edgar William Richard Steacie
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Born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Richard St ...
, chemist, president 1952-62 of the National Research Council of Canada
* Caroline Vu, novelist and medical doctor
* Gordon Wasserman, class of '55 Rhodes Scholar Oxford University, appointed member of the UK House of Lords, 2011