| James McGill, Founder | [Frontispiece] |
| From painting attributed to Gilbert Stuart |
| facing page |
| Montreal in the Days of James McGill | [32] |
| From a print in the collection of Sir Frederick |
| Williams Taylor |
| The Burnside Estate, James McGill's Home | [42] |
| The Rev. Dr. G. J. Mountain, Principal 1823-1835 | [74] |
| Dr. A. F. Holmes, the First Dean of the Medical School | [86] |
| Copy by R. Harris of painting destroyed in fire at Medical |
| Building. Artist unknown. |
| The Rev. John Bethune, Acting Principal 1835-1846 | [102] |
| Plan of McGill Grounds | [118] |
| Proposed Original Building | [134] |
| H. B. Parry, Architect |
| The Rev. Archdeacon W. J. Leach, Vice-Principal 1846-1886 | [180] |
| From a painting by Wyatt Eaton |
| E. A. Meredith, Principal 1846-1851 | [184] |
| McGill in 1855 | [212] |
| Sir William Dawson, Principal 1855-1893 | [222] |
| From a painting by Wyatt Eaton |
| William Molson | [232] |
| From a painting by John Phillips, 1861 |
| Peter Redpath | [236] |
| From a painting by Robert Harris |
| Sir William Macdonald | [238] |
| Sir William Peterson, Principal 1895-1919 | [240] |
| John H. R. Molson | [244] |
| Dean Alexander Johnson, Vice-Principal 1885-1903 | [248] |
| Percival Molson | [252] |
| Lord Strathcona | [254] |
| Dr. Charles E. Moyse, Vice-Principal 1903-1920 | [258] |
| Sir Arthur Currie, Principal 1920- | [266] |
| Dr. Frank D. Adams, Vice-Principal 1920- | [268] |
| McGill in 1921 | [272] |