McKibbin's Irish Pub
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The historic and sandstone mansion built in 1904 by one of Canada's most brilliant surgeons, Dr. Frank Richardson England, (1862-1942) and his wife, Grace Octavia Ritchie, (1868-1948) the first woman to received a degree in medicine in Quebec. Both worked at Western Hospital, which today houses the Montreal Children's Hospital.
Mrs. England was perhaps even more remarkable than her husband: Valedictorian of the first class of women to graduate from McGill University in 1888, she went to study medicine at Bishop's when McGill refused to allow a woman to enter what was then a men's profession. She set up private practice on Bishop Street, campaigned for women's suffrage, legal reform and compulsory education, and was the first woman candidate fielded by the federal Liberals.
The England house was designed by Robert Findlay, the same architect responsible for the house next door at 1424 Bishop. The Dr. David Fraser Gurd Residence. "The front is of red sandstone, tastefully carved. Inside the finish is of the finest, and the house is an exceedingly comfortable one," reported the Montreal Herald. "The study and the patient's waiting room are well fitted up."
Located in a historic turn of the century stone mansion McKibbin's has quickly developed a reputation of being Montreal's eating and drinking emporium. Situated at 1426 Bishop Street, named after the McKibbin's from Ireland.
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