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Macdonald campus visits.

McGill University’s Macdonald Campus is located on the western tip of the island of Montreal in the picturesque lakeside town of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Thirty to forty minutes away from downtown, this beautiful 1600 acre campus offers diverse teaching and research facilities. It has waterfront access, bike paths, a large Arboretum with walking and ski trails, and a working farm. It also offers two styles of residence on campus.

During your visit you can explore the campus, meet with an Academic Advisor, ask questions about admissions, student life, residences and get a sense of the Macdonald Campus community. Your McGill visit:

• Registration is required.  Due to strict tour capacities and visit guidelines, we cannot guarantee a tour if you do not book in advance.
• You must indicate  at the time of registration  if guests will be accompanying you.

Other information:

• Parking:  Users may pay for parking by the day or half day by purchasing tickets at the machine in the Horticulture Parking Lot next to the Mac Market. The rates are $8.00 for the day and $4.00 for the half day. The vehicle must remain parked at the Horticulture Lot. GPS address is 17 Rue East Cottages, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3L9
• Arriving by Public Train (commuter train-Hudson/Vaudreuil line):  30 minutes from Lucien-L'allier or Vendome Station. 20 minutes from Vaudreuil Station. The closest stop to Macdonald Campus is Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Station.  
• Arriving by Public Bus:  Buses 211, 405 and 411 leave from the Lionel-Groulx metro station and stop at Sainte-Anne / Terminus Macdonald. Several buses from off-island also stop on campus.  Arriving from Trudeau Airport:  McGill’s Macdonald Campus is 20 minutes away from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport . Travel to Macdonald Campus by Taxi, Uber or Eva.
• Accommodations:  Book your hotel accommodation through  McGill's Official Hotel

To book your tour:

1. Find an available date (in green) on the below calendar

2. Click on your preferred date

3. Click on your preferred tour time 4.Fill out and submit the form to book your tour Don't see a time that works for you, send an email to [email protected] . 

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McGill’s downtown campus is in the heart of vibrant Montreal, surrounded by cafés, museums and galleries. The campus green is a peaceful retreat from our bustling city – it’s the perfect place to hang out and study. 

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Located on 1,600 acres of waterfront property, Macdonald Campus is a high-tech hub nestled deep in nature, with computerized greenhouses, culinary laboratories and its very own farm. Chat with our current undergrads to discover what they love about studying at Mac campus.

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Musée d'aviation – Aviation Museum

Plan your visit.

Our museum is located between Highway 40 and Highway 20 on the western tip of the island of Montréal, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, on McGill University’s Macdonald Campus.

Use the interactive map on the right to see the best way to get to our museum.

Do not use our postal address as a reference, this will bring you to the main McGill University campus.

By bus and metro:

To find a route, click on the STM logo.

• Once on the website, enter your point of departure in A, and in B enter code 58586 (museum stop). Then, enter the date and time.       
• The system will give you the different possibilities to get to our museum.  

We are now opened: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday 10:00 – 1415

Closed:   Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

• Adults: $12
• Students: $8
• Children from 6 to 12 years old: $5
• MAM members: Free    

No need to buy tickets in advance, no reservation required for 10 persons or less.

Note: Entry for all active or retired members of the Armed Forces, and members of C.A.P.A., is free upon identification.

Our museum, a non-profit organization, depends exclusively on generous donations received from third parties as well as on entry fees. These contributions help us maintain this historic building, cover operational costs as well as restore and exhibit aircraft.

Do not hesitate to send us your question by using our INFORMATION FORM ; it will be our pleasure to help you.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Artificial intelligence in the barn

Imagine cows roaming freely in a barn equipped with cameras and sensors linked to artificial intelligence in a system that predicts their mood and lifespan. Implementing such a system is the mission of the new Research and Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence ( WELL-E ), created jointly by McGill University and UQAM thanks to $5 million in funding over five years.

“It’s a live digital laboratory that will work with producers to give them new tools,” says Elsa Vasseur, Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science at McGill University. She is co-holder of the chair, which will receive technical and financial support from several partners, including Les Producteurs de lait du Québec (PLQ) and the Lactanet dairy herd improvement centre, as well as the Novalait consortium of Quebec milk producers and processors.

Happier, healthier cows, more profitable farms

It takes two years for cows to reach maturity and produce milk — or an average of three years in Canada — which gives farms very little time to turn a profit. The goal of the WELL-E Chair is to make the lives of farmers simpler by improving the longevity of dairy herds and helping them to identify the animals that are the least prone to disease and injury.

“Producers need their cows to be productive, but also to be happy and healthy for as long as possible. The three are linked,” explains the animal welfare specialist whose previous work strongly influenced the overhaul of the Canadian dairy industry’s code of practice in 2023. The updated code recommends increasing opportunities for movement for cattle by allowing them to roam freely in areas set up in a cowshed, or in outdoor exercise areas.

The major aim of the new chair will be to combine remote sensing by cameras and sensors with megadata and artificial intelligence. The approach is unique in that it brings together Vasseur’s expertise in assessing animal behaviour and well-being with that of her co-chair, Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo, a professor in UQAM’s computer science department who works on new artificial intelligence technologies.

Training the next generation of interdisciplinary specialists

The goal of the project is to structure the collection, storage, transfer, analysis and presentation of data in the barn so that farmers can make use of it. “The idea is to detect early signs of physical and mental health that are not visible to the naked eye, but which could be detrimental to the well-being and longevity of cattle, and to help farmers anticipate any problems that may arise.”

This large-scale project will include the input of some 50 graduate students and undergraduates from McGill and UQAM. “We will be introducing future computer scientists to the realities of livestock farming, while our animal science students will be able to explore data management and digital agriculture. In fact, we are training the next generation of interdisciplinary specialists.”

This chair also marks another first. In addition to contributions from the Dairy Farmers of Canada and Lactanet, a pan-Canadian network of milk recording and dairy production expertise, WELL-E receives support from the Dairy Farmers of Ontario. “Ontario producers had never invested in a Quebec initiative on this scale before,” says Vasseur. “We are positioning ourselves both nationally and internationally. There aren’t many research projects with this scope.”

McGill has long been a centre of dairy expertise

McGill University has always been committed to improving practices and yields in Quebec’s dairy industry. Its Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue operates the last dairy farm on the island of Montreal and has won numerous awards of excellence. Since 1907, a wide range of research has been carried out here on topics ranging from feed and nutrition to poultry biosecurity and rural engineering.

One McGill researcher in particular, Professor John E. Moxley, was instrumental in modernizing Quebec’s dairy industry. In 1966, he set up a dairy herd analysis service that produced detailed reports on cow performance based on data collected on farms and computer-based infra-red milk analysis technology. It was a resounding success, evolving into Valacta, a centre of expertise in dairy production with its headquarters in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Valacta is now one of the three founding partners of the Canada-wide Lactanet network that will supply the WELL-E Chair with data. Valacta has hundreds of employees across Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, including at its head office in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. “Valacta still exists, even though we’ve taken on the Lactanet brand,” says Elsa Vasseur, who sits on Valacta’s board of directors as a representative of McGill University. “Valacta has its own funding and provides dairy expertise for all of Canada.”

Dairy producers in Montérégie to join project next year

The WELL-E Chair continues to bring in new players from Quebec’s dairy industry. So far, only the dairy farm on the Macdonald Campus has been involved. In a few months, the chair will also include a second cowshed in Ontario. In 2025, it will use the Université de Montréal campus network in Saint-Hyacinthe to ramp up operations by bringing on board some hundred producers in the Montérégie region.

“We need to get the commercial farms to participate as soon as possible, because we exist to make sure that knowledge is transferred quickly between the university and the community. That’s our vocation.”

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Guided Walking Tour of the Moscow Metro

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You would like, admiring the frescoes in kurskaya and komsomolskaya metro stations, marvelling at the architecture of the moscow metro, listening to your guide's commentary, essential information *, duration 1 hour 50 minutes, starting time 2:00 pm.

Set off to discover the most breathtaking stops on Moscow’s beautiful metro system on this walking tour.

Some of the stops on the Moscow metro are real masterpieces. Head underground and admire the Moscow metro with your guide.

During your guided tour, you will get to admire the Ploshchad Revolyutsii , designed by the architect Dushkin. There are no fewer than 72 sculptures in this station!

You will then explore Kurskaya station, built in 1938. The design, mosaics and slogans will immerse you in the era of Stalin. You will also see the frescoes depicting Russian victories in Komsomolskaya station.

Then, continue to one of Moscow’s must-see metro stations, Novoslobodskaya , which resembles an underground palace: marble, stained glass windows...

Join your guide to explore the most lavish and important metro stops in Moscow! 

• Availability: every day (excluding exceptional dates)
• Duration: 1 hr. 50 mins approx.
• Departure point: The Kremlin
• Languages: English
• Please wear comfortable shoes
• Metro tickets are included for the metro stations visited during the activity 
• A valid student card will be requested from participants who have booked the reduced student tariff
• A minimum of 2 participants is required to book this activity

Price includes

• Metro tickets
• The services of an English-speaking tour guide
• The guided tour of the Moscow metro

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• Access to stations not included in the tour
• Hotel pick-up/drop-off
• Tips (optional)
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York u keele campus tour- spring 2024.

In-person tour of York University's vibrant Keele campus.

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Discover York Tour & Welcome Centre, 1st floor, Bennett Centre for Student Services

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We look forward to welcoming you to the vibrant Keele campus! Tours are led by undergraduate students and are approximately 90 minutes in length.

With ten unique Faculties, a range of purposeful cutting-edge research and innovation opportunities and state-of-the-art academic, arts, technology, and athletic facilities, Keele Campus is a meeting place for a network of micro-communities. This campus offers unparalleled opportunities and experiences to curate your own education, scholarship, personal growth and contribution to positive action.

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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