| Monument Name: | Roddick Memorial Gates |
| Location: | Sherbrooke Street and McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Designer: | Gratton D. Thompson |
| Type: | Monumental gates |
| Begin: | 1924 |
| Open: | May 28, 1925 |
The Roddick Gates, also known as the Roddick Memorial Gates, are monumental gates in Montreal that serve as the main entrance to the McGill University campus. They are located on Sherbrooke Street West and are at the northern end of the very short but broad McGill College Avenue, which starts at Place Ville Marie.
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.[1] 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 and the Redpath Museum.
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.[2] [3]
In Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, where Thomas Roddick was born, there is a Roddick Fountain.
On the 27th April 2024, the McGill encampment was established on Lower Field within 50 metres of Roddick Gates. For the subsequent months and continuing to this day, daily protests take place at the gates. Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian Canadian woman who has held daily sit-ins in protest of Canadian complicity in the genocide in Gaza since the 26th March, brought her protest to the gate after the encampment's dismantlement in solidarity with students.