The Commercial and Technical High School, administered by the Protestant Board, stood for many years on Sherbrooke Street, Montréal, and provided training for clerical and technical occupations. The Graduates' Society was formed in 1920.
Mathew Edward Commins was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, in 1870. He received his early education in that province followed by a B.A. and an M.A. from St. Joseph’s University in Memramcook, New Brunswick. In 1895 he was granted his M.D. from McGill University. Throughout the rest of his life he was a general practitioner in Bath, New Brunswick. He died in 1936.
