The McGill Baroque Orchestra is one of McGill’s large ensembles. This group of 14 to 20 musicians plays on modern copies of baroque strings and winds and performs orchestral works. In collaboration with Opera McGill, the ensemble participates in annual staged productions of Baroque operas. This group has played in Ottawa and around Québec.

The McGill Association of University Teachers Librarians Section (MAUT-LS) was founded in 1996. The chairs of the sections have included Marc Richard, 1996-97, Elaine Yarosky, 1997-98, Jane Aitkens, 1998-99, Pat Riva, 1999-2000, Louisa Piatti, 2000-01, Chris Oliver, 2001-02, Darlene Canning, 2002-03, Joan Hobbins, 2003-04, and Daniel Boyer, 2004-05. The MAUT-LS was a successor body to the Association of McGill University Librarians (AMUL) founded in 1971. In 1996 AMUL merged with MAUT, the organization that represents professors in negotiations with the University. The goal of MAUT-LS is to negotiate working conditions for librarians at McGill. Librarians received academic status in 1974 and may be eligible for tenure and sabbatical leaves. The results of the negotiations are compiled in a handbook of regulations and policies for academic and librarian staff.

William John McGee was born on April 17, 1853, in Farley, Iowa.

He was an American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, and author. Largely self-taught, he devoted his early years to reading law and to surveying. He invented and patented several improvements on agricultural implements. In 1881, he was appointed geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and was primarily in charge of surveying the Atlantic Coastal Plain (1881-1893). In 1901, he received an L.L.D degree from Cornell College. From 1893 to 1903, he was an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Then he became the head of the Department of Anthropology of the St. Louis Exposition and from 1905 to 1907, he was the first Director of the Saint Louis Public Museum. In 1907, he was elected Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the federally created Inland Waterways Commission and was also appointed as an expert on soil waters in the Bureau of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture; the positions he held until his death. He also served as president of the National Geographic Society (1904–1905) and was a founding member of the Geological Society of America. In 1890, he became the first editor of The Geological Society of America Bulletin. He contributed numerous articles on his research to various journals. Mount McGee in California is named in his honour.

In 1888, he married Dr. Anita Rosalie Newcomb (1864–1940). He died on September 4, 1912, in Washington, D.C.