page_title: Bishop's College School
section_title: Lennoxville Classical School, the Beginnings and Growth
hierarchical_section_title: Bishop's College School / History / Lennoxville Classical School, the Beginnings and Growth
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le Bishop's College en 1865.
context_page_description: Bishop's College School or BCS founded in 1836 is a prestigious non-profit, bilingual independent school in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada for Grades 7 to 12. BCS is the oldest independent school in Québec and the fourth oldest that still exists in Canada. It is at the heart of Québec's historic Eastern Townships.
  BCS was established as the Lennoxville Classical School by the Rev. Lucius Doolittle and assisted by Edward Chapman. Traditionally, the school had catered to the sons of the residents of the Golden Square Mile A link to the Canadian Royal Family is maintained through various visits and inspections conveyed by King George V, George VI, Edward VI, the Governor General of Canada, the 2nd and 3rd Lord Shaughnessy, Baron Janner, etc. whether during their royal visits or study. In May 1989, The Duke of Edinburgh inspected the cadet corps with a crowd of two thousand people and granted the new school coats of Arms.
  The BCS Cadet Corps #2 – the oldest continuous service corps in Canada – has been affiliated with the Black Watch of Canada since 1936 and also with the Royal Canadian Army Cadets in 1879.
context_section_description: Around 1834, American missionary Rev. Lucius Doolittle (1800–1862) from New England built a residence that he named Elmwood, to serve as the rectory of the Sherbrooke-Lennoxville mission, and which is still standing at 43 Queen Street.(Elmwood Hotel Today) In a wing next to the rectory, with assistance from Edward Chapman (M.A., Cambridge) and financial support from the church policy supporting rural education, he opened a school in 1836 that became the Lennoxville Classical School.  The school was designed for "the education of sons of English Gentlemen", Lennoxville Classical School was modeled on the great public schools of Britain, especially Eton College but providing a bilingual environment and specifically in an immersion of the Canadian culture. 
  Within four years twenty-three boys were enrolled. Tuition fees were set at 15 shillings per quarter in the Junior Forms and 25 shillings for the Upper Forms; the board was £25 per annum (about $130 per year). Bishop's University established in 1843 as Bishop's College and affiliated with the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in 1853, the school remained under the Anglican church's direction from its founding until 1947. At the beginning of the establishment, the main students came from the merchant/political families of the Gault, McConnell, MacLernon, Price, Molson, MacDougall, McNaughton in the Golden Square Mile residential area of Montreal.
caption: BCS on Little Forks Campus in 1865 (Building on the Left)
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