1980. After the school's closure, the Baron Byng building became home of the non-profit community organization Sun Youth. An extensive online museum was created in 2016 to honour the school's illustrious history. Notable people Alumni Len Birman (1932– ), actor Harry Blank (1925– ), Liberal MNA Myer Bloom (1928–2016), physicist Michael Fainstat (1923–2010), politician Morris Fish (1938– ), Supreme Court Justice Samuel Gesser (1930–2008), entertainment entrepreneur Alan Gold (1917–2005), Chief Justice of Quebec Phil Gold (1936– ), physician Yoine Goldstein (1934–2020), senator Benjamin Greenberg (1933–2019), Quebec Superior Court Justice Henry Gordon (1919–2009), journalist and magician Harold Greenberg (1930–1996), film producer Harry Gulkin (1927–2018), film and theatre producer Goldie Hershon (1942–2020), President of Canadian Jewish Congress Maxwell Kalman (1906–2009), architect A. M. Klein (1909–1972), poet Michael Laucke (1947– ), concert guitarist Irving Layton (1912–2006), poet Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924–1987), painter and sculptor David Lewis (1909–1981), Rhodes Scholar (1932), Leader of the New Democratic Party (1971–75) Marilyn Lightstone (1940– ), actress Frederick Lowy (1933– ), medical educator and President of Concordia University Rudolph Marcus (1923– ), chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1992) Herbert Marx (1932–2020), Quebec Minister of Justice and Superior Court Justice Dorothy Morton (1924–2008), pianist and professor of music Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020), mathematician; Abel Prize (2015) Alfred Pinsky (1921–1999), artist and art educator Jack Rabinovitch (1930–2017), founder of the Giller Prize Simon Reisman (1919–2008), Deputy Finance Minister Mordecai Richler (1931–2001), author Fred Rose (1907–1983), Communist MP Philip Seeman (1934–2021), schizophrenia researcher William Shatner (1931– ), actor Reuben Ship (1917–1975), playwright and screenwriter Sydney Shulemson (1915–2007), World War II soldier Tobie Steinhouse (1925– ), painter and printmaker Lionel Tiger (1937– ), anthropologist Lorne Trottier (1945– ), businessman Gerry Weiner (1933– ), Minister of Immigration Eli Yablonovitch (1946– ), physicist Faculty Anne Savage (1896–1971), painter and art teacher References 1921 establishments in Quebec English-language schools in Quebec High schools in Montreal Jews and Judaism in Montreal Jews and Judaism in Quebec Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Mordecai Richler