The Three Bares

The McGill You Knew

An Anthology of Memories

1920-1960

The Goodwill Fountain, also called “Three Bares,” was given in 1930 as “a friendship gift to McGill University by an Admirer of Canada” and was made by Harry Payne Whitney. She explains that it “was symbolic of the nation's strength implanted in the fertility of the soil.”

In 1954 “a number of students lobbied to have a similar sized statue of three naked ladies in the open area opposite the Three Bares, in front of the Macdonald Engineering Building. Surely it would give more symmetry to the Campus”

-p. 53, MacKay L. Smith