Feller College, also known as Institute Feller, was a co-educational boarding school founded in 1836 by Mme. Henriette Feller, a Swiss Protestant Missionary, who intended to save the French speaking Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 population from "the idolatry of Catholicism

Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

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Beginning as a one room school (which still exists as a museum in the small farming community of Grande Ligne, 35 miles southeast of Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec) it grew to become a large four story building with a farm and church. It is the oldest French Protestant church in Canada. It successfully produced many French speaking Baptist

Baptist

Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 ministers until the Second World War.

Second World War

It closed during the Second World War (1942–1946) and was used as a prisoner of war camp for German officers. It reopened shortly after the war.

After the war it accepted many English speaking students and faced a crisis: redefining its original mission. It was unable to adapt to the new social realities of Cananda and it closed in June 1967.

Hostel

The building was last used in the summer of 1967 as a hostel for visitors to Montreal's World's Fair: Expo 67

Expo 67

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was the general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with the...

. In December, 1968, as the remaining beautiful greystone four story building burned down, it was caught in a dramatic series of photographs

A large reunion was held in October 2001 near the school grounds.

See also

Three alumni have created web pages in memory of their school:
http://www.fellercollege.com
http://www3.sympatico.ca/relger/
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/unofficialfellersite/