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Catherwood, Ginger

  • SCN00155
  • Person
  • 1902-

Born in Hannah, North Dakota in 1902, Ginevra (Ginger) Irene Catherwood and her family moved to a homestead just outside Scott, Saskatchewan, four years later. Ginger likely learned to skate and play hockey on frozen sloughs. She also played baseball and excelled as pitcher. Catherwood entered the University of Saskatchewan on a scholarship in 1919. It was on the ice, as captain of the Varsity women’s hockey team, where she excelled. Catherwood’s arrival at the U of S coincided with the beginning of inter-varsity competition in women’s hockey. During the 1920-1921 season, playing against the University of Manitoba, Catherwood scored five goals in the first period and finished the game with three more in a 9-1 victory. She netted four goals in the first 11 minutes in a match against the University of Alberta. The final score was Saskatchewan 7 (Catherwood 6) and Alberta 1. The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix declared the U of S team the unofficial champion of university women’s hockey that season (there was no formal league at the time.) Opposing teams quickly learned that Catherwood was a scoring threat every time she had the puck. During the 1921-1922 season, she was hurt in the first period in a game in Edmonton and left the ice. The team squeaked out a 2-1 win. She was still nursing her injury in the next game against Manitoba and played defence in a 2-2 tie. Catherwood graduated with a three-year Arts degree in 1922. After attending Normal School in Saskatoon, she found work as a teacher in the Plenty, Saskatchewan district. Then in 1928, her sister Ethel won Olympic gold in high jump and Ginger was called upon by their family to chaperone her during her Canadian travels. Ginger was rumoured to have accompanied Ethel when she left Canada for the United States sometime around 1932. Ginger Catherwood later married English-born Charles Mitchell in Toronto in the fall of 1933.

Carter, Roger C.

  • Person
  • 1922-2009

Roger C. Carter, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on 23 March 1922 received his early education in Victoria, British Columbia before attending the University of Saskatchewan where he earned a B.A. in 1945 and a LL.B. in 1947, both with distinction. In his final year of law he was awarded the Thomas Dowrick Brown Prize as the most distinguished member of the graduating class. Mr. Carter practised law in Saskatoon from 1949 until July of 1963 when he was appointed associate professor of law at the U of S. The following year he was promoted to professor. During his years of private practise he was a member of the Graham Royal Commission, special counsel for the Labour Relations Board, counsel for the Royal Commission inquiring into Prudential Trust mineral transactions, counsel for the Province of Saskatchewan before the MacPherson Royal Commission on Transportation and a member of the University's Board of Governors. In 1958 he was appointed Queen's Counsel. Professor Carter was granted leave in 1967-68 to assume the Cook Fellowship at the University of Michigan School of Law, where he was subsequently awarded master of laws degree. From 1969 until 1974 Professor Carter served as Dean of the College of Law. During this time, Carter was instrumental in the creation of Saskatchewan's Legal Aid system and the Native Law Centre, of which he became the first director. In 1981 he was honoured by Queen's University with an LL.D. Dr. Carter retired in 1989 and passed away in 2009.

Carpenter, David

  • Person
  • 1941-

Though born in Edmonton in 1941, David Carpenter's youth was spent in Edmonton, Jasper, Banff and Lake Louise. Graduating in 1964 with a B.A. and B.Ed. from the University of Alberta, he taught high school for one year before entering a M.A program in English at the University of Oregon. In 1967 he returned to Edmonton, M.A. in hand, and resumed his high school teaching career. Two years later he enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Alberta, graduating in 1973. Dr. Carpenter spent the next two years as a post-doc at the University of Manitoba before accepting an appointment in Canadian Literature, Department of English, at the University of Saskatchewan. He was promoted through the ranks, becoming full professor in 1986. In the mid-1970s, Carpenter began to write seriously as a vocation. This early work was to become part of a series of interconnected works of fiction (Jokes for the Apocalypse, Jewels, and God's Bedfellows) published between 1985 and 1988. In the late 1980s, Carpenter began work on his first full length novel, Rider Wrong, and in 1994 published his first book of essays, Writing Home. 1995 and 1996 saw publication of his first how-to book, Fishing in the West, and his second book of essays, Courting Saskatchewan. Dr. Carpenter has received several literary awards, has taught creative writing at Fort San, Saskatchewan and is a frequent guest on CBC radio programs.

Campbell, Eleanor

  • Person

Eleanor Campbell is an alumnus of the University of Saskatchewan and a retired teacher.

Cameron, John

  • SCN00233
  • Person
  • 1889-194-?

John Cameron was born in 1889 at Greenock, Scotland, and was educated at local schools. His family arrived in Saskatchewan in 1903 and homesteaded near Saskatoon. Cameron enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan by 1912. With war breaking out, he joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, University Unit, in 1915. He went overseas (France) in May 1915. Sergeant Cameron was wounded in April 1916. He rejoined his unit in June 1916, and was again wounded five months later. Cameron was Invalided to Canada and discharged in April 1917. He returned to the U of S and graduated with a BSA in 1918. Cameron was manager of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Mutual Fire Association in Saskatoon for many years.

Calder, Robert Lorin

  • Person
  • 1941-

Born in Moose Jaw in 1941 and raised in Saskatoon, Robert Lorin Calder is a lifelong resident of Saskatchewan. Having taken a B.A. (1964) and M.A. (1965) at the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD. at the University of Leeds (1970), he was the longest-serving (45 ½ years) member of the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan, and at 38, was also the youngest Department Head in its history. Additionally, he served as the Acting Head of the Music Department and as the first Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Science.
Calder is the author or editor of eleven books, most of which have been published internationally – in the U.K., the United States, Japan, and Russia. He was the first writer in the history of Saskatchewan to have a book published by an international trade publisher (William Heinemann Ltd) while residing in the province. His "Willie: the Life of W. Somerset Maugham," for which he was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award, and twenty-three article and reviews, made him recognized as the leading authority in the world on Maugham. In 2005, he was given the University of Saskatchewan’s Distinguished Researcher Award, and in 2011 he was selected among the first hundred College of Arts and Science Alumni of Influence.
Calder has been an active member of the Saskatchewan writing community, serving as President of the Sage Hill Writing Experience, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, and The Word on the Street Saskatoon (of which he is a founding member). He was instrumental in the creation of the Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence, and the innovative Master of Fine Arts in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to the Governor General’s Literary Award, he has won two Saskatchewan Book Awards, and has twice won the John V. Hicks Manuscript Award. In 2018 he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Byers, Alfred Roddick

  • Person
  • 1911-1992

Alfred Roddick Byers was born on February 25, 1911 in Ste. Agathe des Monts, Quebec. He received his B.Sc. (1932), MSc. (1933) and his Ph.D (1935) from McGill. Prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan in 1940, he was employed as a geological consultant. He was made Full Professor in 1957 and Head of the Department of Geological Sciences in 1965. He also served as acting director of the Institute for Northern Studies in 1964. Professor Byers retired from the University in 1972. He died in 1992.

Bujila, Bernadine

  • Person
  • 1906-1987

Bernadine Bujila (nee Hoeschen) was born on January 21, 1906 in Melrose, Minnesota. She received both a BA (1925) and B.Ed (1930) from the University of Saskatchewan and was also awarded the Governor General's gold medal. She received her MA from Columbia in 1928 and did further post-graduate work at both the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, where she received her PhD in 1948. After teaching in high schools in both the U.S. and Saskatchewan, Dr. Bujila joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1935. She was appointed Assistant Professor in 1946 and Department Head in 1960. Dr. Bujila retired from the University in 1967. Dr. Bujila died on October 22, 1987 in Saskatoon.

Buhr, Lorne R.

  • Person
  • 1942-2016

Lorne Richard Buhr was born in on March 25, 1942 in Borden, Saskatchewan. He attended the Canadian Mennonite Bible College in Winnipeg, earning a Bachelor of Christian Education, prior to enrolling at the University of Saskatchewan where he earned a BA (1969). A scholarship from the University of Saskatchewan enabled him to attend the University of Toronto, where he earned his BLS (1970). He joined the staff of the University of Saskatchewan Library in 1970, working primarily in Government Publications; he also served as acting head of the Reference Department. He left the University in 1977 to accept a position with the Alberta Legislative Library. Buhr died in Edmonton on October 2, 2016.

Buckley, Kenneth A.H.

  • Person
  • 1918-1970

Kenneth A.H. Buckley was born in Aberdeen, Saskatchewan. He attended public school in Watrous and Saskatoon, and earned his B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan in 1942. Following graduation he joined the Canadian Air Force where he served for a short period before being discharged for medical reasons. He returned to his studies and earned the M.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1945 and a Ph.D. from the University of London in 1950.
Professor Buckley served as a consultant to all levels of government. Extensive work was undertaken for the City of Saskatoon; his advice was sought on local government problems and Dominion-Provincial financial relations by the Government of Saskatchewan; he undertook extensive work on the South Saskatchewan River Project -- a joint ventureof Federal and Provincial governments; he was frequently consulted by a variety of federal agencies.

Buchan, Douglas John

  • Person
  • 1921-1986

Douglas John Buchan was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 2 April 1921. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1942 with a B.A., and received his MD. from the University of Manitoba in 1946. Prior to doing postgraduate work in Winnipeg and New York, he practised medicine at Kelvington and the Medical Arts Clinic in Regina. He was Commonwealth Fellow in Medicine at Cornell University Medical School from 1952-54. His first appointment at the U of S was as instructor, in 1955; he became an Assistant Professor in 1957 and Full Professor in July, 1969. Buchan died on February 21, 1986.

Bronson, Donna

  • Person

Donna Rosalie Bronson grew up in Craik, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan. She graduated with a BA in 1930.

Britnell, George Edwin

  • Person
  • 1903-1961

George Edwin Britnell was born at Wimbledon, England on June 9, 1903. His family came to Canada in 1910 and subsequently took up a homestead near Macrorie, Saskatchewan in 1913. Britnell split his early education between Outlook and Prince Albert before attending the University of Saskatchewan where he won the Governor General's Gold Medal in 1924 and graduated with a BA in 1929. He went on to the University of Toronto where he earned both an MA (1934) and PhD (1938). With the exception of two brief stints at the University of Toronto, Dr. Britnell's teaching career was centred around the University of Saskatchewan. He received his first appointment in 1930 as a Lecturer in Economics. He rose to the rank of Assistant Professor of Economics in 1938, Professor and Head of Political Science in 1938 and Professor and Head of the joint department of Economics and Political Science in 1945. Dr. Britnell was known as both a fine teacher and a productive scholar. Among his areas of interest and expertise were transportation problems, dominion-provincial relations, the problems of developing countries and energy resources. Britnell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1950. He died on October 14, 1961 after a lengthy illness.

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