Head and shoulders of William D. Bishopp, Professor of Economics. Taken outside of the Arts Building.

Bilson lecturer

Image of William C. McNamara, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient; possibly taken at time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: William Craig McNamara was born in 1904 in Winnipeg, Manitoba but raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1923, McNamara found work with the Standard Bank of Canada but left in 1924 to become an office boy with the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. McNamara joined the Canadian Wheat Board in 1942 and was appointed commissioner in 1955 becoming assistant chief commissioner in 1947 and then chief commissioner in 1958. McNamara held that position until 1970 when he was appointed to the Senate where he sat as a Liberal representing Manitoba. McNamara retired from the upper house in 1979. McNamara died in 1984.

Head and shoulders image of Bill Sinnett, director of Business Services.

Bio/Historical Note: William Edward (Bill) Sinnett was born in 1939 on the family farm near Sinnett, Saskatchewan. He attended St. Peter's College (Muenster, SK) for Grade 12 and first year of University. He worked for Boychuck Construction in Saskatoon and then SaskPower Corporation in Highline Construction in Southern Saskatchewan. In July 1959 Sinnett was injured in a car accident and became a paraplegic. He was released from University Hospital in April 1960, and began employment at SaskPower in Saskatoon. Sinnett obtained his BComm in 1970 and then articled for Touche Ross and Company, Chartered Accountants and became a Chartered Accountant in 1972. Bill specialized in Audit of larger computer systems and was instrumental in developing Touche's computer audit process. He spent a lot of time traveling for business - including Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto as well as Los Angeles and New York City. Sinnett joined the U of S Administration - Business Services in 1986 and retired in 1999. Sinnett died in Saskatoon on 20 April 2020.

Head and shoulders image of Bill Deverell, candidate for WAB in 1959.

Bio/Historical Note: William Herbert Deverell (b. 1937) is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer. Deverell worked his way through law school at the University of Saskatchewan as night editor of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. He held a D. Juris from that university, where he had been an invited lecturer in the Shumiatcher series on Law and Literature and was honored at its College of Arts and Science's centenary in 2009 as one of its 100 alumni of influence. He was founder and honorary director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. The BCCLA has played a prominent role in fighting for human rights since its formation in 1962 to advocate for a small religious sect, Sons of Freedom, whose members had been charged with conspiring to intimidate Parliament and the B.C. Legislature. Between 1968 and 1973 the BCCLA took on a string of challenges against censorship, including obscenity charges against Vancouver’s alternative newspaper, the Georgia Straight. Deverell was among prominent Canadians such as David Suzuki involved with the association in fighting for civil rights. Deverell, who received an LLB in 1963 and B.A. in 1964, was awarded an Honourary Degree in 2016.

William and Mary Diefenbaker with Helena Kinzie (nee Diefenbaker), William's sister, and an unidentified man [possibly her husband], standing outside unidentified house.

William and Mary Diefenbaker on front step of their home at 117 Albert Avenue, Saskatoon.

Mary and William Diefenbaker standing outside their home at 117 Albert Avenue, Saskatoon.

William (with umbrella) and Mary Diefenbaker walking down a Vancouver street.

William and Elmer Diefenbaker (Elmer is seated third from the right in the second row) and the other students of Hoffungsfeld School (located 14 miles N.E. of Borden).

William and Elmer Diefenbaker (who is seated on his father's left) and the other students of Hoffungsfeld School. Notation says: "Hoffungsfeld School near homestead, Borden Sask. 1906."

William Allen pictured with other wounded soldiers and the hospital staff; outdoor scene.

Bio/Historical Note: William (Bill) Allen was born 9 May 1892 in Bristol, England. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1911, setting up a homestead near Smiley, Saskatchewan. Allen joined the Army in 1916 and was wounded at the Somme, which resulted in the amputation of most of his left arm. After he was discharged in 1917, he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1922 Allen received his BSA and went on to do graduate work at Harvard and Cornell, where he earned a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1925. He married Gwendolen Woodward in 1926. He returned to the U of S and established the Department of Farm Management, of which he was head until his resignation in 1938. During his time at the University, Allen directed a provincial soil survey in 1935 and was in charge of the first major debt survey of rural Saskatchewan in 1936. During World War II, Allen’s duties included keeping Britain supplied with Canadian food and to negotiate trade agreements covering the sale of Canada’s agricultural products to Britain. Allen was a passenger on the S.S. Nerissa when it was sunk by a torpedo off the west coast of Scotland on 30 April 1941. Allen was listed as missing and presumed dead. Allen is memorialized with a plaque in Convocation Hall and an annual award in the College of Agriculture.

Bio/Historical Note: Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol, England, during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, and after the war it became the psychiatric hospital called Glenside Hospital. By the time the first wounded soldiers arrived in late 1914, the asylum had undergone a major conversion. Like many hospitals across the country, it had been requisitioned by the War Office, which had demanded some 15,000 beds to be supplied nationally for war wounded.