Interior of the Veterinary Medicine Library. Atrium is to the right, stairs to the upper floor on the right, and the stacks to the back.

Looking through the atrium into the Veterinary Medicine library.

Interior of WCVM, a meeting room with a long conference table.

Image of initial housing unit of WCVM.

Dr. Harry Rowsell (left) and Dr. Christopher H. Bigland cut the ribbon.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Stevenson Fulton was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow. He emigrated to Saskatchewan in 1913. He received a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from McKillop Veterinary College in Chicago in 1918 and did postgraduate work in pathology, virology, and bacteriology at the Rush Medical School in Chicago in 1922. Dr. Fulton joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1926. Dr. Fulton’s most extensive work was done with equine encephalomyelitis, first recognizing that the disease was appearing in horses in Saskatchewan in 1935. He then proved that a disease in humans, previously diagnosed as non-paralytic poliomyelitis, was caused by the same virus as the equine disease. In 1938, during the encephalomyelitis epidemic, Dr. Fulton developed a vaccine for horses. It was manufactured at the University of Saskatchewan and distributed throughout western Canada. He later developed a purified vaccine for humans. Dr. Fulton was recognized as the foremost veterinary research scientist of his time in Western Canada. Dr. Fulton was director of the animal diseases laboratory and professor and head of the department of animal hygiene at the time of his retirement in 1958. Dr. Fulton died in Saskatoon in 1966.

Four view of the University of Saskatchewan Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building. They are winter scenes with snow on the ground.

Western College of Veterinary Medicine main entrance, south elevation. Bikes are parked on the ramp.

Western College of Veterinary Medicine side entrance.

Exterior of the Vet Med building including the ramp.

View showing students walking up ramp toward second floor entrance.