Head and shoulders image of Dr. William Roger Graham, Professor of History.

Head and shoulders image of William R. Lederman, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, taken possibly near time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: William Ralph Lederman was a Canadian constitutional scholar and the first dean of Queen's University Faculty of Law. Born in 1916 in Regina, Saskatchewan, he received a LLB from the University of Saskatchewan in 1940. Lederman was a Rhodes Scholar and a Vinerian Scholar where he received a BCL. From 1949-1958 he taught at Dalhousie University. In 1958 he became the first Dean of the Queen's University Faculty of Law. Lederman was in this post until 1968 and continued to teach in the faculty until the 1980s. He was constitutional adviser to Ontario Premier John Robarts between 1965-1971. In 1981 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Lederman died in 1992.

Image of William R. Motherwell, seated at his desk.

Bio/Historical Note: William Richard Motherwell was born in 1880 in Perth, Canada West, He attended the Ontario Agricultural College, graduating in 1881; then worked that summer in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The following year he spring he returned to the prairies joining settlers in who traveled by rail to Brandon, Manitoba, then by red river cart and wagon beyond to the area of Abernethy, Saskatchewan, where he settled and constructed the Motherwell Homestead. In 1901 he co-founded and became president of the Territorial Grain Growers' Association. Motherwell served in the provincial legislator from 1905-1918, and as Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture from 1906-1917. His resignation from the provincial legislature was in protest over the provincial Liberal Party's support for conscription and reduction in French language rights. He first ran as the Liberal candidate for the House of Commons for the Saskatchewan riding of Assiniboia in a 1919 by-election. Although defeated, Motherwell was elected in the riding of Regina in the 1921 federal election. He was re-elected in 1925, 1926, 1930, and 1935 for the riding of Melville. From 1921 to 1930, Motherwell was the Minister of Agriculture, except for a short period in 1926. Motherwell died in Regina in 1943, and is buried at the Abernethy Community Cemetery, near his homestead.

Portrait of Wiliam Ramsay, Department of Classics, 1916-1940.

Bio/Historical Note: William Ramsay earned a BA with Honours in Classics. He taught for four years at Regina Collegiate, and later joined the University of Saskatchewan.

William Allen pictured with other wounded soldiers and the hospital staff on Ward 5. [Christmas decorations] hang from the ceiling.

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.

Head and shoulders image of William Stafford Kirkpatrick, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient; likely taken at the time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: William Stafford Kirkpatrick was born in 1903 in Kingston, Ontario. He received his education at Upper Canada College, the Royal Military College and the University of Toronto. He joined the staff of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada as a junior engineer in 1926, and played a leading role in the development and operation of many processes important to the growth of the company. Kirkpatrick advanced through positions of increasing responsibility to the post of chairman, president and chief executive officer. In the 1950s Cominco was involved in the expanding Saskatchewan potash industry. Kirkpatrick died in Vancouver in 1984.

Head and shoulders image of William W. Swanson, Department of Economics, 1916-1945.

Bio/Historical Note: William Walker Swanson earned a BA with Honours in Political Science from Queen's University, and studied under Professor Adam Shortt. He earned a Ph.D. at Chicago University. Swanson died in 1950.

Portrait of William Yeates Hunter in uniform with hat and a riding crop.

Bio/Historical Note: Major (Manitoba Regiment) William Yeates Hunter (b.1868) of Saskatoon was KIA 19180928 and is buried at Reninghelst New military cemetery southwest of Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was the son of Dr. William Frith Hunter and came from Margate, Kent, England, to homestead on NW21-49-4-W3, west of Shellbrook. Hunter served more than 13 years in the British Army and was with the 8th Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in the South African War. Hunter completed a BA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1915 and was a professor of English when he enlisted at Winnipeg, Manitoba, early the next year, leaving a wife Ethel Helen later of Montréal, Québec. Hunter was serving as an area commandant of part of liberated Belgium when he was killed (most likely by enemy bombs).

Head and shoulders image of G.M. Williams, College of Engineering, 1920-1946.

Head and shoulders of Wilson, Thomas, Medicine/Pharmacology.

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Mr Wilson Tuzo

Winter scene. View across the bowl facing east at the front of the Administration Building. "Copyright J. Fred Spalding. Published by The Camera Products Co., 1731 Dunbart Street, Vancouver, B.C. Made In England." Image has been tinted. "Saskatoon Series No. 29".

Bio/historical note: Designed by Brown and Vallance, Montreal Architects, the College (later known as Administration) building was constructed between 1910-1912 by Smith Bros. and Wilson General Contractors. Originally a general purpose building, designed in the shape of a capital E, and built at a cost of $297,000, the cornerstone was laid by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, on 29 July 1910. The building was officially opened by Walter Scott, Premier of Saskatchewan on 1 May 1913.

Head and shoulders of W.J. Duncan, Pediatrics College of Medicine.

Head and shoulders of W.J. Roesler, Department of Biochemistry.