- A-8517
- Item
- 1988
Image of the most easterly Memorial Gate.
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Image of the most easterly Memorial Gate.
Framed image of the Memorial Gates with a student walking through a gate; winter scene.
View looking north of the most westerly Memorial Gate; University Hospital in background.
Bio/Historical Note: The Memorial Gates are a military memorial that is part of the University campus. Sixty-seven University students and faculty lost their lives while on service during World War I. The impact of the war on the University was immense: 330 students and faculty served during the War, a number equivalent to nearly all of the students who had registered the year prior to the beginning of the conflict. The desire to honor the staff and students who had fallen during the Great War was strong within the University community. As early as August 1918, 3 months prior to the formal Armistice, University President Walter C. Murray began making enquiries into the cost of a suitable memorial. What was settled upon were gates made of solid bronze, imported from England; the remainder, made of local greystone. Architect David R. Brown estimated the cost of what would come to be known as the Memorial Gates to be $30,000, with an additional $10,000 required for the memorial. The cement work was done by Richard J. Arrand in 1927-1928. A concerted fundraising effort among students and alumni helped cover the costs. The Memorial Gates were unveiled by President Murray and dedicated by the Bishop of Saskatchewan on 3 May 1928. A stone tablet, positioned between the bronze gates, bears the inscription: "These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War and gave their lives that we might live in freedom." For many years after, the site was used for the university’s Remembrance Day services at which wreaths are still laid every November 11th. These Gates were originally the entrance gates to campus and flanked University Drive. In the 1980s, due to increased traffic to the southwest portion of the campus, primarily Royal University Hospital, a new road entrance was built to the west. The gates remain, with the remnant of University Drive passing through them renamed Memorial Crescent. The gates are now primarily used by pedestrians, though the roadway is open to vehicles.
View looking north of a man walking through most easterly Memorial Gate. University Hospital in background; winter scene.
Looking northwest at the Memorial Gates.
Memorial Gates - Dedication Ceremony
Wreaths and cross lay in front of the Memorial Tablet listing the names of those who lost their lives in World War I. Union Jack rests on top of tablet.
Memorial Gates - Dedication Ceremony
University and civic officials at dedication service of Memorial Gates stand at centre of image, with audience standing in foreground. Union Jack draped over the Memorial Tablet that commemorates those killed in World War I. University buildings from l to r: Biology Building, Qu'Appelle Hall, Little Stone School House, Emmanuel College, and University farm buildings. St. Andrew's College visible directly behind Gates.
View looking northwest of the Memorial Gates. Trees in foreground; shrubbery in front of gates.
View looking north of road through the most westerly Memorial Gate; Memorial tablet visible at right. Trees in foreground; shrubbery in front of gates. Framework for construction of University Hospital visible in background; winter scene.
Intersection - University Drive and College Drive
View looking northwest of intersection in front of the Memorial Gates. Vehicle traffic visible at left; tree in foreground.
University of Saskatchewan - Ink Drawing
Two print copies of an ink drawing. Entrances on campus - School of Medicine, University Hospital and Memorial Gates.
Image of St. Andrew's College with Memorial Gates in background, with a unidentified man standing in midground.
Looking northeast at the Memorial Gates and Tablet; St. Andrew's College at right.
Looking northwest at the Memorial Gates.
Students standing on the Memorial Gates.