Head and shoulders image of Alexander Campbell, director of Pharmacy from 1914-1923, and first dean from 1923-1928.

Bio/Historical Note: Alexander Campbell's association with the University of Saskatchewan began in 1913 as professor of Pharmacy. The Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association had been the first in Canada to request the education of its members be under the direction of a university and twenty-one students enrolled when the School of Pharmacy was first established in January 1914. By 1921 the School had become a College and in 1922 Campbell became the first dean of Pharmacy. Enrolment had increased substantially every year; and Campbell, there since the school’s inception, had taught a majority of the classes even as faculty numbers increased. The College of Pharmacy as it existed in 1927 was largely Campbell’s creation. Remarkably, he had joined the University at age 62 – but “no one,” Walter C. Murray wrote, had “ever associated age with the active veteran of the rebellion of 1885.” Indeed, Campbell had been part of the 7th Fusiliers from London, Ontario, called into active service on 1 April 1885. By the time they had made the trip west the Northwest Resistance was over: the 7th Fusiliers left for their return journey to Ontario in mid-July without ever having seen combat. Campbell had done pencil sketches at the time and later turned these into watercolours, with a narrative of his service: An Account of the Advances of the 7th Fusiliers of London to aid in the suppression of the North West Rebellion of 1885. Following his retirement in 1928 Campbell moved to Victoria, where he died in [1943 at the age of 91]. The Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association established the Campbell Prize in his honour.

Threshing machines stored in the Tractor Laboratory.

Head and shoulders image of Adam Shortt, who donated the initial bulk of the Shortt Collection of Canadiana, which makes up the basis of the University of Saskatchewan Special Collections.

Bio/Historical Note: Adam Shortt was born 24 November 1859 in Kilworth, Ontario. He attended Queen's University with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian minister. When Shortt graduated in 1883 , he pursued graduate studies in philosophy, chemistry and botany. In 1886 Shortt married Elizabeth Smith, one of the first women to receive a medical degree in Canada. The same year he began working as a tutor for John Watson, and in 1887 was appointed a lecturer in the field of political economy at Queen's. In 1891 he was the first to be appointed the John A. Macdonald Professor of Political Science. While a lecturer at Queen's Shortt was appointed editor of The Queen's Journal. He is credited with establishing the first card catalogue at the Queen's Library. Regarded as the father of professional economics in Canada, Shortt took a historical approach as differentiated from economic theory, as he believed that the economics of nations depend on natural resources, geographic location, and specific economic attributes. Shortt went on to Glasgow University for his master's degree in political economy. Shortt was one of five men on the shortlist for the position of first president of the University of Saskatchewan. He is most well known for his research into the history of Canadian banking and for his association with the National Archives of Canada. In 1906 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1911. At the time of his death on 14 January 1931, he was a chairman of the Board of Historical Publications at the National Archives, a position he had held since 1918.

Bio/Historical Note: Special Collections at the University of Saskatchewan Library began with the purchase of the Adam Shortt collection of Canadiana in 1921. Dr. Shortt, a professor and University Librarian at Queen's University was an inveterate collector. Indeed, the collection at the University of Saskatchewan was one of his two personal collections. This collection has been augmented over time and now concentrates on western Canadian history. While it includes old and rare materials, such as 18th- and 19th-century editions of explorers' and missionaries' accounts, it also emphasizes the history of First Nations and Metis people. The library is particularly proud to own an original letter/poem written by resistance leader Louis Riel to his jailer just two weeks before he was hanged for treason.

Three men at work in a lab; a fourth man stands in background.

Children's Christmas party at the President's Residence. Santa Claus [A.R. Greig] at far left; several men and a group of women line the perimeter of the room.

Main Barn in winter.

Bio/Historical Note: The University Barn or Main Barn was designed by Brown and Vallance and built between 1910-1912.

Head and shoulders image of Ethan Beverley Hutcherson, member of University Senate.

Bio/historical Note: Ethan Beverley Hutcherson was born at Dartford, Northumberland Co., Ontario. He educated at the county school, Norwood High School, and at Victoria University in Toronto. He taught school in Ontario of Ontario, moving west to Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1894. Hutcherson was principal of Regina High School (1896), and a school inspector, N.W.T. (1900). He articled in law to Barr, Sampson & Stewart, 1912, also to Balfour Martin & Casey. Hutcherson was called to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1915. He practised in Regina with Casey, Dawson & Hutcherson. In 1918 Hutcherson relocated to Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, to practice law and serve as Agent for the Attorney General. As a member of the School Board and superintendent of Regina Public and High Schools, he introduced domestic science, manual training and school nurses in the schools of Regina. During the early days of his inspectorate in the Territories, his field was a wide one, embracing all the territory that lay between Medicine Hat, Alberta and Broadview, Prince Albert west to Lloydminster and east to Star City; fifty-three school districts. Hutcherson was [82 years old in 1954].

Portrait of Allan A. Bowerman, early postmaster of Saskatoon, and donor of scholarships and rare books to the University of Saskatchewan.

Bio/Historical Note: Allan Arthur Bowerman was born 20 May 1844 on a farm near Picton, Ontario. He was educated at Victoria University (Cobourg, Ontario) and the Kingston Military School. In 1870 he came to Manitoba as a member of the Wolseley Expedition and stayed after it was demobilized, becoming principal of the newly-established Wesleyan Institute. During the Winnipeg real estate boom of the early 1880s, Bowerman invested heavily in real estate, owning land along Portage Avenue where he erected a residential building known as the Bowerman Terrace and established a florist shop. He lost most of his investments in the subsequent crash. In December 1883 Bowerman accepted a position as Classics master at the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, becoming principal the following year. He resigned in mid-1889 to concentrate on his florist business. After the business closed in the mid-1890s, Bowerman took a position as principal of Griswold School, serving until early 1899. He then traveled west and became principal of the school at Moose Jaw, North West Territories. Bowerman left Moose Jaw for Saskatoon; he became the first postmaster in Saskatoon on the west side of the river (1900-1906), and a member of Saskatoon's first town council (1903-1905). Again, Bowerman invested in real estate and amassed a substantial fortune over a period of less than a decade. He built the Canada Building and was an early supporter of the University of Saskatchewan. He sold a piece of property to the government for the site of a sanatorium. In his retirement years, Bowerman wintered in California, where he died at Los Angeles on 25 December 1923. He left an estate valued at about $3 million.

Children sit around a large table in the dining room of the President's Residence [during a birthday party]. One man and several women line the perimeter of the room.

Head and shoulders image of Christina Cameron Murray dressed in a white dress wearing a necklace.

Head and shoulders image of Christina Cameron Murray dressed in an academic gown; taken perhaps at the time of graduation from Royal Victoria School of Nursing in Montreal.

Bio/Historical Note: Christina Cameron Murray, eldest daughter of the University of Saskatchewan's first President, Walter Charles Murray, and Christina Cameron Murray, was born in 1896 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She earned a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1917 and graduated from Montreal's Royal Victoria School of Nursing in 1924. In 1930 Christina returned to Canada to become an instructor at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. In 1934-1935 she completed a course in hospital administration and instruction from the Bedford College for Women at the University of London. Christina held a number of teaching positions during her career: University of Wisconsin (1925-1930); Ottawa Civic Hospital (1930-1934); and Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver (1934-1938). Christina was active in district, state, and national nursing organizations in the United States and at the time of her death was chairman of the membership committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing. Christina earned the rank of full professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing where she worked from 1938 until her death in Madison in 1948 at age 51. The School of Nursing Alumnae designated a memorial reading room in the library in honour of Christina. ‘Murray House’ in Chadbourne Hall is also named after her.

Demonstration being given to an audience inside Livestock Pavilion; horses standing in foreground.

Two images show the demonstrator's hands and the equipment; one shows adding the acid and the other adding the milk. Labels for each sequence are mounted.

A four-bottle hand tester displayed with label beneath.

A cream test scale on display with its label.

A twelve-bottle hand tester displayed with its label.