Students and faculty stand on front step of Emmanuel College (l to r): J.H. Smith, H.C.M. Grant, J. House, William Allen, William Charles Pearson, Gilbert Joseph Waite, Joseph Blackburn, Archibald Stanley Dainton, Arthur Reginald Nash, A.J. Wright, Arthur William Ashley, John H. Bryne, John Elijah Jeary, Percy C. Bays, C.R. Daniels, W.L. Hughes, J.B. Allen, Harry Berry, Louis H.C. Hopkins, professor; George Frederick Trench, principal; George William Legge.

Bio/Historical Note: Reverend George Frederick Trench was born 7 January 1881 in England. He was educated at Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. He graduated from Selwyn College at Cambridge University in with a BA (1902) and an MA (1908). Trench gained the rank of Temporary Chaplain in the Forces. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1919, where he was mentioned in despatches twice. He was Assistant Home Secretary to the Church Missionary Society. Trench was principal at Emmanuel College and also held the office of superintendent and rural dean. He held the office of general superintendent to the Missions to Seamen between 1931 and 1945. He was the vicar between 1945-1951 at Milland, Hampshire, England. Trench died on 23 April 1966.

Bio/Historical Note: Emmanuel College pre-dates the University of Saskatchewan by some thirty years. The College was founded at Prince Albert in 1879 by Rt. Rev. John McLean as a “training College for Native Helpers.” In 1883 by an Act of Parliament, Emmanuel College was incorporated as "The University of Saskatchewan.” When the provincial university was established in Saskatoon in 1909, the Synod decided to relinquish its title and opt for affiliation to the new university. Emmanuel sold its old site to the federal government, to be used for a penitentiary, and shipped all its belongs to Saskatoon in four boxcars. On unbroken prairie on the east side of the river, professors, students and carpenters began to construct a series of wooden buildings. This “College of Shacks” was moved between 1910 and 1912 to the campus. In 1913 Rugby Chapel, so named because it had been funded by the staff and students of Rugby School, England was moved to the campus from Prince Albert. A stone clad, permanent college building was constructed between 1911 and 1912. Designed by Brown and Vallance, the building contained residential space for students and the college Principal, classrooms and a refectory in the basement. In 1916 the College was used as a military hospital for returned soldiers and in 1918, as a hospital during the outbreak of influenza. In 1962 McLean Hall was built as an addition to Emmanuel College but a proposed walkway connecting the two was never completed. In 1964 St. Chad’s College of Regina joined Emmanuel College to form the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, continuing as an affiliate college of the University of Saskatchewan. The college closed in 2013.