William T. Diefenbaker and unidentified man on front porch of a house in an unidentified location.

head-shot; faculty elected to Council

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.

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.

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.

Signed portrait of William R. Brunt.

Dr. William R. Rutherford (left), dean of Agriculture, and Dr. Alexander R. Greig, professor of Mechanical Engineering, sit in a horse-drawn cart. On back of photo: "gasoline traction engine course instructor".

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.

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.

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

Shoulders up portrait of William Patterson wearing glasses.

Head and shoulders of William M. Adams, Professor, Veterinary Medicine.

Photo taken from a very tall building of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's long funeral procession to Union Station, Ottawa, July 1950. Crowds can be seen lining the streets. Public Archives Canada's description of the photo is attached to the back.