F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Civil Law degree to Bill Estey at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: James Wilfred (Bill) Estey (1889-1956) was born in Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick, Estey received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Brunswick in 1910. Estey received a Bachelor of Law from Harvard University in 1915. In 1917 he was called to the Saskatchewan Bar, eventually founding the law firm Estey, Moxon, Schmitt & McDonald. He practised law as a Crown Prosecutor until 1929 in Saskatoon. Estey also taught law and economics at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1934 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. From 1934-1941 Estey was Minister of Education; from 1939-1944 he was Attorney General. Estey was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1944 and served until his death in 1956. He was the second Saskatchewan judge of the Supreme Court (the first was John Henderson Lamont) and succeeded Sir Lyman Poore Duff as a western representative on the Court. Estey died in Ottawa in 1956. Estey Public School (Now Royal West Campus) and Estey Drive in Saskatoon are named after him. He was the father of Willard Estey, also a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.