Item A-3647 - Honourary Degrees - Presentation - James G. Taggart

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Honourary Degrees - Presentation - James G. Taggart

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1 photograph : b&w ; 18.0 x 12.6 cm
1 negative : b&w ; 12.5 x 10.0 cm

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F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to James G. Taggart at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: James Gordon Taggart was born in 1892 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia and raised in River Hebert. Taggart attended school at River Hebert and attended the Colleges of Agriculture at Truro and Guelph graduating in 1912 with a BSA in Field Husbandry. Following a brief term of employment as an agricultural representative for the Ontario government, Taggart taught at the agricultural schools at Olds and Vermilion, Alberta. He became the principal of the Vermilion school in 1919. In 1921 Taggart became Superintendent of the Swift Current Experimental Station, a position he held until he was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1934 as MLA for Swift Current. Taggart served as the Minister of Agriculture from 1934-1944. He was head of the Dominion Bacon Board from 1939 to 1941. Taggart became Food Administrator for the Wartime Prices and Trades Board. In 1947 he was appointed Director-in-Chief of Agricultural Services. In 1949 Taggart was named federal Deputy Minister of Agriculture, a position he held until 1959. He was the recipient of two honorary degrees and the Order of the British Empire. Taggart died in Toronto in 1974. In 1976 Taggart was posthumously inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame.

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