View of first Engineering Building.

Head and shoulders image of Thaddeus Hebert, Professor of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Joseph Thaddeus Hébert was born in Botsford Portage, New Brunswick in 1890. He obtained a B.A. (1912) and an M.A. (1915) from the University of New Brunswick. He then earned an LL.B. from Harvard University. He was hired as a junior Professor of Law at the University of Saskatchewan in 1919. He taught classes at the University of Saskatchewan until 1924 when he returned to New Brunswick to practice law. Hebert died in 1932 in Campbellton, New Brunswick.

Head and shoulders image of Roy Shuttleworth, Mathematics student and private, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

Bio/Historical Note: Roy Shuttleworth was born 11 July 1896 in Leavenworth, Washington. He attended school at Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario and at Prince Albert. Shuttleworth studies mathematics and physics, and was the first president of the Mathematical Society. He joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) in 1917. Shuttleworth was killed in action 26 August 1918 in France at age 22.

Bio/Historical Note: The Shuttleworth Mathematical Society was designed to give students interested in math an opportunity to meet in an informal setting, and was open to all students who had completed one math class and were registered in a second. The Society was originally formed in November 1916 as the University Mathematical Society. It was renamed in honour of Roy Shuttleworth, a brilliant honours student who had been the first president of the organization. Shuttleworth died in combat during World War I in August 1918.

J.W.T. Spinks, professor of Chemistry, at his [residence at 1031 University Drive] with guests (l to r): Dr. Francis Leddy, Dr. W.A. Riddell (Regina), Dr. Spinks, and Mrs. Elizabeth Haslam. Possibly taken before Dr. Spinks became University President in 1959.

View from driveway past the tennis courts show how the Memorial Union Building will form the bottom of a "U" with Qu'Appelle Hall and Saskatchewan Hall forming the sides. The roads between the buildings with be replaced with a grassed court. Tractors digging and prepping the ground for excavation.

Bio/Historical Note: Photo appeared in the Green and White, summer 1953, pg. 13.

Bio/Historical Note: The Memorial Union Building (MUB) has the distinction of being the last building in the centre of campus designed in the collegiate gothic style and completely clad in greystone. It was designed to serve as a memorial to the students, faculty and staff of the University of Saskatchewan who perished overseas in the First and Second World Wars. The Upper MUB has been transformed several times since its formal opening on 11 Nov. 1955. It has been used as a student lounge, concert venue, pub, bookstore and coffee shop. It has hosted receptions, fashion shows, beauty and air guitar contests, club meetings, dances and political debates. During the 1945-1946 academic year a Students’ Union Building Committee was formed. The Committee outlined proposals for the new building, which included an auditorium, a ballroom, lounge rooms, a tuck shop and student offices, all for a cost of $600,000. A brief on the Committee’s findings and proposals was later presented to the Board of Governors of the University, which created a $100,000 sinking fund for construction of the building and student fees were raised $4 to raise an additional $200,000. The MUB formally opened on 11 November 1955. The centrepiece of the building is a large stone fireplace with a marble memorial tablet (Honour Roll) engraved with the names of University of Saskatchewan students and alumni who died in World War II, It was used primarily for student functions including dancing, card-playing, chess, and studying, though it never became the hub of student activities it was originally intended to be. Included in the original furnishings was a generous supply of ashtrays. In 1957 a Board of Directors was established to operate the MUB, and to promote social, cultural and recreational activities and programs for the students, faculty and alumni of the University of Saskatchewan. Due to the surge in enrolment at the University of Saskatchewan during the 1960s the student body quickly outgrew the building. Though the MUB had been designed to accommodate expansion to the south, by the 1964-1965 academic year the Students’ Union recognized the need for facilities much more extensive than even expansion could provide. As a result plans for what would eventually be the Place Riel Student Centre were born. In 1980 renovations to the MUB were completed as part of Phase III of the Place Riel Project. The renovations were designed by Ferguson Folstad Friggstad, and were completed by Bennett and White Construction. They included the demolition and removal of portions of the building, structural alterations, interior renovations including the refitting of Louis’ Pub, improvements to the elevator, and alterations and renovations to the pedestrian tunnel connected to the residences. The renovations cost $1.7 million. In 1983 an elevator was installed in the MUB for $143,600 and ramps for disabled access were constructed by Cana Construction. These improvements were designed by the Friggstad architectural firm. A 1985 renovation to the building was also designed by Friggstad. The renovations were performed by Haig Construction for $124,725. In March 2001 the Upper MUB was renovated as part of a planned relocation of the Browsers used bookstore. Included in the renovations was a snack and beverage bar as well as public access computers for Internet usage. The entire store is centred around the original war memorial, and the renovations have returned the space to its original purpose as a comfortable lounge for students.” The new Browsers opened its doors in late August 2001. During the summer of 2002 Louis’ Pub, located in the basement of the MUB, was also renovated, by contractors PCL Maxam. The renovations were designed by the architectural firm of Saunders Evans, and were performed by PCL Maxam for $5.25 million. The newly renovated Louis’ was opened in October 2002.

Five freshman students, including two women, sitting on the steps of the Administration Building, reading frosh pamphlets and student handbooks. The three male students are wearing frosh beanies.

Various Physics exhibits and displays including a Bunsen burner, static electricity ball (Van de Graaf generator), snooperscope, polariscope, and others.

Male and female students at a dance in a gym, perhaps a Sock Hop, as no one is wearing shoes.

Group photo taken in in the bowl, in front of Saskatchewan Hall on the University campus.

Photographer: Unknown

Copyright holder: Unknown

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Participants of the Homemakers' convention gather in the Bowl in front of the Administration Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan were created at a "special conference for women" initiated by the University of Saskatchewan in 1911. The objectives as stated in the constitution, were "to promote the interests of the home and the community". It was organized virtually as part of the university. The director of Agricultural Extension, F.H. Auld, was the ex officio secretary and managing director until 1913, when these duties fell to the newly appointed director of Women's Work, Abigail DeLury. From that time until reorganization in 1952, women's extension remained as a separate unit, reporting directly to the president of the university. After 1952, its work was still carried on independently, but with a greater degree of integration with agricultural and adult education services. Unique in Canada was the Club's official association with the University, which provided the provincial secretary, secretarial staff, and extension department resources to aid the development of the club and its programs. In 1971, the name was changed to the Saskatchewan Women's Institute and the University reduced its role to supplying free office space on campus.

Queens of Campus float on [2nd Avenue] in Saskatoon. Women in white dresses and ermine capes holding flowers on the float.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Janice MacKinnon, School of Public Health.

Bio/Historical Note: Janice MacKinnon, Ph.D, C.M., S.O.M., FRSC is a Canadian historian and former Minister of Finance for the Province of Saskatchewan under NDP Premier Roy Romanow. She is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

Image of a field of swaths of pedigreed seed wheat.

Group of nine men seated around a table working with electronics during a CVT class in Moose Jaw

Bio/Historical Note: The Dominion-Provincial Youth Training Program (DPYT) was a federal government measure created in 1937 that provided training and apprenticeship courses for young men and women between the ages of 16 and 30. $1 million in Dominion funds was given to the provinces in an effort to keep youth off public relief, prepare young people to eventually secure employment, and reduce pressure on the labour market. Courses for women were kept separate and distinct. Beginning in April 1940 the Youth Training Program was expanded, streamlined, and redirected towards the industrial training of young people for war work and eventually evolved into the War Emergency Training Program (1940-1946). Nearly $24 million was expended under this program and more than 300,000 persons received training. After World War II, six-week, residential, coeducational DPYT courses were conducted for eight years at Kenosee, North Battleford and Prince Albert; for two years at Canora, and for one year at Yorkton. The name of the DPYT was later changed to the Canadian Vocational Training Program (CVT). The program was terminated in the late 1950s.