Architectural plan of the campus layout done by Brown and Vallance.

Architectural plan of the campus layout showing the master plan for the proposed campus road development. [Done by J.B. Parkin.]

Architectural plan of the campus layout showing the proposed campus development.

Early architectural plan of the campus layout of 1925.

Architectural plan of the campus layout of 1956.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Dr. Denys Wilkinson at Convocation ceremony held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson (1922-2016) was a British nuclear physicist.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Robert Watson Sellar at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, university Registrar, stands at far left.

Bio/Historical Note: Robert Watson Sellar (1894-1965) was born in Huntingdon, Québec, into a prominent publishing family. Sellar saw action on the Somme during World War I. He completed his legal degree in 1919 and returned to Quebec, but was summoned to Ottawa in 1920 to serve as secretary to the Minister of Finance. Sellar served as Treasury Comptroller from 1932-1940. Appointed auditor general in 1940, Sellar retired in 1959. He was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Government Organization. Sellar died in Ottawa in 1965.

Unidentified man standing in the Poultry Car of the Better Farming Train.

Bio/Historical Note: From 1914 to 1922 a Better Farming Train (BFT) toured the province providing lectures and demonstrations and presenting exhibits on matters pertaining to agriculture. Funded by the Agricultural Instruction Act, equipped jointly by the Department of Agriculture and the College of Agriculture, and staffed by the University of Saskatchewan, the BFTs were operated free of charge by the railways. Consisting of between 14 to 17 cars they toured the province for several weeks each summer. During part of one summer two trains operated. The train was divided into five sections: Livestock; Field Husbandry; Boys and Girls; Household Science; Poultry; and Farm Mechanics. A converted flat car acted as a platform for the display and demonstration of the "well-selected" horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. Each section usually contained a lecture car accompanied by one or more demonstration cars.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Sir Hugh S. Taylor at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, university Registrar, prepares to hood recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, KBE FRS (1890-1974) was an English chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925 in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalyzed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to the Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent at 52nd annual Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. N.K. Cram, University Registrar, waits to hood the recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Louis St. Laurent (1882-1973) was born in Compton, Quebec, and studied at St. Charles College (Sherbrooke) and at Laval University (Quebec). St. Laurent was called to the bar in 1905 and became one of Canada’s leading lawyers, serving two terms as president of the Canadian Bar Association. In 1914 he was appointed professor of law at Laval University. In 1941 he was asked by Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King to enter public life. As a member of the Liberal Party, St. Laurent was elected to the Canadian House of Commons from Quebec East in 1942 and was re-elected in all subsequent elections until his retirement. King appointed him minister of justice and attorney general and later secretary of state for external affairs (acting in 1945, regular 1946). St. Laurent was deputy chairman of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945 and served as leader of the delegations at the UN General Assembly sessions in London and New York City in 1946-1947. St. Laurentaccept the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1948 and succeeded King as prime minister. Under Saint Laurent’s leadership Newfoundland became a part of the dominion; his government supported UN intervention in Korea (1950–1953) and in Suez (1956); and Canada helped to keep India and Pakistan as members of the Commonwealth. St. Laurent endeavoured to unify and develop the country by equalizing provincial revenues, by expanding social security and university education, and by establishing a council for promoting arts and letters. St. Laurent led his party to great victories in the general elections of 1949 and 1953, but the Liberals were narrowly defeated in 1957. After a short period as Leader of the Opposition and now more than 75 years old, St. Laurent's motivation to be involved in politics was gone. He announced his intention to retire from politics. What had been a "temporary" political career had lasted 17 years. He was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958. After his political retirement, he returned to practising law. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada, a newly created award, in 1967. Saint Laurent died in Quebec City, Quebec, in 1973.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Alfred Blalock at the 52nd annual convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as Tetralogy of Fallot— commonly known as Blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to T.C. Douglas at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, University Register, prepares to hood recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (1904-1986) was a Scottish Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944-1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961-1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His cabinet was the first democratic socialist government in North America and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program. After setting up Saskatchewan's universal healthcare program, Douglas stepped down and ran to lead the newly formed federal New Democratic Party (NDP), the successor party of the national CCF. He was elected as its first federal leader in 1961. Although Douglas never led the party to government, through much of his tenure the party held the balance of power in the House of Commons. He was noted as being the main opposition to the imposition of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis. He resigned as leader the next year, but remained as a Member of Parliament until 1979. Douglas was awarded many honorary degrees, and a foundation was named for him and his political mentor M. J. Coldwell in 1971. In 1981, he was invested into the Order of Canada, and he became a member of Canada's Privy Council in 1984, two years before his death. In 2004, a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas "The Greatest Canadian", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel prize-winning scientist at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, University Registar, stands by.

Bio/Historical Note: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (1897-1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

Glen Makahonuk, senior Library Assistant, makes a presentation to Neil Richards, Library Assistant, who is holding a certificate.