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MHS Centennial Organization:
Brandon University

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Presidents | Chancellors | Honorary Degrees

In the summer of 1899, Brandon College was established in Brandon by the Baptist Union of Western Canada, as the successor to Prairie College, founded in 1880 at Rapid City. Brandon College had several affiliations over the years, ending in June 1967 with a charter under which it became Brandon University.

The MHS Centennial Organization Award presented to Brandon University by Gordon Goldsborough on 27 May 2004.

Presidents of Brandon University and its Predecessors

Period

President

1899-1912

Archibald P. McDiarmid

1912-1923

Howard Primrose Whidden (1871-1952)

1923-1924

Franklin W. Sweet

1925-1926

David Bovington

1927

Harris L. MacNeill

1928-1959

John R. C. Evans (1891-1959)

1960-1969

John Everett Robbins (1909-1995)

1970-1977

Andrew Lloyd Dulmage (1917-1989)

1977-1983

Harold Jackson Perkins

1984-1985

Earl John “Curly” Tyler (1913-1997)

1985-1990

John Mallea

1990-2000

C. Dennis Anderson

2000-2009

Louis P. Visentin

2009-present

Deborah Poff

Chancellors of Brandon University

Period

President

1967-1970

Maitland Bernard Steinkopf (1912-1970)

1970-1990

Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)

1990-1996

Ronald D. Bell

1996-2002

Kevin Kavanagh

2002-2008

Edward Richard Schreyer

2008-present

Henry Champ

Honorary Degrees conferred by Brandon University

Recipient

Year

Murray Adaskin

1972

Arthur Amoitte

1994

Robert Earl Beamish (1916-2001)

1988

Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (?-2005)

1967

Beatrice Alice Brigden (1894-1977)

1973

Samuel Bronfman

1969

James Brown

2004

Douglas Lloyd Campbell (1895-1995)

1967

Henry Champ

2005

Matthew Choptuik

2002

Andrew Hill Clark

1975

Tom Cochrane

2005

Flora Cowan (1902-1986)

1967

Laurence Harold Cragg

1976

Stuart Criddle (1877-1971)

1968

Sarah Perssis Johnston Darrach (?-1974)

1971

Remi DeRoo

1987

Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (1916-1982)

1977

Maurice Stanton Donovan

1973

Shirley Douglas

2005

Thomas Clement “Tommy” Douglas (1904-1986)

1970

Henry Edmison “Harry” Duckworth (1915-2008)

1982

Ferdinand Eckhardt (1902-1995)

1990

Sophie-Carmen “Sonia” Fridman Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974)

1970

James Ehnes

2005

Frank Henry Epp

1975

Chief Dan George

1973

Betty Gibson (1911-2001)

1977

George Gooden

1993

Charles Gordon

1994

John King Gordon (1900-1989)

1974

James Henry Gray (1906-1998)

1974

Harry B. Hawthorn

1975

August James Henzel

1980

Paul Gerhardt Hiebert (1892-1987)

1974

Tomson Highway

1996

Milton Carman Holden (1903-1975)

1967

Robert Dudley Howland

1974

Diedre Irons

2007

Grettir Leo Johannson

1975

Martin Wesley Johns

1972

Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)

1967

John Lane (1903-1975)

1971

Jean Margaret “Peggy” Wemyss Laurence (1926-1987)

1975

J. W. Grant MacEwan

1969

Rev. Harris L. MacNeill

1967

Laurence Gladwyn MacPherson

1975

Henry Heard Marshall

1974

Wilfrid Forrest McGregor (1902-1968)

1967

Frederick George McGuinness

1997

Gerald A. McKinney

1985

Thomas Hector MacDonald McLeod (1918-2008)

1987

William Ormond Mitchell

1974

William Morrison

2007

Fred Penner

2007

Robert C. Prus

2002

Helen Clara Reisberry

1972

Philipe Andre Renaud

1971

John Everett Robbins (1909-1995)

1974

Peggy Sharpe

1998

Maurice F. Strong

1968

Lawrence Adne Stuckey (1921-2001)

1997

Paul Henric Thorbjorn Thorlakson (1895-1989)

1970

James Harvey Tolton (1898-1987)

1976

Jon Vickers

1976

Norma Walmsley

1988

John Warkentin

1987

Lorne Watson

1993

Lewis Whitehead

1990

Warren Winkler

2007

More information:

“Only Brandon Men Can and Will Save It”: Boosterism, Brandon College, and the Crisis of the Great Depression by Tom Mitchell and W. R. Morrison
Manitoba History, Number 24, Autumn 1992

McKee of Brandon College by Tommy McLeod
Manitoba History, Number 40, Autumn/Winter 2000-2001

“To Bestir Themselves:” Canadian Baptists and the Origins of Brandon College by Tommy McLeod
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007

Web site of Brandon University

This gallery was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough with assistance and information from Tom Mitchell.

MHS Centennial Organizations

Page revised: 7 March 2010

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