MHS Centennial Organization: University of Winnipeg

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In the 1870s, on the heels of the founding of Manitoba in 1870, an acute need for advanced education was addressed by the founding, in 1873, of Manitoba College by the Presbyterian church and Wesley College by the Methodists, in 1877. In that latter year, both became active participants in the loose affiliation known as the University of Manitoba and, indeed, George Bryce of Manitoba College would prove instrumental in putting the University of Manitoba on a more formal foundation, in 1904. The two colleges were united in 1938 under the name of United College which, in 1967, received a charter to become the University of Winnipeg. Today, still rooted firmly in the heart of the city it serves so well, the University of Winnipeg offers outstanding education in the liberal arts and sciences to a diverse student body.

An MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented to the University of Winnipeg by Gordon Goldsborough on 16 May 2004.

Presidents

Period	President
1967-1971	Wilfred Cornet Lockhart (1906-1991)
1971-1981	Henry Edmison Duckworth (1915-2008)
1981-1989	Robin Hugh Farquhar
1989-1999	Marsha Pearlman Hanen (1936-2019)
1999-2003	Constance Merriam Rooke (1942-2008)
2004-2014	Lloyd Norman Axworthy
2014-2020	Annette Trimbee
2020-2021	James Currie - Acting
2021-?	Todd Mondor

Chancellors

Period	Chancellor
1967-1968	Richard Henry Gardyne Bonnycastle (1903-1968)
1969-1978	Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson (1895-1989)
1978-1984	Roderick Oliver Alexander “Rod” Hunter (1915-2001)
1984-1996	William John Antliff Bulman
1996-2000	Carol Ann Warner Shields (1935-2003)
2000-2009	H. Sanford Riley
2009-2020	Robert “Bob” Silver
2020-present	Barb Gamey

Arts & Sciences

Period	Dean
1992-1997	John Randall Hofley (1939-2021)

Honorary Degrees conferred by the University of Winnipeg and its Predecessors

Recipient	Year
Albert Clifford Abbott (1897-1983)	1974
George Aitken (1906-1984)	1972
Madeleine K. Albright	2005
Benjamin Wilson Allison (1870-1953)	1935
John A. Armstrong	1978
William L. Armstrong	1910
Abraham J. Arnold (c1923-2011)	2001
Jesse H. Arnup	1924
Harry Crowson Ashdown (1885-1971)	1968
Leonard Asper	2009
Clarence Edward Atchison	1973
Lloyd Norman Axworthy	1998
Thomas Mayers Badger	1965
Vaughan Lawson Baird (1927-2013)	1987
James Ballantyne	1906
Philip Barker (1880-1967)	1944
Bernice Scott Bateman (1907-1996)	1974
Maurice Baudoux (1902-1988)	1965
Mary Elizabeth Bayer (1925-2005)	1975
Gerald S. Bell	1941
Rev. Dr. John E. Bell	1953
Hugh Avery Benham (1911-1997)	1973
David Bergen	2007
Virginia Gingerick Berry (1915-2003)	1987
C. H. Best	1943
Thomas William Bird (1883-1958)	1950
Elinor F. E. Black (1905-1982)	1970
Keith Black	2004
William Alexander “Bill” Blaikie (1951-2022)	2007
Margaret Bloodworth	2007
Elswood Fredrick Bole (1910-1987)	1974
Roberta Lynn Bondar	2001
Joseph Bova	2000
Richard Spink Bowles (1912-1988)	1982
Rev. Dr. Harry I. Bowman	1967
Oscar Brand	1987
Rev. Thomas Alex Broadfoot	1939
Pat Broe	2008
Gretta Helen Gordon Brown (1903-1987)	1979
The Venerable James R. Brown	1977
James Porter Browne	1957
Thomas Buchanan	1918
John Buhler	2014
William John Antliff Bulman	1983
D. Ralph Campbell (1918-2008)	1977
Douglas Lloyd Campbell (1895-1995)	1978
Rev. Dr. Neil Kenneth Campbell	1963
Norman F. Cantor	1973
Leonard Cariou	1992
J. A. Carmichael	1903
John Archibald “Archie” Carmichael (1916-2001)	1982
Edwin Gladstone “Eddie” Cass (1893-1985)	1974
Hugh Clifford Chadderton	1992
Henry Bruce Chown (1893-1986)	1979
Gordon Minto Churchill (1898-1985)	1976
Howard Hewlett Clark	1965
J. A. Clark	1915
Wylie C. Clark	1923
James Whyte Clarke	1940
Solomon Cleaver	1901
G. S. Clendinnen	1928
Roland Cloutier	1977
Oliver Coleman	1927
David Conly	1966
William W. Conly	1972
Walter Allison Cooke (1866-1954)	1910
John A. Cormie (1877-1947)	1924
James Arthur Coulter (1916-2005)	1974
John James Cowan	1950
A. Russell Cragg	1946
J. Richmond Craig	1952
H. T. Crossley	1921
Thomas Albert John “Jack” Cunnings (?-1987)	1978
Adam Cuthand (?-1994)	1970
Harold D. Dalgleish	1970
Mohinder Singh Dhillon	2008
Olive Patricia Dickason (1920-2011)	2003
Robert George Brian Dickson (1916-1998)	1991
Hugh W. Dobson	1925
Gary Doer	2010
Rev. Dr. J. Ralph Donnelly	1980
Walter Edward Donnelly (1890-1969)	1942
Sister M. Berthe Dorais	1974
Frederick John Douglas (1913-1998)	1957
Thomas C. “Tommy” Douglas (1904-1986)	1984
John A. Doyle	1925
Henry B. Duckworth	1945
Henry Edmison “Harry” Duckworth (1915-2008)	1984
S. W. Dyde	1911
Rev. Dr. G. A. Dyker	1941
Rev. Dr. George Fraser Dyker	1957
The Most Rev. Dr. Sigurbjorn Einarsson	1975
James Eldridge	2007
Robert W. K. Elliott	1954
Charles Endicott	1925
James Endicott	1910
John Herman Enns (1889-1974)	1964
Georges Erasmus	1992
Michael Ewanchuk (1908-2004)	1979
Valdimir Jónason Eylands (1910-1983)	1953
Jonathan F. Fanton	2011
James Farquharson	1904
Rev. Dr. William O. Fennell	1963
J. T. Ferguson	1910
Frank Prescott Fidler	1961
Mr. Robert Finch	1984
George Bernard Flahiff (1905-1989)	1972
Larry Phillip “Phil” Fontaine	2008
Thelma Bessie Forbes	1975
Charles Harkness Forsyth	1969
Harold A. Frame	1951
Ursula Franklin	1994
John Foster “Jack” Fraser (1930-2021)	1993
Paul D. K. Fraser	1986
Robert McKee Frayne	1949
Samuel Freedman (1908-1993)	1983
Edwin Gardiner Dunn Freeman (c1890-1973)	1958
Rev. Dr. John Freeman	1974
David Friesen (1911-2007)	1981
Northrop Frye	1958
Ethel Margaret Futers Fulton (1922-2014)	1985
Leonard Gaetz	1899
S. D. Gaudin	1932
Ronald Wilson Gibson (1903-1993)	1972
Gustave Gingras	1970
David A. Golden (1920-2012)	2011
Cecil Earle Gordon	1962
John King Gordon	1979
Allan E. Gotlieb	1985
William Roger Graham (1919-1988)	1969
Irving Guttman (c1928-2014)	1995
Robert Haddow	1913
Norma Jane Hall (1919-2007)	1975
Alexander Hamilton	1911
Alvin Chown Hamilton (1926-2014)	1996
Alan H. Hanna	1992
Hartley J. Harland	1961
Rev. Dr. H. Gordon Harland	1976
Wesley Harland	1967
Elijah Harper (1949-2013)	2011
Peter Alexander Herrndorf (1940-2023)	1993
Tomson Highway	1993
Josie Hill	2010
John Steven Hirsch	1985
John E. Hogg	1905
Benjamin Horch (1907-1992)	1974
The Right Rev. Dr. Wilbur Kenneth Howard	1975
Ernest Marshall Howse	1948
Allen Richard Huband (1903-1993)	1953
Charles H. Huestis	1916
James Edward Hughson	1916
Roderick Oliver Alexander Hunter (1915-2001)	1971
Herbert Moffat Irwin	1926
Patricia K. Irwin	2001
Sharon Hope Irwin	2008
John Jackson	1946
Thomas Jackson	1998
Cornelius John Jaenen	1981
F. E. Howley James	1952
Rev. Dr. Vincent J. Jensen	1977
Duncan James Jessiman	1976
Norman Jewison	1988
David Bruce Johnson	1962
George Johnson (1920-1995)	1992
Rev. Dr. Ernest Peter Johnston	1969
Stephen Juba (1914-1993)	1974
Won Yong Kang	1962
H. J. Keith	1925
Gertrude Allison Kent (?-1989)	1981
Rev. Frederick William Kerr	1931
J. Larkin Kerwin	1983
Tobasonakwut Kaagagewanakweb Kinew (1936-2012)	2011
Otto Klassen (1927-2018)	2007
Wanda Koop	2002
Robert Kozminski	2012
C. Ruth Krindle	2007
Leo Friman Kristjanson (1932-2005)	1980
Wilhelm Kristjanson	1972
Robert P. Kroetsch	1983
S. R. Laidlaw	1919
Homer Lane	1951
J. E. Lane	1933
Jessie Hermione “Jess” Lang (1916-2018)	1997
John Langstaff	2008
George Laughton	1926
Arthur Lavender	1956
Clarkson Brunskill Lawson	1936
Gordon Lawson (1904-1995)	1974
Ruston William Lawson	1975
Augustus Searle Leach (1909-1993)	1977
Vincent Leah (1913-1993)	1985
Douglas W. Leatherdale	2000
Dianne Leggatt	2007
Marion Lewis	1986
W. A. Lewis	1927
Richard J. Light	1991
Judge Walter J. Lindal	1971
Wilfred Cornet Lockhart (1906-1991)	1977
Shirley Elizabeth Perret Loewen (1936-2022)	2000
William H. Loewen	2000
Gerhard Lohrenz (1899-1986)	1974
Wesley Crawford Lorimer (1913-2010)	1969
John Alexander MacAulay (1892-1978)	1970
Roderick George McBeth [MacBeth] (1858-1934)	1885
Donald Bruce MacDonald	1961
James D. MacDonald	2005
Rev. James Sutherland Mackay	1927
Walter C. MacKenzie	1970
Clarence MacKinnon	1909
Murdoch A. MacKinnon	1916
George Campbell “Cam” MacLean (1921-2008)	1989
John MacLean	1971
Rev. Dr. Frank W. MacLean	1955
Rev. Dr. William Gordon MacLean	1966
W. A. MacLean	1966
J. W. MacMillan	1909
George William Maltby (c1915-1999)	1982
Anthony Theodore “Tony” Mann (c1921-1996)	1981
Clifford Manning	1920
Henry William Manning	1974
Lorna R. Marsden	1994
Joseph E. Martin	1995
William George Martin (1886-1973)	1943
Rev. Dr. Clifford S. Matchett	1953
Robert Ernest McCullagh (1869-1965)	1927
Robert McDonald	2010
Rev. Dr. Hugh McFarlane	1952
Raymond McFeetors	2007
Diane McGifford	2012
Rev. Dr. John L. McInnis	1944
Daniel McIntyre	1912
Donald F. McIntyre	1971
Earl Daniel McIntyre	1982
Chas. L. McIrvine	1922
Stanley J. McKay	1992
William John “Jack” McKeag (1928-2007)	1976
Gordon A. McKinnon	1997
John Fletcher McLaughlin	1916
Robert K. N. McLean	1968
Duncan M. McLeod	1929
Stanley R. McLeod	1954
George McMillan	1955
Rev. Dr. George Wallace McNeill	1957
Rev. Dr. James E. McNeill	1964
Marilou McPhedran	1992
Rev. Dr. William McPherson	1954
Duncan McRae	1946
J. W. Melvin	1925
Arthur Kazumi Miki	1999
Rev. Dr. Bruce A. Miles	1973
Joyce Milgaard	2007
J. George Miller	1924
J. S. Miller	1932
Rev. Dr. I. Marguerite Miller	1977
Frank Milligan	1976
John W. Moffat	1989
Randall Moffat	2007
Leo Mol (1915-2009)	1974
Alfred Maurice Monnin (1920-2013)	1972
Andrew Moore (1890-1974)	1975
Annie Mae McIntyre Moore (1889-1980)	1975
Ewart Horace Morgan (1896-1983)	1971
James Edward Munro	1923
Anne Ethel “Nan” Murphy (1902-1990)	1974
S. C. Murray	1907
Bernard Naylor (c1907-1986)	1980
Zara Nelsova	1985
Thomas Neville (c1869-1963)	1949
Don Newman	2007
William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)	1981
Nancy F. Olivieri	2006
Sylvia Ostry	1984
David Owen	1953
J. Carlyle Parker	1946
Samuel J. B. Parsons	1952
Rev. Dr. David R. Patterson	1955
Florence Ferris Pearce (?-1981)	1974
Thomas Burridge Pearson (1885-1972)	1948
Russell A. Peden	1965
Fred Ralph C. Penner	1995
Edmund Guthrie Perry	1941
Michael Everett Joseph Phelps (1947-2019)	1992
John “Jack” Whitney Pickersgill (1905-1997)	1982
E. Leslie Pidgeon	1919
Rev. Dr. Lorne Pierce	1954
John C. Polanyi	2005
Margaret E. Prang	1978
Robert P. Purves (c1928-1997)	1996
Samuel Price Rattray (1908-1979)	1971
Donald G. Ray	1968
Andrew Dunn Reid	1935
W. S. Reid	1930
Helena Friesen Reimer (1905-1993)	1974
Bill James Richardson	1998
George Taylor Richardson (1924-2014)	1990
Hartley T. Richardson	2011
James A. Richardson	2008
John William Ridd	1949
H. Sanford Riley	2009
Leland F. S. Ritcey	1969
John Roberts	2007
William D. Roberts	2011
Hugh John Robertson	1926
Mary Robinson	2003
Charles Dufferin “Duff” Roblin (1917-2010)	1968
Arnold G. Rogers	1989
Oscar Maurtua de Romana	1988
Allan Ronald	2006
Remi J. De Roo	1990
Thomas Bruce Ross (1904-2001)	1970
Warren Rothwell	1938
Mark C. Rumball (1857-1926)	1914
Sister Lesley Sacouman	2006
Rev. Dr. Tom Saunders	1959
Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1904-1984)	1968
Theodore Peter Schaefer (1933-2007)	1982
David William “Dave” Schindler (1940-2021)	2002
Steven Schipper	2007
Peter Scott	1923
Jack Milburn Scurfield (1899-1974)	1974
Donald Bruce Sealey (1927-2005)	1984
Harvey L. Secter	1999
James Shaver	1936
Michael John Victor “Jack” Shaver (1918-2001)	1980
Carol Ann Warner Shields (1935-2003)	1996
Robert K. Siddall	1986
Mr. Haraldur Sigmar	1944
Saul Simkin	1974
Rev. Dr. Robert Murray Simmons	1966
Rev. Dr. Allan B. Simpson	1971
Calvin Murray Sinclair	2011
Berenice Barbara Warne Sisler (1924-2019)	1990
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1973
Edwin W. Smith	1937
Ian C. P. Smith	1990
Adam Grant Smith (1916-2000)	1970
D. M. Solandt	1925
Douglas B. Sparling	1959
Walter John Spence	1967
Leslie Spillett	2011
Arnold Theodore Spohr (1923-2010)	1983
Stanley Wesley McKay (1911-2003)	1981
Edgar Graham Standing (1895-1980)	1978
Joseph Alexander Stephen (1899-1966)	1964
William Stephenson (1896-1989)	1979
Frederick George Stevens	1938
Andrew Stewart (1851-1925)	1899
C. H. Stewart	1913
James Esek Stewart	1966
Andrew W. Strachan	1936
Peter Strang	1912
S. C. Studd	1943
Antonio “Tony” Tascona (1926-2006)	1994
James M. Taylor	1972
Nelson Thibault	1987
Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Thompson	1956
Robert McDonnell Thomson	1888
Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson (1895-1989)	1979
Harvey Thorleifson	2007
Joseph Thorarinn Thorson (1889-1978)	1970
P. B. Thorton	1930
Clarence I. Tillenius (1913-2012)	1970
Vic Toews	2010
Alejandro Toledo	2009
Bramwell Bernard Tovey (1953-2022)	1993
Donald Treffinger	2009
Alban James Tufts (c1867-1944)	1925
Harry G. Tuttle	1951
William D. Valgardson	1995
H. B. Wallace	1946
Allan Harvey Watson (1891-1978)	1969
James Snarr Watson (1870-1953)	1947
Sheila Watt-Cloutier	2006
Philip Weiss	2003
F. F. Westbrook	1912
Anne Wheeler	1994
Rev. Dr. Peter Gordon White	1964
M. Gladys Whitehead	1982
Rev. Dr. Alfred Ernest Whitehouse	1940
Rudy H. Wiebe	1986
Hamilton Wigle	1919
Rev. G. Duncan Wilkie	1959
Samuel Wilkinson	1931
Bertha Wilson	1992
Gilbert B. Wilson (1867-1962)	1914
Lois M. Wilson	1986
Roy F. Wilson	1971
George Woodcock	1975
Gao Ying	2006
Victor Yushechenko	2008
Joseph Zuken (1912-1986)	1974

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Wesley College / University of Winnipeg (505 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 February 2023