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| University of Calgary Archives 85.025_01.30_2 |
The entire Faculty of Arts
of the original University of Calgary poses in front of the Carnegie Library
(now the Memorial Park Branch of the Calgary Public Library) on the first day of university's operation, October 4, 1912.
The provincial government chartered the institution as Calgary College, but to
protect the University of Alberta, it withheld degree-conferring power. The
proposed campus in what eventually became the neighbourhood of Strathcona Park
was supposed to “make Oxford and Cambridge sit up and take notice.” But it was
never built, and classes remained in the library until the college closed in
1915. Many of the male students enlisted in the First World War.
Faculty, from
left to right in the front row, included: Dr. Frank H. McDougall; Mack Eastman;
Dean Edward E. Braithwaite; Dr. F.C. Ward; and librarian Alexander Calhoun. One
notable student, standing second from the left in the back row, is Eric L.
Harvie, a lawyer who became one of Calgary’s greatest philanthropists. Some of
the students pictured here later enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
and were killed in the First World War.
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