The item is a poster published by the Baptist Union of Western Canada promoting Brandon College Sunday, February 28, 1932 asking Baptists throughout Western Canada to support Brandon College financially in its hour of need. The poster asserts that "Pres. Evans is Leading in the Sacrificial Effort by Faculty and Friends to keep the College open."
Photograph is looking west from the east side of the driveway and shows the Continuing Education H-Hut, which was located between the Brandon College Building and the Citzens' Science Building.
Duncan Alexander MacGibbon, economist, was born in Lochaber Bay, Quebec, on 12 March 1882. He was educated at McMaster University and then went to Brandon College, Manitoba, to teach. He left Brandon to enrol at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1915. He began to teach at McMaster University but his teaching career was halted by World War I. After the war he joined the University of Alberta as professor and head of the Department of Political Economy. He served as Commissioner for the Alberta Government on banking and credit with respect to the industry of agriculture in 1922. He was a member of the Royal Grain Inquiry Commission, Canada, 1923-1924. He left the University of Alberta in 1929 to become a member of the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners, a post he held until his retirement in 1949. In 1930 he was attached to the Canadian delegation to Imperial Conference, London; in 1932 he served the same role at the imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932. After his retirement, he returned to McMaster University to teach part-time. Among his many writings, MacGibbon published two definitive books on the grain trade: The Canadian Grain Trade (1932) and The Canadian Grain Trade, 1931-1951 (1952). He died in Hamilton, Ont. on 10 October 1969.
Scope and Content
Item is Duncan Alexander MacGibbon's Bachelor of Arts degree (1908) from McMaster University.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Duncan Alexander MacGibbon fonds (McMaster University Archives.)
Language Note
Diploma is in Latin, although liberties have been taken with the language, particularly in the case of names.
Storage Range
Oversized drawer 2
Related Material
Duncan Alexander MacGibbon fonds (McMaster University Archives)
Photograph is looking west southwest approximately from the driveway and shows one of the H-Huts. In this photograph the H-Hut was a science laboratory. It later became Student Services (c. 1980) and was removed from campus in the 1990s.
Notes
The H-Hut running north-south in the background beside the Citzens' Science Building was demolished c. 1987.
Photograph is looking west southwest approximately from the driveway and shows one of the H-Huts. In this photograph the H-Hut was a science laboratory. At one point it also housed the Geology Annex. It later became Student Services (c. 1980) and was removed from campus in the 1990s. McMaster Hall is in the background.
Item is The Quill-Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement given to Trent Gardner Frayne at Homecoming 1990 and in honour of the 80th Anniversary of the Quill.