University of Manitoba

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The University of Manitoba (established in 1877) is one of four universities in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was the first university ever established in Western Canada.

Contents

1 History
2 Academics
3 Location and size
4 List of Presidents
5 Notable alumni
6 Notable staff
7 Recreation
8 See also
9 External links
10 References

History

The University of Manitoba was created to confer degrees on the three founding colleges. They were:

The Manitoba legislature modified the University Act in 1900, so that the university could do its own teaching. This led to the construction of a building in downtown Winnipeg with a teaching faculty of six scientists as professors. In 1929, the University of Manitoba moved to its current home in the Fort Garry area of Winnipeg.

Academics

In 2005, the University of Manitoba had a total enrollment of approximately 27,000 students (post-grad med: 1.8%, distance: 3.5%, grad: 12%, undergrad: 83%) in 20 faculties.

The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Manitoba Bisons.

The current colleges are:

Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (University College of St. Boniface)
St. John's College
St. Paul's College
St. Andrew's College
University College

Location and size

The main Fort Garry Campus is a complex on the Red River in south Winnipeg. It has an area of 2.74 square kilometres. More than 60 major buildings support the teaching and research programs of the university. In addition, SmartPark is the location of seven buildings leased to research and development programs involving university-industry partnerships.

The Bannatyne Campus in central Winnipeg, adjacent to the Health Sciences Centre, is a complex of 10 buildings for health science education and research in dentistry, medicine, and medical rehabilitation. The faculties of Medicine and Dentistry are located here.

List of Presidents

Administration Building

James Alexander MacLean (1913 - 1934)
Sidney Earle Smith (1934 - 1944)
Henry Percy Armes, acting (1944 - 1945)
Albert William Trueman (1945 - 1948)
Albert Henry S. Gillson (1948 - 1954)
Hugh Hamilton Saunderson (1954 - 1970)
Ernest Sirluck (1970 - 1976)
Ralph Campbell (1976 - 1981)
Arnold Naimark (1981 - 1996)
Emöke J.E. Szathmáry (1997-)

Notable alumni

Izzy Asper, tax lawyer & media magnate (BA - 1953, LLB - 1957, LLM - 1964)
Norman Cantor, Medieval scholar and writer
Monty Hall, television personality, president of Variety Clubs International, Order of Canada BSc
Gary Filmon, Manitoba Premier from 1988 to 1999 (BSc Civil Engineering)
Ovide Mercredi, Aboriginal Canadian leader (LLB - 1977)
Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader (BA - 1981)
S.I. Hayakawa, scholar and professor of semantics
Sam Katz, mayor of Winnipeg from 2004 to present (BA - 1973)
Marshall McLuhan, media guru
W.O. Mitchell, writer
William Norrie, mayor of Winnipeg from 1979 to 1992 (BA - 1950, LLB - 1955)
Leonard Peikoff, philosopher
Clay Riddell, oil tycoon (BSc Honours - 1959)
Louis Slotin, physicist/chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project (BSc - 1932, MSc -1933)
Miriam Toews, novelist
Donald Triggs, vintner, co-founder of Jackson-Triggs (BSc (honours) - 1966)
Marcel Dzama, contemporary artist - (1997)
Israel Idonije, Defensive Tackle for the Chicago Bears
Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
Vic Toews, a Canadian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
George Montegu Black II, a noted businessman, father of Conrad Black
Francis Lawrence Jobin, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
William John McKeag, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Dufferin Roblin, former Premier of Manitoba
Mitchell Sharp, former Liberal Minister of Finance
Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Waldron Fox-Decent, mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman
Adele Wiseman, author
Bill Mason, author, filmmaker, environmentalist
Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
Frank Pickersgill, a war hero, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
Danny Finkleman, former CBC radio host
Marshall Rothstein, judge, Supreme Court of Canada
Steven Fletcher, a Canadian politician, serving in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004
James Lunney, a Canadian politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni
Allan Levine, a Canadian author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing
Gad Horowitz, Canadian Political Scientist, coiner of the term Red Tory
Ed Evanko, a Canadian actor and singer
Richard Spink Bowles, a lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Harold Buchwald, a Canadian lawyer
Don Callis, a Canadian former professional wrestler
Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada
Gerry Ducharme, a politician and a cabinet minister in the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1995
John Alexander Hopps, is the Canadian inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker and is known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"
F. Ross Johnson, a noted businessman
David Kilgour, a lawyer and the former Minister of Transport
Pearl McGonigal, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
Arnold Naimark, a Canadian physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba
Barry Posner, a professor of McGill University, a Canadian physician and research scientist known for his diabetes research, specifically his peptide hormone research
Patricia Alice Shaw, a linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
Robert Steen, former Mayor of Winnipeg from 1977 to 1979
Alan Lowe, Mayor of Victoria (BC)
Inky Mark, federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba

Notable staff

Klaus Klostermaier, F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus, Scholar of Indian Studies
Guy Maddin, Film director and former Professor
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Professor
Ron Duhamel, a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator
Waldron Fox-Decent, a professor, mediator and advisor on constitutional issues and labour relations
Bill Norrie, a former mayor of Winnipeg and the Chancellor of the University of Manitoba
Gary Doer, one of the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba
Robert Kroetsch, acclaimed poet and novelist.

Recreation

The University of Manitoba offers several recreational programs year-round, including a well-established swimming program, adult classes and numerous summer for children.

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