USask history articles

Short articles collected from multiple sources including On Campus News, digital exhibits, and original writing by UASC researchers.

Check the bibliography of secondary sources for more USask history sources.


Title Time Period Subject category Source
"The Unashamed" [Saskatoon Literary and Reading Club] 1931-1964 Social history On Campus News, 11 February 2011
"They have big ideas and risk everything" [W.C. Murray and establishing the uni… 1908 General history On Campus News, 1 November 1996
"We would do so with joy" [Gerhard Herzberg] 1933-1945 Biography On Campus News, 29 March 1996
1925 Engineering Building fire 1925 Buildings On Campus News, 18 October 1996
1933 Sheaf hypes 'rugby' game between Huskies and 'mighty' Regina Roughriders 1933 Sports On Campus News, 17 November 1995
8-Point Farewell [Eight-Point Grading System] 1985 Teaching On Campus News, 4 November 2011
A Bowl Full of History [College Building and Bowl] 1913, 1923 Buildings On Campus News, 27 February 2009
A Campus Proposal [Campus Development and Construction] 1961 Buildings On Campus News, 13 September 2013
A Man Undaunted [John Fraser, Influenza Pandemic, Spanish Flu] 1914-1918 Biography On Campus News, 16 March 2012
A member of the Board [Levi Thomson] 1908-1932 General history On Campus News, 14 November 2008
A Mere Detail [Varsity Follies Variety Show, Talking Pictures] 1927 Social history On Campus News, 10 February 2012
A Missing Corner of Campus [Demolished Campus Buildings] 1959 Buildings On Campus News, 23 April 2010
A New Link to the City [University Bridge] 1926 General history On Campus News, 26 February 2010
A portrait of Miss Murray [Christina Cameron Murray] 1917-1941 Biography On Campus News, 3 October 2008
A Question of Taste [F. C. Cronkite, Crime Comics] 1949 Social history On Campus News, 2 March 2012
A Woman of Note [Edith Rowles] 1932-1987 Biography On Campus News, 14 January 2011
Accelerator Lab Opens [Linear Accelerator] 1964 Research On Campus News, 9 November 2018
Accomplished Grad [Herb Pinder] 1942-1997 Biography On Campus News, 29 August 2014
Aiming at being thorough [College of Engineering coat of arms] 1934 Colleges/departments On Campus News, 17 October 2008
Allan Cup Finalists [hockey] 1923 Sports On Campus News, 15 March 1996
Along the Nile [Louise Brock, Nursing Sisters] 1915-1917 General history On Campus News, 10 April 2015
An Impressive Front [Chemistry Building] 1924 Buildings On Campus News, 22 January 2010
Ann and Buster [Anne Shaw, John Alexander Malcolm Shaw] 1929-1974 Biography On Campus News, 17 July 2009
Arts Building Opens 1961 Buildings On Campus News, 12 January 2018
Battling Armyworms [A. P. Arnason, Department of Agriculture] 1929 Agriculture On Campus News, 15 April 2011
Betatron History [Department of Physics, Radiation Treatment] 1948-1949 Research On Campus News, 22 November 2013
Big Welcome Week rallies of the late '40s and early '50s [Griffiths inter-varsi… 1940-1950 Students On Campus News, 20 September 1996
Black Panthers 1969 Social history UASC Staff
Bowling Champs [Lawn Bowling, W. J. Rutherford] 1925 Sports On Campus News, 11 April 2014
Campus Construction Begins 1910 Buildings On Campus News, 13 July 2018
Campus Life Circa 1959 [Cereal Chemistry Research; Robert Teed] 1959 Biography On Campus News, 22 October 2010
Campus Radio on the Air 1965 Students On Campus News, 14 December 2018
Card Collection [Nik Semenoff, Art and Art History] 1967-1987 General history On Campus News, 6 December 2013
Celebrating 100 Years [Centennial Lily] 2007 General history On Campus News, 13 April 2018
Cementing a Reputation [Engineering Institute of Canada] 1918 Research On Campus News, 30 July 2010
Certificate in Training [Physical Training, Mary Gladys Moffatt] 1924-1925 Students On Campus News, 10 January 2014
Chemistry (Thorvaldson) Building Opens 1924 Buildings On Campus News, 9 August 2019
Cobalt-60 Therapy Begins [Radiation Treatment] 1951 Research On Campus News, 13 October 2017
Computer Era [Murray Library Addition] 1974 General history On Campus News, 28 January 2011
Criticism and Controversy [The Red Eye, Engineering Student Society] 1979, 1981 Social history On Campus News, 10 October 2014
Dairy Men [Dairy Lab] 1929-1930 Research On Campus News, 9 January 2015
Designing the Bowl [Groundskeeping, Agriculture and Bioresources] 1923, 1999 General history On Campus News, 31 August 2012
Dining With Miss Frank [Winkona Wheelock Frank] 1911-1948 Biography On Campus News, 27 November 2009
Down on the Farm [University Farm] 1920 Agriculture On Campus News, 12 September 2014
Ducks of a 'Particular Good Type' [University Farm, R. K. Baker] 1913-1942 Agriculture On Campus News, 6 February 2009
Early Council [Student Representative Council] 1909, 1918-1919 Students On Campus News, 27 March 2015
Early Veterinarian [Norman Wright] 1881-1953 Biography On Campus News, 11 January 2013
Energetic History [Wind Energy, Department of Agricultural Engineering] 1926-1936 Research On Campus News, 9 September 2011
Entering the Computer Age [IBM Optical Mark Recognition System] 1966 General history On Campus News, 18 November 2011
Ernest Wynne "Joe" Griffiths 1920-1967 Biography On Campus News, 29 November 1996