a century North Saskatchewan o f River Saskatchewan Drive 1 8 Tuck Shop Tree Edinboro Road 9 7 > Centre City to campusV 6 Saskatchewan Drive P 5 11 P maps 3 12 E 116 St 117 St P 25 32 35 13 21 Sheldon’s 92 Ave Plaque 34 37 26 30 33 22 48 36 23 Windsor 55 P 52 Park MAIN 40 42 51 54 44 49 QUAD P Fahlman’s Saskatchewan Drive 53 Tree 91 Ave Lot 700 NN 71 62 63 Garneau’s 45 50 69 Tree CEB 73 90 Ave Mural P Alumni Walk 65 72 66 64 67 East Campus P 74 75 NU 89 61 Stadium Universiade P East Flame Tower UNIVERSITY former Varsity 89 Ave 89 Ave P Celebration RESTRICTED ACCESS STATION Tuck Shop site Stadium Plaza 83 90 South 80 84 87 P 91 94 East Campus 88 82 St. Stephens West & North East88 97 By Ellen Schoeck Mural 110 St P P 95 98 86 89 92 Varsity Physical P P Maps and Design by Dennis Weber, Creative Services Education Z 93 PhysEdE A P East 85 East Campus 87 81 111 St 117 St 116 St 87 Ave 87 Ave 87 Ave 160 132 102 100 M 130 135 112 St P 114 St 133 101 P P 131 103 134 86 Ave 106 P P C R 165 P 104 105 Jubilee Garneau 85 Ave 140 85 P 143 T 117 112 111 HEALTH P SCIENCES K 116 STATION 144 84 Ave 113 142 141 P Clinical EDC Sciences J East P 84 115 J 152 P 170 114 83 Ave 112 P 83 Ave 151 P P 150 122 172 174 112 St L 111 St 121 114 St 82 (Whyte) Ave > to Campus Saint Jean 123 156 120 P 117 St 155 110 St University Ave L 111 St University Ave 81 Ave McKernan 115a St 80 Ave Braithwaite 80 Ave Belgravia 115 St University Ave Park < to South Campus a century o f campus maps By Ellen Schoeck Maps and Design by Dennis Weber, Creative Services © Ellen Schoeck (text) and University of Alberta Creative Services (remade historic maps) 2007 No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any forms or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owners. Dedication from Ellen For past and future graduates, especially Bill Kent (BSC Engg ‘31), who turned 100 on October 19, 2007 and Claire Kerwin (Class of 2024), who turned one year old on the same day – and for Carl Amrhein, who makes books happen. Dedication from Dennis: For staff, since it’s easier to know where we are going when you know where we have been. Published by Creative Services, University of Alberta Creative Services gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Dr. Carl Amrhein, whose research grant supported the remaking and computerization of the campus maps in this book. ISBN: 9786038919088 A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Dr. Lois E. Hole Student Spirit Award 2 contents 4 Foreword 5 Preface 7 River Lot 5 9 1912 Block Plan 11 1912 Calendar Map 13 1913–1929 15 1930s 17 1942–45 19 1948 21 1950s 23 1960s 25 1970s 27 1980s 29 1990s 31 2007 32 Appendix : Selected Campus Buildings & Key Dates 34 Endnotes 35 Bibliography Freshman cap belonging to alumnus Dave Organ (Private Collection, CS 6786-02-008) Cover Brick Image • From the University’s earliest days through the 1930s, students climbed to the roof of St. Stephen’s College and etched their names on the brick walls. • The Superintendent of Residences, Reg Lister, joined in the fun, and the brick on the cover image bears his name. Brick Image (Private Collection) 3 Foreword t is a special pleasure to introduce readers who built this university come alive under the the Arts Building. The story is not in this book – to this unique publication, which celebrates deft pen of author Ellen Schoeck, who spent 37 rather, it is a story Ellen told me, and now I will I100 years since the University of Alberta years on campus as a student and as Director of tell it to you. had a physical home – River Lot 5. What began, the University Secretariat. In the 1970s, when the Arts Building was in 1907, as 258 acres of scrubby poplar bush, is One of my distinct pleasures as Chancellor, being renovated, engineers restoring the roof now a multi-campus university. and before that as Board Chair, was listening to and its underlying wiring were mystified as to In this book, you will have a front-row seat Ellen’s stories about the University’s history and why copper was suddenly replaced by a cheaper to watch the campus develop over the past cen- development in her “Governance 101” seminar. material. Ellen gave me the answer. In the midst tury: first Athabasca Hall and St. Stephen’s Col- These are subjects that might seem pedestrian of constructing the Arts Building, there was a lege, followed by Assiniboia and Pembina Halls, to some, but I can tell you that it is not so: the change in the provincial government, and the the Ring Houses, and the magnificent Arts and lives lived on this campus are nothing short of money earmarked for Arts simply ran out – just Medical buildings. And on we go, until today, amazing. The people who taught, studied and as the building was almost done. President Tory when the people of Alberta can say that their lived here over 100 years are full of get-up-and- traveled to New York City to meet with the first university – the University of Alberta – has go, western-style. They were, and still are, risk- bankers, who agreed to float a loan. The build- one of the finest campuses in North America. takers and innovators. Not much could stop ing was thus completed, but with corners cut Dennis Weber of Creative Services has recre- them – not World War I, not the Great Depres- here and there, including, in all likelihood, the ated and computerized old campus maps that sion, not World War II. And they all have stories materials used for wiring. What’s the lesson? show this development in fascinating detail. to tell. Ellen captured many of those stories in There is always a story to tell. The University of Alberta: A Century of Campus her first book, I Was There: A Century of Alumni Open up this special publication, have fun Maps has been published in large format so that Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906-2006, examining the maps, and enjoy the stories about Dennis’s maps are easy to read and to compare and there are still more alumni stories in A the province’s first university. ❖ with one another. Century of Campus Maps. But the University is much more than its I am an engineer who loves the arts, and so Eric P. Newell, OC, AOE, LLD(Hon), PEng physical campus. It is people, and the people perhaps one of my favourite stories concerns Chancellor, University of Alberta Eric P. Newell Chancellor during the University of Alberta’s Centenary Year. CS 4881-01-54bw 4 Preface1 he remade, computerized campus maps Since the publication of I Was There, many ture provided aerial shots of the campus, sev- in this book were intended to be part of more alumni stories have surfaced, including eral of which have never been published. Craig TI Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories stories from Bill Kent (BSc Engg ’31). Bill turned Moore, Manager of Real Estate and Develop- about the University of Alberta, 1906-2006, but 100 years old this October, and he has shared ment, helped with construction dates. The Uni- could not be included because of the publica- dozens of campus stories with me. Deepest versity of Alberta Archives provided photo- tion schedule. This special book contains those thanks. graphs from their extensive collection – spe- maps and was prepared for Provost Carl Production of many of the maps in this cial thanks to Raymond Frogner, Kevan Warner Amrhein, who supported the project the with his book was begun by Creative Services in 2003 and to Carrie Lunde, who assisted with images, research grant. under the auspices of Senator Claudette editing, proofing and endnotes. In this one-of-a-kind publication, you will Tardif who was, at the time, Acting Vice- Several individuals shared images from their find images of River Lot 5 (the University’s President (External Relations). These maps were private collections, including Denny May, son first home,) the original campus plan created culled from dozens that were researched dur- of the famed bush pilot Wop May, who took the in 1912 by the architectural firm of Nobbs and ing preparation of I Was There from 2001 – 2005. first aerial photo of the campus in1919. Hyde, and several previously unpublished Special thanks to researcher Scott Davies, who Publication of this book in 2007 marks the aerial photographs. You will also see the ori- delved into Archives searching for old maps. 100th anniversary of the provincial government’s ginal 258-acre campus “fill in” with buildings, Dennis Weber of Creative Services painstak- April, 1907 announcement that the new univer- starting with Athabasca and Assiniboia Halls, ingly created new maps from old images. Ray sity would be sited in Strathcona. A few years later, St. Stephen’s College, and the first Ring Houses. Au, Director of Creative Services, oversaw the Strathcona merged with Edmonton, and Edmon- Campus Saint-Jean and Augustana Campus join project.