- George Gilmour
Professor George Peel Gilmour B.A, M.A, Ph.D. (1900 - 1963) was a Canadian university president. He was chancellor of
McMaster University from 1941 to 1949, serving under the title of president and vice-chancellor. He retired in 1961. Gilmour Hall, the office of the registrar at McMaster University is named after him.Born in Hamilton,
Ontario ,Canada he received all three degrees from McMaster and did post-graduate work at Oxford and Yale.During his lifetime, he held positions in the Baptist Convention in Ontario and
Quebec and was president of theCanadian Council of Churches from 1946 to 1948.He was named citizen of the year by the City of Hamilton in 1950. Dr. Gilmour received eight honorary degrees.
References
[http://studentaffairs.mcmaster.ca/parents/newsletter/jan2005.htm Gilmour Hall]
Contact 6 (9 May 1975); Jubilee 50: McMaster in Hamilton 1930-1980, p. 25;
The Silhouette , 19 January 1957.W.S.W. McLay, C.W. New and G.P. Gilmour. 'McMaster University, 1890-1940' (Hamilton, 1940)
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