Grant MacEwan

Born: 12 AUG 1902 -- Brandon, Manitoba
Died: 15 JUN 2000 -- Calgary, Alberta
Achievements:
  1. Professor of Animal Husbandry and Director of the School of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan from 1928 to 1946
  2. Dean of Agriculture and Home Economics at the University of Manitoba from 1946 to 1951
  3. Elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary in 1955
  4. Leader of the Liberal Party of Alberta from 1958 to 1960
  5. Mayor of Calgary from 1963 to 1965
  6. Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta from 1966 to 1974
  7. Chairman of Board of Directors of the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation in 1978
  8. Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 1966)
  9. Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Calgary in 196
  10. Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Brandon in 1969
  11. Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Guelph in 1972
  12. Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan in 1974
  13. Order of Canada in 1975
  14. Governor-General's Conservation Award in 1985
  15. First recipient of the Premier's Award For Excellence in 1985
Works:
  1. Breeds of Farm Livestock in Canada (1941)
  2. Feeding of Farm Animals (1945)
  3. The Sodbusters (1948)
  4. Agriculture on Parade: The Story of the Fairs and Exhibitions of Western Canada (1950)
  5. Between the Red and the Rockies (1952)
  6. Eye Opener Bob: The Story of Bob Edwards (1957)
  7. Fifty Mighty Men (1958)
  8. Calgary Cavalcade: From Fort to Fortune (1958)
  9. John Ware's Cow Country (1960)
  10. Blazing the Old Cattle Trail (1962)
  11. Hoofprints and Hitchingposts (1964)
  12. Poking into Politics (1966)
  13. Entrusted to My Care (1966)
  14. Harvest of Bread (1967)
  15. West to the Sea (1968)
  16. Tantanga Mani: Walking Buffalo of the Stonies (1969)
  17. Portrait from the Plains (1969)
  18. Power for Prairie Plows (1971)
  19. Sitting Bull: The Years in Canada (1973)
  20. This is Calgary (1973)
  21. Battle for the Bay (1975)
  22. And Mighty Women Too: Stories of Notable Western Canadian Women (1975)
  23. Memory Meadows: Horse Stories from Canada's Past (1976)
  24. Cornerstone Colony: Selkirk's Contribution to the Canadian West (1977)
  25. The Rhyming Horseman of the Qu'Appelle: Captain Stanley Harrison (1978)
  26. Pat Burns: Cattle King (1979)
  27. Grant MacEwan's Illustrated History of Western Canadian Agriculture (1980)
  28. Métis Makers of History (1981)
  29. Charles Noble: Guardian of the Soil (1983)
  30. Wildhorse Jack: The Legend of Jack Morton (1983)
  31. Marie Anne: The Frontier Adventures of Marie Ann Lagimodiere (1984)
  32. French in the West (1984)
  33. Frederick Haultain: Frontier Statesman of the Canadian Northwest (1985)
  34. Grant MacEwan's Journals (1986)
  35. Heavy Horses: Highlights of Their History (1986)
  36. He Left Them Laughing When He Said Good-bye: The Life and Times of Frontier Lawyer Paddy Nolan (1987)
  37. Colonel James Walker: Man of the Western Frontier (1989)
  38. Grant MacEwan's West: Sketches from the Past (1990)
  39. Coyote Music, and Other Humorous Tales of the Early West (1993)
  40. Buffalo-Sacred and Sacrificed (1995)