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