Harry Leonard Sawatzky
Harry Leonard Sawatzky (10 February 1931 – 30 April 2008) was a Canadian scholar in the field of human geography. Sawatzky grew up in a traditional German-speaking Russian Mennonite community in southern Manitoba. He got his BA from the University of Manitoba in 1961. In 1963 he got his MA and in 1967 his PhD, both from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1963 he began his teaching at the University of Manitoba.