death_date successor birth_place office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
05 april 2004 lloyd barber near broadview , saskatchewan 1st president of the university of regina 11 july 1914 1974 john hall archer
 1976 john hall archer
john hall archer

john hall archer , -lrb- july 11 , 1914 -- april 5 , 2004 -rrb- was a canadian librarian , historian , and civil servant , and the first president of the university of regina .
born just south of broadview , saskatchewan , he was a rural school teacher from 1933 to 1940 .
during world war ii , he served with the royal canadian artillery and was discharged with the rank of captain in 1945 .
in 1973 , he was made an honorary colonel .
he receive a bachelor of arts degree in 1947 and a master of arts degree in 1948 from the university of saskatchewan .
in 1949 , he received a bachelor of library science degree from mcgill university .
from 1951 to 1964 , he was the legislative assembly of saskatchewan librarian and from 1956 to 1961 he was the assistant clerk of the legislature .
from 1957 to 1962 , he was the provincial archivist .
from 1962 to 1964 , he was chairman of the committee on continuing education in saskatchewan .
from 1964 to 1967 , he was the director of libraries at mcgill university .
from 1967 to 1970 , he was an archivist and associate professor of history at queen 's university .
he earned his doctor of philosophy degree from queen 's university .
in 1970 , he became the principal of the regina campus of the university of saskatchewan and became the first president of the university of regina in 1974 and served until 1976 .
in 1980 , he wrote the book `` saskatchewan a history '' -lrb- isbn 0-88833-062-6 -rrb- .
in 1980 , he was made an officer of the order of canada .
in 1987 , he was awarded the saskatchewan order of merit .
the dr. john archer library , the university of regina 's main library , is named in his honour .
he was married to alice and had two children : john and mary .
