Our evolving campus
1957 Aerial View
This aerial view of the University of Saskatchewan campus and the surrounding city was taken in 1957, and shows a College Drive that has yet to be widened.
Beaver Creek
This 1947 photo shows university shepherd John Eastman and sheep crossing a bridge over Beaver Creek.
University of Vimy Ridge
Pictured here is a University of Vimy Ridge sign used at the front in France. The original sign can be found in Dr. Edmund Henry Oliver’s papers, MG6.
Tractor Laboratory
This image is one of five photos purchased for the University Archives by the Engineering Trust Fund in 2008.
Exam Reader
For many in the 1960s and ’70s their first contact with the age of computers was the Optical Mark Recognition system, also called Optical Mark Reading and OMR.
...of What Once Was
This corner of the campus no longer looks the same as it did in 1959, when the photo was taken. In fact, all the buildings pictured here are gone.
The Great Land Swap of 1956
The university and the City of Saskatoon in 1956 completed negotiations on a land swap that would change the future development of both.
Justice & Webb Landscape Architects
This photo is one of a series of campus photographs in the University Archives taken in the late 1950s by Justice & Webb Landscape Architects of Vancouver.
Murray Museum of Pathology
The University of Saskatchewan became home to the world’s first photographic museum of pathology in May 1950.
University Pool
For five decades the pool in the basement of Qu'Appelle Hall was a centre for campus recreation.
University Ski Jump
The old wooden ski jump was located on the east side of the riverbank, just south of the weir. The clubhouse is on the right. This view is from the top of the jump as a skier jumps onto the frozen river.
Fire Destroys Engineering Building
1924-1925 was a dark year for the University of Saskatchewan, marred by death, accident, disease and fire.
Early Campus Postcard
This campus postcard from circa 1912 features five recently completed buildings.
1911 Official Map of Saskatoon
Depicted here is a section or detail of the 1911 Official Map of Saskatoon that shows the campus and surrounding city. Much of what appears on the map is proposed development.