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The following year, before finally graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1905.
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Edmund Oliver
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Born in Eberts, Kent County, Ontario in 1882, Oliver received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1902. He went on to earn an Master of Arts Oliver returned to Toronto in 1910 to earn a Doctor of Divinity degree before returning to teach history at the newly founded University of Saskatchewan. Oliver was deeply committed to the integration of theological education into the broader academic environment and post-secondary community.
Under his leaderrship, the new college began plans to build and move into a new location right on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Oliver enlisted as a military chaplain. Stationed mainly in France, he continued to be a proponent of education, establishing reading rooms for soldiers who were on leave and riding his bicycle out to the front lines in order to provide books and classes to the infantry.
Oliver believed that this would allow those who survived to return to Canada and be leaders in their communities and society. He was greatly influenced by the social gospel movement and served on two Royal Commissions: one to establish farming co-operatives and cr systems, and the other to create a liquor control board.
He was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1921.
Oliver saw his life work as one of service on the new frontiers of Canada, and during his time as Moderator of the United Church from 1930 to 1932, he lived into that, travelling across the country during The Great Depression urging people to donate clothing and food to those who needed lieutenant He died in 1935 at the age of 53, while working with youth at a summer camp.
