Joseph B. Clearihue - Canadian Official Photograph: Canal du Nord, France
A "Canadian Official Photograph" depicting the construction of a roadway crossing the Canal du Nord, a dry canal near the Arras front in France, September 1918. Biography: Joseph Badenoch Clearihue was born in Victoria and attended Boys' Central School and Victoria High School before enrolling at Victoria College (graduated in 1903), McGill University and Oxford University. He enjoyed a long career as a student, a soldier in the Fifth Canadian Field Artillery Unit in World War I, a Liberal MLA and Victoria alderman, and as a lawyer before being appointed a county court judge in 1952. He was Chair of the Victoria College Council (1947-63), and guided the College to university status. In January 1962, Clearihue turned the first sod at the construction site of the Clearihue Building, which was the first building on the Gordon head campus. Clearihue was also the first Chancellor of the University of Victoria, and Chair of the Board of Governors (1963-66).
- In Collection:
- 1 black and white photograph
- The famous Canal du Nord showing the construction and cutting across which the Canadians crossed with their supports and supplies.
- 50.29301, 2.78186
- 50.46667, 2.7
- 50.17596, 3.23472
- Official caption on verso.
- Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection
- Accession Number: 1978-027, File: 14.4
- Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/joseph-badenoch-clearihue-fonds
- Date and publisher based on description in Library and Archives Canada MIKAN database. Metadata by M. Parker. Migration metadata by KD.
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