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William A. McDill fonds
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63.5 cm of textual records and published materials
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William A. McDill was a school teacher, author, editor and a UBC graduate (BA 1947; BSc MechEng 1948) who served in the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers. McDill was born August 10, 1913, to William Alexander and Jean Duff (née McLagan) McDill in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Raised and educated in Winnipeg, McDill studied at the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Provincial Normal School. He worked as a schoolmaster in the Technical Branch of the Winnipeg Public School System from 1933 until 1939, receiving a BEd from Colorado A&M College in 1938. He married Dorothy Sarah Wilkinson, a schoolteacher, in 1939. McDill was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Engineers Corps on September 22, 1939, and served in England and France during World War II between 1940 and 1945. After the War, McDill was a student in the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC and received a BA in 1947 and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1948. He went on to receive an MEd (Industrial Education) from Colorado A&M College. McDill also served in the Canadian Army from 1948 to 1965 (undertaking additional training at the Royal Military College of Science in England from 1951-1953), attaining the rank of Major. With Col. A.J. Kerry, MacDill co-wrote The History of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, a two-volume work published in 1962 and 1966. In 1965, he became the Assistant General Secretary at the Engineering Institute of Canada. He served as manager of technical services before retiring in 1975. McDill died in July of 1989.
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The fonds consists of course notes, exams, assignments, lab reports and essays generated by William McDill during his studies at UBC and the Royal Military College of Science in England; textbooks; and material from his professional life. The fonds has been arranged into three series: Biographical Information, Coursework, and Published Materials.
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Fonds donated to the UBC Archives by Professor Moyra McDill in 2007.
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