Table of contents
- Council
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Members
- AOE - Members - Audrey McFarlane
- AOE - Members - Honourable Claudette Tardif
- AOE - Members - James Angus Watt
- AOE - Members - James Carter
- AOE - Members - Joe Lukacs
- AOE - Members - Max Foran
- AOE - Members - Stella Thompson
- AOE - Members - The Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper
- AOE - Members - Rosella Bjornson
- AOE - Members - Gary W. Bowie Ph.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Wayne Chiu CM, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Anne Fanning Binder CM, MD, FRCPC
- AOE - Members - Barry Bultz PhD
- AOE - Members - k.d. lang OC
- AOE - Members - David Bissett LLB, CFA, BBA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David Manz PhD, P.Eng
- AOE - Members - J. Stephens Allan FCA, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Linda Hughes LLD (Hon), D.Litt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jack C. Donald BBA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Marie L. Gordon K.C.
- AOE - Members - Sheldon Kennedy OC, OM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Solomon J. Rolingher QC, JD
- AOE - Members – Sharon Dawn Carry MCS, B.App.Sc. (Hon), BBA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Allan Wachowich QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dennis M. Erker MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Douglas Eaglesham CD
- AOE - Members - Leroy Little Bear JD, DAS (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Rev. James L. Holland OMI
- AOE - Members - Tony Cashman CD
- AOE - Members - F. Morris Flewwelling CM, BA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Fil Fraser CM, DLitt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Michael Massey B.Mus, Dip.V.
- AOE - Members - Ralph Young MSM, P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert Hironaka PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Roger Gibbins PhD, FRSC LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Steve E. Hrudey D.Sc., FRSC, FCAE, FSRA, FEC, FGC (Hon), P.Eng, D.Sc (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Colin Glassco MBA
- AOE - Members - Douglas O. Goss QC
- AOE - Members - Patricia Blocksom K.C.
- AOE - Members - Paulette Patterson
- AOE - Members - R.C. (Reg) Basken
- AOE - Members - Roger C. Jackson OC, PhD, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Stan G.P. Grad Eng, B.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Vivian Manasc AAA, MBA, FRAIC
- AOE - Members - David P. Werklund LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Philip John Currie PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - George W. Govier OC ScD PEng FCIM LLD (Hon) ScD (Hon) D.Eng (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Irving Kipnes B.Sc. LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jacob H. Masliyah OC, PhD, FRSC, FCAE, FCIC, P.Eng., NAE, DSc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Julia Hamilton B.Ed., BA
- AOE - Members - Martin Cohos B.Arch., LLD (Hon), P.Eng. (Applied, Hon), FRAIC
- AOE - Members - Shirley Penner M.Mus, ARCT
- AOE - Members - Bill Yuill LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bruce W. Hogle CM
- AOE - Members - Frits Pannekoek PhD, D.Litt. et Phil. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Griffin Lloyd PEng, PGeol
- AOE - Members - James A. Marshall
- AOE - Members - Ralph Philip Klein
- AOE - Members - Shirzad Ahmed BA, LLB
- AOE - Members - Wilton Littlechild IPC, CM, FP, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Clare Drake BPE, B.Ed., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Ernest Preston Manning CC
- AOE - Members - HCol (Ret’d) Frederick P. Mannix OC, CD, LLD (Hon), Bcomm
- AOE - Members - Henry J. Bergen CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Hon. A. Anne McLellan PC, OC, LLM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice Eisenhauer BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice McTighe
- AOE - Members - Walter Paszkowski
- AOE - Members - Catherine M. Roozen BComm LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Hays CM, MD, FCFP, CCFP
- AOE - Members - Eric Rajah
- AOE - Members - Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell
- AOE - Members - Louise Annette Miller CM, MBA
- AOE - Members - Lt. General Donald C. Laubman DFC, CD
- AOE - Members - Reinhard Mühlenfeld
- AOE - Members - Ron Southern CC, CBE, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - William H. Bowes
- AOE - Members - Allan P. Markin B.Sc., P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Aritha van Herk MA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Howard V. Gimbel M.D., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Evelyn L. Buckley RN, DD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert. C. Westbury CM PhD LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sister Helen Hengel M Ed.
- AOE - Members - William H. Wilson OMM CStJ CD
- AOE - Members - William J. Mooney B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Bernadette McDonald BA, BM
- AOE - Members - Chief Victor S. Buffalo
- AOE - Members - Dr. David W. Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS
- AOE - Members - Reza Nasseri P.Eng.
- AOE - Members - Sister Rosaleen Zdunich B.Ed, M. Sc.
- AOE Members - Dr. Norbert R. Morgenstern D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Gordon Towers
- AOE - Members - Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman OC, B.Sc., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David W. Leonard Ph.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor O.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Kenneth Sauer CM, CD, Ed.D, BAPE, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert D. Steadward OC, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Alex Janvier CM, RCA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Barrie Strafford FRCPSC, KSS, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond Lemieux O.C., D.Sc., F.R.S
- AOE - Members - Gary William (Wilcox) McPherson CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - JR Shaw OC, BA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Peter Lougheed C.C., P.C., K.C.
- AOE - Members - Douglas H. Mitchell CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Arthur T. Jenkyns C.M.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Maxwell William Ward O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Harold (Hal) Wyatt CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Thomas J. Walsh CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. C. Fred Bentley PhD
- AOE - Members - Margaret E. Southern L.V.O., C.M., B.P.E.
- AOE - Members - Patrick R. Nixon CM
- AOE - Members - Dr. James H. Gray CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Ronald Martland C.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Alexander Johnston M.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark PC, MP
- AOE - Members - Barbara Poole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Mary Percy Jackson O.C., Ch.B., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Alvin Gerald Libin OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester A. Ronning OC, CC
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Carter Callaghan O.C., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Dr. David S. R. Leighton
- AOE - Members - Leonard Kane Haney C.M.
- AOE - Members - M. Ann McCaig B.Ed., LLD
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Helen Hunley
- AOE - Members - Dr. Walter Hugh Johns O.C.
- AOE - Members - Eric Patrick Newell OC, M.Sc., LLD
- AOE - Members - Herbert Thomas Hargrave
- AOE - Members - Bryan Perkins B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Esther Robins C.M., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Winnifred M. Stewart O.C., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Senator The Honourable Ernest Charles Manning CC, PC
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Dr. J. W. Grant MacEwan O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. G. Richard A. Rice C.M., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - John Poole
- AOE - Members - Ron Sakamoto LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Thomas Benjamin Banks O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Katie Ohe RCA, MFA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert Bertram Church PhD
- AOE - Members - Dr. William A. Cochrane OC, MD, FRCPC, FACP, DABP, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Malcolm S. Sissons BA
- AOE - Members - Bertha (Berdie) Fowler
- AOE - Members - Muriel Stanley Venne CM, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert W. Chapman Sr.
- AOE - Members - Donald F. Mazankowski PC, OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Gerald Warren Hankins MD, B.Sc., FRCS, FRCSC
- AOE - Members - Frances E. Wright BA, BJ, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Richard F. Haskayne OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Audrey Attril Morrice LLD
- AOE - Members - Beckie Scott OC, MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess OC, BA, DFA (Hon) LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Steven Kyaw Htut Aung MD, PHD, OMD, FAAFP
- AOE - Members - Harry Hole B.Sc., P.Eng., FCAE, CD, LL.D (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bonnie D. DuPont M.Ed., F.ICD.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Elsie Kawulych B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - James Deverell Horsman CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - James Kenneth Gray
- AOE - Members - James Simpson Palmer CM, QC, LLB
- AOE - Members - Louis Armand Desrochers CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Colonel (Retired) Donald Stewart Ethell OMM, MSC, CD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert E. Burrell MSC, PhD, FCAHS, FNAI
- AOE - Members - Hon. Samuel Sereth Lieberman CD, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jenny Belzberg CM
- AOE - Members - John Murrell
- AOE - Members - Leonard Peter Ratzlaff DMA
- AOE - Members - Ronald Neil Mannix B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - Donald Ross Getty OC, HBA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester R. Cunningham CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond V. Rajotte MSM, PhD, P.Eng., FRCPSC, FRCS
- AOE - Members - Father Charles Michael McCaffery M.Sc.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Norman L. Kwong
- AOE - Members - Dr. D. Lorne J. Tyrrell MD, PhD, FRCP
- AOE - Members - Dr. Matthew Warren Spence OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Harley Norman Hotchkiss O.C., B.Sc. P.Geol., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Stanley George Reynolds CM
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Lois E. Hole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Shirley M. Stinson MNA, EdD, LLD
- AOE - Members - Ian Malcolm Macdonald
- AOE - Members - Ian Tyson OC, D Litt (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - June Louise Lore B.Sc.N.
- AOE - Members - Arthur Ryan Smith
- AOE - Members - Dr. A. Ernest Pallister O.C., B.Sc., P.Geoph., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sandy Auld Mactaggart O.C., M.B.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Donald Russell Stanley S.D., P.Eng., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Snow LL.D., R.C.A., A.S.A.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Stanley A. Milner B.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable H.A. "Bud" Olson
- AOE - Members - Dr. Francis G. Winspear O.C., F.C.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Isabel Huston O.C., M.D., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Frank Lynch-Staunton
- Abbreviations and post nominals
- AOE - Members - Salma Lakhani
- AOE - Members - Ed Stelmach
- AOE - Members - Lena Russell
- AOE - Members - Cam Tait
- AOE - Members - Cor Van Raay
- AOE - Members - Holger Petersen
- AOE - Members - Art Froehlich
- AOE - Members - Greg Powell
- AOE - Members - John Mah
- AOE - Members - Cheryl Foggo
- AOE - Members - Frances Harley
- AOE - Members - Merle Olson
- AOE - Members - Barb Olson
- AOE - Members - Charlie Fischer
- AOE - Members - Eleanor Chiu
- AOE - Members - Elizabeth Cannon
- AOE - Members - Jim Boucher
- AOE - Members - Murray McCann
- AOE - Members - Cyril Kay
- AOE - Members - JudyLynn Archer
- AOE - Members - Robert Brawn
- AOE - Members - Joan Donald
- AOE - Members - Maureen Bianchini Purvis
- History and investiture ceremony
- Nominate an Albertan
Dr. John Harold Thomas Snow was a man of rare accomplishment. He excelled in not one but two entirely different occupations: fine art and finance.
The artist-banker was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1911. As a young boy, his family moved to England, where they remained during the First World War. Under the influence of his artistic relatives, Dr. Snow developed an enduring interest in art and music.
In 1919, Dr. Snow returned to Canada and settled in Olds. On August 3, 1928, he joined the Royal Bank of Canada and began a distinguished banking career that would last 43 years. The only interruption was to serve as a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force during World War II. Tours of duty in Great Britain, India and Northern Africa provided opportunities for him to visit some of the world’s great museums, which would profoundly influence his art and his life.
After the war, Dr. Snow returned to Calgary, where he resumed his careers in banking and art. Influenced by the modernist European approaches he was exposed to during the war, Dr. Snow evoked the Prairie experience in a startlingly new, contemporary way in his art.
His desire to make art accessible to persons of all means drew Dr. Snow to printmaking. Encouraged by Glen Alps, a printmaker with the University of Washington in Seattle, Dr. Snow and a friend, architect Maxwell Bates, bought two presses and began to explore fine-art lithography. No one in Alberta was producing fine-art lithography at the time, so the two men essentially taught themselves. Not only did they become proficient, but they soon mastered the art form. Alberta is now regarded internationally as a printmaking centre, in large part due to the pioneering work of Dr. Snow.
Dr. Snow’s prints have been described as “moody and rich-hued”, and “varied and venturesome.” He himself has said of his work that “colouring is of primary importance.” Dr. Snow has been called “a central figure in Canadian art” who helped usher Alberta into the modernist period - not by imitating foreign styles but by inventing a vocabulary unique to the province. He is praised for his generosity, approachability, and gentleness - qualities that have made him a mentor to new generations of artists.
Dr. Snow retired from the banking world in 1971, as assistant manager of Calgary’s main branch. Some of his works are proudly displayed in the bank’s head office in Montreal.
A man with wide-ranging interests and talents, he has been an active member of artistic communities throughout Western Canada. Besides maintaining a prolific career in the visual arts, he organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s and served as its president. He is also an accomplished musician and has designed many sets for television and theatre. Dr. Snow was instrumental in creating the New Works Calgary Society. Now in its eleventh season, the society, which is dedicated to presenting new compositions, has premiered eighty pieces of music, many commissioned by the society.
Dr. Snow’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout Canada. His work has also been shown in the U.S., Japan, France, England, Chile, Mexico, Italy, Scotland, and Australia, and has been commissioned by such agencies as the Royal Canadian Academy, Parks Canada, the City of Calgary and Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton. It also hangs in the National Gallery of Canada, the residence of the Governor General of Canada and Alberta’s Government House in Edmonton.