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2 unusual facts about Colin B. Mackay


Colin Mackay

Colin B. Mackay (1920–2003), president of the University of New Brunswick, 1953–1969

University of New Brunswick

This prompted Lord Beaverbrook, as Chancellor, and UNB President Colin B. Mackay, to permanently move the Saint John Law School to the UNB Fredericton campus, despite the Dean's objections.


Donald A. Mackay

His illustrations appeared in Time, LIFE, The New Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and other publications.

John A. Mackay

Mackay joined the Y.M.C.A. as an evangelist and religious teacher moving his family to Montevideo, Uruguay, where the Y.M.C.A. operated a leadership institute.

When he was graduated in 1915, he won a fellowship in didactic and polemic theology, which he used toward studies in Spanish culture at Madrid, Spain, to prepare for missionary work in Latin America.

Mr. Mackay

MacKay went on to be a drill sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and he brings the same manner and expectations of discipline to his job at HMP Slade.

Postage stamps and postal history of Japan

Mackay, James. A. The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting.

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

St Francis Xavier Parish, Mackay

Father Dolan studied for the priesthood at the great missionary college of All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland, and was ordained in 1925.

St Patrick's College, Mackay

Wendell Sailor – dual-code international Rugby League and Rugby Union player and TV personality

Graeme Connors – Country music singer, songwriter, and performer

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.


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