Walter Gage
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Walter Henry Gage, was a Canadian
Canada
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 professor and academic administrator.

Biography

He was with the University of British Columbia
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 for fifty years. He graduated with a B.A. in 1925, an MA in 1926, taught mathematics at Victoria College (1927–1933) and was registrar (1929–1933), taught mathematics (1933–1943), was Dean of Administrative and Inter-Faculty Affairs and Dean of Inter-Faculty and Student Affairs (1948), and was President (1969–1975). He died in 1978.

Walter Gage Residence at the University of British Columbia is named for him.

In 1971, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada
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