Notable Graduates
- Ada Brownrigg received the first Arts degree awarded to a woman in Canada
- Sir William Dawson was a notable geologist and educator
- Frank Parker Day was a well-known Canadian author and English Professor. He became the Academy's first Rhodes Scholar
- Donald L. Grant was a Health Evaluation Division director at Health Canada, and an advisor to the World Health Organization.
- Rear Admiral Leonard Murray was Canada's most important commander during the Battle of the Atlantic
- Charles B. Patterson, author and leader of the Canadian therapeutic movement.
- James McGregor Stewart, prominent corporate lawyer, coal administrator during the Second World War, and founder of the Halifax law firm, Stewart McKelvey.
- Sir W. J. Ritchie later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
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