Career
In 1893, he became a lecturer in mathematics at McGill University, and received an M.A. in Mathematics in 1896. He received a D.Sc. degree in 1903 and was promoted to associate professor of mathematics. In 1906, he set up the McGill University College of British Columbia which was absorbed into the University of British Columbia in 1915. From 1908 to 1929, he was the first President of the University of Alberta.
During World War I, Tory, initially somewhat reluctantly, became a Colonel in the Canadian Forces in 1916. After a tour of the front lines in France he returned to England and proceeded to set up and run what came to be known as the Khaki University, enrolling over 50,000 Canadian student soldiers by the end of the Great War.
Tory returned to Alberta in 1919, and resumed his position as President of the University of Alberta. Nearing retirement, on June 1, 1928, he accepted an appointment as the first President of the Council and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Laboratories (which was later called the National Research Council of Canada). From 1939 to 1940, he was president of the Royal Society of Canada.
From 1942, until his death in 1947, he was the first president of Carleton College (which was later became Carleton University).
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