Official Opening: H. Sanford Riley Centre for Canadian History

The Riley Centre, located in Bryce Hall on the main campus of UWinnipeg, brings together in one location associations and organizations committed to researching the history of Canada from its Indigenous and colonial times to the present. All the associations and organizations connected to the Riley Centre are committed to sharing their knowledge of Canada’s history with their academic colleagues and with community and high school audiences.

The Riley Centre forms the umbrella for Canada’s National History Society, which publishes the popular, national Beaver magazine; the new international Oral History Centre; the Chair in German Canadian Studies; Chair in Mennonite Studies; the Plett Foundation; the H. Sanford Riley Fellowship in Canadian History; the Centre for the Teaching of Manitoba History; Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies; and Canadian Oral History Association.

Winnipeg’s Pollard Family, Lawrie Pollard (UW Collegiate Class of ’46) and Gordon Pollard (UW Class of ’80) are making a generous gift of $500,000 to the University’s “World of Opportunity Capital Campaign”, dedicating $250,000 of this to the further development of the new H. Sanford Riley Centre for Canadian History.

The Riley Centre is named after H. Sanford Riley, President & CEO of Richardson Financial Group Limited, in recognition of his many contributions to the Centre from its inception to the present. Sandy Riley has a long standing interest in Canadian history and has served and continues to serve on the boards of organizations dedicated to the promotion of Canadian history. The H. Sanford Riley Fellowship in Canadian History is funded by a generous donation from Sandy Riley to The University of Winnipeg.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Diane Poulin, Communications Officer, The University of Winnipeg
P: 204.988.7135, E: d.poulin@uwinnipeg.ca