Sidney Richard Macgillivray
| Sidney Richard MacGillivray | |
|---|---|
| Richard MacGillivray; Dick | |
| Born | 1939-07 Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Died | 2020-06-07 Arnprior, Ontario |
| Occupation | professor of English |
| Employer | Lakehead University |
| Father | |
| Mother | |
| Partner | |
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Sidney Richard MacGillivray (died 7 June 2020) was a Canadian professor of English literature who was a founding member of the faculty of Lakehead University and taught there for more than 39 years. He was known as Richard or Dick.[1]
Life and career
MacGillivray was born in July 1939 in Saint John, New Brunswick, the only child of Sidney and Eva Turcotte (née McCutcheon). He graduated from Saint John High School in 1957 and earned a BA and MA in English literature at the University of New Brunswick. In 1963 he took a position as a sessional lecturer at the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology in Port Arthur and so became a founding member of the faculty when it became Lakehead University; he completed his doctorate at the University of Alberta. He remained in the English department for over 39 years, known for dry wit, for relating literature to the present, and for useful work on committees and governing bodies. His published work was modest in quantity but admired for its clarity and originality.[1]
Death and family
He died on 7 June 2020, aged 80, at the Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital in Arnprior, Ontario, with a service planned for later and donations suggested to the Northern Cancer Fund of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation.[1]
He was survived by his wife of 58 years, Nancy, and his companion of recent years, Betty; his children Keith (with Hilary), Lisa (with Evan) and Blair (with Renee); grandchildren Olivia, Abigail, Maggie, Erin, Owen, Liam and Grace; and his uncle Everett, aged 95, of Toronto.[1]
Other records
An obituary-index entry dated 20 June 2020 lists this person.[2]
Membership in the retirees' association
The "Who are we?" list of members printed in the June 2009 issue of RALU News includes this person, which shows membership in the Retirees' Association of Lakehead University by then.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Entry for Richard MacGillivray (Dick), "In Memoriam", Retirees' Association of Lakehead University, https://www.lakeheadretirees.ca/in-memoriam/ (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
- ↑ The Chronicle-Journal, 20 June 2020, p. 2(D)
- ↑ "Who are we? A listing of members", PDF pp. 7–8, RALU News, vol. 1, no. 3 (June 2009), Retirees' Association of Lakehead University. Archived copy on datum.locker (original PDF listed at the association's archived newsletters page).