Hugh Makepeace

In 2009, my dad, Hugh Makepeace (1926-2017), was awarded (along with 15 others) the CAUT Milner Memorial Award. The award is given for significant contributions to the cause of academic freedom. Recipients of the 2009 award had resigned to protest the firing, in 1958, of Harry S. Crowe, a professor at United College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The article below ran in the Kingston Whig-Standard on 21 Dec 2009 (Click image to Enlarge).

For an overview of the Crowe Case, its background, and its consequences, see the following articles.

The CAUT, the Crowe Case, and the Development of the Idea of Academic Freedom in Canada by Donald C. Savage and Christopher Holmes, in CAUT Bulletin Dec 1975 pp. 22-27 [PDF - 9.8 MB]

The Crowe Affair, The Academic Profession and Academic Freedom by Frank Abbott, in Queen's Quarterly 98/4 (Winter 1991) pp. 818-839 [PDF - 11.3 MB].