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Albert William Trueman, OC, FRSC (January 17, 1902 – June 29, 1988) was a teacher, professor, cultural and university administrator. ==Biography== Though born in the US (his New Brunswick-born father Dr. John Main Trueman〔(Generalogy )〕 taught college in Storrs, Connecticut between 1907 and 1913), he was educated in Canada and Britain. The family lived in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia after 1913, where his father taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.〔A. W Trueman, ''A Second View of Things: A Memoir'', McClelland and Stewart, 1982, p. 13〕 Trueman attended high school in Truro, Nova Scotia and graduated from Mount Allison University in 1927. He finished his Master of Arts degree in English Literature at Exeter College, Oxford University in 1932. He then served as a high school teacher, a school superintendent, and later as a university administrator, serving as President of the University of Manitoba between 1945 and 1948, and President of the University of New Brunswick from 1948 until 1953. He was Principal and Dean of University College at the University of Western Ontario from 1965 until 1967. He was Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1967 until 1971. He returned to academic life and had an extended term as visiting professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa from 1967-1981. He also had a distinguished career as a cultural administrator, first as Government Film Commissioner and Chairman of the National Film Board of Canada from 1953 to 1957, and then as the first Director of the newly created Canada Council for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, serving from 1957- 1965. In these positions, he made major contributions to Canadian cultural policies, primarily by promoting the roles and influence of both agencies. He also served on the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was given many honorary degrees. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1964, and was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1974. He published ''A Second View of Things: A Memoir'' in 1982 (Young, 1985), (Ottawa Citizen, 1988), (Creighton, 1992). His son Peter Trueman, himself a well-known television journalist, remembered his father in the memorial entry for the Royal Society: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Trueman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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