Oates C.S. Wallace
1856–1947

An ordained Baptist minister who had filled several pulpits in the mid–west and New England, he was McMaster’s third Chancellor, serving in that office from 1895 to 1905. An honours graduate of Acadia University, he had pursued graduate work there and at Newton Seminary in Massachusetts. Before his McMaster appointment he was popular pastor of Toronto’s Bloor Street Church. His well–received services there and his accomplishments as an athlete made a marked impression on the younger generation in the pews. This probably played a role in his being appointed Chancellor. Among other initatives, he organized the University’s first alumni conference in 1901, a reflection of his aim to keep in active touch with McMaster’s already far’flung community of graduates.