Abraham Lincoln McCrimmon
An Ontario native, A. L. McCrimmon was McMaster University's fifth chancellor (1911 - 1922). A University of Toronto graduate (BA, MA) and gold metalist in philosophy and logic in 1890, he accepted a teaching post at Woodstock College in 1892, becoming its Principal five years later. In 1904, after completeing an MA in economics and the new discipline of sociology at the University of Chicago, he was appointed to a professorship at McMaster University. Armed with his Chicago credentials, McCrimmon launches new courses in political economy and sociology, adding a course in education by the time he was selected to succeed McKay as Chancellor in 1911.
