Thomas Hilliard Wholton LLD, CDA
Inducted In
1976
Thomas Hilliard Wholton, born in Hamilton, and a graduate of Queen’s University, pioneered in the educational field in Canada. He joined the Galt Collegiate Institute as a science teacher in 1923 and was principal from 1925 to 1959.
His school was one of the first to employ a full-time qualified librarian; the first in Canada to teach traffic safety; the first to grant a specialist’s certificate in guidance and one of the first to experiment in advanced technical evening classes and industrial Grade XIII.
Active in drama locally, provincially and nationally, in 1942 he was awarded the Canadian Drama Award for Ontario for his services to drama, including the Dominion Drama Festival and the Western Ontario Festival.
He also served the Family Service Bureau, the Civic Service Club, the Eugenics Society of Canada, and was a Regent of Renison College. In 1952 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Queen’s University.