Accession UAA-1986-041 - UAA-1986-041

Hazel McCuaig (nee Rutherford) was the daughter of the first premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford. She was born in 1893 in Kemptville, Ontario, but the family later moved to Edmonton, Alberta. She married Stanley Harwood McCuaig, with whom she had four children. Hazel McCuaig was a benefactor of the University of Alberta, from which she received an honorary degree in 1964. Other groups which have benefitted from her participation are the Y.W.C.A., the Women's Canadian Club, the Old Timers' Association and the Edmonton Archives Board. She passed away in 1992.