Friday's letters: Credit Methodists for higher education

Re. “150 Influential Albertans,” June 14
While I support the inclusion of Henry Marshall Tory in your listing of important figures in Alberta history, some credit needs to go to the people who brought him to Alberta – Rev. Thomas Buchanan and the people of McDougall Methodist (now United) Church in Edmonton.
With no high school in the area in 1903, the church decided to act and established Alberta College on land next to the church, land that had been bequeathed for educational