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McKegney, Jim
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James C. "Jim" McKegney was a the first professor in the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Arts where he taught Spanish. McKegney was born July 19, 1921 in Newton Butler, Northern Ireland and grew up in Sarnia, Ontario. He studied romance languages at the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1950. He went on to complete an MA at the University of Oregon and a PhD at the University of Washington (1959). McKegney moved with his wife and children to Waterloo, Ontario in 1955 where he taught Romance languages courses at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) for five years before joining the humanities program at the University of Waterloo.
McKegney died unexpectedly October 18, 1981 of a heart attack at age 60 while in Mexico City. He was scheduled to be in the Mexico for six weeks visiting libraries as part of a social sciences and humanities research council grant on early 1800s Mexican publications. At the time of this death, he has compiled a bibliographic database of 11,048 items regarding the independence movement in Mexico between 1789-1828, along with computer tape and extensive research files that included hard copies of more than 1,200 pamphlets. The collection was donated to the University of Toronto by his family in the late 1990s following the death of McKegney's wife in 1997.
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Namesake of Waterloo's J.C. McKegney Memorial Award.
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Created November 2025 by DR.
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- "McKegney, James C." Kitchener-Waterloo Record. October 23, 1981. p. 52.
- Mexican Political Pamphlets 1808-1832 - University of Toronto Digital Collections
- Van Nierop, Martin. "Wife, daugther carry on prof's work". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. August 21, 1982. p. 3.
- "Waterloo prof James McKegney dies in Mexico". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. October 20, 1981. p. 53.