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William Muir Edwards

100 years ago today, engineering professor William Muir Edwards died at age 39 while caring for those stricken with Spanish flu. Before his death, he also ended a typhoid epidemic in Edmonton by repairing the Strathcona water treatment centre.

Mayor Iveson has declared today William Muir Edwards Day in memory of his service to the city and the university.

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