Bill Godfrey Remembered

Professor Bill Godfrey was remembered in his hometown newspaper, the Waterloo Record:

At his core Bill Godfrey was a scholar and a teacher, a man who lived and breathed history. Even during vacations Bill dove into books related to his chosen fields of American colonial and Atlantic Canadian history.

In a eulogy, colleague Hans vanderLeest recalled Bill frequently musing about Kitchener. "His love for that part of Ontario was always evident, as could be seen in the standing order he had for any friends who were travelling there to bring back pigtails for him, even if they had to be packed in a cooler for a three-day drive to Sackville."

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