Short answers, pulled from the story.
The University of Saskatchewan was established on the 19th of March 1907 when the provincial legislature of Saskatchewan passed an Act to create the institution. This legislation incorporated the university as a publicly funded but independent entity modeled after the American state university system.
The University of Saskatchewan is located in Saskatoon on a 1,300-acre campus with an additional 1,000 acres allocated for Innovation Place Research Park. The site was officially chosen on the 7th of April 1909 after a vote that saw Saskatoon defeat other lobbying cities including Regina and Battleford.
The University of Saskatchewan constructed the world's first non-commercial cobalt-60 therapy unit in 1951 which revolutionized cancer treatment. Sylvia Fedoruk was a member of the research team that developed this facility and later became the first female chancellor of the university.
Walter Murray served as the first president of the board of governors for the University of Saskatchewan. The university admitted its first 70 students on the 28th of September 1909 shortly after the site selection in Saskatoon.
The Memorial Gates erected in 1927 bear the inscriptions of the names of 67 university students and faculty who lost their lives while on service during the Great War. Of the 342 students, faculty, and staff who enlisted for World War I, 100 were wounded and 33 were awarded medals of valour.
The Canadian Light Source facility opened on the 22nd of October 2004 as the site of Canada's national facility for synchrotron light research. This facility is the size of a football field and is considered one of the largest and most innovative investments in Canadian science.