David Strangway

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David Strangway
Strangway at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Science and Technology conference in 2011
1st President of Quest University Canada
Preceded by	NA
Succeeded by	Dr. David J. Helfand
11th President of the University of Toronto
In office 1983–1984
Preceded by	James Milton Ham
Succeeded by	George Connell
President & Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia
In office 1985–1997
Preceded by	Robert H. T. Smith
Succeeded by	Martha Piper
Personal details
Born	David William Strangway (1934-06-07)7 June 1934 Simcoe, Ontario
Died	13 December 2016(2016-12-13) (aged 82)
Residence	Canada
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Profession	Academic, College administrator

David William Strangway, OC FRSC (7 June 1934 – 13 December 2016) was a Canadian geophysicist and university administrator. Strangway was the founder, first President and first Chancellor of Quest University Canada, a private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia which opened in September 2007. He was President Emeritus of the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia.