Long-term partner bolsters Concordia

“This endowment is to maintain what the university has built — and help it grow and expand,” adds Davidson, who also serves as the chair of the Concordia University Foundation and was previously one of the university’s governors.   

The foundation earmarked an additional $100,000 from a different endowment in support of Concordia’s budding athletic talent — specifically the Stingers women’s hockey.

Concordians may best know the Webster name from the R. Howard Webster Library, located in the J.W. McConnell Building on Concordia’s Sir George Williams Campus.

“The foundation has supported the university for years,” says Davidson, who has worked with the Webster family for over three decades.

The foundation has notably contributed to the Loyola Athletic Complex, scholarships for student athletes, scholarships for undergraduate and doctoral students as well as several academic and research initiatives.

R. Howard Webster, who passed away in 1990, was chairman of The Imperial Trust Company and at one point owned The Globe and Mail. Over the past three decades, his foundation has contributed more than $135 million to various causes throughout Canada.