Browse Anniversaries

This dataset contains important dates in UNB history, taken from a variety of sources. Searching can be done in 5-year increments or can be done for a certain date.

105th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2020:

Entomological Building
  • Date: 1915-11-23
  • Subject(s): Buildings
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904. 334-5
  • Note: "[A]n Entomological brick laboratory [has] been erected by the Dominion Government on the University Grounds near to the Gymnasium building." 13 May 1915: The Dominion Entomologist requests "the privelege [sic] of erecting an Entomological laboratory on University property" (SM 324). Senate approves and Committee appointed.
Officers' Training Corps
  • Date: 1915-01-01
  • Subject(s): Miscellaneous
  • Source: President's Reports 1914-1915, 141
  • Note: Following a General Order from the Militia Department, the University applies for the formation of an officers' training corp. At the time of the President's Report, Chancellor Jones reports that 55 students and 2 professors are enrolled and under the direction of Professor MacDonald (PR (1915): 141). December 1917: Following the lead of other Canadian universities, UNB makes military drill compulsory, requiring that students fulfil 2 years of training before obtaining their degrees. Instruction is to be by Professor Cameron (Professor MacDonald on military leave). 11 Oct 1941: Male students who are British citizens and physically fit must take COTC training -- 2 hours every day, and 2 weeks at the end of the university year. Male and Female students in Engineering and Science are being recruited by the armed forces and industry, with female undergraduates also participating in physical training and first aid work. The COTC's headquarters are in the Beaverbrook Gymnasium (PR 1941 4-6).
Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick - Gold Medal for Athleticism
  • Date: 1915-01-01
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: President's Reports 1914-1915, 141. Alumni Bulletin 5.1 (25 Jun 1927): 10,
  • Note: The President's Report states that Williams-Taylor donated a gold medal for the best all-round athlete (141).

95th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2020:

Electrical Engineering
  • Date: 1925-11-24
  • Subject(s): Departments
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 547.
  • Note: 24 Nov 1925: Senate establishes separate "chair" for Electrical Engineering, previously known as Physics and Electrical Engineering (SM4 547)
Fenwick, the family of Lieutenant George P.O. Fenwick - Window in Memorial Hall
  • Date: 1925-01-01
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: President's Reports (1924-1925) 139
  • Note: The window is to be provided by "Mrs. G.C. VanWart and Miss Fenwick of Fredericton in memory of their brother Lieutenant George P.O. Fenwick of the class of 1902 (PR 1924-25, 139). 19 Nov 1926: The memorial window includes " two handsome panels illustratng the story of Sir Galahad and the Holy Grail, from Tennyson" (PR 1925-1926, 144).
Foster, Sir George E.
  • Date: 1925-05-20
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 562
  • Note: At the Encaenial meeting of 1925, Sir George Foster proposed to "raise a fund of $500,000 for the benefit of the University to be accumulated during a period of twenty years... he would be responsible for raising $50,000 to start said fund... fourteen members of the [graduating] class will each be prepared to take out $500.00 life insurance for an endowment fund" (SM 1904-27, 502-03).
Hipwell, the Family of John (Jack) B. - oak reading stand
  • Date: 1925-05-21
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 570
  • Note: Family donates reading desk for Memorial Hall in memory of John B. Hipwell, B.Sc. (Forestry 1915), who was " killed in action in the Great-War" (570). Served in the 23rd Battery, C.F.A., 1914; 8th Battery, C.F.A., France, 1915; Lieutenant, April, 1916; Posted to 5th Battery, C.F.A. Killed in Action at Sanctuary Wood, June 17th, 1916 (The Register. Fredericton: Associated Alumni of UNB, 1924. 101). 20 Feb 1925: -- brass plate on "reading stand" reads, "In Memory Lieut. Jack Basil Hipwell '15 Born 27th November 1893, Woodstock, N.B. Killed in Action 17th June 1916, Sanctuary Wood Presented by Parents, Sisters and Brother." The article concludes that it is to be hoped that others install "personal memorials, to the memory of others of the herioc thirty-four from U.N.B. who went to France and did not come back" (Alumni Bulletin 3.1, 4).
Memorial Hall
  • Date: 1925-05-19
  • Subject(s): Buildings
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 360
  • Note: 28 Nov 1916: The Student Association requested that a joint-committee be appointed to build "a memorial for the Graduates and Under Graduates who shall have fallen in the European War" (SM 1904-27, 356). 9 Feb 1917: Senate reports on Senate Committee, Associated Alumni, and the Student's Association meeting wherein it was decided that a memorial to the graduates and undergraduates "who shall have fallen in the European War [should] take the form of a permanent building to be known as 'Memorial Hall' ... devoted to the purpose of a chemical and physical laboratory" (SM 904-27, 360). Senate decided to wait until the end of the war to make public calls for the fund, but thought that "the ground [could be] broken and the nucleus of a fund formed" (SM 904-27, 360). 26 Nov 1918: Appeal for funds to be made to friends and graduates of University (SM 904-27, 398). 18 May 1922: Resolved that a Committee be appointed to consider the feasibility of erecting a Memorial Building during the coming Summer and if they consider such action warranted said Committee to have plans prepared, call for tenders, and in general oversee the erection of such building" (SM 904-27, 496). 28 Nov 1922: Committee reports on fund and presents plans. Suggestion made to plan "the laying of the corner stone... at the time of the Graduates re-union" to be held in 1923 (SM 1904-27, 506-508). 3 July 1923: Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada lays the cornerstone of building during Special Convocation at Encaenia. Lord Byng receives honourary L.L.D. (Alumni Bulletin 1.1 (26 Jul 1923), 15-17). According to the 1923 President's Report, City Council contributed $25,000 to assist in the construction of the building; The Provincial Government passed an Act contributing $50,000 towards the construction; and the President of the Senate "deposited a sealed copper receptacle containing various papers, coins, etc., in the hollow provided for the purpose (PR 1922-1923, 150-151) 16 May 1924: Encaenia held in Memorial Building. 25 Nov 1924: Committee appointed to erect a "suitable tablet containing an Honor Roll of those connected with the Unviersity, who were killed in the Great War" (SM 1904-27, 558). 19 May 1925: During Encaenial exercises and Alumni reunion, Memorial Hall is dedicated. In addition to housing several individual and collective memorials to students who died during the First World War, the building serves as classroom and laboratory space for the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Electrical Engineering. December 1947: Alumni News announces that Memorial Hall will become a student centre as a fitting memorial to those soldiers who died in the Second World War. Senate has agreed in principle to the change. The Physics and Chemistry departments will be accommodated in a new Science building (AN 2.1 (Dec 1947): 3).
Physics
  • Date: 1925-11-24
  • Subject(s): Departments
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 547
  • Note: 24 Nov 1925: Senate establishes separate "chair" for Physics, previously known as Physics and Electrical Engineering (SM4, 547). Jan 1895: Honours students in Physics for the "Physics Society," which will hold weekly seminars wherein papers by members will be presented (UM XIV.4 (Jan 1895): 103).
Roberts, Captain Theodore - water colour
  • Date: 1925-01-01
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Alumni Bulletin 4.1 (30 January 1926), 9.
  • Note: The watercolour shows "the old Cathedral, the old Collegiate School, formerly the College of New Brunswick, and King's College, the latter being the present Arts Building, lacking the third storey (AB 9).
Roberts, Charles G.D. - original manuscripts
  • Date: 1925-10-28
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Alumni Bulletin 4.1 (30 January 1926), 9.
  • Note: During a lecture tour, Roberts presents UNB with his original manuscripts " a valuable gift from one of her illustrious sons, and is highly appreciated. As the yers pass these will increase in value and their contemplation will be an inspiration" (AB 9).
Shives, the family of the late Robert Kilgour - table
  • Date: 1925-05-21
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 570.
  • Note: Family donates table for Memorial Hall in memory of R. K. Shives, B.Sc. (Forestry, 1913), who was "killed in action in the Great-War" (570). Commissioned in Royal Air Force; promoted to Lieutenant; wounded April 30, 1916; accidentally killed 29 Sept 1916 (The Register. Fredericton: Associated Alumni, 1924. 150.)