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.

160th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

First year scholarships in English Language and Literature and Commerce and
Navigation
  • Date: 1861-03-30
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 59.
Jack, William Brydone
  • Date: 1861-06-26
  • Subject(s): Presidents
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 71. Steeves Scrapbooks Misc 1785-, 37.
  • Note: 14 Aug 1885: Dr. Jack retires; replaced by Dr. Thomas Harrison.
Second year scholarships in Classics and Agriculture
  • Date: 1861-03-30
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 59
Third year scholarships in Mathematics and Civil Engineering
  • Date: 1861-03-30
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 59

150th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Classical Literature and History
  • Date: 1871-06-22
  • Subject(s): Chairs
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 167-168.
  • Note: Vaughan Boulger, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin, appointed.

140th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Medical accommodation
  • Date: 1881-02-24
  • Subject(s): Departments
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 265.
  • Note: Senate forms a committee to "take such steps as they may deem necessary to provide Hospital accommodation for sick students in the University" (265). Although not noted in Senate Minutes, a room in the "College Building" was provided since students petitioned later to have the room returned to a student room, but were denied by Senate.

135th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Female students to be admitted to UNB
  • Date: 1886-06-24
  • Subject(s): Female Students
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 360
  • Note: "The Committee appointed by the Senate of the University [reports t]hat having considered the matter so reffered to them, they are of opinion that females should be admitted to the privileges of the University on the same terms as men" [Report dated 18 June 1886, SM 360]. Oct 1885: University Monthly reports that Miss M. Tibbetts and Miss Chase are among the freshman class, and extend a "hearty welcome" to the class of 32 students (UM V.1 (Oct 1885): 15). In the same issue, in the "R.I.P." column, the following article appears: "In the happy innocent days of long ago when we were wont to attend the old- fashioned school, no punishment was so dreaded by the small boy, nothing so conduced to good order in the school- room, as to place the trembling offender between two girls. Now what a change. But we suppose that it is all in the interest of good discipline that our Seniors and Juniors are so anxious to see co-education in the U.N.B." (UM V.1 (Oct 1885): 14). 19 Nov 1885: "Resolved that the question of the admission of Females to lectures in the University be referred to a Committee to reflect upon" (SM 349). President Harrison, Chief Justice, Mr. Crocket, and the Faculty form the Committee. 24 Jun 1886: "That the action of the President in causing a Matriculation Examination to be held in St. [sic] John in June for the accommodation of nine young women Matriculants be approved of. - Carried" (SM 359). Jun 1886: University Monthly reports that Senate has decided to admit women to the Arts degree. "And we feel satisfied that the conclusion arrived at will detract nothing from the popularity and utility of our Provincial University... We congratulate the University on this, its second great steop in advance within a year, and we heartily congratulate the ladies on their signal victory, and forsee for them a hearty reception next fall, and a pleasant collegiate course" (UM V.9 (June 1886):129-130). 18 Feb 1941: Senator Mrs. C. McN Steeves states that more should be done to make university courses "more attractive to women and that better accommodation should be provided for them" (SM5 215).

130th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Adney, Tappan, Esq. donates eggs and nests of North American Birds
  • Date: 1891-10-09
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 438
  • Note: Donation given to the "University Museum of a most select and valuable collection of eggs and nests of North American Birds" (438).
Extension lectures to be offered
  • Date: 1891-10-09
  • Subject(s): University Classes
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 439-441
  • Note: Evening lectures to be offered for "Graduates of the City HIgh Schools, for Teachers, and for all of whatever age who, if the[y] could, would seek University Education elsewhere... Lectures [in] Geology, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics, English Literature, Political Economy, Modern History, Ancient History and Philosophy" (SM 440). 31 Mar 1892: Certificates for "University Extension work... all who have made 75% shall be granted a First class certificate, and all those who had made between 50% and 75% shall be granted a second class certificate" (SM 453- 454). 2 Jun 1892: Geoffrey Stead receives first certificate having passed examinations for: "English Language, Mathematics, General Physics, Chemistry, Proactical Mechanics, Physical Goegraphy and History, Minerology, Geology, Civil Engineering including the principles of Architecture" (SM 459).
Harrington, Rev. C.P. donates land
  • Date: 1891-10-09
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 437
  • Note: A "strip of land ninety feet wide situate between the College Lands and the line of the Fredericton Branch Railway, through which the footpath used by the students now runs" (437).
Wetmore, Miss of Boston, donates "rare and unique books"
  • Date: 1891-10-09
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 438
  • Note: Miss Wetmore donated " a large number of valuable books to the Library of the University from the Library of her Brother the Late Sidney Wetmore Esq." (438).

125th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Asa Dow Scholarship
  • Date: 1896-03-05
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 541
  • Note: 27 May 1897: First awarded to Walker J. R. Wilson. A three-year, $50 scholarship for undergraduates who "must be teachers who hold a Provincial School licence in the 1st Class and where circumstances are such as to render pecuniary aid necessary towards obtaining a University Education" (573). The original amount of the fund was $2,000 (SM 697).

120th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Fredericton City Council donates $500.
  • Date: 1901-11-14
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 700

115th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Fisher, Charles Memorial Fund
  • Date: 1906-04-21
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 74-78.
  • Note: Donations of land, etc., in Fredericton by Miss Frances Amelia Fisher and her sister, J.M.P Fraser, daughters of the late Mr. Justice Fisher (74-75). 30 Nov 1909: Senate decides that fund to be "set apart as a Special building fund for the University" (SM 1904-27, 192). The Alumni Bulletin (20 Jun 1925) states that the gift, when converted into cash, "yielded the not inconsiderable sum of over $18,000," which, over the ensuing years, was directed towards new laboratories, and the remainder of which "was applied to the cost of the Memorial Building" (5). 20 May 1925: Tablet honouring Mr. Justice Fisher purchased and placed on the wall Memorial Hall (SM 1904-27, 505).
Gymnasium(s)
  • Date: 1906-04-21
  • Subject(s): Buildings
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904 Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927
  • Note: First Building: 28 Mar 1862: "Ordered, should sufficient means be left over from more pressing necessities, that thte President, Judge Wilmot and the Registrar take the necessary steps for the erection of a Gymnasium" (SM 1860-1904, 80). 12 Mar 1863: Senate empowers Building and Repairs Committee " to contract for the erection of a Gymnasium for the use of the students... constructed in such a manner that it may also serve the purposes of a Drill Room for such of the Students as may wish to form a Volunteer University Corp" (SM 1860-1904, 85). Student fees to be $1.00 for Gymnasium. 21 Feb 1882: Students request and Senate agrees that one half of the Gymnasium fees are to be given to the Gymnasium Committee and the Athletic club (SM 1860-1904, 279). 24 May 1885: "Some miscreants" set fire to the gymnasium on a Sunday afternoon; the fire was discovered and extinguished before serious damage occurred (UM IV.9 (Jun 1885): 143). 9 Apr 1902: Students request a new gymnasium building; Senate agrees to look in to costs (SM 1860-1904, 705-707). 19 May 1902: Senate decides that unless sufficient money, in addition to the $1,000 guaranteed by Senate, can be raised, no expense will be incurred by the University to build (SM 1860-1904, 710). 28 May 1903: Class of 1903 contributes $600, and committee is formed to proceed with construction and necessary financial arrangements (SM 1860-1904, 725). 12 July 1904: Senate gives Committee power to negotiate contracts and proceed with building of the Gymnasium (SM 1904-27, 22) 31 Jan 1905: Cost negotiated at $4913.00 (SM 1904-27, 26). 6 Dec 1905: Committee told "to have the [Gymnasium] completed and properly equipped as soon as practicable" (SM 1904-27, 66). 21 Apr 1906: Building completed "with dressing rooms and twenty-five lockers in the basement... and that the students were now using the same with apparent satisfaction" (SM 1904-27, 74). 14 July 1908: Building to be enlarged to accommodate the Reading Room, moved from the Arts' Building to allow space for the Department of Forestry (SM 1904-27, 74).
Jones, Cecil C.
  • Date: 1906-12-06
  • Subject(s): Presidents
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 98.
  • Note: According to the Senate Minutes, Dr. Jones is appointed to the Chair of Mathematics after the resignation of Dr. Thomas Harrison. At the December Annual Meeting of the Senate, Dr. Jones is mentioned as "Chancellor Jones" (98). However, the Senate Minutes from the 5 September 1906 resignation of Dr. Harrison do not refer to a selection process or an election. 20 Feb 1940: Dr. Jones resigns formally as professor of Mathematics and as President to take effect on 31 Aug 1940. Senate offers its appreciation of his thirty four years' service. Mr. Justice C.D. Richards expresses appreciation for Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Senate Minutes state that Mrs. Jones "had been a wonderful help to the President and to his work. It might be possible, he stated, to obtain as good a man as President, but not as good a woman for the President's wife" (SM5 190). 14 Aug 1943: Senate expresses regret to "Dr. Margaret Baird Jones, his widow, and to the members of [Dr. C.C. Jones's] family the members of the Sentate extend their deepest sympathy with the assurance that his work and his influence will never fade form the memory of those with whome he had been so intimately associated during his years at the University" (SM5 290).
Literary and Debating Society
  • Date: 1906-05-31
  • Subject(s): Societies
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 82-84 Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 326.
  • Note: Mention of society in Senate Minutes requesting that the University attempt to retain a resigning professor, because he was advising the students (82). 13 May 1915: Senate grants $25 for Debating Society "for instruction in elocution in the University during the year 1915 to 1916" (SM 326).