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.

110th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Bachelor of Science in Forestry granted
  • Date: 1911-06-01
  • Subject(s): Degrees
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 218.
  • Note: Harold Cahill Belyea and Hayward Coburn Kinghorn first students to receive B.Sc in Forestry.
Faculty of Applied Science
  • Date: 1911-06-17
  • Subject(s): Faculties
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 230
  • Note: First mention of the Faculty of Applied Science in the Senate Minutes (230). 17 Jul 1919: Prof. McGinnis "appointed Dean of Applied Science" (SM 1904-27, 420).
Science of Agriculture
  • Date: 1911-10-24
  • Subject(s): University Classes
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 234
  • Note: At this same Senate meeting, senators discussed resuming talks with the Premier and Legislature to establish a programme in Agriculture.

105th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Leave of absence for military service for professors
  • Date: 1916-05-18
  • Subject(s): Miscellaneous
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927. 346
  • Note: On two professors -- Stephens and MacDonald -- expressing the "desire to get... commissions in the army for service during the war [Senate resolves] that the Chancellor be authorized to grant leave of absence for one year or to the end of the war, to any or all of the Professors above mentioned in case they shall enlist for over seas service in the war" (346).

100th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2021:

Beaverbrook Scholarship
  • Date: 1921-11-22
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 482-83
  • Note: 22 Nov 1921: Senate decides that student from County holding a Beaverbrook Scholarship cannot compete for the County Scholarship (SM4, 482-3). 13 May 1936: Senate advises that the Board of Trustees of the Lord Beaverbrook Scholarships have increased the annual value of the 7 scholarships to $400 from $325. In addition, if any of the students live in the Lady Beaverbrook residence, that student is granted an addition allowance of $100 / year. "All further awards would be made to men only" (SM5 126).
Independent Order of Daughters of the Empire
  • Date: 1921-05-12
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 476.
  • Note: Certain conditions and a $25.00 exemption in fees.
Khaki University Memorial Scholarship
  • Date: 1921-05-12
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 476
  • Note: Col. H. M. Tory, Principal of the University of Alberta donates $3,500 for a scholarship. 22 Nov 1921: Senate resolves that the scholarship be open to returning soldiers in addition to the "children of returned men" (SM 1904-1927, 484). 18 Feb 1936: Senate recommends that the Khaki Scholarship be awarded to members of the Freshman or Sophomore class (SM5, 120).
Vaughan, Frank P.: electrical apparatus
  • Date: 1921-11-22
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1904-1927, 486