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.

165th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Act to Establish the University of New Brunswick
  • Date: 1859-04-13
  • Subject(s): Acts
  • Source: Royal Gazette 984 (7 Mar 1860 ), 8883. Steeves Scrapbook Misc 1785 -, 75.
  • Note: "[C]onfirmed, ratified, and finally enacted, by an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the twenty third day of January 1860" (8885). 15 May 1946: Senate recommends approaching the government to amend the University Act to appoint ten members instead of seven (SM6 50).

160th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Seal: Common Seal of the University of New Brunswick is submitted and ordered
adopted.
  • Date: 1864-03-10
  • Subject(s): Miscellaneous
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 98.
  • Note: Old seal from the College of New Brunswick is ordered defaced.

150th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Alumni Association elects first members to Senate
  • Date: 1874-07-21
  • Subject(s): Miscellaneous
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 208
  • Note: Honorable Charles Fisher, DCL, and Federick E. Barker, Esquire DCL first alumni elected to Senate. Notice in Royal Gazette readed into Minutes of the Senate (SM 208).

145th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Governor General of Canada: Gold and Silver medal
  • Date: 1879-06-26
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 250

140th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Fredericton Saint Andrews Society
  • Date: 1884-03-08
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 310
  • Note: Fredericton Saint Andrews Socieity donates $1000 to Senate " for the purpose of applying the yearly interest thereof to the founding of a scholarship for the deserving students of Scottish descent" (310). 26 April 1883: Instrument presented to Senate proposing the scholarship (SM 300).
Wilmot, L. A. Memorial Scholarship
  • Date: 1884-03-08
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 309
  • Note: Mrs. L. A. Wilmot places $300 in the University funds for a $100 scholarship (per year) " to assist in obtaining a University Education... in memory of one who for many years was an energetic and valuable member of the Senate, and who ever manifested the warmest interest in the cause of education, and more particularly in the advancement and welfare of the University" (309). 21 Mar 1885: E. H. Wilmot donates $1,700 to invest "and the accruing interest applied to the payment of the Scholarship in perpetuity" (SM 329). 15 May 1935: Senate recommends that the Wilmot Scholarship be awarded to " the student of Grade XII making the highest standing in the subjects under the control of the University Examiners and entering the University for completion of his studies" (SM5 112).

135th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Civil Engineering and Surveying Chair established
  • Date: 1889-08-15
  • Subject(s): Chairs
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 404
  • Note: Mr. Allan Wilmot Strong appointed.
Experimental Science Chair established
  • Date: 1889-08-15
  • Subject(s): Chairs
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 404
  • Note: Mr. A. Wilmur Duff appointed (SM 404).
Physics Chair established
  • Date: 1889-08-15
  • Subject(s): Chairs
  • Source: University Monthly X.1 (Oct 1890):11.
  • Note: Alexander Wilmer Duff (Class of 1881) holds first appointment (UM 11).
Tibbits and Caie - first female graduates (could this be Chase?)
  • Date: 1889-06-20
  • Subject(s): Female Students
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 397
  • Note: Mary Kingsley Tibbits (Second Division with 608 points) and Florence A. Caie (Second Division with 502 points). 14 May 1914: Alumni Association requests and Senate agrees to confer the honorary degree of Master of Arts on Mary Tibbetts, stating that "Miss Tibbits was the first lady to graduate from U.N.B. and has been engaged in educational work for twenty-five years" (SM 1904-27, 304). 11 Oct 1938: Alumni Association requests that, in honour of the 50th anniversary of the first woman graduate from UNB, that Mary Kingsley Tibbits be conferred an honorary degree. Decision deferred. (SM5 164) 21 Feb 1939: Senate agrees to confer DLL on Mary Tibbets (SM5 167). Dec 1951: Alumni News reports that Dr. Tibbits died. When recounting how she became one of the first female students at UNB, the article states that she was refused entry at first; however, she found a clause in the calendar, which stated that " any person with the required academic qualifications could register... She insisted that women were persons, won her case, and was admitted. When she graduated Mary Tibbits won the first Stanly Gold Medal for scholastic accomplishment" (AN 6.2 (Dec 1951): 7).

125th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Bachelor of Engineering
  • Date: 1899-04-07
  • Subject(s): Degrees
  • Source: Senate Minutes UNB 1860-1904, 613
  • Note: Students petition to have a degree conferred in Engineering. Professor Dixon speaks in favour of Engineering degree.