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.

75th Anniversary for the following event(s) in 2024:

Anonymous - Memorial Window of Sir Howard Douglas
  • Date: 1949-05-12
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Alumni News 3.5 (Jun 1949): 3.
  • Note: "'We welcome again into this place His Excellency, Sir Howard Douglas, first chancellor of this University' declared Dr. C. McN. Steeves '05 in a ceremony in the main hall of the Arts Building on May 12 when a memorial stained glass window [to the left of the main entrance] depicting Sir Howard was unveiled" (AN 3.5: 3).
Beaverbrook Graduate Scholarships in Chemistry
  • Date: 1949-06-01
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Alumni News 3.5 (Jun 1949): 8.
  • Note: Lord Beaverbrook donates two graduate scholarships in Chemistry for the 1949-50, value of $1,000, $250 of which must be used for materials and equipment. Scholarships awarded to W.A. Edmiston, B.SC ' 49 and R.B. Ingraham, B.Sc. '49 (AN 3.5: 8).
Lord Beaverbrook offers residential property for women's residence
  • Date: 1949-04-26
  • Subject(s): Endowments/Gifts
  • Source: Alumni News 3.4 (Apr 1949): 7.
  • Note: Offer made to Mrs. R.D. Baird, Presidence of the Alumnae Society, of a residential property called the "Bank of Montreal house." Conditions of the gift are that money must be raised to renovate and furnish the building suitably. Mrs. Baird referred to the determination of the Alumnae to provide a residence, and that the late Ellen F. Peake (Class of 1892) had bequeathed $3,000 for a residence fund, which might enable the Alumnae to accept Lord Beaverbrook's offer (AN 3.4: 7).
Maggie Jean Chestnut Women's Residence
  • Date: 1949-10-20
  • Subject(s): Buildings
  • Source: Alumni News 4.1 (Oct 1949): 2. Alumni News 4.1 (Oct 1949): 7.
  • Note: In April (or so) of 1949, Lord Beaverbrook offers a residential property called the "Bank of Montreal house" to the Alumnae Society on the condition the the women raise the money to renovate and furnish the building. Ellen F. Peake (Class of 1892) bequeathed $3,000 and a call was put out to all Alumnae to contribute to fund. The residence opens at the beginning of the 1949 school year, and is named after the late Maggie Jean Chestnut (Class of 1927) "one of the alumnae who did most to advance the cause of the women's residence" (AN 4.1: 2). The building holds 21; 17 were in residence at the beginning of 1949. 15 Feb 1944: Senate receives a letter from Helen E. Hughes, Secretary of the Alumnae Society, who recommends "very strongly that a women's residence be established at the University and further that the Senate institute courses of special attraction to women... The proposals of the Alumnae Society were given serious and sympatheic consideration and the general feeling was that steps to carry them out should be taken as soon as feasible" (SM6 4).
Smith, Gertrude Winnifred
  • Date: 1949-10-01
  • Subject(s): Scholarships
  • Source: Alumni News 4.1 (Oct 1949): 3.
  • Note: The income of the fund goes to a woman from Charlotte County "who needs financial assistance with her university education" (AN 4.1: 3). In 1949, at $525 per annum, this scholarship was considered among the most valuable of the undergraduate awards. Present day value is $1,500/year for 4 years, and is awarded every four years. http://www.unb.ca/calendar/undergraduate/awards.cgi? name=gertrude+winnifred+smith&conditions=&campus=&fac=ALL&id=1%2C2%2C3%2C4% 2C6%2C8&tables=awardsSubLevel1