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The Douglas Gold Medal was founded by Sir Howard Douglas, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and first Chancellor of King's College. Valued at forty dollars, the medal was offered for competition every year among undergraduates for the best English essay on some subject proposed at the preceding Encaenia. It was first awarded in 1833.
After 1960 the topic was no longer assigned and the medal was given for the best English essay written as part of the requirements of any course in the university. In 1974 the criteria changed to allow the medal to be awarded for the best composition in prose or verse, in Greek, Latin or English, on any subject within the regular course of study pursued in the university. Undergraduate theses and reports were eligible, as were essays or verse compositions produced as part of regular class work. Compositions were submitted by instructors, with the consent of the student.
| Year | Name | Student of | Title | Held at UNB Archives |
| 1833 | R. Duvernet | Kings College | No | |
| 1834 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1835 | George Lee | Kings College | No | |
| 1836 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1837 | W. H. Shore | Kings College | No | |
| 1838 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1839 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1840 | J. S. Millidge | Kings College | No | |
| 1841 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1842 | E. J. Jacob | Kings College | No | |
| 1843 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1844 | W. Q. Ketchum | Kings College | No | |
| 1845 | C. G. Coster
J. McGivern |
Kings College | No
No | |
| 1846 | E. B. Fisher | Kings College | No | |
| 1847 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1848 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1849 | W. P. Dole | Kings College | No | |
| 1850 | Hurd Peters | Kings College | No | |
| 1851 | G. G. Roberts | Kings College | No | |
| 1852 | T. A. Gregory | Kings College | No | |
| 1853 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1854 | G. S. Smith | Kings College | No | |
| 1855 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1856 | E. R. Burpee | Kings College | No | |
| 1857 | J. F. Stevenson | Kings College | No | |
| 1858 | F. A. Morrison | Kings College | No | |
| 1859 | H. L. Sturdee | Kings College | No | |
| 1860 | W. C. Lee | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1861 | A. W. Smith | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1862 | J. P. Sheraton | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1863 | L. C. Allison | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1864 | J. D. Phinney | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1865 | G. R. Parkin | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1866 | G. E. Foster | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1867 | P. C. Keegan | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1868 | S. Russell | UNB Fredericton | "The Electric Telegraph considered in its moral, social, and political aspects" | No |
| 1869 | W. S. MacFarlane | UNB Fredericton | "The influence of the Higher Institutions of Learning on Commerce and Civilization" | No |
| 1870 | G. C. Coster | UNB Fredericton | "The relation of the Physical Sciences to Manufacturers and Commerce" | No |
| 1871 | L. C. Wortman | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1872 | W. Wilson | UNB Fredericton | "Natural History - its value in the educational point of view" | No |
| 1873 | W. G. Gaunce | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1874 | S. J. Jenkins | UNB Fredericton | "The value of Liberal Education to the Man of Business" | No |
| 1875 | J. F. Burditt | UNB Fredericton | "The influence of Religious truth on National Charter" | No |
| 1876 | T. C. Jack | UNB Fredericton | "The relative merits of old and new countries as fields for enterprise | No |
| 1877 | W. E. MacIntire | UNB Fredericton | "The natural resource so the Dominion in Canada" | No |
| 1878 | J. R. Mace | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1879 | W. D. McLeod | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1880 | A. W. Wilkinson | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1881 | W. S. Carter | UNB Fredericton | "The Greatness and Decline of Venice" | No |
| 1882 | W. J. Fowler | UNB Fredericton | "The effect of the discoveries of the 19th century upon the comforts and conveniences of Life" | No |
| 1883 | W. T. Raymond | UNB Fredericton | "What is culture? And how is it best attained?" | Extract |
| 1884 | J. M. Lemont | UNB Fredericton | "The Great North West, its past and future" | Extract |
| 1885 | W. J. S. Myles | UNB Fredericton | "The Mental rather than the Material resources of Canada" | No |
| 1886 | W. Murchie | UNB Fredericton | "The Duties of the Civilized Man to the Uncivilized Man whose country He Invades" | Extract |
| 1887 | J. B. Sutherland | UNB Fredericton | "The Relation between Labor and Capital" | Extract |
| 1888 | C. J. Milligan | UNB Fredericton | "The Relation of American Literature to Democracy" | Extract |
| 1889 | F. L. Christie | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1890 | D. L. Mitchell | UNB Fredericton | "Applications of Edmund Burke's principles to religious, political, and social affairs at the present time" | Extract |
| 1891 | F. P. Yorston | UNB Fredericton | "Emerson's Life and Works" | Extract |
| 1892 | Ellen F. P. Peake | UNB Fredericton | "Colonial Empires of the past, and their lessons to those of the present" | Extract |
| 1893 | Isabel S. McIntosh | UNB Fredericton | "The Social Effects of the Scientific Inventions of the Nineteenth century" | Extract |
| 1894 | Loretta L. Shaw | UNB Fredericton | "The Characteristics of Modern Fiction" | No |
| 1895 | Horace L. Brittain | UNB Fredericton | "The Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Democratic Government" | No |
| 1896 | Samuel H. McKee | UNB Fredericton | "The Relations of Science to the State" | Extract |
| 1897 | Arthur H. Shea | UNB Fredericton | "English Diary and Letter Writers" | No |
| 1898 | Frank J. Bayfield | UNB Fredericton | "The Actual and the ideal Political Life" | Extract |
| 1899 | W. J. R. Wilson | UNB Fredericton | "The Aims and Methods of Modern Science" | No |
| 1900 | W. H. Harrison | UNB Fredericton | "The literary position of Germany Among the Nations" | No |
| 1901 | W. O. Raymond | UNB Fredericton | "The centennial celebration of the university at Fredericton" | Yes |
| 1902 | Chester B. Martin | UNB Fredericton | "The natural resources of New Brunswick" | Yes |
| 1903 | Ina F. Mersereau | UNB Fredericton | "England under Alfred the Great and under Edward the Seventh" | Extract |
| 1904 | Martha A. Osborne | UNB Fredericton | "The development of the Canadian Northwest, a retrospect and a forecast" | No |
| 1905 | Theodore R. McNally | UNB Fredericton | "Science in war" | * |
| 1906 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: English essayists of the early 19th century | No | |
| 1907 | Clara M. Robinson | UNB Fredericton | "The history and problems of Canadian immigration" | No |
| 1908 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The factors in the growth of the Maritime Provinces | No | |
| 1909 | Beatrice W. Welling | UNB Fredericton | "The contributions of women to English literature" | No |
| 1910 | George N. Belyea | UNB Fredericton | "The transportation problem in Canada: its bearing on the future development of the country" | No |
| 1911 | Harold C. Belyea | UNB Fredericton | "The most expeditious and scientific way of surveying, classifying and registering the public lands of New Brunswick and the best means to be adopted for their protection and preservation" | * |
| 1912 | Earle R. MacNutt | UNB Fredericton | "British essayists" | * |
| 1913 | George B. Carpenter | UNB Fredericton | "The development and value of the commission as a means of the state's regulation of trade and industry" | No |
| 1914 | Emerson C. Rice | UNB Fredericton | "The underdeveloped resources of New Brunswick" | No |
| 1915 | George J. Marr | UNB Fredericton | "Canadian national ideals" | * |
| 1916 | Adrian B. Gilbert | UNB Fredericton | "The economic aspects of the prohibition of liquor traffic" | * |
| 1917 | D. Gordon Willet | UNB Fredericton | "The geology and mineral deposits of New Brunswick" | * |
| 1918 | John F. McIntosh | UNB Fredericton | "The Supernatural in Shakespeare's plays" | * |
| 1919 | Frances Mary VanWart | UNB Fredericton | "A permanent agricultural policy for Canada" | * |
| 1920 | C. L. Armstrong | UNB Fredericton | "The preservation of wild bird life - its economic, aesthetic and humane aspects" | * |
| 1921 | Edith M. Jones | UNB Fredericton | "The development of The English novel" | * |
| 1922 | Russell R. Sheldrick | UNB Fredericton | "The effect of confederation on the economic and political development of New Brunswick" | * |
| 1923 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The influence of of wild life reservations and national parks on a nation's life | No | |
| 1924 | Mary B. Jones | UNB Fredericton | "The value of Wordsworth to the present generation" | No |
| 1925 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: An immigration policy for Canada | No | |
| 1926 | Edwin A. Stuart | UNB Fredericton | "The University's place in a biological survey of the province" | * |
| 1927 | Robert J. Love | UNB Fredericton | "The effect of confederation on the Maritime Provinces" | * |
| 1928 | Burton S. Keirstead | UNB Fredericton | "The resources and economic possibilities of the Maritime Provinces" | Yes |
| 1929 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The economic and aesthetic importance of animal and bird reservations | No | |
| 1930 | Horace A. Hanson | UNB Fredericton | "The political evolution of Canada as a self-governing member of the British Commonwealth of Nations" | No |
| 1931 | Muriel M. Miller | UNB Fredericton | "The poetry of Bliss Carman" | * |
| 1932 | J. Ernest Anderson | UNB Fredericton | "A survey of the geological deposits of organic origin in the province of New Brunswick | * |
| 1933 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: A study in the indebtedness of the Canadian Provinces | * | |
| 1934 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The poetry of Charles G. D. Roberts | No | |
| 1935 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The University of New Brunswick | No | |
| 1936 | Jack H. Thurrot | UNB Fredericton | "What health education should the public schools provide?" | * |
| 1937 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: Euripides: the link between primitive and present day drama | * | |
| 1938 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The responsibility of science to society | * | |
| 1939 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: A study of provincial and local taxation and administration of public welfare functions | No | |
| 1940 | James C. Morrow | UNB Fredericton | "The genesis and development of the Arthurian Legends" | Yes |
| 1941 | Roy Morrow | UNB Fredericton | "The importance of research as an aid to the shore and deep sea fisheries of the Maritime provinces" | Yes |
| 1942 | Manzer L. Bunker | UNB Fredericton | "Forests - their role in post-war readjustments" | Yes |
| 1943 | Frances A. Firth | UNB Fredericton | Assigned topic: The importance of the study of modern languages | No* |
| 1944 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The importance of the social sciences in war time | No | |
| 1945 | Elizabeth Brewster | UNB Fredericton | "The conflict of the state and individual in the ancient world" | No |
| 1946 | Dennis A. Benson | UNB Fredericton | "The social responsibility of science" | Yes |
| 1947 | James M. Wheatley | UNB Fredericton | "A new curriculum for UNB" | Yes |
| 1948 | Frederick Cogswell | UNB Fredericton | "Literature and society" | Yes |
| 1949 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The achievements and prospects of the United Nations | No | |
| 1950 | Frederick C. Allen | UNB Fredericton | "The case for and against the Chignecto Canal" | Yes |
| 1951 | Robert J. Gibbs | UNB Fredericton | "T. S. Eliot as playwright" | Yes |
| 1952 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The importance of graduate research in Canadian universities | No | |
| 1953 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The race question and the contemporary political crisis in South Africa | No | |
| 1954 | Ian Watson | UNB Fredericton | "The race questions and the contemporary political crisis in South Africa" ^ | Yes |
| 1955 | J. Neil Mulvaney | UNB Fredericton | "The problem of good and evil in Goethe's Faust" | Yes |
| 1956 | Robert E. Hawkes | UNB Fredericton | "The Irish theatre movement and its social and political background" | Yes |
| 1957 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The Canadian Arctic, past, present and future | No | |
| 1958 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: A study of recent literary utopias | No | |
| 1959 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: A study of recent literary utopias | No | |
| 1960 | Janice I. Bartlett | UNB Fredericton | "The Classical Laws of Motion" | No |
| 1961 | Brigid E. Toole | UNB Fredericton | "Michelangelo" | No |
| 1962 | Margaret J. Gammon | UNB Fredericton | "A study of Milton's Comus" | Yes |
| 1963 | E. Joanne Rowley | UNB Fredericton | "Fate in the novels of Thomas Hardy" | Yes |
| 1964 | Colin K. Scott | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1965 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1966 | Lynda A. Muir
Craig C. McLeod |
Unknown | "The function of Landschaft in Buckner's Lenz"
"The poet and his pose: an essay on Auden's thought and his poetic roles in In Time of War" |
Yes
Yes |
| 1967 | Marion L. Cox Beyea | UNB Fredericton | "The incorporation of Saint John" | Yes |
| 1968 | Patricia E. Pacey | UNB Fredericton | "Patterns of imagery and their significance in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises" | Yes |
| 1969 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1970 | Carolyn E. Keirstead | Unknown | "Archaelogical field methods for shell-midden excavations" | No |
| 1971 | Bruce R. Bartlett | Unknown | "The origins and character of Nazi racial ideology" | Yes |
| 1972 | Brian E. Williams | Unknown | "Tanzania: decision-making in an African economy" | Yes |
| 1973 | Diana L. Austin | Unknown | "Social vision as the source of poetic vision int eh poetry of F. R. Scott" | Yes |
| 1974 | J. Randall Francis | Unknown | "Goodbye to all that God willing! A study of the end of idealism in British war literature, 1914-1933" | Yes |
| 1975 | Eileen S. Martin | UNB Fredericton | "The theme of nature in early American literature" | Yes |
| 1976 | Linda M. Kelly | Unknown | "A character study of Chaucer's Criseyde" | Yes |
| 1977 | Linda C. Law | Unknown | "Theme and language in Arnold's Marguerite poems" | Yes |
| 1978 | Carol A. Ferguson | UNB Fredericton | "The Spanish Civil War Research Unit" | Yes |
| 1979 | Barbara L. Hughes | UNB Fredericton | "A study of W. H. Auden's Horae Canonicae" | Yes |
| 1980 | Sandi London Guptill | UNB Fredericton | "Narrative voice in Robertson Davies' novels" | Yes |
| 1981 | M. Sharon Carr | UNB Fredericton | "Nostromo: for those who think Jung" | Yes |
| 1982 | Lorna M. Brown | Unknown | "Justice and mercy in Measure for Measure" | Yes |
| 1983 | Judith Stanley | UNB Saint John | "The nature of man and the issues arising from the prospects for human cloning" | Yes |
| 1984 | Mary C. McDevitt | UNB Saint John | "The American Revolution: its consequences for women" | Yes |
| 1985 | Wanda R. McNally | Unknown | "Juliana of Norwich: her life and legacy" | Yes |
| 1986 | Katherine A. Ratliffe | UNB Fredericton | "Bishop Blougram's Apology: the problem of judgement" | Yes |
| 1987 | Roderick F. Cater | UNB Fredericton | "The case against Copernicus" | Yes |
| 1988 | Janice M. Cook | Unknown | "Robbing the cradle: child labour in New Brunswick 1784-1905 and the movement toward child labour legislation" | Yes |
| 1989 | Pamela J. Graham | Unknown | "Cruel destiny, a reconciliation of elements in King Lear" | Yes |
| 1990 | Stephanie A. Rhynold | Unknown | "It am I, pander" | Yes |
| 1991 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1992 | Dawn Bourque | Unknown | "Alienation and rectification in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis" | Yes |
| 1993 | Iain MacPherson | UNB Fredericton | "Physicality in Elliot Merrick's True North and Dillon Wallace's The Lure of the Labrador Wild" | Yes |
| 1994 | Audrey Marie Cormier | Unknown | "The Consequences of the Enlightenment: Poor Relief" | Yes |
| 1995 | Edward C. Hamilton | Unknown | The Conceptual Canoeist" | Yes |
| 1996 | Luke E. Peterson | UNB Fredericton | "Madison, Madison and Jefferson and Inalienable Human Rights | Yes |
| 1997 | Marie-Andree Somers | UNB Fredericton | "Existentialists Condemned all Theories Which Insist that Human Beings Have a Fixed Essence or Nature as Cowardly Denials of Moral Responsibility" | Yes |
| 1998 | Holly Arnold | UNB Fredericton | "Conserving Biodiversity in a Fragmented Forest: the Science and Rationale of Wildlife Corridors" | Yes |
| 1999 | Bill MacGillivray | UNB Fredericton | "Baseball as Life: the Henry Wiggen Novels of Mark Harris" | Yes |
| 2000 | Alexandra Leah Clarke | UNB Fredericton | "Mysticism in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India: Did Mrs. Moor Experience a Hindu Insight in the Marabar Caves?" | Yes |
| 2001 | Robin Bolivar | UNB Fredericton | "The Madhouse Divorce" | Yes |
| 2002 | Katia Annique Grubisic | UNB Fredericton | "'It was a fairy, and come from Elf-land:' Elements of Fairy Tales in Jane Eyre" | Yes |
| 2003 | Megan Woodworth | UNB Fredericton | "Luther's Lament, or "Why is nothing ever simple?" | Yes |
| 2004 | Sarah Nason | UNB Fredericton | "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Victorian Sex (But the Silly Novelists were Afraid to Tell)" | Yes |
| 2005 | Bjorn Langerlof | Unknown | "The Lost Generation - La Grande Guerre and its Irreversible effects on the French Peasantry" | Yes |
| 2006 | Tracey Lynn Bradley | Unknown | "Temporal Changes in the Pattern of Fledging by Atlantic Puffin Fratercula Arctica Chicks" | Yes |
| 2007 | Stephanie Yorke | UNB Fredericton | "Place, Desire, and Ila in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines" | Yes |
| 2008 | Alan Lensink | UNB Fredericton | "Obeah and the Process of Africa-Oriented Acculturation in the British West Indies from 1650-1800" | Yes |
| 2009 | Anne Elizabeth Thornton | Unknown | "The Art of 'Mexicanidad': Visual Evolution and Revolution" | No |
| 2010 | David Philip Bryden | Unknown | "The Charter and Rights Consciousness" | No |
| 2011 | Kelly Rebecca Flinn | UNB Fredericton | "The Art of Global Resistance; Alternative Social Visions in Counter-Hegemony" | No |
| 2012 | Travis Patrick Wysote | Unknown | "The Lubicon Quest for Self-Determination: Shattering the Display Case on 'The Spirit Sings'" | Yes |
| 2013 | Francis Rene Losier Bischoff | UNB Fredericton | "Topological Insight into the Patterns of Quantum Energy Levels of the EF State of Molecular Hydrogen" | No |
| 2014 | Rebecca Danielle Stieva | UNB Fredericton | "Childbirth, Socio-sexual Deviance, and Racial Hierarchy: A Comparison of European, Native, and African Childbirth Practices in the Early Modern Era" | No |
| 2015 | Joseph Cameron Burton | UNB Fredericton | "The Religious-Political Complex: the New American Right and a Politics of Fear" | No |
| 2016 | Bronwyn Briden | UNB Fredericton | "Pragmatism in an Age of Conflict" | No |
| 2017 | Kyle John Lefort | UNB Saint John | "Changes in Atlantic PUffin Fratercula Arctica Egg Volume in Eastern Canada" | No |
| 2018 | Mary Bethany Langmaid | UNB Fredericton | "Truth, Lies, and 'False News': the (De)construction of History in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale" | No |
| 2019 | [Not Awarded?] | |||
| 2020 | Tabatha Cormier | UNB Saint John | No | |
| 2021 | Kathleen Elspeth Peacock | UNB Fredericton | No |
- This indicates that within the UA Essay Cases there are anonymous essays of the same title which may or may not be prize winners
University records indicate that the medal was not awarded in 1943, however local newspapers of the day published articles naming F.A. Firth as the recipient. ^Title of winning essay is different from assigned topic
Source(s):
- UA Case 67 Encaenia Addresses.
- UA Case 145.
- University Monthly and the Brunswickan
- UNB Fredericton | Stephen E. Patterson | UNB (Marion L. Cox Beyea; Eileen S. Martin; Luke E. Patterson)
- Dr. Patricia E. Pacey (Thornton) Bird
- New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia | James K. Chapman | Allan Donaldson (Carol Ferguson; Barbara Hughes)
- UNB | English Graduate Programs | A Vibrant Tradition
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | Roger Ploude (Katherine Ratliffe)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | R. Steven Turner (Roderick Cater)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | Robert Cockburn (Iain MacPherson)
- UNB Emeritus | Fredericton | Alphabetical Order (Marie-Andree Somers)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | John C. Ball (Alexandra Clark; Stephanie Yorke)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Law | David G. Bell (Robin Bolivar)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | Mary Rimmer (Katia Annique Grubisic; Sarah Nason)
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | Gary Waite (Megan Woodworth)
- UNB Newsroom
- UNB Fredericton Prizes and Awards 2013
- UNB Fredericton | Office of the President | 2014 Scholars
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