Frank Parker Day

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Nicknames/Other names:

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts (1903) - Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
  • Master of Arts (1907) - University of Oxford - Christ Church, Oxford, England

Dates Employed: 1909 - 1912

Faculty: Arts

Department: English

Position(s) held:

  • Professor of English

Activities/Contributions: At UNB was instructor of the Boxing Club and involved with the Dramatic Society.

Notes: Mount Allison University's first Rhodes Scholar, 1905.  Day's book, Rockbound - written in 1928 - won CBC Radio's Canada Reads contest in 2005.

Sources:

  • University Monthly, vol. 32, no. 1, October 1912, p. 25.
  • UA Case 77.


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