James Simonds Prize
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Initially awarded in 1930, the James Simonds Prize was for the best essay on a specific historical subject, to be announced at Encaenia. After 1975, the criteria changed to allow the prize to be awarded for an outstanding essay on any historical subject.
| Year | Name | Student of |
Title of essay | Held at UNB Archives |
| 1930 | James Albert Trites | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1931 | J. W. Bernard | UNB Fredericton |
"The Development of the Lumber Industry on the Saint John Rover to 1850" | No |
| 1932 | Gerald A. Sansom | UNB Fredericton |
"A History of Railways in New Brunswick" | No |
| 1933 | W. Raymond Foster
Donald Ross |
UNB Fredericton |
"A History of the Shipbuilding Industry in New Brunswick" | No
Yes |
| 1934 | David Ross | UNB Fredericton |
"The Miramichi Fire of 1825 and its Results" | No |
| 1935 | Jack H. Thurrott | UNB Fredericton |
"A History of the Settlement at St. Anne's Point until 1785" | Yes |
| 1936 | Jack H. Thurrott | UNB Fredericton |
"Pioneer Agriculture in New Brunswick" | Yes |
| 1937 | Jack H. Thurrott & Gerald H. Waring | UNB Fredericton |
"The Seigniorial System in New Brunswick Before 1713" | Yes |
| 1938 | Jack H. Thurrott | UNB Fredericton |
"The Influence of the United Empire Loyalists on Government in New Brunswick, 1784-1790" | Yes |
| 1939 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1940 | George A. McAllister | UNB Fredericton |
"Public Opinion in New Brunswick Concerning Constitutional Reform, 1837-1849" | Yes |
| 1941 | James E. Morrow | UNB Fredericton |
"Intellectual Leaders of New Brunswick in the 19th Century" | |
| 1942 | Constance E. Murray & Harris E. D. Videto | UNB Fredericton |
"Sir Howard Douglas as Governor of New Brunswick" | Yes |
| 1943 | Frances (Firth) Gammon | UNB Fredericton |
"The Purpose and Place of History in the School Curriculum" | Yes |
| 1944 | Robert S. McGowan | UNB Fredericton |
"The Geographical Influence Upon the Development of the Maritimes Provinces" | Yes |
| 1945 | George E. Boyd | UNB Fredericton |
"James Simonds and the World he lived in" | No |
| 1946 | James M. Wheatley | UNB Fredericton |
"A History of the Project for a Chignecto Ship Railway" | Yes |
| 1947 | Jeon J. Loggie | UNB Fredericton |
"A History of Scientific Enterprise and Discovery in New Brunswick" | Yes |
| 1948 | Arthur J. Blakeney | UNB Fredericton |
"Political Issues in New Brunswick in the Laurier Era, 1896-1911" | Yes |
| 1949 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: N.B.'s part in the Reciprocity Movement of 1911 | No | |
| 1950 | Frederick C. Allen | UNB Fredericton |
"The Compact Theory of Confederation" | Yes |
| 1951 | Not awarded | Assigned topic: The Governship of the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon` | No | |
| 1952 | Bernard J. Scott | UNB Fredericton |
"The Influence of Imperialism on English Historical Writing in the 19th Century" | No |
| 1953 | Joan Goodfellow | UNB Fredericton |
"The Emergence of a Distinctly Canadian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century" | Yes |
| 1954 | Gertrude E. Gunn | UNB Fredericton |
"Canada and the Boer War" | Yes |
| 1955 | J. Ian Watson | UNB Fredericton |
"Conscription as an Issue in Federal politics in 1917-1919" | Yes |
| 1956 | Noval E. Balch | UNB Fredericton |
"The Canadian Election of 1891" | No |
| 1957 | Neil Mulvaney | UNB Fredericton |
"The Alaskan Boundary Dispute" | Yes |
| 1958 | Luigi G. Blink | UNB Fredericton |
"Britain's Relations with Palestine, 1917-1948" | Yes |
| 1959 | Timothy W. Arnold | UNB Fredericton |
"British Parliamentary Opinion of the Russian Revolution" | No |
| 1960 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1961 | Glenna Ruth Geldart | UNB Fredericton |
"The French-Canadian Contributions to the Achievement of Responsible Government" | Yes |
| 1962 | Dominik Stuart Graham, Lewis Henry Morgan, & Tom Ewart Monteith | UNB Fredericton |
"Plans for British Imperial Reorganization 1754-1778" | No |
| 1963 | Ellen Joanne Rowley | UNB Fredericton |
"Maximillian in Mexico" | Yes |
| 1964 | Peter Job Roberts | UNB Fredericton |
"The Charlottetown Conference" | Yes |
| 1965 | Ivan James Saunders | UNB Fredericton |
"Sir Robert Borden as a War Time Prime Minister" | Yes |
| 1966 | Elaine Mitchell | Unknown |
"The Background and Development of Movements of Social Protests in Canada, 1918-1939" | Yes |
| 1967 | George William Kitchen | Unknown |
"The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson" | No |
| 1968 | Brian Charles Thomas Cook | Unknown |
"The Boxer Rebellion in the Light of the Influence of the Imperialist Powers on China" | Yes |
| 1969 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1970 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1971 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1972 | Douglas A. Sare | Unknown |
"American Foreign Policy: The Marshall Mission" | Yes |
| 1973 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1974 | Mary E. Atcheson | UNB Fredericton |
"Marxism in the Twentieth Century" | Yes |
| 1975 | Donald C. VanWart | UNB Fredericton |
"Lenin and the Theories of Bolshevism: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Ideas and Personality" | Yes |
| 1976 | Donald F. Smith | UNB Fredericton |
"Le Chef and Uncle Louis" | Yes |
| 1977 | Joan M. Grant | UNB Fredericton |
"Burke and the American and French Revolutions" | Yes |
| 1978 | Paul R. Cassidy | Unknown |
"Islam, Christianity and the Nigerian Civil War" | Yes |
| 1979 | Pamela B. Saunders | Unknown |
"The Reaction of Saint John to the National Policy during the Election of 1878" | Yes |
| 1980 | Alexander Perry Biddiscombe | Unknown |
No | |
| 1981 | John Patrick Bingham | UNB Fredericton |
"Ireland as Fiction: An Emergence of Proportion" | Yes |
| 1982 | Judith A. Webb | UNB Fredericton |
"Stanley Baldwin and the General Strike of 1926" | Yes |
| 1983 | Carolyn Ann Young | Unknown |
"The Gentry Controversy: Theories and Counter-theories" | Yes |
| 1984 | John Patrick Bingham | UNB Fredericton |
"Hitler, Poland and Danzig: German Foreign Policy" | Yes |
| 1985 | Wanda Ruth McNally | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 1986 | Charles T. French & William John Foley | UNB Fredericton |
"Perceptions of New Brunswick's Economic Prospects in the 1950s" | Yes |
| 1987 | Diane Joyce Lawrence | Unknown |
"The Elizabethan Church Settlement" | Yes |
| 1988 | Russell J. Prime | UNB Fredericton |
"Digby's Exodus: A Black and White Experience, 1783-1791" | Yes |
| 1989 | Charlotte J. Glencross | UNB Fredericton |
"Rosa Luxemburg" | Yes |
| 1990 | Christopher C. Brittain | UNB Fredericton |
"Building the Trojan Horse: The CEDA and the Moderate Right during the Second Spanish Republic" | Yes |
| 1991 | Michele Elaine Stairs | UNB Fredericton |
"An Examination of the Influence of Economics on the Electorate of St. David's Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick 1846-1854" | Yes |
| 1992 | Robert MacLeod | UNB Fredericton |
"Working Women in Early Industrial Britain: And Examination of Attitudes in Transition" | Yes |
| 1993 | Robert MacLeod | UNB Fredericton |
"Women and Paid-Labour: The Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience in a Small New Brunswick Parish" | Yes |
| 1994 | Elliot Sullivan | Unknown |
"For King and Country: Wales and English Civil War" | Yes |
| 1995 | Brian Travis | UNB Fredericton |
"The Gentlemen and the Undeserving People of the Saint John River" | Yes |
| 1996 | Ellen Thorne | UNB Fredericton |
"Women at the New Brunswick Provincial Normal School, 1882-1883" | Yes |
| 1997 | Kurt William Peacock | UNB Fredericton/UNB Saint John |
No | |
| 1998 | Vicki Lyn Hackett | Unknown |
No | |
| 1999 | Ronna Leah Ella | Unknown |
No | |
| 2000 | Matthew Marc Chapman Milner | UNB Fredericton |
“Wilful Apathy or Astute Descretion? Pius XII and the Holocaust” | No |
| 2001 | Terence James Chandra | Unknown |
No | |
| 2002 | Elliot P. Buckland | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2003 | Kevin Charles Plummer | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2004 | Shawna Marie Stairs | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2005 | Caroline Caverhill Mann | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2006 | Julia Catherine Roy | Unknown |
No | |
| 2007 | Christiane Gisele Aiton | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2008 | Lyle Matthew Skinner | Unknown |
No | |
| 2009 | Steven Hansen | UNB Fredericton |
"National Abuse of the Innocent: Studying the Fate of Lebenborn Children in Post-War Norway" | No |
| 2010 | Cheryl Petreman | UNB Fredericton |
"Thomas Muntzer in Thuringia: Leader of the Commoners' Revolution or Ignored Visionary?" | No |
| 2011 | Andrew Barrett | Unknown | No | |
| 2012 | Cody Alan Hamilton | UNB Fredericton | “A Narrow Path to Health: Disciplinary Control in Preventative Medical Theory, 1750-1800” | No |
| 2013 | Travis Parick Wysote | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 2014 | Rebecca Danielle Stieva | UNB Fredericton | "The Best Sort of Smallpox": An Examination of the Gender Roles Produced by Medical Crises in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America | No |
Source(s):
- UA Case 149.
- UNB Fredericton Emeritus
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | Department of History | People
- UNB Saint John at 50: No mid-life crisis here (Kurt Peacock)
- UNB Fredericton Dean's List 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014
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