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