Douglas Gold Medal Prize (2025)

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

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

Douglas Gold Medal Prize (2025)

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