Notable alumni

  • Robert Barritt, Bermudian painter and politician
  • Kate Beaton, cartoonist
  • Louise Belcourt, artist
  • Marc Bell, cartoonist
  • Winthrop Pickard Bell, historian and philosopher
  • Rick Black, CFL football player, Grey Cup champion
  • Tricia Black, actress, comedian
  • Harold Lothrop Borden, military officer
  • John Bragg, industrialist
  • Kate Braid, poet
  • Charles Tory Bruce, poet, writer, and journalist
  • Harry Bruce, writer and journalist
  • John Buchanan, Premier of Nova Scotia, senator
  • Henry Burr, entertainer
  • Catherine Callbeck, Premier of Prince Edward Island and businesswoman
  • David W. Chappell, professor of Chinese religion, University of Hawaiʻi
  • Herménégilde Chiasson, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Erminie Cohen, Senator
  • Suzanne Cowan, Former President of the Liberal Party of Canada
  • Alex Colville, artist
  • Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, physician, Senator, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
  • Purdy Crawford, lawyer, business executive, philanthropist
  • Frank Parker Day, author, educator, president of Union College (NY), 1929–1933
  • Michael de Adder, cartoonist
  • James M. Dickson, Queen's Counsel, jurist and business leader
  • Muriel McQueen Fergusson, senator
  • Aida McAnn Flemming, educator, animal welfare advocate
  • Daniel Gaudet, Olympic gymnast
  • Heward Grafftey, politician and businessman
  • John James Grant, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
  • John Gray, playwright
  • Anna Greenwood-Lee, Anglican bishop
  • Don Hannah, playwright and novelist
  • Ian Hanomansing, journalist
  • Brent Hawkes, LGBT rights activist and minister
  • Sheila A. Hellstrom, first woman Regular Force member to achieve the rank of Brigadier-General
  • Bonnie Henry, first female Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia (2018-)
  • John Peters Humphrey, jurist
  • Jimmy Kempe, Bermudian Olympic sailor (1923-2018)
  • Greg Kerr, former Member of Parliament for West Nova
  • Eric Lapointe, CFL football player, Hec Crighton Trophy winner
  • Leslie M. Little, justice of the federal Tax Court of Canada
  • Max Liboiron, environmental artist and scientist, professor of geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree
  • Peter Loewen, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
  • Kevin G. Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group
  • Mary Florence MacDonald, curator
  • Angus MacLean, Premier of Prince Edward Island
  • J. Michael MacDonald, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia
  • John Main, 7th Premier of Nunavut
  • Margaret McCain, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Wallace McCain, industrialist
  • Abner Reid McClelan, 10th Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Mary Mellish, educator
  • Moses Morgan, academic
  • Arthur Motyer, playwright, novelist, professor emeritus
  • David Myles, singer-songwriter
  • Christopher Pratt, artist
  • Mary Pratt, artist
  • Watson Elkinah Reid, architect Hotel del Coronado
  • Ivan Rand, jurist
  • John Henry Reardon, actor
  • Rachel Reid, author, Game Changers book series Heated Rivalry
  • Edgar Ritchie, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (1966–1970) and Ireland (1976–1980)
  • Brenda Mary Robertson, first female in the New Brunswick Legislature
  • Alison Sealy-Smith, actor and founding director of Obsidian Theatre
  • Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Scott Simms, former Member of Parliament for Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor
  • Nan Macpherson Smith (d. 1940) leader in women's activities, as well patriotic, philanthropic, cultural, missionary, and benevolent projects
  • John Clarence Webster, physician and historian
  • Robert Winters, politician
  • Lucas Cormier, CFL football player

See also

  • Higher education in New Brunswick
  • List of universities in New Brunswick
  • Canadian Interuniversity Sport
  • Canadian government scientific research organizations
  • Canadian university scientific research organizations
  • Canadian industrial research and development organizations

References

Further reading

  • Marie Hammond Callaghan, Ed. 'We Were Here: Women's History at Mount Allison University' (Sackville: © Mount Allison University Press, 2006);
  • J. W. Falconer and W. G. Watson 'A Brief History of Pine Hill Divinity Hall and the Theological Department of Mount Allison University' (Halifax: Pine Hill Divinity Hall, 1946 Pamphlet)
  • John G. Reid, 'Mount Allison University: A History to 1963' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984);
  • John G. Reid, 'The Mount Allison Ladies College: A Short History, 1984. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984);
  • Athletics website