Died 1 June 2001 | ||
Ann Gorman Condon (? - June 1, 2001) taught in the history department at University of New Brunswick from 1963 to 1966 and then again from 1970 to 1977, where she played a substantial role in developing the Loyalist Collection at the Harriet Irving Library.
Biography
She was a faculty member in the UNB Saint John History Department for 22 years until her retirement in 1999. Condon was a leading specialist on the history of the United Empire Loyalists and played a substantial role in developing the Loyalist Collection at the Harriet Irving Library at UNB Fredericton which contains microfilm of British, North American colonial, and early Canadian primary sources from approximately 1740-1870. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley; her MA from Radcliffe College, and her PhD from Harvard University. Her dissertation won Harvard's DeLancey K. Jay Prize. One book, an extension of her doctoral dissertation, The envy of the American states: The Loyalist dream for New Brunswick, was published in 1984. She served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
Condon died on 1 June 2001. She had a son, Gregory Gorman, and two daughters, Katherine and Caroline, with Dr. Thomas J. Condon, who was also associated with UNB.