Lorne Pierce award

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Item is the Lorne Pierce medal, awarded to Audrey Alexandra Brown in 1944. The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. The award itself consists of a gold-plated silver medal. The award bears the name of Lorne Pierce, FRSC (1890–1961), who was editor of Ryerson Press for forty years, contributing greatly to the development and appreciation of Canadian literature, and who originally established the award. The medal was first awarded in 1926.

In Collection:
Contributor Subject Publisher Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 medal
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 60.10867,-113.64258
Physical repository Collection
  • Audrey Alexandra Brown Collection
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • 2.52
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • October 31, 2012
Technical note
  • 600 dpi tiff
  • 600 dpi jpg
  • metadata by GF and KD
Rights
  • Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (speccoll@uvic.ca). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
DOI

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