Allan Donaldson

1929-2022

Allan Rogers Donaldson (novelist, short-story writer, and English professor) was born 2 October 1929 in Taber, Alberta and died 8 April 2022. His published works—a collection of short stories titled Paradise Siding (1984) and a novel, Maclean (2005)—show the influence of his early life in Carleton County during the 1930s and ’40s. Published by Halifax’s Vagrant Press, an imprint of Nimbus Publishing, Maclean was short-listed for the 2005 Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and received an honourable mention in 2006 in the Canada-East category for Best Regional fiction (Independent Publisher Book Awards). Donaldson’s manuscript A Grain of Sand (1997) also won the H.R. (Bill) Percy Prize for Unpublished Novel. Donaldson moved to Fredericton to attend the University of New Brunswick in 1945. In 1956, he was hired at UNB as part of the university’s Department of English. He lived in Fredericton with his wife, Marjory, a painter and portraitist, until his death in 2022.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton, Woodstock