Ernest Buckler: A Remarkable Nova Scotia Novelist

Mayor McIsaac congratulated Buckler who had recently received an honorary degree from Acadia University and the Leacock Award.

Ernest Buckler received honourary degrees from the University of New Brunswick (1969), Dalhousie University (1971) and Acadia University (1978). Dr. Buckler’s biography for his honorary degree from UNB mentioned “Ernest Buckler does not play the guitar, appear as a panellist on television, or get arrested by the Pentagon. In no novelist is there less of a huckster or pubic figure. This is a man who lives quietly, almost shyly, in an old white house in the Annapolis Valley -- and writes novels.”

UNB also said, “He has looked deep into the ironies of human existence, and the gifts his talents bring are available to anyone who can read. But he has never ceased to be one of us, a man from the Maritimes; and the University of New Brunswick, proud of its long connection with the growth of literature in our country, feels privileged to honour him.”(MG 1, volume 2511, no. 1214)

Date: 9 June 1978

Reference: Ernest Buckler  Nova Scotia Archives MG 1, volume 2510, no. 1127