Traditional-style residences

Our traditional-style residences are popular among undergraduate students and include both single and double rooms. Eleven co-ed residences, one all-female and one all-male section, there are plenty of options for you to choose from.

Traditional-style residences

Aitken House

Building: Co-ed with all-male section or floor
Capacity: 95
Number of rooms: 43 double rooms, 9 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1958
House Charities: Canadian Blood Services, AIDS NB
House History: Aitken House is named in honour of William Maxwell Aitken, 1^st Baron Beaverbrook, chancellor of the University from 1947-1964
Fun Fact: The Aitken House Club Med Social is one of the most anticipated campus events of the year. The building's basement becomes a beach with truckloads of sand brought in every November for the party.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, foosball table, laundry facilities

Bridges House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 97
Number of rooms: 38 double rooms, 21 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1962
House Charity: IWK Children’s Hospital
House History: Bridges House is named in honour of brothers Henry Seabury Bridges (Professor of Classics at UNB 1881-1895) and Hedley Vicars Burpee Bridges (Principle of the Provincial Normal School 1906-1933).
Fun Fact: Each February, Bridges’ residents take the plunge into an icy outdoor pool for the annual ‘Bridges House Polar Dip’. The event attracts around eighty people and raises funds for the IWK Children’s Hospital.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, kitchenette, laundry facilities

Harrison House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 97
Number of rooms: 38 double rooms, 21 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1962
House Charity: Right to Play
House History: Harrison House is named in honour of Thomas Harrison, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) first president (1886-1906) to be born in New Brunswick.
Fun Fact: Harrison House has the longest running tradition at UNB, the Great Pumpkin Sacrifice which began in 1973. Each year, house residents carve a gigantic pumpkin in the likeness of Roman god Janus and on Oct. 31, carry it to Joy Kidd House where it is blessed and then returned to Harrison House where it is sacrificially dropped from the roof. The event is meant to represent the “academic harvest” and the pumpkin is sacrificed to ensure academic success.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, kitchenette, laundry facilities

Joy W. Kidd House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 162
Number of rooms: 27 double rooms, 41 single rooms, 52 single rooms with semi private bathrooms attached, 14 single rooms with private bathrooms, 1 accessible room with private bathrooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1998
House Charities: Habitat for Humanity, Canadian Mental Health Association
House History: Joy W. Kidd House is named in honour of Joy Wells Kidd, dean of women at UNB Fredericton from 1966-1985.
Fun Fact: Each fall Joy W. Kidd House residents host Kiddstock, a charity concert featuring local musicians from around New Brunswick. All proceeds raised from the event go to Joy W. Kidd House’s charity, Habitat for Humanity.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, kitchenette, laundry facilities

Lady Beaverbrook Residence (LBR)

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 64
Number of rooms: 23 double rooms, 18 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1930
House Charities: Capital Region Mental Health & Addictions Association
House History: Lady Beaverbrook Residence was named in memory of Gladys Drury, the first Lady Beaverbrook. Drury was married to Sir Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), chancellor of UNB from 1947-1964, and died in 1927.
Fun Fact: Lady Beaverbrook Residence was named one of Canada’s most beautiful residences by Huffington Post in 2016.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, full kitchen, laundry facilities

Lady Dunn Hall

Building: Co-ed with an all-female section or floor
Capacity: 88
Number of rooms: 24 double rooms, 26 single rooms, 10 single rooms with private bathrooms, 4 accessible rooms with private bathrooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1963
House Charity: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
House History: Lady Dunn Hall is named in honour of Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, wife of Sir James Dunn and second wife to Lord Beaverbrook (Sir Max Aitken). Lady Dunn was the first on-campus accommodation for women at UNB.
Fun Fact: Canadian singer Anne Murray (BPE ’66) lived in Lady Dunn Hall during her time as a student at UNB.
Features: TV lounges, study lounge with kitchenette, laundry facilities

MacKenzie House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 99
Number of rooms: 34 double rooms, 31 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1965
House Charity: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fredericton-Oromocto
House History: MacKenzie House is named in honour of Dr. Normand Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, president of UNB from 1940-1944.
Fun Fact: “Lucerno Non Uro” (I Shine, Not Burn) is the motto of the Mackenzie Clan of Scotland that MacKenzie House has adopted to show their Scottish pride. The annual house charity event held each October is the Caber Toss. The event is a version of the traditional Highland Games where participants throw a large tree trunk.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, squash court, laundry facilities

McLeod House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 145
Number of rooms: 16 double rooms, 77 single rooms, 27 single rooms with shared private bathroom
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1974
House Charity: Juvenile Diabetes Association
House History: McLeod House is named in honour of Edith G. McLeod, Registrar Emerita, secretary to the president from 1927-1945 and University registrar from 1946-1968.
Fun Fact: McLeod House has its own in-house meal hall, offering residents the convenience of prepared meals in their house.
Features: TV/ study lounges, pool table, laundry facilities.

Neill House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 94
Number of rooms: 39 double rooms, 16 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1961
House Charity: Canadian Cancer Society
House History: Neill House is named in honour of the Neill family, long prominent in the commercial life of Fredericton.
Fun Fact: Neill House is the twin of Neville House. The two houses are mirror images of each other.
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, laundry facilities

Neville/Jones House

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 94
Number of rooms: 39 double rooms, 16 single rooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1961
House Charity: Women in Transition House
House History: Neville House is named in honour of Fred L. Neville, who lived in the Neville Homestead for 91 years and was the last generation of Nevilles who owned the farm where the UNB residence quad now stands. In 2006, Neville House merged with Jones House (named after former president and chancellor of UNB from 1906-1940) upon its closure in 2006 and became Neville/Jones House.
Fun Fact: In 1992, students from Neville House had their inaugural bed push event to raise funds for local Fredericton charity Women in Transition House. Originally, residents pushed a bed 120 kilometres from the UNB Saint John campus to the Fredericton campus. This route ended in 2010, but the push is still 120 kilometres around the BMO soccer field on the Fredericton campus, rain or shine!
Features: TV lounge, study lounge, pool table, laundry facilities

Tibbits Hall

Building: Co-ed
Capacity: 127
Number of rooms: 35 double rooms, 24 single rooms, 24 single rooms with semi-private bathrooms attached, 6 single with private bathrooms, 3 accessible rooms with private bathrooms
Meal Plan: Required
Year opened: 1970
House Charity: Fredericton Food Bank
House History: Tibbits Hall is named in honour of Mary Kingsley Tibbits, the first woman to graduate from UNB (BA 1889).
Fun Fact: Each year Tibbits Hall hosts a Halloween Charity Social in support of the Fredericton Food Bank. Costumes encouraged!
Features: DKT media lounge, tv lounge, study lounge, kitchenettes, laundry facilities