Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Memorial Fund Scholarships

The Churchill Society of British Columbia (the “Society”) administers an annual Essay Contest open to undergraduates at either of the University of British Columbia (‘UBC”) or Simon Fraser University (“SFU”).

There are three requirements for participation in this Essay Contest:

1. The essay’s author must have been an undergraduate student at UBC or SFU taking courses in History, Political Science or International Relations at some time during the current academic year. Any submission must identify the name or names of such courses.

2. Any essay submitted must be related to an important topic of contemporary political relevance. For the purpose of this essay Contest contemporary shall mean after 1900, the year Winston Churchill was first elected to Parliament. Preference will be given to essays related to Churchill’s life and times (1875 to 1965) or issues with which he was especially concerned.

3. Essays must be submitted to the Society (preferably in electronic format) by July 1^st of the current year. If students' essays are required to be submitted directly to the university, the university may require an earlier submission date. The Society will only consider submissions that have not been submitted in a previous year.

The Society’s Scholarship Committee (the “Committee”), at its discretion, selects a First Prize winner and a Second Prize winner from the eligible papers submitted. The First Prize winner is awarded the Churchill Communication Challenge Trophy and a Scholarship in an amount to be determined by the Committee (most recently $1500). The Second Prize winner receives a Scholarship in an amount to be determined by the Committee (most recently $750). The awards are made in November of each year at the Annual General Meeting of the Society.

Submissions for the Essay Contest are made through the undergraduate’s university.

In the case of the University of British Columbia, for details and submission date please contact:

Professor Steven H. Lee
History Department
University of British Columbia
Rm 1224 Buchanan Tower - 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Telephone: 604-822-5164
E-mail: stevenhl@mail.ubc.ca  

In the case of Simon Fraser University, for details and submission date please contact: 

• First Prize: a $1,500 scholarship was awarded to Patrick Tan for his paper "The Consonance and Dissonance of Chamberlain's Pursuit of Pragmatism: British Foreign Policy towards the Soviet Union in the Mid-1920s".  To view the paper Click Here

• Second Prize:  The Committee did not award a second prize this year.

If you wish to receive a written copy of either of the prize winning paper, please contact the administrator.

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Memorial Fund Scholarships are funded by the Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Memorial Fund (the “Fund”) administered by the Vancouver Foundation. For details of the Memorial Fund and how to make donations to it, please click on the Memorial Fund Tab.

Below are scholarship winners for 2010.

(Left) Ian Marshall presents the parents of Ozren Jungic with the Churchill Communications Challenge Trophy and (right) the first prize

Ian Marshall congratulates Robert Gagliano, 2nd Prize winner 2010