摘要:There were 21 submissions to the essay competition this year, arather significant decrease from the 34 submissions for the 2015competition and the 40 submissions for the 2014 competition. Ofthese, 8 were submitted to the junior category, while the remaining 13were submitted to the senior category. In the junior category, foursubmissions came from women; four were from men. In the seniorcategory seven submissions were from men; six were from women. There were two submissions in French (both submitted to the seniorcategory), a slight decrease from the three francophone submissionsfrom 2015; continued efforts to increase francophone participationwould be welcome. Students from only 9 universities submittedessays according to the following breakdown (a sharp decrease fromthe 15 universities represented in 2015): U.Toronto (7); Carleton (3);Dalhousie (2); U.Alberta (2); U.Manitoba (2); U.Ottawa (2); Brock (1);McGill (1); Winnipeg (1). Additional encouragement of students inundergraduate survey courses would be beneficial – particularly frominstructors of courses at the second and third-year levels.