List of people from Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
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This is a list of people who were born in the communities making up Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia or spent a significant part of their lives there.
- Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician, automobile dealer, office manager and real estate agent
- Loran Ellis Baker, founder of the Yarmouth Steamship Company
- Loran Ellis Baker, military major and political figure
- Daniel Joseph Bohan, Archbishop of the Regina Archdiocese
- Brian Borcherdt, singer/songwriter
- George Stayley Brown, ship owner, historian and political figure
- Charles Cahan, lawyer, newspaper editor, businessman, and politician
- Howard Corning, cattle farmer and political figure
- Thomas E. Corning, lawyer and politician
- Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, victim of the Virginia Tech Massacre
- Heather Crowe, waitress, spokesperson for SmokefreeCanada
- Chris d'Entremont, Minister of Health for the Province of Nova Scotia
- Henry d'Entremont, merchant and political figure
- Philippe Mius d’Entremont, early Acadian settler
- Raymond Neri d'Entremont, merchant and political figure
- Simon d'Entremont, farmer and first Acadian elected to a legislative assembly in North America
- Dwight d'Eon, singer, placed 4th on season 5 of Canadian Idol
- Thomas Barnard Flint, lawyer and politician
- Alfred Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Company
- Lindsay C. Gardner, politician and former speaker of the Nova Scotia provincial assembly
- Albert Gayton, merchant and politician
- Evelyn Gigantes, former politician
- Lex Gigeroff, actor, writer, playwright, filmmaker
- Forman Hatfield, merchant, shipbuilder, ship owner and political figure
- Paul Hatfield, ship captain, politician
- George L. Houghton, Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War[1]
- Herbert Huntington, farmer, merchant and politician
- Richard Hurlburt, former MLA for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
- Ralph Lent Jeffery, mathematician
- George Kenney, United States Army Air Forces general
- Ben Kerr, author, broadcaster, musician and political candidate
- Frank Killam, politician, merchant and shipowner
- Izaak Walton Killam, one of Canada's most eminent financiers
- Thomas Killam, politician and shipbuilder
- Joseph Robbins Kinney, merchant and politician
- Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk, teacher, political figure
- Bowman Brown Law, M.P. for Yarmouth who lost his life in the 1916 Canadian Parliament fire
- Évée LeBlanc, tuna fishing pioneer
- Henry S. LeBlanc, merchant and political figure
- Neil LeBlanc, former finance minister of Nova Scotia
- Maud Lewis, folk artist
- John Lovitt, ship’s captain, shipowner, shipbuilder, entrepreneur, and politician
- Nathan Moses, merchant and political figure
- Keith R. Porter, cell biologist
- Albert Pothier, politician
- Vincent-Joseph Pottier, lawyer, politician, first Acadian appointed to Nova Scotia Supreme Court
- Benjamin Redding, politician, land agent for Central Pacific Railroad
- John Ryder, merchant, shipbuilder, politician
- George Sanderson, insurance broker, shipowner and politician
- Bruce Saulnier, played for Milwaukee Admirals of the United States Hockey League
- Jesse Shaw, politician
- Jody Shelley, retired NHL player
- Edgar Keith Spinney, merchant and political figure
- George Wilbur Spinney, former president of the Bank of Montreal
- Augustus Stoneman, merchant and political figure
- Lawrence Walsh, American lawyer and judge
- Kenneth G. T. Webster, scholar
References
- ↑ "George L. Houghton". Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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