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Dunn was born in the village of St. Peter's, now amalgamated into Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.His father owned a shipbuilding company whose fortunes had been all but wiped out by the sharp decline in the demand for wooden ships, and died when he fell into the harbour when James was an infant.
Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet (1874–1956) Sir Philip Gordon Dunn, 2nd Baronet (26 October 1905 – 20 June 1976). Dunn was an Anglo-Canadian businessman, landowner and farmer. He was the second child and only son of the wealthy Canadian financier and steel magnate Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet, and his first wife, Gertrude Paterson Price.
In 1911, James Hamet Dunn, who was born in West Bathurst in 1874, returned to Bathurst to endow its first hospital, on the Riverside Drive grounds of what was once a Doctor's office. It burned to the ground in 1917, and an expanded 35-bed structure was rebuilt in its place.
About the end of 1927, control of the firm passed to the Newsprint Bond and Share Corporation and in 1928 the Bathurst Power and Paper Company was formed by them. [2] The local newspaper reported that $20 million had changed hands. [9] Sir James Dunn filed suit with Angus McLean over stock options in the firm that he claimed he had been denied ...
Herman James Good: soldier: 1887: 1969: Bathurst-born recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions during the Battle of Amiens in the First World War: W.J. Kent: businessman: 1860: 1943: Founding alderman in Bathurst's first town council, mayor of Bathurst for two terms Felix Roland "Rollie" Rossignol: ice hockey: 1921: 1981: former NHL forward ...
Herman James Good: soldier: 1887: 1969: Bathurst-born recipient of the Victoria Cross for actions during the Battle of Amiens in the First World War: W.J. Kent: businessman: 1860: 1943: Founding alderman in Bathurst's first town council, mayor of Bathurst for two terms Felix Roland "Rollie" Rossignol: ice hockey: 1921: 1981: former NHL forward ...
They would come to live at the mouth of the Tetagouche River on Bathurst Harbour, in an estate they called Gowan Brae. One of their housekeepers was a destitute young widow named Eliza Dunn, mother to James Hamet Dunn; in this way, Mrs. Dunn was allowed to provide for her son at the Ferguson family home. [4]
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