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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.
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 ...
Only a few players won it twice. Two pairs did win the Hilliard trophy more than once after it was downgraded in status: Kay and James Dunn, three times, Helen and Morris Portugal twice, all during the five-year span 1951 to 1955. Mary Jane and Arnold Kauder won in 1949 and finished second in 1950 and 1957.
A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it's unclear when the area will ...
Canada's longest bridge is the Confederation Bridge in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with a total of 12,910 metres (8.02 mi) between abutments, it's also the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. More than 5,000 local workers helped with the project, which cost about $1 billion.
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 ...
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.