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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 Dunn filed suit with Angus McLean over stock options in the firm that he claimed he had been denied. [10] The Bathurst Lumber Company No. 2 Mill (in East Bathurst) was decommissioned and dismantled in January 1928, although this NLC-vintage mill had not been in operation for a number of years prior to this date. [1]
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.
J. C. Dunn or James Churchill Dunn (1871–1955), British army medical officer and author; James Francis Dunn (1874–1921), American architect; Sir James Hamet Dunn (1874–1956), 1st Baronet, Canadian financier and industrialist
Henry Vincent Jarvis – 23 December 1873 – Hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol for the murder of James Muggeridge on the Orange-Bathurst Road near Evans Plains Creek. John Hawthorne ( alias Perry, real name Sherrin) – 19 May 1874 – Bushranger.
Marcia Anastasia Aitken, Baroness Beaverbrook (née Christoforides, previously Lady Dunn; 27 July 1909 – 28 October 1994) was a British philanthropist, an art collector, and racehorse owner. [ 1 ] Early life and first marriage
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 ...