Daniel Cobb Harvey


Daniel Cobb Harvey was a Canadian historian and archivist who was the Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia from 1931 to 1956.

Biography

Harvey was born on 10 January 1886 in Cape Traverse, [Prince Edward Island|Cape Traverse], Prince Edward Island to parents John and Margaret Harvey. He attended Prince of Wales College and then Dalhousie University where he graduated in 1910. He achieved a Rhodes scholar upon graduation and then attended Oxford University where he obtained a B.A. and an M.A. From 1915 to 1931 he taught at Wesley College and then at the University of Manitoba. In 1931 he became Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia, a newly created position and stayed in the capacity until his retirement in 1956.
He was President of the Canadian Historical Association from 1937 to 1938. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1928 and he received its J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1942.
Harvey died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 7 August 1966, at the age of 80.

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