Harry Piers died (b. 1870). A librarian, curator, naturalist, historian, artist, editor and author, his family roots went back to the establishment of the Halifax settlement in 1749. By 1899, Piers was the deputy keeper of public records and helped complete in 1911 the cataloguing of Thomas Beamish Akins’s early historical settlement records. In 1927 he authored a biography of Nova Scotia portrait-painter Robert Field, entitled Robert Field, Portrait Painter...
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