Frederick Sheldon Fountain is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the

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from 2008 to 2015.

Early life and education

Born in

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, son of Sheldon Leroy and Marjorie (Manning) Fountain, he graduated from

King's-Edgehill School King's-Edgehill School is a Canadian private university-preparatory boarding and day school located in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. It is the oldest English independent school in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom, founded by United ...

and then went on to

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where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French, and then graduated from

in 1974 with a

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degree.

Career

He was a founding partner of a Halifax

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, Franklin Fountain Mitton and Thompson (later Burke Thompson) and a

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of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court from 1980 to 1989. He has been the

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of "Great Eastern Corporation Ltd" since 1985. The company is an

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firm that was founded in 1941 by his grandfather Fred Manning. By 2009, after a brief period during which he took the company public, it had estimated assets of $102 million.

Philanthropy

For his philanthropy, especially in the field of the arts, Fountain was invested with the award of Member of the Order of Canada by then

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on June 18, 2010. In May 2013, he donated $10 million to Dalhousie University's to establish a performing arts school. . His term as Chancellor was extended from June 2014 to March 31, 2015 and his successor was

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(May 25, 2015).Staff
Ex-deputy PM named Dalhousie chancellor
''Chronicle Herald'', February 25, 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fountain, Fred Living people Canadian lawyers Year of birth missing (living people) Dalhousie University alumni Academic staff of the Dalhousie University Canadian university and college chancellors Members of the Order of Canada People from Truro, Nova Scotia