Lionel Avard Forsyth (1 August 1890 – 1 January 1957) was a Canadian businessperson. He served as President of the

Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation The Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (also DOSCO) was a Canadian coal mining and steel manufacturing company. Incorporated in 1928 and operational by 1930, DOSCO was predated by the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO), which was a merger o ...

beginning in 1950. Forsyth graduated from

University of King's College The University of King's College, established in 1789, is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Roper, Henry. "Aspects of the History of a Loyalist College: King's College, Windsor, and Nova Scotian Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century." Anglic ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He then was employed by the

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in 1913. He became a professor at King's College and later passed the Nova Scotia bar.

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''The Sun Rises in the East''
an address to The Empire Club of Canada by Lionel Avard Forsyth, President of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation Ltd. on October 22, 1953.

Google Books, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power By Peter C. Newman 1890 births 1957 deaths People from Hants County, Nova Scotia University of King's College alumni Academic staff of University of King's College Lawyers in Nova Scotia Businesspeople from Nova Scotia Harvard University alumni {{Canada-business-bio-stub