MacCallum Grant (May 17, 1845 – February 23, 1928) was a

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businessman and the

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. Born at Loyal Hill (in the area of Summerville) in

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, the son of John Nutting and Margaret (MacCallum) Grant, Grant was educated in

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. He commenced his business career with S. A. White & Co, in 1873. He was a member of the firm Black Bros. Co. from 1875 to 1893. He then formed the firm Grant, Oxley & Company. Grant, Oxley & Company merged with Alfred J. Bell & Co. Ltd. in 1964 and still operates today under the name of Bell & Grant Insurance. In 1899 he was appointed as Imperial Consul of Germany in Halifax. From 1916 to 1925, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He was

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at the time of the

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. During the 1919 visit to Nova Scotia by

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, Grant hosted the royal party at

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. He married Laura MacNeill Parker (a daughter of

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) in 1887. They had five children: *Eric MacNeill Grant - born 1889; *Captain Dr. Gerald Wallace Grant, MC, MB, CH - born 1890; *Margaret Frances MacNeill Grant - born 1893 (later Mrs. Arthur William La Touche Bisset); *Captain(N) John Moreau Grant, CBE - born 1895; *Major Grainger Stewart Grant, MC - born 1897; *Vice Admiral

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- born 1899; He received honorary degrees from

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(LL.D.) in 1919 and from the

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(D.C.L.) in 1921. A portrait of

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MacCallum Grant by Henry Harris Brown was donated to the

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in 2006 by Grant's granddaughter, Margaret H. Grant. The portrait was unveiled by the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the Honourable

Myra Freeman Myra Ava Freeman (born May 17, 1949) is a Canadian philanthropist, teacher, the 29th and first female Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Freeman was born Myra Ava Holtzman in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Anne Golda (Freedman) ...

. The portrait is on loan to

and can be viewed there in the ballroom. He died in Halifax in 1928.

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