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Edward Mitchell Bannister was born in 1828 in St. Andrews. His father was a native of Barbados, West Indies. The racial identity of Bannister’s mother, Hannah Alexander Bannister, who lived…
Mary Pratt was born Mary Frances West in 1935 in Fredericton. Pratt is a Canadian painter specializing in still life realist paintings. While her early works focus on domestic scenes, some…
George Thomas Taylor was born in 1838 in Fredericton. He was the son of William Pentlow (Pentlowe) Taylor, a carpenter, and Frances Anne Morrison. New Brunswick’s pre-eminent 19th-century photographer, George…
Kenneth Wayne Paul Tobias was born in Saint John in 1945 and worked as a draftsman in the early 1960's while also appearing as a musician at local venues in…
In 1861 at the age of twenty-two, Harvard graduate Loring Woart Bailey was hired by UNB in Fredericton to teach chemistry, physics, geology, zoology, physiology and botany. Bailey became a distinguished…