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Person
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Walsh, Frederick Waldemar
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Description area
Dates of existence
1897-1984
History
Frederick Waldemar (Waldo) Walsh was a provincially and nationally recognized agronomist. Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, on 8 November 1897, he was raised on his family's farm in Coverdale, New Brunswick, before studying at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (1917) and the Ontario Agricultural College (1922). He was employed as Superintendent of Agriculture for the Canadian National Railway until 1934, when he became a senior agriculturalist with the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1962 as Deputy Minister. He was active in 4-H clubs, local shipping clubs, and grain marketing organizations. As a civil servant he was involved in the development of the Fishermen’s Loan Board, the Marshland Reclamation Act, acceptance of grading standards, rail-grade for hogs, cattle and lambs, and the Natural Products Marketing Act of 1946. He died in 1984 and in 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Canada for his service to the agricultural industry.