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Dexter, Robert C. , 1887-1955
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Robert C. Dexter was born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 1887. He was trained as a social worker and was employed by the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Brockton, MA, then by the Charity Organization Society of Montreal. In the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion he was part of the team that assumed executive responsibility for the city's rehabilitation efforts. He died in 1955.