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Oscar Hanson of Little Lepreau, New Brunswick, was a descendant of John Hanson—a pre-Loyalist settler on Minister's Island—and the great-grandson of Quaker Loyalist Joshua Knight of Beaver Harbour and Pennfield. Oscar's father, Robert Varden Hanson (1795-1884), first settled at Little Lepreau in 1836, where he built a sawmill that he later sold to sons Oscar and Gideon.
Oscar has many concurrent careers and activities: landowner; sawmill owner and operator; canning factory owner; ship's merchant and charterer, shipowner, storekeeper; postmaster of Little Lepreau (until 1898); justice of the peace; active organizer for the Liberal Party; member of at least four fraternal organizations; holder of various offices in the parish of Lepreau; and Baptist Sunday school superintendent. He and his brother Gideon owned lands leased to New Brunswick Anthracite Coal Company
Oscar and his wife Helen (Lomax) had seven children who for many years maintained summer residences at Little Lepreau.
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