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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hattie, Robert McConnell
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Description area
Dates of existence
1876 - 1953
History
Robert McConnell Hattie was born in 1876 in Westville, Nova Scotia. He moved to Halifax in 1893 to study at Dalhousie University, where he served as class secretary and graduated in 1897. Hattie, a journalist, was the life secretary of the Class of 1897, and president and editor of Imperial Publishing Company's Maritime Merchant and Industrial Advocate periodicals until his retirement in 1949. He was an active member of Halifax's Civic Improvement League and was involved with the Anti-Tuberculosis League and Citizens' Free Library Committee until his death in 1953.