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Person
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O'Hearn, Peter
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Description area
Dates of existence
1917 - 1986
History
Peter O'Hearn was a legal scholar and prominent Catholic layman who served 21 years as a County Court Judge in Halifax. He was born 2 January 1917 to the Hon. Judge Walter O'Hearn and Catherine Mahoney, and was raised and educated in Halifax. He earned a BA from Saint Mary's University in 1937 and a teaching certificate from Dalhousie in 1938. Following post-graduate work in education at McGill University, he served overseas in the Second World War until he was invalided home in 1942. In 1950 he was appointed as a Crown prosecutor for Halifax County, and in 1965 was named to the county court for District 1, a post held by his father 30 years earlier. O'Hearn organized the legal aid service of the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society in 1950, served as president of the Nova Scotia division of the Canadian Red Cross, the Children's Aid Society of Halifax, the city's Charitable Irish Society and the Halifax-Dartmouth Council of Churches. He died 7 May 1986 at the age of 69.