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Lionel Avard Forsyth

Lionel Avard Forsyth, lawyer, industrialist (b at Mount Benson, NS 1 Aug 1890; d at Montréal 1 Jan 1957). Forsyth graduated from King's College (Windsor, NS) and attended Harvard before joining the BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA in 1913.

Lionel Avard Forsyth

Lionel Avard Forsyth, lawyer, industrialist (b at Mount Benson, NS 1 Aug 1890; d at Montréal 1 Jan 1957). Forsyth graduated from King's College (Windsor, NS) and attended Harvard before joining the BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA in 1913. After 18 months in Havana, Cuba, he became a professor of modern languages at King's. Forsyth taught himself law and was admitted to the NS Bar in 1918. In 1926 he left a successful Halifax law practice to join Montgomery, McMichael, Common, Howard and Ker in Montréal. There he developed a large corporate clientele and by 1946 was a director of over 40 companies. In 1950 he became president of Dominion Steel and Coal Corp, which employed one-sixth of Nova Scotia's work force. Forsyth rejuvenated the company, developing an ambitious and successful expansion program and establishing harmonious industrial relations.