Pictou Academy - Notable Graduates

Notable Graduates

• Ada Brownrigg received the first Arts degree awarded to a woman in Canada
• Sir William Dawson was a notable geologist and educator
• Frank Parker Day was a well-known Canadian author and English Professor. He became the Academy's first Rhodes Scholar
• Donald L. Grant was a Health Evaluation Division director at Health Canada, and an advisor to the World Health Organization.
• Rear Admiral Leonard Murray was Canada's most important commander during the Battle of the Atlantic
• Charles B. Patterson, author and leader of the Canadian therapeutic movement.
• James McGregor Stewart, prominent corporate lawyer, coal administrator during the Second World War, and founder of the Halifax law firm, Stewart McKelvey.
• Sir W. J. Ritchie later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada