page_title: James Hamet Dunn
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: James Hamet Dunn / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir James Dunn, Dalhousie University
context_page_description: Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet was a Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of the 20th century. He is recognized chiefly for his 1935 rescue and subsequent 20-year presidency and proprietorship of Algoma Steel.
context_section_description: As a result of the very substantial taxes on the estate left by Sir James Dunn and Nova Scotia's Izaak Walton Killam who had died the year before in 1955, the government of Canada was able to create and provide an endowment for the Canada Council for the Arts. Dunn also left a very significant estate to his last wife who fulfilled his wishes and made numerous contributions to charitable, cultural, and educational works.
  Perhaps Dunn's most significant legacy was the discovery of a productive ore near Bathurst, which was exploited by as many as 700 men for half a century from 1953: One of the annual scholarships, that were provided by Dunn in 1947 to the University of New Brunswick, was awarded to a Master's student by the name of A.B. Baldwin, who discovered the ore as his thesis work and thus "greatly enlarged the bounds of provincial prosperity". In fact, Dunn had specified in the deed that the scholarship was to be awarded for only New Brunswick geological work; Baldwin, who was originally interested in samples from Quebec's North Shore, was led by the Dunn gift to examine ore from New Brunswick.
  As used here, the James Hamet Dunn legacy includes not only the bequests of his estate, but also significant charitable gifts that he made during his lifetime, and may no longer exist.  Two examples from his hometown suffice to demonstrate his essence:
  The James Hamet Dunn Hospital in West Bathurst, New Brunswick was consumed by flames in February 1953 after more than forty years' existence. The hospital iniated in northern New Brunswick a school for nurses.
  In May 1931, the Our Lady of Lourdes of the Lady Dunn Institution sanatorium for the care of tuberculosis patients was opened north of Bathurst. It was managed by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, and later demolished to become the state-financed Chaleur Regional Hospital.
  A number of foundations, buildings and academic Chairs bear (or bore) his name including:
  the Sir James Dunn Jubilee Scholarship at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia;
  the Sir James Dunn Wildlife Research Fund of the University of New Brunswick;
  the Sir James Dunn Residence at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus
  at Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick:
  the Sir James Dunn Hall and
  the Sir James Dunn Student Lounge
  at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia:
  a Chair in Law;
  the Sir James Dunn Law Library,
  the Sir James Dunn Building for Physics & Atmospheric Science, and
  the Sir James Dunn Theatre at the Arts Center;
  at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick:
  the Sir James Dunn Chair in Geology and
  the Sir James Dunn Building for the computer science, mathematics and physics departments;
  the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island;
  at Queen's University:
  a Chair in mining.
  In addition, Sir James Dunn has been honoured with numerous buildings and institutions bearing his name such as:
  The Sir James Dunn Academy, a high school in St. Andrews, New Brunswick funded after his death by his last wife;
  The Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario;
  The Sir James Dunn, a bulk carrier ship (Hull #109) launched in 1951, for Canada Steamship Lines;
  The Sir James Dunn Public School in Wawa, Ontario, once Algoma's source for iron ore;
  the Lady Dunn Hospital in Michipicoten (now Wawa, Ontario);
  The Sir James Dunn Highland Guard of Honor the only highland cadet guard in the Canadian Cadet Movement, attached to 333 RCACS Fredericton NB.
caption: The Sir James Dunn building at Dalhousie University.
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