1935

Harry Piers (1870 to 1940) was curator of the Provincial Museum from 1899 to 1940, and librarian of the Provincial Science Library from 1900. He was also Deputy Keeper of Public Records of Nova Scotia from 1899 until 1931, when the Public Archives of Nova Scotia opened. At the Provincial Museum, he became its second curator, following the Rev. Dr. David Honeyman. The museum had been established in 1868, but its collection began in the Mechanics Institute (founded December 1831).

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