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prepare a much fuller and more accurate record of the career of this distinguished Nova Scotian than is now in existence. Death cut short this work and the others in which Mr. Allison was engaged, and brought too early to a close the life of a good man, a model citizen, and a strenuous laborer in the field of historical research.
L. A. Allison was born fifty years ago in Newport, Hants County. His father, John Allison, was a descendant of one of the New England families who came to the provinces about 1760. One of his father's brothers represented Hants, first in the provincial legislature and then for two terms at Ottawa. An other is now president of Mt. Allison University and was formerly Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia. Leonard Allison took his Arts degree at Mt. Allison and was for several years thereafter teacher of classics in the Academy there. He studied law, first with his former fellow student, H. A. Powell, K.C., of Sackville, and afterward with Silas Alward, K.C., of St. John. Then he removed to Sussex and became the law partner of another college companion, Hon. A. S. White.
