Henry Nicholas Paint
Henry Nicholas Paint | |
|---|---|
Canadian Parliament for Richmond | |
| In office 1882–1887 | |
| Preceded by | Edmund Power Flynn |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Power Flynn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 April 1830 Belle Vue, Strait of Canso, Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Christina St Clair McVean (first wife); Ella Cowdray (second wife) |
| Children | include (by first marriage) Flora St Clair, Mary Le Mesurier; and (by second marriage) Mander Paint |
| Residence(s) | Belle Vue, Strait of Canso, Port Hawkesbury |
| Alma mater | Wolfville Academy |
| Occupation | Politician, shipowner, merchant, property owner |
Henry Nicholas Paint (10 April 1830 – 29 September 1921) was a Canadian politician, shipowner and merchant.
Career
Henry Paint was the son of Nicholas Paint,
He spent his early life as an insurance and commission agent in the
Henry was a progressive merchant and community leader. He accumulated extensive property holdings on Cape Breton Island. Apart from the family estate of 130 acres (0.53 km2) at Canso, in 1863 he acquired commercial property at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, a few miles from Port Hawkesbury, on a site 'exceedingly well situated for trade' at the main entry point between mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. Here he constructed wharves and laid out a new township, selling plots doggedly to the end of his life; today he is commemorated there by 'Henry Paint Street'. His other holdings included the 'Paint seam' of coal mines which he opened up at Sydney in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, as well as gypsum options at Brierley Brook in Antigonish County.
Henry Paint has a street, Paint Street, named after him in
Henry Paint's long life is exceptionally well documented for the period, largely from letters written in his old age to his grandchildren, a selection of which were published in 2005. He died at his house at 3 Artillery Place, Halifax, aged 91.
His younger daughter, Mary Le Mesurier, married Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, of the Mander family, industrialists and philanthropists dominant in the English Midlands. His elder daughter, Flora St Clair, married Sir Charles's first cousin, Theodore Mander, builder of Wightwick Manor, one of the most notable Arts and Crafts movement houses in England, owned since 1937 by the National Trust.
Electoral record
| 1882 Canadian federal election: Richmond | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Conservative | Henry Nicholas Paint | 525 | ||||||
| Liberal | Edmund Power Flynn | 461 | ||||||
| 1887 Canadian federal election: Richmond | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Edmund Power Flynn | 910 | ||||||
| Conservative | Henry Nicholas Paint | 609 | ||||||
| Independent Conservative | S.P. Leblanc | 317 | ||||||
| 1891 Canadian federal election: Richmond | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Conservative | Joseph Alexander Gillies | 857 | ||||||
| Conservative | Henry Nicholas Paint | 755 | ||||||
| Liberal | Edmund Power Flynn | 670 | ||||||
Sources
- ISBN 0-9546056-0-8.
- J. L. MacDougall, History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia, April 1923, chap. XI, which gives an account of the Paint family in Nova Scotia
- A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, ed. Geo. Maclean Rose, Toronto: Rose Publishing, 1886, p. 442
References
- ^ Expeditions of Honour: the journal of John Salusbury in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1749–53, p. 87, ed. R. Rompkey, 1982
