Fred Fuller

Nova Scotia

Fred Fuller, a native of Grand Pre, who graduated from the School of Agriculture, Truro, 1890, was a man who, over a span of 42 years in professional agriculture and government service, played a major role in the development of the agricultural industry in the Maritime Provinces, and particularly that of his native Nova Scotia.

He was a man of sound and mature judgement and wherever he served, and in whatever office - as assistant to the Superintendent of the Experimental Farm, Nappan, as Superintendent of the Provincial Government Farm at Truro, as Superintendent of Agricultural Societies and Exhibitions, and as the long-time and popular manager of the Maritime Winter Fair which, incidentally, he helped to organize and which under his direction became one of the leading livestock exhibitions in Eastern Canada - his capacity as a competent administrator, Mr. Fuller demonstrated continually, often in the face of discouragements which would have snapped the enthusiasm and vitality of one of lesser breed.

Truly, he was one who was a generation ahead of his time and of him it may well be said that because he lived and served here, and because of the love he had for his fellow man and which he demonstrated throughout his whole life by precept and example, this is a better place because of the standard he set and the services he provided.