Reports
Dawson, James, merchant in Pictou, Nova Scotia, secretary of bible society, agent to Lloyds, bookseller, newspaper publisher, shipping businessman; (son John William Dawson (1820-1899) first superintendent of education in Nova Scotia and first Principal of McGill University; grandson George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901) geologist with Geographical Survey of Canada, president of Geological Society of America, namesake of Dawson and Dawson Creek in western Canada)