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- OCCUPATION: Lawyer in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1901 Census, District: NS HALIFAX (#33), Subdistrict: Halifax (City/Cit?) Ward/Quartier No. 5 E-9 Page 6
9 46 Power John J. M Head M May 2 1866 34
10 46 Power Charlotte F Wife M Apr 8 1870 31
11 46 Power Mary C. F Daughter S Aug 11 1896 4
12 46 Power James H. M Son S Sep 29 1897 3
13 46 Power Kathleen W. F Daughter S Sep 3 1899 1
14 46 Power Catherine F Mother W Mar 9 1830 71
15 46 Beazley Nellie F Domestic S Feb 5 1880 21
Census 1911 / Nova Scotia / Halifax / 72 Halifax / page 7 and 8
46 92 Power John M Head M May 1867 44
47 92 Power Charlotte F Wife M Apr 1871 40
48 92 Power Mary F Daughter S Aug 1896 14
49 92 Power James M Son S Sep 1897 13
50 92 Power Catherine F Daughter S Sep 1909
1 92 Power Francis F Daughter S Apr 1902 9
2 92 Power John(?) M Son S May 1909 2
Allison, David. History of Nova Scotia, Volume III: Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of the Old Families, Halifax 1916: A.W. Bowen & Co., p. 222-223
JOHN JOSEPH POWER.
As a lawyer John Joseph Power, M. A., LL. M., D. C. L., Dr. Jur., K. C., of Halifax, is able, reliable, honest and safe. He always carefully studies his cases, and is therefore prepared to try them. He is a cultivated debater, clear and forcible in his logic, convincing in his argument, and ranks as one of the best of advocates. Courteous to his associates and opponents, he at all times preserves and maintains the character of a gentleman in his practice. He is a man of even temper, always dignified in his deportment to the court, as well as a witness, avoiding as far as possible wounding the feelings of any one. At the same time he is absolutely fearless in the discharge of his professional duties and sticks by his case and client till the "last gun is fired."
Dr. Power was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, May 2, 1869. He is of Irish parentage, and is a son of Maurice Power and Catherine McNamara, his wife, both natives of Ireland, the father of County Waterford, and the mother of County Tipperary. They spent their earlier years in the Emerald Isle, from which they immigrated to Nova Scotia at an early day and established the family home at Pictou.
John J. spent his boyhood in his native vicinity and received his education in Pictou Academy and holds degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, as Bachelor of Arts with honors in History and Political Science in 1890 and that of Master of Arts at the University of Toronto in 1904. He taught as County Academy headmaster under Grade "A" Academic teachers' license for a number of years in high school in Nova Scotia in his early manhood. He was also graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1891 from the University of Toronto, and took the degree of Master of Laws from the same institution in 1913 with first class honors and the American Law Book Company prize. The degree of Bachelor of Civil Law was conferred on him by Kings College Law School, St. John, New Brunswick, on examinations in Ancient and Roman Law in 1897, and Trinity University, Toronto, gave him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in 1898 for a thesis and examination thereon, prescribed by the University and entitled "Actio personalis cum persona moritur" and published in the 1899 Canadian Law Times. For it he was specially recommended for the degree by the examiners of the late Britton Bath Osier, K. C. and Sir John Bourinot who spoke in high terms of the essay. In 1915 he took the degree of Doctor of Law after studying at Columbia University
Law School, New York. He was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1893, and was created a King's Counsel by the government of Nova Scotia in 1907. He has built up a large practice in Halifax where he has ranked as one of the leaders of the bar for a number of years having practiced in the lowest and highest courts in the Empire from the justices' courts to the Supreme Court of Canada and Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council. He was for two successive years vice-president of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, and five years a counsellor of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. Politically, he is a thorogoing Liberal, but independent of the expedients and discipline of party, a firm upholder of British connection and an ardent Home Ruler in Irish politics and believes in complete local autonomy for the British colonies. Religiously, he is a Roman Catholic. He married in 1895, Charlotte Hennigar of Hants County. [2]
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Birth: Registration Year: 1866 - Book: 1818 - Page: 31 - Number: 517
Death: Registration Year: 1949 - Book: 1949 - Page: 3885 - Number:
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1866 - 1949 (83 years)