Daniel Cobb Harvey

Daniel Cobb Harvey (10 January 18867 August 1966) was a Canadian historian and archivist who was the Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia from 1931 to 1956.

Biography Harvey was born on 10 January 1886 in Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, to parents John and Margaret Harvey . In 1931, he became Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia, a newly created position and stayed in the capacity until his retirement in 1956.

He was President of the Canadian Historical Association from 1937 to 1938. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1928 and he received its J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1942.

Harvey died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 7 August 1966, at the age of 80.

Publications Thomas Darcy McGee: The Prophet Of Canadian Nationality, (1923) The French Régime in Prince Edward Island, (1926) The Centenary Of Edward Whelan, (1926) Joseph Howe And Local Patriotism, (1927) Sir George Etienne Cartier, (1930) The Colonization Of Canada, (1936) The Heart of Howe, (1939)