Daniel Cobb Harvey

Daniel Cobb Harvey (January 10, 1886-August 7, 1966), FRSC was a Canadian historian and archivist.

Biography

Harvey was born in Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island. He attended Prince of Wales College and then Dalhousie University where he graduated in 1910. He achieved a Rhodes scholar upon graduation and then attended Oxford University where he obtained a B.A. and an M.A. From 1915 to 1931 he taught at Wesley College and then at the University of Manitoba.{{cite book |editor1-last=Wallace |editor1-first=William Stewart |editor1-link=W. Stewart Wallace |editor2-last=McKay |editor2-first=William Angus |date=1978 |title=Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography |edition=4 |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |publication-place=London, England |page=340}} In 1931 he became Provincial Archivist for Nova Scotia, a newly created position and stayed in the capacity until his retirement in 1956.{{Cite web |last=Waite |first=Peter B. |title=Daniel C. Harvey and the Public Archives of Nova Scotia |url=https://digitalexhibits.library.dal.ca/exhibits/show/lives-of-dal-volume-2/chapter-2-2/daniel-cobb-harvey |publisher=Dalhousie University}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Past Award Winners |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners#TyrrellMedal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629010729/https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners#TyrrellMedal |archive-date=June 29, 2024 |publisher=The Royal Society of Canada}}