Fred Fountain
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| name = Fred S. Fountain
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| birth_name = Frederick Sheldon Fountain
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| birth_place = Truro, Nova Scotia
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| nationality = Canadian
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| occupation = Lawyer, businessman
| known_for = philanthropy
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Frederick Sheldon Fountain {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the chancellor of Dalhousie University from 2008 to 2015.{{cite web|title=Senior Administration page|url=https://www.dal.ca/dept/senior-administration/chancellor.html|website=Dalhousie University|accessdate=28 July 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=32766&tid=062|title=Biography - Fred S. Fountain|publisher=Canadian Red Cross|accessdate=29 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512031029/http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=32766&tid=062|archive-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead}}
Early life and education
Born in Truro, Nova Scotia, son of Sheldon Leroy and Marjorie (Manning) Fountain,{{cite web|title=In Memory of Sheldon L. Fountain|url=http://www.forministry.com/CANSUBCAPFBCHF/vsItemDisplay.dsp&objectID=280AF6F6-EA2B-4640-B0CF1DDCBF143DEA&method=display|work=First Baptist Church Halifax|publisher=www.forministry.com|accessdate=15 May 2013}} he graduated from King's-Edgehill School and then went on to Dartmouth College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French, and then graduated from Dalhousie University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Career
He was a founding partner of a Halifax law firm, Franklin Fountain Mitton and Thompson (later Burke Thompson){{cite web|title=Company history|url=http://www.bmtlaw.ns.ca/history.php|work=Burke Thompson|accessdate=15 May 2013|archive-date=22 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722184345/http://bmtlaw.ns.ca/history.php|url-status=dead}} and a judge of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court from 1980 to 1989. He has been the chief executive officer of "Great Eastern Corporation Ltd" since 1985. The company is an asset management firm that was founded in 1941 by his grandfather Fred Manning.{{cite news|last=Fountain|first=Fred S.|title=Sheldon Leroy Fountain|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/sheldon-leroy-fountain/article685735/|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=Globe and Mail|orig-date=18 May 2007|date=13 March 2009}} By 2009, after a brief period during which he took the company public, it had estimated assets of $102 million.{{cite web|title=Company Summary: Great Eastern Corporation Limited (The)|url=http://infoventure.tsx.com/TSXVenture/TSXVentureHttpController?GetPage=CompanySummary&PO_ID=21992|work=InfoVenture|publisher=TSX Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TMX Group Inc.|accessdate=15 May 2013}}
Philanthropy
For his philanthropy, especially in the field of the arts, Fountain was invested with the award of Member of the Order of Canada by then Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean on June 18, 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13692|title=Governor General to Invest 45 Recipients into the Order of Canada|date=June 16, 2010|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=29 October 2011}}
In May 2013, he donated $10 million to Dalhousie University's to establish a performing arts school.{{cite news|last=Bernard|first=Elisa|title=$10 million donation will establish Dal performing arts school|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1129421-10-million-donation-will-establish-dal-performing-arts-school|accessdate=15 May 2013|newspaper=Chronicle Herald|date=14 May 2013}}
His term as Chancellor was extended from June 2014 to March 31, 2015{{cite news|title=People on the Move|url=http://www.universityaffairs.ca/PeopleOnTheMove.aspx?langType=1036|accessdate=28 July 2014|agency=University Affairs|publisher=Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada|date=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021140217/http://www.universityaffairs.ca/PeopleOnTheMove.aspx?langType=1036|archive-date=21 October 2008|url-status=dead}} and his successor was Anne McLellan (May 25, 2015).Staff, [http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1271270-ex-deputy-pm-named-dalhousie-chancellor Ex-deputy PM named Dalhousie chancellor], Chronicle Herald, February 25, 2015
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