Augustus William Harvey, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Augustus William Harvey
- Augustus William Harvey (May 31, 1839 – February 7, 1903) was an industrialist and politician in Newfoundland.
- He served in the Legislative Council of Newfoundland from 1870 to 1895 and represented Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1900 to 1904 as a Liberal.He was born in Bermuda and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Harvey came to Newfoundland in 1853.
- In 1861, he joined Dunscombe, Harvey and Company, later known as Harvey and Company; his uncle Eugenius Harvey was part owner of the firm.
- When his uncle left, he became managing partner.
- Originally a fishery supply business, the company expanded into mining, lumber and manufacturing.
- He was also a partner in A.
- Harvey and Company and the New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steamship Company.
- In 1894, he became an agent for the Dominion Coal Company of Cape Breton.
- Harvey established the Cabot Steam Whaling Company in 1896.In 1864, Harvey married Elizabeth Walker.In 1870, Harvey was named to the Newfoundland Legislative Council.
- He was opposed to union with Canada and supported the construction of a railway across the colony.
- He served as chairman of a committee tasked with deciding how Newfoundland should set up a fisheries commission; he later became chair of the commission.
- In 1889, he was named to the Newfoundland cabinet, responsible for the fisheries commission.
- From 1893 to 1896, he was head of the fisheries ministry.
- Harvey resigned from the Legislative Council and the cabinet in December 1895.
- This was in part due to the collapse of the Union and Commercial banks in 1894; Harvey had been a director for the Union bank as well as a major client of the bank.
- In 1900, he was elected to the Newfoundland assembly and he served in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.Harvey helped establish the Fishermen and Sailors' Home in 1886.
- He was also a member of the committee set up to help Doctor Wilfred Grenfell provide medical care in Labrador.He died in St.
- John's at the age of 63.
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