George Arthur Benjamin Hall, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About George Arthur Benjamin Hall
- George Arthur Benjamin Hall (October 29, 1868 – November 5, 1948) was a physician and political figure in British Columbia.
- He represented Nelson City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1907 to 1909 as a Liberal. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Lewis Hall and Elizabeth Beardsmore, and came to British Columbia with his parents at the age of seven.
- He was educated in British Columbia and at the Philadelphia Dental College.
- Hall practised as a dentist in Nanaimo for two years and then continued his medical studies at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, at the New York Polyclinic and at Johns Hopkins University.
- He then set up practice in Nelson.
- In 1893, he married Christina Pool.
- Hall was resident physician for the Canadian Pacific Railway, provincial health officer and jail physician.
- He was also superintendent of the Kootenay Lake General Hospital for three years.
- Hall served during World War I.
- He returned to Nanaimo after the war and was mayor from 1930 to 1931.
- He opened a medical clinic in Nanaimo in 1936 with his two sons and another doctor.
- Hall later retired to Victoria.
- He died in Lantzville at the age of 80.
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