Past Town Criers of Nova Scotia

Jean Seigneur                             Fortress Louisbourg  active   1718-1720

Etienne Duneau                          Fortress Louisbourg   active   1720-1723

Jean François Laurent (Lorant)Fortress Louisbourg  active    1723-1727 +

Pierre Jacquet                             Fortress Louisbourg  active   1728-1732

Nicolas Pigeot                             Fortress Louisbourg  active    c.1734

Jean Baptiste Durand                  Fortress Louisbourg  active   1734-1739

Jean Jacques Pringault           Fortress Louisbourg  active   1739-1745+

Michel Néel                             Fortress Louisbourg   active   1749-1758+

William Christie                          Halifax                             deceased 1830

James Fry                                  Halifax                                 deceased 1831

William Colburn                         Liverpool                              deceased 1838

George Chaulker                        Halifax                                  deceased 1845

?  , McFarlane                            Halifax                                   alive in 1855

Richard Bouler                           Liverpool                              deceased 1864

Moses Crossland                        Liverpool                               deceased 1864

John Bull                                   Port Hood                               alive in 1871

Duncan McBean                        Port Hood                              deceased 1871

George Green *                          Sackville                               deceased 1994 Tom Grey                                 Sackville                                 deceased 2003

Therese Dorey *                       Mahone Bay                           deceased 2004

Ian Clarkson                            Chester                                   deceased 2004

Ron Amey **                           Waverly                                  deceased 2007

Peter Cox *                              Halifax                                   deceased 2009

Perry Wamback **                   Shelburne                              deceased 2009

Bill Cluett                                Lunenburg                             deceased 2013

Ian Cameron                            Stellerton                               deceased 2014

Stew MacMillan **                  Bedford                                  deceased 2015

Clifford "Bob" Sanford  **       Liverpool                                deceased 2022

Len Atkinson                           Dartmouth                              deceased 2023

Peter Croft Davies                  Annapolis Royal                      deceased 2023

Troy Swinimer                        Dartmouth

Rod Collyer *                           Dartmouth

Bill Brooks                              Dartmouth

Austin "Ozzie" Stiles *            Bridgewater

Gerald Randall *                     Amherst

Francis Nickerson *                Truro

Jamie Rouse                           Eastern Passage

Peter Wyman *                      Annapolis Royal

Peter Atkinson                       Annapolis Royal

Ian Woodburn *                      Kingsport

Garry Zwicker                        Chester

Lorne Taylor *                       North Sydney

Bernie Murphy *                    Port Hawkesbury

Jean Wells                             Windsor Junction

Roger Zapira                          Mahone Bay

John McGee                            Lunenburg

Jack Langois                           Stellerton

Gary Long **                          Canning

Allie MacInnis                         Sydney

* - Charter Member

** - Founding Member

Note from Parks Canada staff at Fortress Louisbourg: "While Louisbourg didn't have an explicit town crier, they did have multiple huissiers, a court official that often filled the role of crier."  Sarah MacInnes Historian Fortress of Louisbourg. See more in the History section.

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