Herbert Robertson Banks
1908 - 1986

Herbert Robertson Banks was born in Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia in 1908. He was the son of Dr. H. H. Banks and Margaret Robertson Banks. He attended elementary school in Barrington Passage and high school in Yarmouth. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1932.

He was married in Halifax, and worked with Naval Services during the war years, then with the Department of Welfare in the provincial government. He retired in 1970 and moved back to Barrington Passage.

In Halifax, H. R. Banks was active in community and church affairs, serving as warden in St. Paul's and as treasurer in the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was keenly interested in the activities of the Nova Scotia Museum and the Nova Scotia Archives, and was instrumental in arranging the 1983 exhibit of Loyalist China in the Museum from the King's College collection.

For many years he collected Canadian stamps, coins and tokens and wrote several articles on the history and development of Nova Scotia Coastal Shipping and the South Shore Railway which were published in the Nova Scotia Historical Review (Quarterly).

In May 1985 he was the first recipient of the Phyllis Blakeley Lifetime Achievement Award.

Herbert Robertson Banks died in Barrington Passage in 1986.