Lionel Avard Forsyth

Lionel Avard Forsyth

Lionel Avard Forsyth, lawyer, industrialist (b at Mount Benson, NS 1 Aug 1890; d at Montréal 1 Jan 1957). Forsyth graduated from King's College (Windsor, NS) and attended Harvard before joining the BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA in 1913. After 18 months in Havana, Cuba, he became a professor of modern languages at King's. Forsyth taught himself law and was admitted to the NS Bar in 1918. In 1926 he left a successful Halifax law practice to join Montgomery, McMichael, Common, Howard and Ker in Montréal. There he developed a large corporate clientele and by 1946 was a director of over 40 companies. In 1950 he became president of Dominion Steel and Coal Corp, which employed one-sixth of Nova Scotia's work force. Forsyth rejuvenated the company, developing an ambitious and successful expansion program and establishing harmonious industrial relations.