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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Irvine Barrow
- Augustus Irvine Barrow (February 15, 1913 – March 17, 2005) was a Canadian chartered accountant and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Hartley F.
- Barrow and Margaret E.
- (Irvine), his family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1918.
- He attended the Maritime Business College.
- After working as an accountant he was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nova Scotia in 1939. In 1946, he co-founded an accounting firm with J.
- C.
- Nicoll, which grew to have several branches in the Maritime provinces known as Barrow Nicoll & Company.
- He was President of the Nova Scotia Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.
- He was also a Director of the Bank of Canada and the Industrial Development Bank. He was a member of the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University and chairman of its budget committee.
- A Liberal supporter, he was President of both the Nova Scotia and the Halifax County Liberal Associations.
- He was also the chair of the 1962 and 1963 federal election campaigns for Prime Minister Lester B.
- Pearson. In 1974, he was appointed by Pierre Trudeau to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Halifax-Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
- He was Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance.
- He served until his retirement in 1988. In the early 80s, Barrow and two other individuals were charged with criminal offences in relation to fund-raising activities on behalf of the Nova Scotia Liberal Association.
- In May 1983, following a jury trial in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Barrow was found guilty and fined $25,000.
- He appealed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, which dismissed the appeal in September 1984.
- He then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that the jury selection process had been contrary to the requirements of the Criminal Code.
- The Supreme Court ordered a new trial.
- At the new trial, Barrow was acquitted. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2005.
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