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JOHN DALTON GEORGE8 LONDON (JAMES EDWARD7,
GEORGE HENRY TIBBITS6, EDWARD5,
CAVALIER4, JOHN3, RALPH2,
JOHN1) was born February 22, 1942 in Woodstock,
Carleton County, New Brunswick. He married SHEILA JOY ELLIOTT SMITH
September 3, 1966 in the Acadia University Chapel, Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, daughter of
CARL SMITH and JOAN SELLICK. She was born in Berwick, Kings County, Nova
Scotia. Children of JOHN LONDON and SHEILA SMITH are: MICHAEL JAMES9 LONDON MARIANNE JOAN9 LONDON |
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| Education Dalton attended Woodstock High School, graduating in 1960. He then studied at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, earning a BA in 1964. He then pursued graduate studies at the Université de Grenoble, France, for one year before returning to Acadia to finish his MA in 1966. Dalton then spent two years, until 1968, completing his doctorate in Grenoble. |
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| Work History Following his studies in France, in 1968, Dalton was hired as an assistant professor of French at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and to full professor in 1981. For nine years he taught French language and literature in the Faculty of Arts at UNB and in 1977 moved to the Faculty of Education where he remained until his retirement 30 June 1998. |
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| Career Achievements Dalton was granted a University Merit Award in 1993 and upon his retirement was given the honorary title of Professor Emeritus for life. |
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| Community Involvement Through the years Dalton has been heavily involved in church work (Grace Memorial Baptist and, lately, the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral), teaching adult Sunday classes and singing in the church choirs. For five years he did volunteer work at local prisons and since retirement is working as a volunteer at the local hospital. He is a founding singer in the Bel Canto Singers, a chamber choir devoted to singing and performing difficult repertoire since 1975. |
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| Interests and Hobbies Dalton enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, hiking, genealogy, music as a listener and performer, and traveling. He and Sheila have spent many years in France (each sabbatical year was spent in Chambéry, France, a city near Grenoble where he studied in the 1960s) and consider it to be their second homeland. |
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| Genealogy Research Genealogy occupies a great deal of Dalton's time. Living within easy walking distance of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, he has been successful in building up a relatively vast amount of information on the Londons and connected families in New Brunswick. Using material in the PANB, the Internet and various other sources and contacts, he has been able to trace his maternal line back to the early crowned heads of Europe and both his maternal and paternal lines back to Mayflower passengers William White and Stephen Hopkins, respectively. |
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| Dalton's London Family Genealogy Sources Primary Sources at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, PO Box 6000, Fredericton, N. B. E3B 5H1 Other Sources: 1) Murphy, Matthew Hilt. "The European Ancestry of Chrétien du Bois of Wicres, France, 1597-1628", 1995; 2) Family Bible; 3) http://members.aol.com/calebj/dir.html; 4) http://rootsweb.com/~canb/; 5) http://www.surnamesweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html; 6) http://www.familysearch.org/. I am immensely grateful to a large network of correspondents, electronic and otherwise, without whose help my database would not be what it is and is becoming. |
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