Frederick Sheldon Fountain is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the

chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

from 2008 to 2015.

Early life and education

Born in

Truro, Nova Scotia Truro (Scottish Gaelic: ''Trùru'') is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River (Nova Scotia), Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's mouth ...

, son of Sheldon Leroy and Marjorie (Manning) Fountain, he graduated from

King's-Edgehill School King's-Edgehill School is a Canadian private university-preparatory boarding and day school located in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. It is the oldest English independent school in the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom, founded by Unite ...

and then went on to

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French, and then graduated from

in 1974 with a

Bachelor of Laws A Bachelor of Laws (; LLB) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree requires the study of core legal subje ...

degree.

Career

He was a founding partner of a Halifax

law firm A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise consumer, clients (individuals or corporations) about their legal rights and Obligation, respon ...

, Franklin Fountain Mitton and Thompson (later Burke Thompson) and a

judge A judge is a person who wiktionary:preside, presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a judicial panel. In an adversarial system, the judge hears all the witnesses and any other Evidence (law), evidence presented by the barris ...

of the

Regional Assessment Appeal Court The Regional Assessment Appeal Court (RAAC) is administered by the Province of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime ...

from 1980 to 1989. He has been the

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

of "Great Eastern Corporation Ltd" since 1985. The company is an

asset management Asset management is a systematic approach to the governance and realization of all value for which a group or entity is responsible. It may apply both to tangible assets (physical objects such as complex process or manufacturing plants, infrastr ...

firm that was founded in 1941 by his grandfather Fred Manning. By 2009, after a brief period during which he took the company public, it had estimated assets of $102 million.

Philanthropy

For his philanthropy, especially in the field of the arts, Fountain was invested with the award of Member of the Order of Canada by then

Governor General of Canada The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...

Michaëlle Jean Michaëlle Jean (; born September 6, 1957) is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office. Jean was the Organisation i ...

on June 18, 2010. In May 2013, he donated $10 million to Dalhousie University's to establish a performing arts school. His term as Chancellor was extended from June 2014 to March 31, 2015 and his successor was

Anne McLellan A. Anne McLellan (born August 31, 1950) is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin ...

(May 25, 2015).Staff
Ex-deputy PM named Dalhousie chancellor
''Chronicle Herald'', February 25, 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fountain, Fred Living people Canadian lawyers Year of birth missing (living people) Dalhousie University alumni Academic staff of Dalhousie University Chancellors by university and college in Canada Members of the Order of Canada People from Truro, Nova Scotia King's-Edgehill School alumni