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Armand Wigglesworth is a native of Liverpool, and was born in 1918. He graduated from the old Liverpool Academy in 1935 and joined the Mersey Paper Company as an apprentice electrician. He became a Journeyman electrician after four years and just in time to join the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. He served five years and returned home in September 1945 on leave after volunteering for the war in the Pacific. That fizzled out and he went back to Mersey for a few months, when he applied for a job with the Town of Liverpool and became their Electric and Water Utility Superintendent, where he served for 17 years.
In 1963, he left Liverpool for Halifax to serve the provincial government as the first General Manager of the then new Nova Scotia Water Authority - the forerunner of the NS Department of Environment.
He then joined the federal government as Regional Director of the then Emergency Measurers organization. He served that organization for eight years in Halifax and Newfoundland, 3 ½ years in Toronto and 7 ½ years in Ottawa where his final position was Director of Operations.
In 1946, he was awarded the British Empire Medal. Later he received the Order of Saint John Coronation Medal, Centennial Medal, the CD with three bars, the 125 Canada Anniversary Commemorative Medal, and in 1994, the Order of Canada.
He has served post-war in the Canadian Militia since 1947; commanded the 133rd Field Battery, RCA and later became the 14th Field Regiment’s Commanding Officer. He also served as Honorary L/Col and later Colonel of the 28(Ottawa) Service Battalion. He is currently the Honorary L/Col of the 84th Field Battery, RCA in Yarmouth.
He joined Branch 038 of the Royal Canadian Legion in 1946 and served in many capacities ending in the President’s chair in 1987. He is a Life Member and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal with Palm Leaf.
Other awards include the Ross Leonard Dobbin, the Ira P. McNab and the Golden Globe awards from the Waterworks Industry; a Canadian Red Cross Society Honorary membership, the Queens County Sports Award of Merit and in 1979 a Citation from NASA. In 1998, he received recognition from the Air Force Association of Canada and the Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club, for 50 years service. He is still an amateur radio operator, having received his Proficiency License in 1948. He is an Honorary Member of the Liverpool Fire Department, having served 17 years in that department.
His interest in journalism began at age 17 when he wrote a regular sports column for the Liverpool Advance. He was also correspondent for first the Halifax Chronicle and later the Halifax Herald.
He returned to writing in 1984, producing two weekly columns for the Liverpool Advance, and many articles for the Halifax Herald on a freelance basis.
He also wrote and published four books, which recorded various aspects of every day life in Queens County from the early 1700s to the present. This collection of Anecdotes of Queens County (People, Places and Things), in time, is intended to be useful as archival references concerning that period.
He retired in 1983 and
settled in Summerville Centre.
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