McGill Library
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Person
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Bell, Basil, 1809-1889
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History
Basil Hall Bell was born in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland, in 1809. He arrived in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1847, where he was a merchant. He was the father of Adam Carr Bell, who was a Canadian politician, and the first mayor of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.