Walter V. Grant
Walter Grant's career in agriculture was a reflection of his concern for the individual farmer and the farm family.
Born in Yarmouth, he studied at the N.S. Agricultural College, MacDonald College - and University of Connecticut. During his thirty-five years with the N.S. Department of Agriculture and Marketing, he was a Farm Management Specialist and Supervisor, lecturer at the N.S.A.C., Associate Director and Director of Extension. From 1975 to 1986, he was Deputy Minister.
Walter Grant elevated the process of consultation and cooperation between government and industry to a level seldom achieved elsewhere.
Other accomplishments include the establishment of the N.S.A.C. as a degree-granting institution, implementing the first federal/provincial agricultural development agreement and encouraging organized agricultural marketing.
Various agencies frequently called on Walter Grant for assistance. He authored the Grant Report on Feed Freight Assistance, served as Chairman of the Trade Development Advisory Council, Maritime Resource Management Services, Canadian Agricultural Extension Council, Canadian 4-H Council, N.S. Farm Debt Review Board and the N.S. Dairy Commission.
Active in his Church, he was also a member of the N.S. Institute of Agrologists, the Agricultural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Society of Extension and the Canadian Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Society.
Walter Grant was made a member of the Honour Society of Phi Cappa Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta, received the Centennial Medal, named an Honourary Associate of the N.S.A.C. and Distinguished Agrologist by the N.S. Institute of Agrologists.
A resident of Truro, he was married to the former Shirley Conley. They had three sons.
Nominated by the N.S. Milk Producers Association, Walter Grant's many contributions to agriculture and his community merit recognition in the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame.