Records With Access Point "Queens County"
30 results found (29 digitized image(s) available).
W. Albert Hickman fonds
Fonds - [ca.1880]-[ca.1903]
P13
William Albert Hickman (22 Dec 1878, New Brunswick – 10 Sep 1957) was a Canadian designer and manufacturer of innovative fast boats. He is best known as the inventor of the Hickman Sea Sled.
Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, Hickman grew up in Pictou, Nova Scotia, as part of a wealthy shipbuilding family. He earned a degree in marine engineering from Harvard University in 1899. He was named a Commissioner of New Brunswick and was situated in London, England to encourage immigration to NB through lectures and demonstrations using lantern slides. A lecturer for the Government, a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute and a successful novelist.[1]
He was highly intelligent but, openly, did not suffer fools gladly and was forever irritating his contemporaries in the marine business. This probably contributed to the low coverage of his ideas in the boating press.[2
William Albert was remembered in the wills of both is paternal grandparents - Joseph left him $3000 and Ruth Hickman l...