Background
Shaw was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to Lloyd E. and Lillian Morse Shaw, owners of L.E. Shaw Limited, brickmakers.
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Columbia University.
Career
Earning a Masters or Arts degree in Economics from Columbia University, Shaw went to teach in the schools throughout the Annapolis Valley. Shaw also worked with the Young Men’s Christian Association in Halifax and Ottawa. While in Ottawa Shaw was very important in the founding of Carleton University, becoming the university"s first registrar.
lieutenant is in Ottawa where Shaw met many of the founders of the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation.
In the mid-1940s Shaw and his family returned to Nova Scotia, where he held the position of provincial secretary of the Nova Scotia wing of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation until 1949. During World World War II Shaw enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and spent the war as a flight sergeant.
lieutenant is after the war that Shaw took over the family business as Chief Executive Officer of L.E. Shaw Limited. He held the position of Chief Executive Officer until 1979 when he retired at the age of 65.
Shaw was involved in many community and business organizations.
Shaw also worked tirelessly for community groups including Veterans Against Nuclear Arms and Elderhostel. Throughout his career Shaw was honoured numerous times with honorary degrees from such institutions as Acadia University, Dalhousie University, Saint Francis Xavier University and the Nova Scotia Technical College. Shaw died on 16 October 1993 at the age of 79 in Halifax, Nova Scotia after a four-year-long battle with Alzheimer"s disease.
Shaw himself ran for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the 1945 and 1949 federal elections and in a federal byelection in 1948, and for the NDP in the 1974 federal election, but was never elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
Achievements
Politics
lieutenant is suggested that while at Columbia Shaw became interested in socialism, a course which would direct the remainder of his life. When the Cleveland Clinic Foundation officially formed in 1933 Shaw became the political party"s first national research director Shaw"s daughter Alexa McDonough followed in her father"s political footsteps, becoming the first female leader of the provincial party in 1981 when she became leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, and leader of the federal party in 1995.
Membership
He held the position of director of the Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company, member of the executive council of the Canadian Manufacturers" Association and at one point was vice-president of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.
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New Democratic Party
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Awards
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Member of the Order of Canada Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.