OBITUARIES. Vll 



OBITUARIES. 



Major General Campbell Hardy, R. A., Sportsman, 

 Naturalist, Artist and Author; last surviving original 

 member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science; born 

 1831, died 1919. 



By Hahry Piers. 



The passing of General Hardy, the last surviving original 

 member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, and a 

 gentleman of unusual talent, calls for special notice, as he 

 was a notable man who had taken the deepest interest in 

 this province, and who did much through his writings to 

 draw the attention of sportsmen and naturalists to this 

 field. 



Campbell Hardy was born at Norwich, Norfolk, England, 

 on 10th October 1831, and was the eldest son of the Rev. 

 Charles Hardy, M. A., of Whitewell, Hertfordshire. In the 

 earliest years of the nineteenth century the latter had been 

 a chaplain on one of King George's frigates on the North 

 American station, and had visited Nova Scotia. Young 

 Hardy was educated for the military profession at the Royal 

 Military Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Royal Artil- 

 lery as ensign on 19th Dec, 1849, and became lieutenant on 

 11th Aug., 1851. 



To live and camp in the great backwoods of Canada 

 had been his ambition in early youth, and in Feb. 1852, at 

 the age of twenty, he came to Halifax, and remained here 

 till August 1867, a period of fifteen and a half years. Being 

 stationed in Nova Scotia throughout the entire JTeriod of the 

 Crimean War, he was debarred from participation in active 

 service. Like very many other military men of the period, 

 he was a most enthusiastic sportsman, and being keenly 

 interested in all he met with in forest and field, he became a 

 good naturalist, and his skilful pencil enabled him to delineate 

 with much truth the scenes and objects about him. In 

 Andrew Downs he found a field naturalist who could assist 

 him with knowledge of the animal life. He immediately 

 began to take advantage of the sport which the New World 

 offered in abundance, and was particularly attracted by the 

 king of our game, the moose. 



