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Charles Wilkie Grant, QC was born in 1912 at Beaver Mountain, Antigonish County, N.S., son of Norman and Margaret (Taylor) Grant. He graduated from Dalhousie Law School and was called to the bar in 1937. After employment in the attorney-general's department and in New Glasgow, he established a law practice in Guysborough in 1939. He was appointed Queen's counsel in 1972. In addition to his law practice, he was municipal clerk and secretary of the school board. He was also a member and long-time elder of Wesley United Church, charter member of Guysborough Lions Club and served for forty years as member and chairman of the board of Guysborough Memorial Hospital. At the time of his death in 1991, he was the oldest practicing lawyer in Nova Scotia.