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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lynch, Bill, 1900-1972
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Description area
Dates of existence
1900-1972
History
William P. Lynch was born on 25 August 1900 at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, the son of Matthew and Josephine (Palmer) Lynch. He was raised on McNab's Island, Nova Scotia. He began a road show in 1925 and won the bid to hold his carnival at the Halifax Exhibition in 1929. It later became the Bill Lynch Shows, the only major carnival owned locally and operated exclusively in Atlantic Canada. He died in Halifax on 23 October 1972.