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Marion Robertson (nee Doane), teacher, researcher, folklorist, and author, was born in Massachusetts in 1910 and spent most of her life in Shelburne, N.S. She attended Mount Allison Ladies' College in Sackville, N.B. and Normal College in Truro, N.S., where she graduated with a teacher's certificate in 1942. In 1944 she married Donald Robertson (d.1981) of Shelburne. She served as secretary of the Shelburne County Historical Society from 1947-1975 and became the author of seven books and numerous articles, primarily on the early history of Shelburne County. She received the Centennial Award from the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society for her publication, Kings Bounty: A History of Early Shelburne, N.S. (1983) and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1993. She died on 3 October 1998.