{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | image_size = | name = Eric Allaby | caption = | birth_date = August 7, 1943 | birth_place = | honorific_suffix = | office1 = MLA for Charlotte-Fundy | term_start1 = October 13, 1987 | term_end1 = September 11, 1995 | predecessor1 = James N. Tucker Jr. | successor1 = ''District dissolved'' | office2 = MLA for Fundy Isles | term_start2 = September 11, 1995 | term_end2 = September 18, 2006 | predecessor2 = ''District created'' | successor2 = ''District dissolved'' | office3 = Chair of the Liberal caucus | term_start3 = 1998 | term_end3 = 1999 | predecessor3 = John McKay | successor3 = Shawn Graham | party = Liberal | alma_mater = | occupation = professional diver, author }} '''Kenneth Eric Allaby''' (born August 7, 1943 on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick) is a former New Brunswick politician.
==Provincial politics==
He first ran for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as the Liberal candidate for the Charlotte-Fundy riding in the 1982 election but was defeated.<ref name = 82nom>{{Cite news| pages = 5| title = Grand Manan man selected| work = Telegraph-Journal| location = Saint John, NB| date = 23 August 1982 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/telegraph-journal-candidate-in-1982/191366648/}}</ref><ref name = 82results>{{Cite news| pages = 3| title = Ballot box scoreboard| work = Saint John Times Globe| location = Saint John, NB| date = 10 October 1982 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/saint-john-times-globe-1982-election-res/191366286/}}</ref> He won the seat in the 1987 election in which Frank McKenna's Liberal party captured every seat. He was re-elected in Charlotte-Fundy in 1991 and won the newly created Fundy Isles constituency in 1995, 1999 and 2003.<ref name = legbio>{{Cite encyclopedia| publisher = Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick| isbn = 1-55236-695-2| pages = 21| title = Fundy Isles| encyclopedia = Biographies of Members: Legislative Assembly New Brunswick 54th Legislature| location = Fredericton, N.B.| access-date = 2026-02-13| date = 2020| url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201023031221/https://www.gnb.ca/legis/publications/bio2000.pdf}}{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023031221/https://www.gnb.ca/legis/publications/bio2000.pdf |date=October 23, 2020 }} (pdf)</ref>
In 2007, he was named to the board of directors for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/wcs/2007e0262wc.htm |title=Provincial Capital Commission board of directors named, Government of New Brunswick |access-date=July 17, 2008 |archive-date=May 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503014357/http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/wcs/2007e0262wc.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Marine history==
Allaby has a Bachelor of Science degree from Acadia University, where he studied physics.<ref name = spectator>{{Cite news| pages = 99| last = Little| first = Bruce| title = Heritage lies under the ocean| work = The Hamilton Spectator| location = Hamilton, Ontario| date = 26 March 1975 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator-allaby-ford-found/191060118/}}</ref><ref name="legbio" /> He financed his education by working as a diver in Grand Manan fishing weirs and later worked as a salvage diver removing brass and copper from shipwrecks in the Bay of Fundy. In 1970 and 1971 he was funded by the Ford Foundation to study marine history, and spent three months at Lloyd's of London researching shipwrecks.<ref name="spectator" /> From 1973 to 1976 he worked on underwater archaeology with funding from the national museums of Canada.<ref name="seawins">{{cite book |last1=Allaby |first1=Eric |title=The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy |date=2022 |publisher=Nimbus Publishing |location=Halifax, NS |isbn=9781774711378}}</ref>{{rp|2}}
Allaby served as curator of the Grand Manan Museum, where he succeeded his mentor Lincoln Keith Ingersoll.<ref name="seawins" />{{rp|262}} He has written several books about shipwrecks and marine history.<ref name="legbio" />
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