# Eric Allaby > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eric_Allaby > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eric_Allaby.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allaby > Source revision: 1349615462 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_New_Brunswick) for [Charlotte-Fundy](/source/Charlotte-Fundy) | term_start1 = October 13, 1987 | term_end1 = September 11, 1995 | predecessor1 = [James N. Tucker Jr.](/source/James_N._Tucker_Jr.) | successor1 = ''District dissolved'' | office2 = [MLA](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_New_Brunswick) for [Fundy Isles](/source/Fundy_Isles) | term_start2 = September 11, 1995 | term_end2 = September 18, 2006 | predecessor2 = ''District created'' | successor2 = ''District dissolved'' | office3 = [Chair](/source/caucus_chair) of the [Liberal](/source/New_Brunswick_Liberal_Association) [caucus](/source/caucus) | term_start3 = 1998 | term_end3 = 1999 | predecessor3 = [John McKay](/source/John_McKay_(New_Brunswick_politician)) | successor3 = [Shawn Graham](/source/Shawn_Graham) | party = [Liberal](/source/New_Brunswick_Liberal_Association) | alma_mater = | occupation = [professional diver](/source/Scuba_diving), author }} '''Kenneth Eric Allaby''' (born August 7, 1943 on [Grand Manan](/source/Grand_Manan%2C_New_Brunswick) Island, New Brunswick) is a former New Brunswick politician. ==Provincial politics== He first ran for the [Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_New_Brunswick) as the [Liberal](/source/New_Brunswick_Liberal_Association) candidate for the [Charlotte-Fundy](/source/Charlotte-Fundy) riding in the [1982 election](/source/1982_New_Brunswick_general_election) but was defeated.{{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/}}{{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/}} He won the seat in the [1987](/source/1987_New_Brunswick_general_election) election in which [Frank McKenna](/source/Frank_McKenna)'s Liberal party captured every seat. He was re-elected in Charlotte-Fundy in [1991](/source/1991_New_Brunswick_general_election) and won the newly created [Fundy Isles](/source/Fundy_Isles) constituency in [1995](/source/1995_New_Brunswick_general_election), [1999](/source/1999_New_Brunswick_general_election) and [2003](/source/2003_New_Brunswick_general_election).{{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) In 2007, he was named to the board of directors for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission.{{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 }} ==Marine history== Allaby has a Bachelor of Science degree from [Acadia University](/source/Acadia_University), where he studied physics.{{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/}} He financed his education by working as a diver in Grand Manan [fishing weir](/source/fishing_weir)s and later worked as a [salvage diver](/source/salvage_diving) removing brass and copper from shipwrecks in the Bay of Fundy. In 1970 and 1971 he was funded by the [Ford Foundation](/source/Ford_Foundation) to study marine history, and spent three months at [Lloyd's of London](/source/Lloyd's_of_London) researching shipwrecks. From 1973 to 1976 he worked on [underwater archaeology](/source/underwater_archaeology) with funding from the [national museums of Canada](/source/national_museums_of_Canada).{{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}}{{rp|2}} Allaby served as curator of the [Grand Manan Museum](/source/Grand_Manan_Museum), where he succeeded his mentor [Lincoln Keith Ingersoll](/source/Lincoln_Keith_Ingersoll).{{rp|262}} He has written several books about shipwrecks and marine history. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Allaby, Eric}} Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian underwater divers Category:New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs Category:People from Grand Manan Category:Writers from New Brunswick Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Eric Allaby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allaby) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allaby?action=history)). 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