Purchasing The Lockeport Company marked Bell's foray into Nova Scotia's fishing industry.

Halifax's Rosebank Avenue circa 1916.

One of R.P. Bell's business cards from his days as a "dollar-a-year" man in Ottawa.

Bell's scholarly older brother, Winthrop Pickard Bell, author of Mount Allison University's alma mater song, "Mount Allison So Fair," as well as the book, The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia.

"Younglands", on New Brunswick's beautiful Shediac Cape, briefly served as the post-matrimonial estate of R.P. and his second wife, Marjorie Young Smith.

Bell pictured with second wife, Marjorie (right), and stepdaughter, deLancey Cowl Lewis Torrie (left).

Bell's bronze bust resides in a small alcove in the lobby of the library named in his honour on the Mount Allison University campus.

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Photo credits: "Rosebank Park", Public Archives of Nova Scotia; "Canadian Fisheries Manual 1914-1944: Thirty Years of Progress in Canada's Fishing Industry"; "The Splendid Life of Albert Smith and the Women he Left Behind."