Allison Dysart

Albert Allison Dysart (March 22, 1880 – December 8, 1962) was a New Brunswick politician, lawyer and judge.

[1] Dysart was born in Cocagne, New Brunswick and had an ancestry of Scottish and English Loyalist.

Years later, Dysart would enter Dalhousie Law School and in 1914 he was called to the bar,[2] setting up practice in Bouctouche.

Dysart also served as his own Minister of Public Works from 1935 to 1938, and Chairman of the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, from 1938 until his retirement from politics.

It attempted to create jobs in the Great Depression through extensive road construction.