Donald D. Skeir

[3] He worked as an educator for over 25 years, teaching at area schools including Nelson Whynder Elementary, Sir Robert Borden Junior High and Bell Park Academic Centre.

[5] 110 members of the East Preston United Baptist Church were baptized at a service conducted on the Partridge River, with an estimated 300 people in attendance.

[4] He would travel to the United States to represent the interests of Nova Scotians at Baptist World Alliance and Southern Christian Leadership Conference conventions.

[4][7] In 1999, he was presented an award by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission for his lifelong dedication to empowering youth.

[8] Upon his passing the same year, he was recognized in the Nova Scotia Legislature by David Hendsbee as "Nova Scotia's own Martin Luther King, Jr."[9] In 2023, a street in a new housing development in the Preston area was named "Dr. Donald Skeir Way" in his honour.