[2] Its "unshrinkable" underwear, developed in 1898, became popular with gold prospectors in the Yukon.
[3] Stanfield represented Colchester County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 until 1920, serving with Robert H. Kennedy.
He was appointed as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in 1930 but died in office in Halifax the following year at the age of 59.
Their son Robert Lorne Stanfield became premier of Nova Scotia and served as leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.
Another son Frank Thomas Stanfield also served in the House of Commons of Canada.