Frederick Sheldon Fountain CM is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist.

He was a founding partner of a Halifax law firm, Franklin Fountain Mitton and Thompson (later Burke Thompson)[4] and a judge of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court from 1980 to 1989.

The company is an asset management firm[2] that was founded in 1941 by his grandfather Fred Manning.

[7] In May 2013, he donated $10 million to Dalhousie University's to establish a performing arts school.

[8] His term as Chancellor was extended from June 2014 to March 31, 2015[9] and his successor was Anne McLellan (May 25, 2015).