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Peter Thomas McGuigan (December 29, 1942 – December 8, 2017) was a Canadian historian and freelance writer.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a son of the late James and Stella McGuigan and a distant relative of James Charles McGuigan, McGuigan graduated from Dalhousie and Saint Mary's universities, and held a master's degree in Atlantic Canada Studies.

Career

McGuigan researched and wrote about Irish immigrant communities of the 19th century in Nova Scotia. He wrote a column called Looking Back about the evolution of Halifax's south end for the Southender magazine and a heritage column in The Chronicle Herald. McGuigan was also a long-time contributor and vendor to a local newspaper: Street Feat: The Voice of the Poor.

McGuigan's last book, The Intrigues of Archbishop John T. McNally and the Rise of Saint Mary’s University, is "a truly fascinating and unique chronicle, mixing biography, local heritage, and institutional history in equal parts". McGuigan was working on a new book about the historic Halifax Poor House at the time of his death after a brief battle with cancer.

Publications

• The Irish (Peoples of the Maritimes), 1991, Four East Publications
• Historic South End Halifax, 2007, Nimbus Publishing
• The Intrigues of Archbishop John T. McNally and the Rise of Saint Mary’s University 2012, Fernwood Publishing

References

1. Bator, Thom. "Get Better Acquainted with Your City over a Good Book". Spacing Atlantic.
2. McGuigan, Peter. "The Price of Grandfathering". The Chronicle Herald.
3. Conrad, Laura. "Street Newspaper Takes Hard Hit". King's Journalism Review.
4. Bennett, Paul. "A Haughty Man of Selfish Ambition". the Chronicle Herald.
5. "MCGUIGAN Peter Thomas". The Guardian (Charlottetown).
6. "Holy Cross Cemetery". Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University.
7. Bennett, Paul. "A Haughty Man of Selfish Ambition". the Chronicle Herald.

• 1942 births
• 2017 deaths
• 20th-century Canadian historians
• Deaths from cancer in Nova Scotia
• Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia