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Biography
William Hugh “Hugh” Hartigan was born April 13, 1917 in North Sydney, Cape Breton County. He was the son of Michael Jospeh Hartigan and Mary Cameron. The Hartigans moved to Centreville, Cape Breton in the 1920s where Michael Joseph Hartigan worked as a coal inspector. By 1931 they had taken up farming and had moved to a farm in Dunmore, Antigonish County.
Hartigan was a veteran of the Second World War. His older brother David Hartigan and younger brothers Collin Francis “Frank” Hartigan and Dan R. Hartigan also served in the Second World War.
After the war Hartigan worked as a brakeman for the Canadian National Railway. In 1946, he married stenographer Annie Marie Richard of New Glasgow, Pictou County on Septemeber 2, 1946 at Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Glasgow. They resided in Pictou County until the late 1950s when they moved to Truro, Colchester County where Hartigan worked as a trackman for Canadian Pacific Railway.
Hartigan died November 10, 1966 at Colchester Hospital in Truro, Colchester County. He is buried in Truro Cemetery, Truro, Colchester County.
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