Frank Parker Day (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Frank Parker Day (9 May 1881 at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia - 30 July 1950 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian athlete, academic and author. Since Day's father was a Methodist minister who moved to a new congregation every three years, Day spent his youth living throughout Nova Scotia, living in Wallace, Acadia Mines, Mahone Bay, Boylston, and Lockeport. When he was seventeen, Day attended Pictou Academy and from there went on to earn a BA from Mount Allison University. He later won a Rhodes Scholarship, studying at Oxford University. Day was an athlete, and won the Oxford-Cambridge Heavyweight Championship.