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WIL1ROT, Samuel, Canadian pisciculturist, born in Clarke, West Durham County, Ontario, 22 August, 1822. He was educated at Upper Canada college, Toronto, and became a farmer. Mr. Wilmot has been warden of the united counties of Durham and Northumberland, a member of the agricultural and art associations of Ontario, and presided over the first Dominion exposition of agriculture, arts, and manufactures, at Ottawa in 1879. For many years he has given great attention to the subject of fish-culture, and in 1873 received through the French government a medal front the Societe d'acclimatation for the services he had rendered in that department of practical science, he also obtained the gold medal for excellence in piscicultural exhibits in the Dominion exposition of agriculture and arts at Ottawa in 1879. Mr. Wilmot is superintendent of fish-culture operations for the Dominion government, and collected the exhibit of the fishery products of the Dominion for the World's fishery exposition in London in 1883, where he acted as chairman of the Canadian commission, and obtained by his system of fish-breeding the gold medal for "the best and most complete fish-breeding establishment in the great International fisheries exposition."
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