Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edward Lavin Girroir was a Nova Scotia politician. Born August 26 or 27, 1871 in Tracadie, Nova Scotia, he was the son of William Girroir and Anne Girroir. He had a twin brother, Hubert, who died one month after their birth, on September 25, 1871. Girroir was educated at Saint Francis Xavier College and Dalhousie University. He was a Halifax lawyer, and also lectured on international law at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In 1902, he married Lauretta Maude Corbin; she died in 1909. Senator Girroir and Mrs. Girroir had at least one son, Edward Lavin, Jr., born February 10, 1907.