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Martinez, Anita Louise

  • Person
  • 1939-

Anita Louise Martinez is a photographer and long-standing community activist and volunteer, in particular with reference to the peace movement, women’s equality and empowerment groups, and LGBTQI rights. She has documented numerous local and national organizations and her work has been published in periodicals, magazines and books in Japan, New Mexico, New York and Canada.

Born in Ontario in 1939, at the age of eight she won a Brownie camera, which began her love of photography. At 15 she left her home town and began traveling, eventually settling in New Mexico, where she raised six children. In 1983 she moved to Nova Scotia.

She has studied a breadth of subjects—from woodworking to photography to cake decorating—and holds a nursing degree from the University of New Mexico and a diploma in photography, graphic design and digital imaging from Nova Scotia Community College. In addition, she’s completed workshops in drug and alcohol counseling, suicide prevention, and co-operative housing.

In Halifax, Anita served on various boards and committees: PLURA (Presbyterian, Lutheran, United, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches); Halifax Transition House Association; the National Transition House Association; Urban Core Support Network; Second Stage Housing Association; Take Back the Night Committee; the International Women’s Day Planning Committee; Pandora Women’s Newspaper; and WAYVES. She was membership coordinator on Lamplight Housing Cooperative Board and president of PSAC Union. Anita also served the board of Women’s Employment Outreach and was on the organizing team for Dawn Canada. She was a longtime support person with the Nova Scotia’s Persons with AIDS (PWA) Coalition.

Mascagni, Pietro

  • Person
  • 1863-1945
Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas.

Mascall Dance

  • Corporate body
Mascall Dance is a dance production company based in Vancouver. Their objective is to provide a forum of research, creation, performance, education and documentation of contemporary dance. Mascall Dance became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 because their video recording "Housewerk” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mason Chapman Band

  • Corporate body
  • 1979-1984

Mason Chapman was a four-piece band formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1979. The original line up included Doris Mason (keyboards, vocals), Bruce Chapman (keyboards, vocals), Dave Skinner (drums, vocals), and Mike Andrusyk (bass, vocals). The band played exclusively throughout the Atlantic Provinces and presented a sound that relied heavily on keyboards and four-part vocal harmonies. Mason Chapman featured music from several genres – pop, jazz, R&B, swing, and contemporary.

The band recorded its debut self-titled album at Solar Audio Recording Studies in 1982. The album includes ten original compositions. It was engineered by Carl Falkenham and Keith Delong and produced by Glen Meisner. The album was released by M.C. Records (MC 1001). M.C. Records also released a 7 inch single (RCI 539-S1).

Guest musicians joining the band included John Hollis on sax, guitarist Georges Hebert, Roger Simard on percussion, Eugene Husaruk , Juan Fernandez, Denise Lupien, Luis Grinhauz on violins and Guy Fouquet on cello. String arrangements were done by Skip Beckwith.

After the album was released, Roger Arsenault joined the band on bass and vocals. The band continued to perform until 1984. In 2012, the band reunited for a series of concerts at Stayner's Wharf in Halifax, Montes in Dartmouth, and the Shore Club in Hubbards.

Mason, Dutch

  • Person
  • 1938-2006
Dutch Mason is one of Canada's best-known blues artists. Mason was born in Lunenburg is 1938 and growing up was in a number of bands and musical groups. In 2002, he was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame and in 2005 received an Order of Canada. He has received one of the first East Coast Music lifetime achievement awards, a Juno award, CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues Award and has an award named after him at the Harvest Blues Festival in Fredericton.

Mathers, Margaret Ethel

  • Person
  • 1876-
Margaret Ethel Mathers was born Maud Ethel Bligh in Halifax in 1876 to Howard and Maria Bligh. In 1899 she married Frederick Francis Mathers, who served as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1940-1942. She was involved with numerous benevolent organizations, especially those aimed at improving the lives of girls and women.

Matheson, Charles Winfield

  • Person
  • 1878-1968
Charles Winfield Matheson was born in 1878 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Charles and Jane (MacRae) Matheson. He was educated at Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University (BA, 1903) and the University of Washington (MA, 1928). He was called to the bar in PEI in 1908 and in Alberta in 1909, where he practised law for much of his career. In 1942 he was appointed Acting Clerk in Chamber at the Calgary Court House. In 1909 Matheson married Annie Burn, with whom he had six children. He died in 1968.

Mathieson, Paul

  • Person
Paul Mathieson is a Canadian lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies, including Neptune Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Tarragon Theatre (Toronto, Ontario), and the Shaw Festival Theatre (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario).

May, Ruth

  • Person
  • 1928-2014
Ruth May established Dalhousie School of Nursing's Outpost Nursing Program, designed to train nurses to work in remote areas, particularly in Canada’s North. Born in 1928 in Auburn, New York, she was educated at Wellesley College and practised as a nurse midwife for many years in St. Mary’s, Labrador, as part of the Grenfell Mission to bring health care to remote parts of the country. She was hired at Dalhousie in 1966 to teach graduate nursing courses and pilot the Outpost Nursing Program. She retired in 1994 and later moved back to the United States. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie. She died in 2014.

Maycock, Bryan

  • Person
Bryan Maycock became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a compilation video recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mayfield, Ken

  • Person
Ken Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a compilation video recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mayfield, Ron

  • Person
Ron Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s because of their involvement in a compilation tape which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

MCA Music

  • Corporate body
  • 1924-1996
MCA (Music Corporation of America) Music Publishing was a North American music publishing company, founded in 1924 by Jules Stein and William R. Goodheart, Jr. The company became the Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in 1996.

McAllister, Ian

  • Person
  • 1937-

Ian McAllister joined Dalhousie University in 1971 as a professor of economics, later holding additional administrative and academic positions, including department chair and chair of the Senate Committee on International Development. Prior to coming to Dalhousie, he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities before serving as the Provincial Economist of Newfoundland (1962-65); secretary and economic advisor to the Royal Commission on Newfoundland's Economic Prospects (1965-67); and head of the regional development unit of the Canadian Department of Finance (1968-71).

His professional interests include regional development problems and policy issues and he concurrently served as director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s program on regional development; an economic advisor to Premier Regan; a member of the federal Minister of Industry’s advisory board on regional industrial policy; a member of the Mayor of Halifax’s economic development advisory board; a consultant to the federal Department of Energy on the economics of tidal power; and adviser to Newfoundland’s Public Utilities Board on rural electrification policy. He was a commissioner on Canada’s Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing (1984-86) and has written extensively on these and other themes, including international development and foreign aid, disasters and development, and the role of universities as development contributors.

Officially retired from Dalhousie in 2002, McAllister continues to teach and supervise students. He is a research fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and chair of the Board of the International Ocean Institute – Canada. In April 2015 McAllister received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University.

McCann, Penny

  • Person
Penny McCann is a filmmaker whose films range from dramatic narratives to experimental. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, as well as be heavily involved with video and artist-run centres. McCann became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2008 because of a video of her screening became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

McCarter, John Alexander

  • Person
  • 1918 - 2005
John Alexander (Alec) McCarter was the head of biochemistry within Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine from 1950-1965. During his years at Dalhousie, he became an avid bird watcher and member of the Izaak Walton Fishing Club. Born in 1918 and raised in Dawson City, Yukon, he was educated at UBC and the University of Toronto before joining the National Research Council Atomic Energy Project (1945-48). Following his years at Dalhousie, he helped to establish the Division of Medical Research of the National Research Council and its transition into the Medical Research Council of Canada. From 1966-1980 he served as the Director for the National Cancer Institute of Canada's Cancer Research Laboratory at Western University, and spent the final years of his research career at the University of Victoria. He died on 14 February 2005.

McConnell, Moira

  • Person
Moira McConnell became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “Alberta East” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

McCormack, Elizabeth

  • Person
Elizabeth McCormack became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording "Back in the Day" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
McCulloch, Thomas

McCulloch, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1776-1843

Thomas McCulloch, Dalhousie's first president, was a Presbyterian minister, author and educator. Born in 1776 in Fereneze, Scotland, to Michael and Elizabeth McCulloch, he was raised in a prosperous, intellectual environment engendered by a community of highly-skilled textile workers. He graduated in logic from Glasgow University in 1792, started medical school, and continued independent studies in languages, politics and church history before training as a minister at the General Associate Synod in Whitburn. In 1799 he was ordained, assigned a presbytery in Stewarton (near Glasgow), and married Isabella Walker, with whom he eventually had nine children.

Four years after his appointment in Stewarton, McCulloch requested an assignment in North America. He was intended for Prince Edward Island, but in 1804 he was inducted into the Harbour Church in Pictou, Nova Scotia. In 1806 he opened a school in his house, a first step toward his dream of establishing a non-sectarian institute of higher education in Nova Scotia. By 1818 he had helped to establish Pictou Academy, where he served as principal. Although an academic success, with a fine collection of scientific instruments and a distinguished library and natural history collection, from its beginning the school was under political and financial pressure.

In 1824 McCulloch resigned from the ministry to concentrate his efforts on teaching and educational reform. He remained at Pictou until 1838, when he became the first president of Dalhousie College as well as Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy. McCulloch’s belief in the importance of mathematics, natural philosophy and the physical sciences was integral to his understanding of a liberal education. He gave public lectures in chemistry, established a museum of natural history at Dalhousie, and continued to pursue insect collecting. He also wrote on theology and politics and composed popular satirical stories, including The Stepsure Letters. McCulloch died in September 1843.

In 2018 Thomas McCulloch was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/thomas-mcculloch.html

McCulloch, Thomas, Jr.

  • Person
Thomas McCulloch, Jr. (1809-1865) was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was the third son of Dr. Thomas McCulloch and was educated at Pictou, first in the grammar school under John McKinlay, and then in the Academy, under his father. He went to teach at Dalhousie College in 1843 and taught there until the end of 1844. When the College was revived in 1849, he was appointed principal and had charge of Latin, Greek, Rhetoric, Belle Lettres, and Natural Science. Previous to this time, he had taught a very successful private school in the schoolroom connected with the Poplar Grove church. Poplar Grove congregation elected him as an Elder and he continued to discharge his office while residing in the city. In 1853 he was appointed one of the professors in the Presbyterian Church in the West River Seminary. In this institution he taught Latin, Mathematics and Natural History. He returned to Dalhousie in 1863 and taught Natural Philosophy only. He kept an ornithology collection of nearly all the birds in Nova Scotia as well as mineral and botanical collections, some of which were still at Dalhousie when last noted in the 1970s. He wrote a book on taxidermy. Source: "Presbyterian Witness," Saturday, 11 March 1865, p. 1

McCurdy Printing Company

  • Corporate body
  • [ca. 1906] - 1999

McCurdy Printing Co. was a Halifax printing firm operating from ca.1906 to 1999. It was established by John Archibald McCurdy and later taken over by his son William Hue McCurdy, who assumed the position of president. William McCurdy also established Petheric Press, one of the first small publishing companies in Nova Scotia, which specialized in Nova Scotia historical works and was active from 1967 to 1984.

McCurdy Printing saw a variety of owners after McCurdy sold the business in the late 1970s. It was first purchased by Doug McCallum and two other entrepreneurs who sold the business again in 1988. The company was then owned by Brunswick Capital Group Ltd. and the Annapolis Basin Group before Newfoundland Capital Corporation Ltd. acquired it in 1999. That same year, Newfoundland Capital merged McCurdy with Atlantic Nova Print to form Print Atlantic.

McCurdy, Avis Hunter (Marshall)

  • Person
  • 1906-?
Avis Hunter Marshall was born in 1906 in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, to G. Ross Marshall and Nellie Blanche Taylor. A member of the class of 1927, Avis was an active member of the Dalhousie University student community. She belonged to the women’s debating team and the Council of the Students, serving as vice-president in 1925-26. She was an associate editor of the Dalhousie Gazette, for which she was awarded a “D,” and the editor of Dalhousie’s first yearbook in 1927. She was nominated to the Malcom Honor Society in her senior yearand elected Life Vice-President of the Class for 1927. In 1929 Avis married William Jarvis McCurdy, a fellow Dalhousie alumnus and Life President of the Class of 1926. The couple had four children and lived in Toronto, Ontario. Avis was active in many social and political causes, including running for office as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate. She was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto and was vice president of her local Dalhousie reunion committee for the Class of 1927.

McCurdy, William Jarvis

  • Person
  • 1904-1988

William Jarvis McCurdy was born in Quebec in 1904, son of the Reverend James Farquarhar McCurdy and Amelia Palmer McCurdy. Following in his father's footsteps, McCurdy was educated at Dalhousie University, receiving his BA in 1926. He earned an MA (1927) and PhD (1929) in philosophy from Harvard, then spent three years teaching at McMaster University before being recruited by the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. He remained there until his retirement in 1969.

McCurdy was active in social and political causes, including the Fellowship for the Christian Social Order (FSCO) and the Workers' Education Association (WEA). He served as a national president for the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), and later ran for office as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate. He was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto and was lifetime president of Dalhousie's Class of 1926. In 1929 he married Avis Marshall, with whom he raised four children. He died in 1988.

McDonald, Arthur B.

  • Person
Dr. Arthur B. (Art) McDonald was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia on August 29, 1943. He attended Dalhousie University earning a Bachelor’s in Science (Physics) from Dalhousie in 1964, and a Master’s in Science (Physics) in 1965. He then went on the Caltech, where he earned a PhD in Physics in 1969. He went to work at a nuclear research laboratory, then to Princeton University to teach Physics from 1982-1989. He started teaching at Queen’s University in 1989. Art began to study whether neutrinos had mass, and in doing so started the SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, in a mine 2km underground. The SNOLAB work led to the discovery that neutrinos from the sun change or oscillate, which proves they have a mass. This changed the standard model of physics. For his work, he and a Japanese scientist were co-winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. He hold an honorary degree from Dalhousie University (2007) and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.

McDonald, Christie

  • Person
  • 1875-1962
Christie McDonald (also spelled MacDonald) was Canadian-born opera singer and actress. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia on February 28, 1875, she was the daughter of John MacClean MacDonald, a shipbuilder and innkeeper in Pictou and Jessie MacKenzie. The family moved to Boston, Massachusetts when she was nine years old. Her first professional performance was in 1892 and she performed regularly in New York. In 1913, she appeared in "Sweethearts" as Sylvia, a role that was written for her by the composer Victor Herbert. She is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1910 operetta "Spring Maid" by Heinrich Reinhardt. McDonald was married twice, first to William W. Jefferson (son of the actor Joseph Jefferson) in 1901, and then to Henry L. Gillespie (1911).

McDonald, Jillian

  • Person
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist, but has been living in Brooklyn, New York since 1996. McDonald is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University. McDonald became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their film “Zombie Loop” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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