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Liz McDonell became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980 because of their involvement in a video recording entitled “Beta tape for exquisite archives” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Debbie McEwen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1986 because of their involvement in the video recording “Transformation video” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ian McGettigan has worked within the sound department in various films and has completed sound engineering and editing for musicians. McGettigan was a part of the band, “Thursh Hermit” in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region in the 1990s. McGettigan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recording “Learn to Party: Thursh Hermit” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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McGill University. Deptartment of Geological Sciences.
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- 1869 - 1937
Hector McInnes was a teacher, lawyer, businessman and politician in Halifax. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1860, he graduated with his LLB from Dalhousie in 1888, the first of four subsequent generations of Dalhousie law graduates. He served on the board of Dalhousie University from 1904-1937 and was chairman from 1932 until his death in 1937.
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Dr. Greg Kealey (Canadian Social History, Labour History, Security and Intelligence History) is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Rochester. He taught at Dalhousie University and Memorial University before accepting his current position as Vice President of Research at the university of New Brunswick. He is the founding editor of Labour/le Travail, which he edited from 1976-1997. He remains on its editorial board and is the Treasurer and Chair of the publications committee of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. He also edits the Canadian Social History Series for University of Toronto Press.He has written two prize-winning titles: Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism (1980, second ed. 1991); and Dreaming of What Might be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario (1982; winner of the Corey Prize of the AHA and CHA).Gregory Kealey had published and edited other works and publications throughout his career. Several of his articles have been published in Canadian and international historical journals. He has completed, with Reg Whitaker and Andy Parnaby, a history of the Canadian secret service entitled Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America, that is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. To date he has supervised 18 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie (2), Memorial (12), and UNB (4), and has supervised 8 post-doctoral fellows. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.
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- 1862-1934
Donald Sutherland McIntosh was a geologist and professor at Dalhousie University. He earned his BSc from Dalhousie in 1896 and MSc from McGill University in 1910. He worked with E.R Faribault on the Geological Survey and taught at Baddeck Academy before being appointed Assistant Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in September 1909. For 23 years he was the only member of the Geology Department, retiring in 1932. He died in 1934.
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- 1894-1988
John Edward McIntyre was an agriculturalist born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, in 1894. After being educated at Sacred Heart College in Caraquet, from 1917-1919 he studied agriculture in Saint Anne de la Pocatiere, and was appointed Agricultural Representative for the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture at St. Hilaire. In 1921 he graduated with a BSc Agriculture from Ontario Agricultural College, and continued to work for the New Brunwsick Department of Agriculture—at Bathurst from 1921-1928, and at Chatham from 1928-1929. In 1940, he served as the Agricultural Representative for the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture at Shelburne and Sherbrooke for one year. Between 1941-1975 he worked variously for the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, the Potash Company of Canada, Canadian National Railways and the Maritime Fertilizer Council. He died in Moncton in 1988.
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Ian McKay has taught Canadian History at Queen's since 1988. His research interests lie in Canadian cultural history; in the economic and social history of the Atlantic region of Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific reference to working-class movements and to tourism; in the history of Canada as a liberal order; and in the history of both Canadian and international left-wing movements for socialism. His books include The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (1994, 2004, 2009); Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History (2005); Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 (2008), which won the Canadian Historical Association's John A. Macdonald Prize for the best 2008 book in Canadian history; and In The Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (2010), co-authored with Robin Bates, which in 2011 won the International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard award for the best book written in Canadian studies in English or French. His article "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History," Canadian Historical Review 81, 3 (September 2000), 617-645 was recognized as the best article in the journal for the year; the discussions aroused by this article can be consulted in Michel Ducharme and Jean-François Constant, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009). Warrior Nation? Rebranding Canada in a Fearful Age, co-authored with Jamie Swift, is slated for publication in 2012. Over the next ten years, he plans to bring out two more volumes on the history of the Canadian left, as well as a general book on Canada as a liberal revolution and a study of the influence among western socialists of the work of Antonio Gramsci. To date, he has supervised or co-supervised to completion 64 graduate theses, including 27 at the doctoral level.
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- 1910-1991
Harold Ross McKean was a 1934 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and class winner of the Gold Medal. He was born in Toney Mills, Pictou County, in 1910. After completing post-graduate studies at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he served in both the British and Canadian Medical Corps before setting up a medical practice in Truro, Nova Scotia. Dr. McKean retired in 1984 and died in September 1991.
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Colin McKenzie became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Alsation” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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William MacKenzie was a carpenter for the Acadia Coal Company during the 1890s.
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Rita McKeough is a Canadian media artist. McKeough’s education includes a BFA (1975) from the University of Calgary and a MFA (1979) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Works of McKeough’s have been included in the tape collection of the Centre for Art Tapes.
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Bill McKiggan was born in 1948 in Prince Edward Island. McKiggan became an artist, working with time-based mediums which frequently deal with politics and labour issues and topics. McKiggan often collaborated with Tom Burger, and together they formed with the Fish or Cut Bait Collective in 1980 until 1989. The objective of the collective was to finish their film, “Fish or Cut Bait”, which is about documenting the fishing industry in the Atlantic Provinces.
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- 1845-1924
J.L. McKim was a merchant who was born in 1845 in Wallace Bay, Nova Scotia. His store at Wallace Bridge was destroyed by a storm in 1873 and the merchandise washed away by high tides. They rebuilt the store, which was eventually sold to the O’Brien family, who opened it as the Bridge Motel. He died in Wallace Bridge in 1924.
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Ian McKinnon educated includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1980), a MFA from Concordia (1997), and a Master of Theological Studies from Trinity College (2010). McKinnon was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and a part-time faculty member at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. McKinnon became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1994 because their video recording “Pools of Time” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ian McLaren is a marine biologist and professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He was born in Montreal and received his BSc (1952) and MSc at McGill University (1955). He spent summers working on an arctic research vessel and studying marine life in Nunavut. After earning his PhD at Yale in 1961, he taught at McGill from 1963-1966 and joined the Department of Biology at Dalhousie in 1967.
McLaren has published over 100 scientific papers, primarily in the discipline of marine biology, as well as a popular book called All the Birds of Nova Scotia. He has served on national academic grant committees and on the boards of regional and national natural history and conservation organizations including the National Science and Engineering Research Council; the Nova Scotia Institute of Science; the Whales and Whaling Advisory Committee, 1977-1980; and the Eminent Panel on Seal Management, 2000-2001. He was a scientific advisor and/or witness to federal and/or provincial review panels of environmental impact statements, including the Hibernia (1985) and the Sable Offshore Energy Project (1997).
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Katherine McLaren was a student at the Atlantic Institute of Education, Dalhousie University, in the 1980s.
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Rhonda McLean became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Group Interview” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
McLelan, Archibald Woodbury, 1824-1890
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Archibald Woodbury McLelan was a shipbuilder, merchant, and politician, serving as the sixth lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. He was born in Londonderry, Nova Scotia in 1824 to Martha Spenser and Gloud Wilson McLelan, a member of the House of Assembly. He was educated in Great Village, Nova Scotia and Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick before joining his father's shipping and retail business.
McLelan went into partnership with his brother-in-law, John M. Blaikie, with whom he built ships on the Great Village River into the early 1880s. Upon his father's death in 1858 he succeeded him in the House of Assembly. He strongly opposed Confederation and was elected as the first federal member of parliament for Colchester as an Anti-Confederate. After reconciling himself to Confederation he was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1869, where he sat as a Liberal-Conservative. He resigned from the Upper House to run again in the 1881 federal election and was returned to parliament as a Conservative. He served as minister of finance from 1885 to 1887 in the second administration of Sir John A. Macdonald. Following this position he became postmaster general and was responsible for introducing the parcel post system into Canada. In 1888 he accepted the position of lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia.
McLelan married Caroline Metzler in 1842, with whom he had three children. McLelan passed away in Halifax at the age of sixty-five in 1889.
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Anne McLellan was born in Noel Shore, Hants County, Nova Scotia on August 31, 1950. She came to Dalhousie in 1968 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. She got her Law degree from Dalhousie in 1974, and a Master of Laws from King’s College in London in 1975. She became a law professor at the University of New Brunswick and then in 1980 moved to teach at the University of Alberta. At U of A she also served as Dean of Law. In 1993 she entered federal politics, in the Liberal party. She won as MP of Edmonton Northwest in 1993 and served four terms as a Liberal MP in Edmonton (until 2006). She served as a Cabinet Minister her whole time as MP – she was Minister of Natural Resources and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians (1993-1997), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1997-2002), Minister of Health (2002-2003), and Minister of Public Safety (2003-2006). She was Paul Martin’s Deputy Prime Minister from 2003-2006. In 2006 she joined the office of Bennett Jones in Edmonton and serves as a Senior Advisor. She serves on many boards and committees, including being the Chair of the Dalhousie Advisory Council and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta (since 2006). She holds two honourary degrees, received the Alberta Order of Excellence, and the Order of Canada (2009). In 2015 she was appointed as the seventh Chancellor of Dalhousie University.
McLennan, John Stewart, Hon., 1853-1939
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The Hon. John Stewart McLennan, industrialist, historian and publisher, was born 5 November 1853 in Montreal to Hugh McLennan and Isabella Stewart. He was educated at McGill and Cambridge universities before moving to Syndey, Nova Scotia. In 1881 he married Louise Bradley, with whom he had three children, Hugh, Margaret and Louise. He married Grace Henoys Tytus in 1915, with whom he had one son, John Stewart, Jr.
In 1904 McLennan bought the Sydney Post (later the Post Record). He was also a director of both the Dominion Iron and Steel Company and the Dominion Coal Company, and the author of Louisbourg, from its Foundation to its Fall, 1713-1758, which was first published in 1918. In 1916 Robert Borden appointed McLennan to the Canadian Senate, where he served until his death on 15 September 1939.
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Heather McLeod is an artist who teaches Art Education as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University. McLeod’s education includes a BA from the University of British Columbia, a MA from Simon Fraser University and a PhD from the University of Victoria. McLeod became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1987 because of their recording entitled “A word in edgewise” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1838-1920
John David McLeod was born in 1838 in West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He was educated at the local grammar school and at Pictou Academy. In 1866 he was admitted to the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1876. In 1887 he moved to California for two years. He returned to practise law in Lunenburg and was later appointed Judge of Probate for Pictou County, an office he held until 1919. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia from 1887-1889, briefly acting as Liberal leader. He also had an unsuccessful run for federal office in 1887 as an Independent. McLeod served as mayor of Pictou for eight terms between 1879-1910. In 1868 he married Margaret Fraser Harris, daughter of William Harris (Sheriff of Pictou). McLeod died on 14 February 1920.
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- 1864-1949
J. Frank McMahon was born in 1864 to George W. and Margaret McMahon. He passed his matriculation examinination of the provinical medical board in 1887 and attended Halifax Medical College during the 1887-1888 session. There is no record that he continued his medical studies past this year. By 1897 he was living in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, and working as a clerk when he married Margaret H. McIntyre. At his death in 1949 he was a retired general merchant; he was survived by his second wife, Irene McMahon.
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