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Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German Fluxus and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.
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Donald Drysdale Betts was born in Montreal in 1929 to Wallace and Mary (Drysdale), and later moved to Halifax. He studied at the University of King's College, earning his Baccalaureate-first class honours and receiving the Dalhousie-King's University Medal in Physics in 1950, and his M.Sc. in 1952 from Dalhousie University. After this, he attended McGill University to complete his Ph.D.in theoretical mathematics (1955). Betts moved to Edmonton and served a year as a Post Doctoral Fellow before being appointed as a faculty member in the physics department at the University of Alberta, where he became a full professor over the following 24 years (1955-1980). During this time, he was appointed Director of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta (1972-78), as well as several executive roles within the Canadian Association of Physics (CAP), including president (1969-70). In 1980, Betts returned to Dalhousie as Dean of Arts and Science (1980-88), Dean of Science (1988-1990) and Provost of the College of Arts and Science (1988-89). He continued as a Professor of Physics until his retirement in 1994, when he was was awarded the honourary position of Professor Emeritus in physics. Betts also served as chair and later as a member of the Selection Committee for the Rutherford Medal in Physics for the Royal Society of Canada (1986-87, 1998-2002); as the editor of the Canadian Journal of Physics from March 1992 to March 1997; and on the executive of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science (NSIS) (1996-2002), including a term as President (1999-2001). Donald Betts died in Halifax on October 23, 2012.
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Peter Best became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax after a video recording of his featured on the “California connection compilation” tape became a part of their tape collection.
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James Linden Best completed a M.A. degree at the University of New Brunswick in 1972. His thesis was titled The Post-Confederation Theatres of Halifax.
Berryhill Photographic Studios.
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Berryhill Fine Photography was owned by photographer H. Bruce Berry of Truro, Nova Scotia. With studios in both Truro and Halifax, Berryhill specialized in graduation, wedding, portrait, and commercial photography; prominent local clients included The Halifax Grammar School, Saint Mary's University, and Dalhousie. Developments in digital technology changed the nature of the industry and Berry closed his studios around 2004 when they became less financially viable. Shortly thereafter, Berry became a realtor in Truro, Nova Scotia.
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D. Bernard became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "CFAT Cabaret" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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I. Berg became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their audio recording “Fanfare” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Molly Beresford was a poet associated with the Song Fishermen, a literary society in Halifax in the early 1920s. Born in Scotland, she immigrated to Canada in 1923 and studied at Dalhousie (Class of 1926) and then at Columbia University. She taught school in Halifax until 1929 and then moved to Truro to become head of the English Department at the Provincial Normal College for Teachers. Her poems were published in The Dalhousie Review and The Song Fishermen's Song Sheets, although most of her work remained unpublished and is deposited in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (MG 1, 125, 126-150, PANS).
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Berandol Music Limited is a Toronto publishing company founded in 1969 by Andrew Twa following the acquisition of the music-publishing division of BMI Canada. The publishing company features works by Canadian composers and artists.
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Clark Bentom was a missionary and surgeon—and one-time footman to Wilbur Wilberforce. He was born in England ca. 1774 and died in Jamaica ca. 1820. On 24 March 1800 he and John Mitchell, another missionary from the London Missionary Society, sailed aboard the Ephron from Liverpool to Quebec, where he served as a minister and occasional surgeon until his return to England in 1805.
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Percy Jardine Bentley was born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia, in 1898. He received his early education in Wallace, Nova Scotia, before attending Acadia University. During World War One, Bentley served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. After the war, he earned a BSc in mechanical engineering from Nova Scotia Technical College, following which he received an MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925). He was employed at the Ingersoll-Rand Company after graduating, where he became a plant manager in 1936. He died in May 1962 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
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Louis Benoit is a Halifax-based guitarist and mandolin player. His father, Jarvis Benoit, was a well-known fiddler from Richmond County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Louis performed and recorded with his father as part of the Jarvis Benoit Quartet.
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Jarvis Benoit was an Acadian fiddler from Richmond County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Jarvis began his professional career in Cape Breton where he performed in concerts and at dances during the 1940s and 1950s. He was recognized for his large repertoire and his ability to blend Acadian and Irish fiddling styles.
Jarvis was married to Marie Claire Benoit and had a son Louis and daughter Nancy. He moved to Halifax with his family in 1957 and opened a small contracting business. Jarvis recorded two albums and performed on the radio and television. He regularly played concerts and festivals throughout his career and performed in a series of concerts with symphony orchestras across Canada.
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Richard Bedford Bennett was born in Hopewell Hill, NB, on 3 July 1870. He came to Dalhousie at the age of 20, having taught public school for three years. During his studies at law school, he took the role of prime minister in the Dalhousie Mock Parliament (1892), worked at the Weldon Library, and managed the Dalhousie Gazette (1891-1892). He graduated from law school in 1893 and worked as an apprentice lawyer in Chatham, NB, when he moved to Calgary and began his career as a Conservative politician. In 1930 he became the Prime Minister of Canada, defeated in 1935 but staying on as the Conservative party leader until 1938. On retiring from politics he moved to England, where he was made a Viscount and died in 1947. Bennett was instrumental in encouraging Mrs. Jennie Sheriff Eddy to donate money for a women's residence at Dalhousie.
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Born in New Zealand in 1895, Charles Lindsay Bennet was a First World War veteran who came to Halifax from Jesus College, Cambridge, to teach English in 1922. He was actively associated with Dalhousie University and the University of King's College from 1923–1963, when he retired. He served as lecturer, George Munro Professor of English, chair of the English department, Dean of Graduate Studies, Dean of Arts and Science, University Registrar, and Vice President of the University. He was Counsellor of the Department of Veterans' Affairs and supervised Dalhousie's veterans programs. Bennet also founded and managed the Down Under Club (1941-1942) and the Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) Club (1941-1944). He was a longtime series editor of Canada Book of Prose and Verse (1933-1951) and editor of The Dalhousie Review (1957-1963). Bennet died July 24, 1980.
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Sobaz Benjamin became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their film “Breaking the Cycle” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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The Benghazi Saxophone Quartet was a saxophone quartet founded by Paul Cram. They produced albums under Justin Time Records, a label with a focus on the Canadian jazz scene.
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Jayne Belliveau became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording “"From Omega to Alpha" was featured on a compilation tape and became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
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Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Bellen was one of the most important cartographers of the eighteenth century. Over a fifty year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. He died at Versailles.
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Robert Bell was a Canadian geologist, professor and civil servant, and is considered one of Canada’s greatest exploring scientists, having named over 3000 geographical features. He was born in Toronto in 1841 to Presbyterian clergyman and amateur geologist, Reverend Andrew Bell, and Elizabeth Notman. In 1873 he married Agnes Smith, with whom he had four children.
As a teenager Bell worked as a summer assistant to Sir William Edmond Logan with the Geological Survey of Canada; by 1859 he was heading his own survey party. He was educated at McGill University, where he studied under John William Dawson. In 1861 he earned a civil engineering degree and the Governor General’s Medal. He studied for a further two years at the University of Edinburgh. In 1863 he was appointed professor of chemistry and natural sciences at Queen’s College, Kingston, but continued summer fieldwork for the Geographical Survey. In 1867 he joined the Survey full-time, where he remained until his retirement in 1908. He died in 1917.
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John A. Bell was a physician born in 1876 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of Senator A.C. Bell and Anne Henderson Bell. From 1892-1994 he studied arts at Dalhousie University and then switched to medicine at McGill, graduating with an MD in 1898. He pursued post-graduate studies in London, England, and returned to New Glasgow to set up his practice. In 1919 he undertook ear, nose and throat specialist medical studies at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York. Dr. Bell was secretary of the Pictou County Medical Society for nearly forty years, sat on the executive of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, served on the New Glasgow Town Council and also in the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia. He was married to Elizabeth M. Kopf, with whom he had four children. He died on 27 May 1941 following an operation at Victoria General Hospital.
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Hugh Philip Bell was a noted botanist and former head of Dalhousie University biology department. He was born on 22 February 1889 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Charles Bell and Isabella Jane Ray. He was educated in Halifax schools and attended Dalhousie University, where he studied botany and played an active part in college activities. After graduation he taught at Morris Street School in Halifax and at the Lunenburg Academy. During World War One Bell served as a captain with the RCRs in France, where he was wounded severely. On returning from the war he received his PhD degree from the University of Toronto before being appointed at Dalhousie, where he remained until his retirement in 1954. Bell was an associate of the Nova Scotia Research Foundation and published over fifty scientific papers on the development of Nova Scotia plants. At the time of his death on 25 October 1957, he was working as a botanist for the Research Council of Nova Scotia.
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Bonnie Beecher is a lighting designer from Toronto, Canada, who has designed for over 350 theatre, opera, and dance productions. She has worked with various companies in Canada, including The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, The Canadian Opera, Opera Atelier, Soulpepper theatre, The National Arts centre, The National Ballet of Canada, Tarragon theatre, The Segal, The Citadel, and Ballet British Columbia. She has also worked with The Dutch National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Glimmerglass Opera, The Versailles Royal Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The New Zealand Opera, The Dortmund Ballet, The Royal Flanders Ballet, Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse, The State ballet of Georgia, and Ballet Im Reveir in Germany. She also designed the lights for 7 world premieres for The Stuttgart Ballet, and collaborated with the Kevin O'Day Ballet in Mannheim, Germany for 14 seasons (2002-2016) where she designed the lighting for more than 25 world premieres for the company.
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Eric Bednarski is a documentary filmmaker born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bednarski’s education includes a MA in Polish history (2002) from York University. Bednarski has worked between Canada and Poland since 2003, working on various film projects. Bednarski became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005 because their video recording “MDM” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Axel Dieter Becke was born on June 10, 1953 in Esslingen, Germany. He immigrated to Canada, and later graduated with a Bachelor in Science from Queen’s University in 1975. He got his Masters in 1977 and PhD in 1981 (both from McMaster). From 1981-83 he worked as a Killam postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, and then went to teach at Queen’s. He returned to Dalhousie in 2006 to teach, and was made the Killam Chair in Computational Science until 2015. His work focuses on Density Function Theory and computational chemistry. In 2000 he was awarded the Schroedinger Medal from the World Association of Oriented Chemists, and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in London. In 2014, he became the first Canadian to receive the premier award in the field of theoretical chemistry from the American Chemical Society. In 2015 Axel Becke was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Medal for Science and Engineering – the highest honour in science in Canada, which comes with a $1M prize. He is one of the most widely cited scientists, with two of his papers in the top 25 cited science papers of all time. His work on Density Function Theory has been groundbreaking for chemistry and all aspects of science, and he continues to innovate and progress the field. Becke retired officially in 2015 but still works at Dalhousie in the Department of Chemistry.
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James Trevor Bebb was from Lockeport, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. He has written 2 books on Lockeport and Shelburne County. “Ships and Seamen of the Western Ocean: A South Shore Odyssey”, c.1997 and “Quest for the Phantom Fleet, c.1992. He went around the Shelburne area and salvaged many original documents from local businesses that were going out of business. During many years of doing research, he produced many research notes and accumulated substantial photocopied material. It was decided to keep the material together and call it The Lockeport Historical Collection instead of dividing the material into different fonds, because some of the original documents have been interfiled among the photocopies and research notes.
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Marcia Anastasia Christoforides was born on July 27, 1909 in Sutton, England. She worked as the personal secretary of Sir James Dunn, and they eventually got married in 1942. Upon his death in 1956 she became the beneficiary of his estate and the Sir James Dunn Foundation, which was to be used for charitable purposes. Lady Dunn gave $2.5 million for construction of Sir James Dunn Science Building at Dalhousie in 1957, in her late husband’s honour. She remarried in 1963, to the equally wealthy Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), becoming known as Lady Beaverbrook. In 1967 she established the Sir James Dunn Law Library in the Weldon Building, as well as establishing seven Sir James Dunn law scholarships ($1500 a year, upped to $2500 in 1967, ended in 1978). In 1967 she was given an honorary degree from Dalhousie. She became Dal’s second Chancellor in 1968 (until 1990) after CD Howe. In 1968 she gave $500,000 for the Sir James Dunn Theatre in the Dalhousie Arts Centre. After a fire at the law school in 1985, she donated $2 million to restore the law school and its library holdings. Former chancellor CD Howe considered her the Guardian Angel of Dalhousie. She contributed over $300 million in her life from Dunn and Beaverbrook estates to charitable donations. The Sir James Dunn Foundation and Lady Dunn (Beaverbrook) gave around $22 million to charities in the Maritimes, and $5 million to Dalhousie from 1957-1994. Lady Dunn passed away in 1994.
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Robert Bean is an artist, writer and teacher based in Halifax. Bean is currently a Professor at NSCAD University in the Media Arts department. Bean’s education includes a BFA from NSCAD University (1977) and a MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Leeds (1999). Bean became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2012 because their video recording "Polyphony: The longest English word that can be typed with the right and using conventional placement" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Françoise Baylis is a Canadian bioethicist whose work is at the intersection of applied ethics, health policy and practice. The focus of her research is on issues of women's health and assisted reproductive technologies, while her research and publication record also extends to topics such as research involving humans (including human embryo research), gene editing, novel genetic technologies, public health, the role of bioethics consultants and neuroethics. She works as a public intellectual who regularly engages with print, radio, television and online media, and she is a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada.
Baylis was born in Montreal in 1961. She holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University (1983), and an MA (1984) and PhD (1989) in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario. In 1996 she came to Dalhousie University as an Associate Professor in the Office of Bioethics Education and Research (later the Department of Bioethics), and in 2004 she was appointed Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy. She is currently appointed to the Faculty of Medicine, with cross-appointments in both Philosophy and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Baylis is the founder and leader (since 2003) of Novel Tech Ethics (now NTE Impact Ethics), an interdisciplinary research team based at Dalhousie University.
In 2007 Baylis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Other notable career achievements include being named to the Who's Who in Black Canada and the Canadian Who's Who; holding three Governor-in-Council appointments, including membership in the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (1999-2001); serving as a member of Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2001-2004); sitting on the Board of Directors, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (2006-2010); serving as the Royal Society of Canada Academic Secretary (Academy I) and the Atlantic Steering Committee Chair (2012-2015); and holding a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Bioethics and Philosophy (2004-2018). In 2016 Professor Baylis was inducted into both the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada. In 2022 she received the prestigious Killam Prize, granted annually by the Killam Trusts.
Further details of her scholarly and professional activity can be found at https://www.dal.ca/sites/noveltechethics/our-people/francoise-baylis.html.
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