Neil Wiernik is a sound artist, or an electronic music composer based in Toronto. Wiernik has been making music since 1988, and his work has been showcased within various spaces. Wiernik became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 2000s because their audio recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Gina Wilkins served as a photographer and editor for the Dal News in the early 1980s, and became a media relations officer at Dalhousie in 1986.
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John M. Wilkinson was originally from Guysboro, Nova Scotia. In 1954 he married Janet Mabel White in Boston, MA. They subsequently lived in Alberta for several years before returning to Nova Scotia in 1958.
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Lesley Wilkinson is a lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including Young People's Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Crow's Theatre, Shaw Festival, Theatre Calgary, Soulpepper Theatre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, and The Fredericton Playhouse. She has also worked with the Canadian Opera Company and the Pacific Opera Company.
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Little is known about David Willens. His composition "Sonata for piano" was sent to the Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon in 1959 by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Music, but there is no record of its subsequent publication. He also wrote a "Suite for two pianos" in the 1950s and a "Sonata for violoncello and piano" in 1955.
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Andrew William Cox became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Untitled” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1882-1935
WIlliam Notman founded his photography business in Montreal in 1856. In 1882, William Notman's son, William McFarlane Notman, because his junior business partner. After Notman's death in 1891, William McFarlane carried on the business. When he died in 1913, his brother Charles Frederick Notman took over the business until it was sold to Associated Screen News in 1935
William Robertson and Son Ltd.
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- 1871 - 1974
William Robertson and Son Ltd. was a hardware business in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Bob Williams became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording “Jerico and His Fortress” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1869-1967
Samuel William Williamson was a physician and 1896 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. Born in Loganville, Nova Scotia, on 13 January 1869 to Hugh Williamson and Jessie Ross, he was educated as a teacher before studying medicine. After spending one year as a resident at the Victoria General Hospital and two years in practice in Hebron, Yarmouth County, in 1899 he opened a general practice in Yarmouth. During World War One he worked as a medical examiner for both the Yarmouth recruiting centre and the artillery training centre. Dr. Williamson was a key figure in the founding of Yarmouth's first hospital and later served as its chief of medical staff. He was president of the Western Counties Medical Society and the medical officer for Western Nova Scotia. In 1960 he was made honorary president of the Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association. He died in 1967.
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- 1907 - 1997
John Willis taught at Dalhousie Law School during the 1930s and 1940s, one of a generation of young scholars who challenged established legal thought under such banners as sociological jurisprudence, the socialization of law, and realism. Born in England in 1907, Willis was educated at Winchester and Oxford, graduating with a double first in classics and jurisprudence. In 1933, after studying at Harvard, he arrived at Dalhousie Law School for a one-year teaching contract. With the exception of a few years in practice and working at the International Monetary Fund, his life was spent teaching law at Dalhousie, York University, University of British Columbia, and University of Toronto, where he helped to re-imagine and reconstruct its law school. Following his retirement in 1980, Willis lived in Annapolis Royal until his death on June 16, 1997.
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- 1923-2007
Bertha Wilson was born September 18, 1923 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. She attended the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a Masters in Arts in 1944. In 1945 she married her husband John Wilson, a reverend, and in 1949 they immigrated to Canada. In the 1950s the Wilsons moved to Halifax because her husband got a job in the navy, and Bertha decided to go to Dalhousie Law School. She graduated and was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1957. After moving back to Ontario, she was called to the Bar in 1959. She practiced law from 1959-1975 with Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt. She was the first female lawyer to work there, and eventually became a partner in 1968. She was called to the Ontario Court of Appeals in 1975, the first woman to hold that position. In 1982 to she called to the Supreme Court, and became the first female Supreme Court Justice in Canada. She was specialized in legal research, and ruled on cases involving human rights, ethnic and sexual discrimination, matrimonial property, child custody, family rights, and access to information. Notable cases over which she ruled were R. v. Morgentaler in 1988 (abortion procedures) and R. v Lavallée in 1990 (battered-wife syndrome as self-defense). She was a pioneer in foundational cases interpreting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. After retiring in 1991, Bertha was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and the chair of the Task Force on Women in the Legal Profession. She was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, and became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992. Bertha Wilson passed away in Ottawa on April 28, 2007.
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D’Arcy Wilson is an Atlantic Canadian artist whose work laments past and ongoing colonial interactions with the natural world, from her own perspective as a descendent of European settlers in Canada. Her interdisciplinary work has been presented across the country, most recently at Dalhousie University Art Gallery (2019), The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (2018), The Rooms Art Gallery (2019) the Owens Art Gallery (2016), and the 2019 Bonavista Biennale (Floe), as well as M:ST, Flotilla, and Connexion ARC. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award (Atlantic). D’Arcy is based in Corner Brook, NL, where she is Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus.
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David Wilson was Dalhousie University's first full-time music professor and the inaugural chair of the Department of Music, from 1968-1971. During his academic tenure, Wilson directed the Dalhousie Chorale and established an early music ensemble, which grew into Musica Antiqua. In 1978 he co-founded the Early Music Society of Nova Scotia; he also published the society's newsletters, which evolved into which Consort, an illustrated magazine featuring music news and musicological articles. He was music director of the Halifax Baroque Ensemble; a member of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra (1957–61); president of Musique Royale; president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (Halifax Branch); a lecturer on French Organ Music at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (1999); and organist/choir director at Saint James Anglican Church, Halifax (1992-2018).
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- 1890-1973
George Earle Wilson taught history at Dalhousie University from 1919-1969. He was hired as a lecturer in history and political economy just prior to the opening of the 1919-20 session, giving up a travelling fellowship at Harvard University. In 1921 Wilson was promoted to associate professor, and in 1925 to full professor and head of the history department. He also served as Dean of Arts and Science from 1945-1955 and was named professor emeritus in 1965, continuing to teach part-time until 1969, when he retired after five decades of service.
In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1961 he was elected President of the Humanities and Social Science section of the Society.
George Earl Wilson died on 7 June 1973. The Department of History continues to award the Dr. George E. Wilson Prize, which was established on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1927.
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Samantha Wilson is an actor, artistic director, director, and workshop leader who has worked with various Canadian theatre companies including 2b Theatre, DaPoPo Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Fire Exit Theatre (US), Theatre Yes, HTYP, and Eastern Front. She attended the Master of Fine Arts program at York University, and has taught at both York University and Dalhousie University.
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Daun Windover became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990’s because of their involvement in various video artworks which became a part of the centre’s tape collection. Windover is a NSCAD alum.
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- 1938-2019
Gil Winham was a political science professor and leading scholar on the political and legal dimensions of international trade negotiations. Born in New York City on 11 May 1938 to Alfred R. Winham and Margery Rankin Post, he served in the United States Navy for three years prior to earning a diploma in international law from the University of Manchester. After completing a doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winham taught at McMaster University. He joined Dalhousie University in 1975, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He served as the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Study from 1975-1982 and was appointed Eric Dennis Memorial Professorship of Government and Political Science in 1992. His scholarly work and public service led to invitations as a Visiting Researcher to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the University of Toronto, and El Colegio de Mexico, and to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was also a regular instructor and consultant on trade policy simulation courses at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, and a member of dispute settlement panels of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Gil Winham died in Berwick, Nova Scotia, on 1 January 2019.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union Mirror - MB
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Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited
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- 1810-1975
William Stairs first established a hardware store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1810. The business was renamed Wm. Stairs and Son in 1841 when his elder son (W.J.) came into the business; his son John joined the company in 1844. In 1854, when William's son-in-law Robert Morrow became a partner, the business became known as Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow. By 1865 William Stairs had died, W.J. Stairs had taken over his role, and the business had expanded into shipping. The Dartmouth Rope Works was established as a branch plant in 1869. Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow was incorporated in 1900, but liquidated and reorganized in 1926. The business expanded to four divisions with offices in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick. In 1975 the business merged with J.W. Bird and Co. in Fredericton, New Brunswick. N.S. Tractors and Equipment, a former branch of Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow, is still in operation.
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- 1851-1939
Augusta E. Wolfe was born Augusta E. Croft on January 3, 1851 in West Dublin, Nova Scotia, to farmers Fred and Margaret Croft. In 1886 she married Daniel Edgar Wolfe, a fisherman, with whom she had at least one son, Harold E. Wolfe, who died at sea. She died a widow on July 4, 1939.
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The Women in Media Foundation, originally called The Women’s Television Network Foundation, was formed in 1995 as part of the licenses agreement with the CRTC in launching the Women’s Television Network. Funded by the cable network, the foundation aimed to develop programs to assist women in areas of broadcasting where they are underrepresented, specifically technical operation positions.
Their Mission Statement and Core Principals were “At the WTN Foundation we inspire and educate Canadian women to participate and lead in the multi-media industry. In so doing we believe In diversity, equity, creative, excellence, integrity and learning.”
The foundation offered multiple programs and workshops to promote women in media and broadcast technology fields. The Girls TV Camp offered training for pre-teen and teenage girls as television technicians. The Women’s Technical Internship offered young women experience in hands on job skills in media and broadcasting technology and the Women’s Television Network dowment, was an educational fund to assist professional women in broadcasting and media to update their technology skills. Other programs and workshops included gender equity workshops, speaking engagements, creating lesson plans in video production for teachers and a girls travelling documentary team, taking girls to educational and technology courses across Canada.
In 2001 Corus Entertainment bought the Women’s Television Network, and moved all operations from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Toronto, Ontario. The media conglomerate planned on terminating the foundation. However, the foundation put forth a proposal to continue its funding by highlighting their accomplishments, their necessity, as well as the CRTC criteria in granting a license to the cable channel in 1995. Corus Entertainment agreed to continue funding the foundation until it wound down in 2008.
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The Women’s Media Alliance was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the early 1980s.
Women's Missionary Society of the United Church.
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Jasmine Wongus is an artist based in East Preston, Nova Scotia. Her artwork frequently focuses on the subject matter of race and culture, specifically on her albinism as an African-Nova Scotian. Jasmine’s education includes a Bachelor of Informatics from Dalhousie University, as well as education from NSCAD University and Athabasca University into 2D, 3D and game design. Wongus became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 with her audio recording “Vessel of Me” on the recording “CFAT Audio Scholarships 2002” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Phyllis Barbara (Scott) Wood was born on February 11, 1928 to Walter Burton Scott and Wilma Jean Scott, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She attended LeMarchant Street School and Queen Elizabeth High School, graduating in 1946. Phyllis attended the University of King's College from 1946 to 1949 on a scholarship and graduated with a BA in 1949.
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- 1853 - February 3, 1922
Woodbury, William Weatherspoon
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- 1882-1967
William Woodbury was a professor of orthodontics at Dalhousie University from 1911-1952 and Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry from 1935-1947. He was born in 1882 and graduated with his BSc from Dalhousie University in 1905 before studying at the Philadelphia Dental College. He received an honorary LLD from Dalhousie in 1953, when he was also appointed professor emeritus. He died on 13 October 1967.
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- 1925 - 2019
Mary Corning Woodland was a niece of Dr. George Hart Woodland, who graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1901.
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Chris Woods is a Canadian artist born in 1970 and is a self–described “military brat”. Woods has been a professional artist since 1988. Chris’ recent artworks have focused on the consumer landscape of shopping malls, fast-food restaurants and convenience stores. Woods’ video recording “Sanctuary of the Heart” was included in a 1988 Centre for Art Tapes compilation.
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W.C. Woods became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording "Memories in Clay: The Work of Joan Parson Woods" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Patricia Woolave became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their sound recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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World Wide Skin Deep became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1989 because of their exhibition at the centre. World Wide Skin Deep was a multi-image collaborative work which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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