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Pictou Academy Debating Society.

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Pictou Academy was founded in 1816 by the Reverend Thomas McCulloch. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a liberal nonsectarian college, a grammar school, an academy and then a secondary school. A debating society was founded in 1908.

Pictou Literary and Scientific Society.

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The Pictou Literary and Scientific Society was established by a group of Pictou residents on December 8, 1834 with the aim of improving the members' knowledge of science and literature through weekly lectures and discussions. The officers of the society, as stated in the 1836 "Rules of the Pictou Literary and Scientific Society," included a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, and a four-person management committee.

The society’s lectures covered a range of topics reflecting the knowledge and interests of its membership, with the exceptions of religion and politics. Among the notable speakers welcomed by the society were Dr. Thomas McCulloch and a young William Dawson.The society drew to a close due to waning interest and held its last meeting on April 12, 1855.

Pilot.

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Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre

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  • 1991-
Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) was founded in April 1991 by Wanda Graham to support playwrights from the Atlantic region by assisting in the development of plays, promoting new plays, maintaining a script library and online catalogue, and more. PARC began with a Playwrights Colony, home delivery program, and eventually a newsletter. PARC helped initiate the National Network of Playwrights’ Development Centres in 2002 and the PARC Library of Atlantic Canadian Scripts opened in 2007 at Mount Allison University.

Polkaholics

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Polkaholics became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980s because their sound recording “Believers Voice of Victory” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Popular Projects

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Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Popular Projects is commonly associated with Commercial Culture. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.

Pottersfield Press

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  • 1978 -

Pottersfield Press was founded in 1978 by its managing editor, Lesley Choyce, and grew out of the literary annual, Pottersfield Portfolio. The press is committed to promoting work written by Maritime and Newfoundland writers and first-time authors, and publishes a wide range of fiction and non-fiction about Atlantic Canada, including biography, history, health and the environment.

Pottersfield Press books have received numerous awards, including the Milton Acorn People's Poet of Canada Award, Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award and the Evelyn Richardson Award for best nonfiction book. Many of Pottersfield's children's books have been selected for the "Our Choice" list by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. The press is based in Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, and its books are distributed in Canada and the United States by Nimbus Publishing.

Powers Brothers.

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Powers Brothers was established by Frank Powers in 1874, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Originally the business consisted of a small hardware store and a sheet metal shop; they specialized in tinsmithing, but soon branched out into plumbing. Frank's brother James T. Powers was an early partner in the firm, leaving the business in 1884 to start a hardware store in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

In 1904 Frank Powers' son Archibald F. ("Archie") Powers took over as President, and in 1906 Archie's brother William T. ("W.T.") joined as Secretary-Treasurer. By 1911, the year of Frank's death, the firm was thriving. With continued expansion, the company became incorporated in 1926. By the early 1960s, they had become one of the largest contractors in Nova Scotia and beyond, providing service in the fields of plumbing, heating, air conditioning, hardware, and marine supplies in the Atlantic Provinces and beyond. Their contracts included work on private residences, government buildings, schools, commercial properties, churches, and universities, etc.

Beginning with just a handful of men, the firm grew to have as many as 150 people on the payroll at any given time, with a typical average of 80-100. By 1953 many of the employees had been with the company 25 years and longer. In 1957 Archie Powers was rewarded for the work he has done in his associations by becoming the sole awardee of the simultaneous honours of Honourary Life Chairman of the Nova Scotia Branch and Life Member of the National Association of Master Plumbers and Heating Contractors of Canada, Inc. Frank Powers III and Jack Powers, sons of Frank Powers II, joined the company in 1938 and 1953 respectively, working through the ranks to become Vice-President and Director of the company as of 1957, and ultimately partners at the helm by 1976.

The company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1974, and at that time it was believed to be the oldest mechanical contracting firm in Canada. Powers Brothers closed permanently in September 1985.

Murphy and Wharton was a plumbing company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was acquired by Powers Brothers in 1978.

Province

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Provincial Workmen's Association, Pioneer Lodge No. 1

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  • 1879-1918
The Provincial Miners Association was formed on 29 August 1879 by coal miners in Springhill, Nova Scotia, to protect the interests of miners and other colliery workers. They adopted a constitution on 1 September 1879 and established Pioneer Lodge No. 1 in Springhill. The association was incorporated as the Provincial Workmen's Association in 1881 with a mandate to improve the living and working conditions of miners through political activism, lobbying and strikes, when necessary. The first Cape Breton lodges were organized that same year, by the association's secretary and agent Robert Drummond, including Drummond Lodge (South Mines), Equity (Caledonia), and Island and Unity Lodges (Bridgeport). By 1917 the PWA and United Mine Workers of Nova Scotia had merged to form the Amalgamated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia. In 1918 the remaining lodges of the Provincial Workmen's Association were dissolved.

Q104.

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CFRQ-FM 104.3, also known by its brand name, Q104, The Home of Rock n Roll, is an FM station operating in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. CFRQ-FM 104.3 was first signed on the air on November 28, 1983, as Patterson Broadcasters Ltd. was awarded a license for a new FM station at Halifax-Dartmouth, operating 24 hours a day with a progressive rock format. The station was also known to have been involved with Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the early 1990s.

Queens Mines Limited.

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Queens Mines Limited was a gold and silver mining company owned by Sidney C. Oland. C.W. Johnson was the mining manager and Victor DeBedia Oland and Richard H. Oland were involved in the company as well. The company's head office was on Agricola Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and it ran mining operations in South Uniacke and Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia and at the Molega Gold Mine in Queens County, Nova Scotia. The company also became involved in logging and timber sales.

Radio-active Tactics

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Radio-active Tactics became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their self-titled audio recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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