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Sandy Lake Action Group

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  • ca. 1972-1983
The Sandy Lake Action Group was an organization active in the 1970s and 1980s that worked to protect the environment of the Sandy Lake area in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Saga Productions.

  • Corporate body
  • 1976-1985
Saga Productions was a media production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company was registered in 1976. Tom Jorgensen was the recognized agent. The company was struck-off in 1985.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

  • Corporate body
  • 1991 - 2011
Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church was an LGBT-focused United church built and run by the LGBT community, and serving it with projects such as Manna for Health, a food bank directed at people facing serious illness and poverty. The church was founded by J.J. Lyon, Robert Byers, Bruce Moore and Terry Parker following an informal evening of Christmas carol singing. Worshippers began meeting in February 1991 in the small boardroom at the Aids Coalition Office on Gottingen Street, Halifax. In September 1991 the congregation officially became part of the Metropolitan Community Church, adopted the name Safe Harbour MCC and moved to the Brunswick Street United Church, having outgrown their original space. In September 1992 the congregation hired Reverend Darlene Young to be the first minister of Safe Harbour MCC, and moved to the Universalist Unitarian Church on Inglis Street. In April 1993, Safe Harbour officially welcomed its first members, when 20 people joined the church. On Sunday, 5 September 2004, the congregation celebrated its first service in its own space in Bloomfield Centre, where it stayed for two years before moving to its final home at Veith House in Halifax's north end. After the death of Reverend Darlene Young in 2008, Bob Bond served as interim pastor until Reverend Jennifer Paty was hired in 2009. She conducted Safe Harbour's final service on Eastern Sunday 2001.

S. St. C. and H. Jones

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  • fl. 1907-1911
S. St. C. and H. Jones was a family-owned sawmill in Weymouth Bridge, Nova Scotia, which also sold coal and building supplies.

Runaway.

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Rumours

  • Corporate body
  • 1982-1995
Rumours was owned and operated by Gay Alliance for Equality (GAE) and Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA), and boasted the biggest dance floor in Eastern Canada. It opened in 1982 at 1586 Granville Street, Halifax, after the The Turret closed down. In 1987 Rumours moved to the OldVogueTheatre, where it remained until January, 1995. For some time Gayline also operated out of the building's basement.

Ross Creek Centre for the Arts

  • Corporate body
  • 2003-
Ross Creek Centre for the Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts centre and the outdoor summer venue for Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company. Located on 178 acres of field and forest overlooking the Bay of Fundy, the centre was founded in 2003 by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre's artistic directors, Chris O'Neill and Ken Schwartz, and offers programming and space for arts-focused residential summer camps, workshops for youth and families, and retreats for emerging and established artists.

Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee

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  • 1978-
The Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic was established in 1978 to commemorate the life and work of Roscoe A. Fillmore, a well-known socialist and labour activist from Centreville, Nova Scotia. The first picnic was held in July 1978 at the home of Kaye and Charlie Murray in Lower Sackville. It was attended by more than 200 friends and admirers. At the inaugural picnic, Dane Parker read Ken Leslie's poem "There Is A Man Within." The picnics have continued on a semi-annual basis since 1978. The most recent picnic was held on July 10, 2010 at the Charles MacDonald Concrete House Museum in Centreville, Nova Scotia.

Rock Meets Bone

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  • 1989
Rock Meets Bone was a 30-minute radio program that aired on CKDU from September-December 1989. It focused on Nova Scotian grassroots arts and culture through its features on people and subjects including Philip Glass, Gaelic song, and storytelling. The show was created by writer Danny Blouin and director Brian Guns with the assistance of the Naropa Institute of Canada. It was produced by Denny Blouin, Sam Bercholz and Brian Guns, who also voiced the narration. The program's name was derived from a presentation on Nova Scotia culture given at a Buddhist conference in Halifax in March 1989, also produced in part by Brian Guns.

Robb Engineering Works Ltd.

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  • 1848-1964
Robb Engineering was a metals manufacturer in Amherst, Nova Scotia, with its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. Originally founded in 1848 for general work on coal mining and lumber machinery, the factory expanded to manufacture boilers, electric engines and small generator plants. They also designed and manufactured locomotive engines. In 1964 Robb Engineering was acquired by the Dominion Bridge Company and its assets merged into Dominion's Canada Car and Foundry subsidiary. Robb Engineering gained notoriety during the 1990s after being blamed as the maker of faulty open web steel joists, some of which experienced catastrophic failure, resulting in at least one roof collapse.

Road (Musical group)

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Road is a musical group who is known to have recorded songs at Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the late 1970s.

Richmond-Robbins, Inc.

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Richmond-Robbins, Inc. was a publishing company in New York City in the twentieth century that predominantly published sheet music.

Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia

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  • 1910-
The Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia (RNANS) is a regulatory body governed by a volunteer board of directors responsible for establishing policies and goals in accordance with current legislation. The first meeting was held in 1909 and the association was incorporated in 1910. It holds as its mission the advancement of the profession: to develop better working conditions, prepare members for changing and increasingly specialized advancements, and standardize training. The establishment in 1909 of nursing examinations was a significant step towards the creation of provincial nursing standards.

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