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Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.

  • Corporate body
  • 1975-

The Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) is a non-profit charitable organization established in 1975 to foster creative writing and the profession of writing in the province of Nova Scotia. Its mandate is to provide advice and assistance to writers at all stages of their careers; to encourage greater public recognition of Nova Scotian writers and their achievements; and to enhance the literary arts in both regional and national culture. Membership is open and advocacy available to both professional and developing writers.

The WFNS is administered by an Executive Director and an Executive Committee. The Executive Director is hired by the Federation and is responsible for the day-to-day operations and business of the Federation. He/she works closely with the Executive Committee and various work groups and special committees.

The Executive Committee are elected by the membership and serve two-year terms. They serve the purpose of a board of management with the traditional responsibilities of officers of a non-profit service organization, and are responsible for the policies and general management of the Federation.

The self-governing Nova Scotia Writers' Council, the Federation's professional wing, comprises about one-third of the Federation's membership and deals with policy issues arising from and affecting the publishing industry. The self-governing and self-administered Nova Scotia Dramatists' Co-op is made up of the Federations' playwrights and screenwriters.

The Federation also serves writers and readers in the community, publishers, editors, teachers, librarians, and representatives of the book industry.

The Federation continues to augment and improve its advocacy and public relations efforts and programmes (including the development and administration of major book awards for the Atlantic region), and to work in concert with other regional and national writers' and publishers' groups for the benefit and growth of the industry.

The Nova Scotia Recreation Department provided the initial funding under its program for assistance to cultural associations.

World Wide Skin Deep

  • Corporate body
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.

Women's Media Alliance

  • Corporate body
The Women’s Media Alliance was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the early 1980s.

Women in Media Foundation.

  • Corporate body

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.

Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 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.

William Robertson and Son Ltd.

  • Corporate body
  • 1871 - 1974
William Robertson and Son Ltd. was a hardware business in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

William Notman & Son

  • Corporate body
  • 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

Whaley, Royce & Co. Ltd.

  • Corporate body
  • 1888-1969
Whaley, Royce & Co. Ltd. were instrument dealers and manufacturers, and music dealers and publishers in Toronto, Ontario. Eric Whaley and George C. Royce founded the company in February of 1888.

Welfare Council (Halifax-Dartmouth area)

  • Corporate body
  • 1930 -
The Welfare Council (Halifax-Dartmouth area) was established in October 1930 under the name Council of Social Agencies to serve the interests of social welfare agencies in Halifax, advising the community in areas of health, welfare, and recreation services and programs. In 1951 the name changed to the Welfare Council of Halifax, and in 1963 to the Welfare Council (Halifax-Dartmouth area), when it extended its services outside of the city.

Wayves

  • Corporate body
  • 1983 -
Wayves is a non-profit collective that publishes articles and news online and via social media to inform and support lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people throughout Atlantic Canada. It started in 1983 with a community newsletter under the name Gaezette, which was published 11 times a year in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The magazine adopted the name Wayves in 1995 and the print edition ended in 2012.

Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1965 - [ca. 2003]

Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Ltd. was founded by former Halifax Herald employees Lee Wamboldt and Terry Waterfield in September 1965. Lee Wamboldt began at the Herald as a copyboy, cub reporter and photographer in 1957, working nights and doing freelance photography during the day. Terry Waterfield’s career as a Herald photographer began two years later.

In 1963 the Halifax Herald began to outsource their photography. Lee Wamboldt found employment with Halifax Photo Service Ltd., and then joined Waterfield and Bill Duggan to form Duggan Enterprises. This partnership and business dissolved in 1964, and in 1965 Wamboldt-Waterfield was founded.

Wamboldt-Waterfield provided commercial and press photographic services to a diverse group of corporate, government and individual clients including the Dartmouth Free Press, Time Magazine, United Press International, Star Weekly Magazine, Moirs, Maritime Tel & Tel, National Film Board, and a number of advertising and public relations firms. In 1968 Halifax Herald accepted their tender to provide photographic services for the newspaper and a lucrative relationship followed. Wamboldt-Waterfield expanded to include a retail camera store on Gottigen Street—North End Cameraland, which they ran from 1965-1985.

Jim Clark joined Wamboldt-Waterfield as an intermittent staff photographer in 1971. He returned full-time in 1978 and became a partner in 1979. On Lee Wamboldt's retirement in 1985, Clark bought the business. Terry Waterfield, who had sold his shares in 1975, remained active as a company photographer until his own retirement in 1990, at which time Clark changed the name to Clark Photographic Ltd.

Business declined steadily from 1989-1994 as personal camera use rose and work for the Herald decreased. Clark cancelled the Herald contract late in 1994 and continued the business as a freelancer, investing increasing amounts of time and energy to keep abreast with the latest digital technologies. In 1988 these changes led him to establish Digiscan Photographic Services with Gary Castle.

Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography and Clark Photographic both remained trade names under the company Digiscan Photographic Ltd. Although the company name was filed with the Registry of Joint Stock Companies until 2018, the business was effectively closed from around 2003.

V.S. Sweeny Ltd.

  • Corporate body
  • 1860-1973
V.S. Sweeny Ltd. was founded by Jacob Sweeny in 1860 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Sweeny was a carpenter and cabinet-maker by trade, and worked for J.G. Allen, a furniture dealer and undertaker. Sweeny bought his business in 1860. Sweeny’s son, Vernon S. Sweeny, took over operations in 1918 and sold the furniture-dealing division to the Rogers Company in 1919. The undertaking business remained in the Sweeny family until 1973, when Layton Goodwin purchased it and added a crematorium in 2011.

Vox Consulting Ltd.

  • Corporate body
Vox Consulting Ltd. is a corporate body known to have recorded audio tracks at Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the early 1990s.

Vincent A. White (schooner)

  • Corporate body
  • 1918-1935
The Vincent A. White was a tern schooner built in Alma, New Brunswick, in 1918 and registered in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. She was launched on 7 August 1918 and assigned flag call TNLC. By the 1920s she was well known as a rum runner. Her name was changed to Estonia in 1926 and her port of registry to Lunenburg. In 1935 the Estonia sailed from Turk’s Island, West Indies, and encountered a heavy storm, losing her sails and rudder, and was abandoned in a sinking condition.

Victoria Hotel

  • Corporate body
  • ca. 1800-1971
The Victoria Hotel was founded on Water Street in Windsor, Nova Scotia, during the late eighteenth century by Thomas Doran, an early Irish immigrant following the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. The original wooden building was replaced in 1896, but destroyed by fire in 1897. It was re-constructed in 1898.

Victoria General Hospital (Halifax, N.S.)

  • Corporate body
  • 1867-
The origins of this hospital are found in the decision of the City of Halifax to build a hospital that was completed in 1859. Various problems delayed the delivery of health care and it was not until April of 1867 when the first patient was received in the restructured Provincial and City Hospital - a joint body of the two levels of government. In 1887 the Province assumed total responsibility for the Hospital which was also renamed, in the year of Royal Jubilee, as the Victoria General Hospital. Consolidation of most Halifax hospitals under one administration happened in 1994 and the Victoria General Hospital became a site under the Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre.
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