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Ann Hughes was the widow of carpenter Edward Hughes of Granville, Nova Scotia. At the time she sold her land in Granville, she was living in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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- 1929-1997
Charles Campbell Hughes was an anthropologist and educator who worked as a postgraduate researcher with Alexander and Dorothea Leighton and Jane Murphy on the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria, and the Sterling County Study in Digby County, Nova Scotia, between 1957-1961. He also collaborated with them on an earlier health study of the Inuit people of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, where he gathered field research for his doctorate in anthropology (1957) from Cornell University. In 1962 he was appointed to the African Studies Center, Michigan State University, where he was a director and later professor. He moved to the University of Utah in 1974, serving as a professor of anthropology as well as director of graduate programs at the medical school until his death in 1997.
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Glynis Humphrey is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Humphrey was raised in Wales, United Kingson before immigrating to Edmonton at the age of 10. Her education includes a Fine Arts Diploma from Grant MacEwan College (1993) and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1996). Humphrey became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because her video recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Bishop Carleton Hunt was the inaugural W.A. Black Chair of Commerce at Dalhousie University. He was raised and educated in Massachusetts and received his first degree from the Boston University School of Business Administration. After serving in World War One as a military instructor at George Washington University, he worked for an economics engineering firm reporting on fundamental business conditions for merchants, bankers and investors. Appointed by Dalhousie in 1920, he also lectured in economics at Nova Scotia Technical College from 1920-1923. The university calendars indicate that he was on leave for the last several years of his tenure at Dalhousie, and in 1927 he earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and did not return. He was the author of a much cited history of the development of the business corporation in England.
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Andy Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their audio recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Dylan Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because his audio recording “Behaviour” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Sherry Lee Hunter is a dance theatre performer based in Toronto, who has multiple sclerosis. Hunter was a part of the physical performing troupe, Jest In Time, who performed together for 27 years. Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1981 because of her involvement in the video recording “Walls performance”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Cindy Illsley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1995 because their video recording “Chloe” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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David Ingraham is a set and lighting designer who has worked with Neptune Theatre and the Banff Arts Festival.
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Alan Inkpen was a Halifax-based artist in the 1980s who worked within time-based mediums. Video works that he was associated with are a part of the Centre for Art Tapes tape collection.
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- 1913 - 1979
Ronald Inness was a marine engineer, collector and member of the World Ship Society, the Belgium Nautical Research Association, and the Steamship Society of America. He compiled a collection of photographs of ocean liners and merchant ships along with steamship histories and fleet lists. Born 29 January 1913 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Inness came from a long line of sea captains in Hunts Point, Queen's County, dating back to the clipper ship era.
His career with Foundation Maritime began in 1936 when he joined the tugboat Banshee as second engineer. In 1940 he was transferred to the Chedabucto on station at Gaspe, Quebec, during the salvage operation of the Furness cargo liner, Incemore. He was appointed chief engineer of the Joseph H. Martin and spent the Second World War on a series of lend-lease tugs operated by Maritime Towing & Salvage. Following this, he worked on the Banscot, sister tug of the Banshee. In 1957, he was transferred to the new motor tug Foundation Victor, where he remained until 1962.
In August 1963, Inness joined the office staff of Foundation Maritime and became the assistant superintendent marine engineer, retiring in January 1977.
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Michelle Irving became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording compilation became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Kathleen Irwin is an interdisciplinary scholar and theatre practitioner. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Knowhere Productions Inc., producing large-scale, site-specific performances and installations. She is currently a professor in the Theatre Department of the University of Regina and the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Before joining the faculty, she worked as a freelance theatre designer for 15 years and as a sessional lecturer for 10 years at the University of Ottawa. She has designed over 150 professional shows for theatre, opera, dance, film and video.
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Kofo Izioman became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "Willing to Wait" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Jack, Lewis, The Reverend, 1815-1901
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Reverend Lewis Jack was born in 1815 in Cullodin, Inverness, Scotland. He was a student at King's College, Aberdeen ca. 1835-1839, where he studied under Hercules Scott, Professor of Moral Philosophy. In 1848 he immigrated to New Brunswick, where he settled in Springfield parish from 1854 to 1884. He married Flora MacKenzie in 1849, with whom he had five children. Reverend Lewis Jack passed away in 1901 in Bouctouche, Kent County, New Brunswick.
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Lawrence Jackman became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Happy as Larry” was featured on a compilation tape that became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Todd Jackson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 because their video recording “A Hard Decision” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jennifer Jacobs is a video artist. She was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 and her video work “Insular Interior: Drawing Information from Economy Class” is part of the artist-run centre’s tape collection.
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James W. Clark joined Dalhousie’s Psychology Department in the 1960s after completing his MA at McGill University and his PhD at Queen’s. He remained a member of the department until his death in 2004.
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James Stanley Hillis was a Dalhousie University alumni born in 1903. He was married to Pauline E. Hillis, with whom he had a son, Eric Stanley Hillis. He died in 1954.
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Donna James became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s because of their involvement in a video recording, “Maigre Dog” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1903-1973
Frank Cyril James was a Canadian academic and Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University from 1939 until 1962.
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Henry James was head of Psychology at Dalhousie, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science from 1968 -1969.
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Daryl Jamieson is a composer born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He currently lives in Kamakura, Japan. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, University of York, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Wilfred Laurier University.
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Neil Peter Jampolis is an American light and set designer and stage director. He has worked on several Broadway productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Sherlock Holmes" for which he won a Tony Award (lighting). He has designed for various theatre, ballet, and opera companies around the world, including Pilobolus Dance Theatre (Principal Designer, 1976-present). He was also the art director for the 2008 film of "Forever Plaid." He currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theatre, Film and Television.
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- 1930-2013
David Janigan was a pathology professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine and a collector of maps, a hobby that began in 1962 when he was studying medicine in England. He was married to Marilyn Ann MacLean of Sydney, Nova Scotia, with whom he had one daughter, Karen Janigan. He died in 2013.
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Rick Janson is an artist based in Oshawa, Ontario. Janson’s focus in the visual arts is oil on canvas paintings that shift between representational and realistic works and abstract paintings. Janson graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1987, where he studied under numerous painters. Janson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 with his documentary work on the Halifax North public library, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ed Janzen 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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Laura Jean became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Manufactury” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jefferys, Charles William, 1869-1951
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Charles William Jefferys was born in Rochester, England in 1869. In 1877, he emigrated with his family to Philadephia, eventually moving to Toronto in 1881. With little formal schooling, he was apprenticed from 1885 to 1890 at the Toronto Lithography Company. He joined the Toronto Art Students' League in 1888 and studied watercolour painting under Charles MacDonald Manly. Jefferys worked as a news illustrator for The Toronto Globe from 1889 to 1892 before moving to New York, where he worked at The New York Herald.
Jefferys returned to Toronto in 1901, where he had a long career as a newspaper, magazine, and book illustrator, creating the illustrations for titles including The Chronicles of America, Episodes in Canada's Story, Canada's Past in Pictures, and the three-volume Picture Gallery of Canadian History. He also taught painting and drawing in the Department of Architecture at the University of Toronto from 1912 to 1929. Later work included guiding the reconstruction of the Habitation at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia in 1938 and painting the murals at the Royal Ontario Museum. Jefferys was a founder of the Canadian Authors' Association, a councillor of the Royal Academy of Arts, and served as president for the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts.
In 1915, Jefferys drew over one hundred sketches to illustrate a projected series on the works of Thomas Chandler Halliburton. The project never came to fruition and the illustrations were published posthumously in the 1956 volume Sam Slick in Pictures.
Jefferys passed away in 1951.
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Bill Jenkins was the seventh principal of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, from 1964-1972. Born on 17 October 1916 in New York City, at age 13 he moved to Baddeck, Nova Scotia, with his mother, variously living in Sydney and Truro, as well as Sackville, New Brunswick. In 1938 he graduated with a BSc from MacDonald College at McGill University, followed by an MSc in 1942. In 1943 he enlisted in the No. 6 District Depot. After being promoted to First Lieutenant, he joined the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and served overseas with the Anti-Tank Company. After the war he studied for his MA in Economics at Cornell University (1947), followed by an MPA in 1952 and PhD in Public Administration in 1961 from Harvard University. He worked for both the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Nova Scotia Agricultural College, where he was appointed principal in 1964. On his retirement in 1972, he joined the staff of the Council of Maritime Premiers Higher Education Commission, serving as the Executive Vice President of Atlantic Provinces Economic Council until 1992. Bill Jenkins died in Truro, Nova Scotia, on 2 November 2009.
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