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- 1841-1919
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, in office from July 11, 1896 to October 6, 1911.
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- 1881-1965
K. C. Laurie was born in London, England in 1881 to Major-General J. Wimburn Laurie and . He was brought up on his father's estate in Oakfield, Nova Scotia and was educated as schools in Nova Scotia and England, including the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Laurie served in the Boer War and WWI. After retiring, he moved back to Oakfield in 1922 with his wife, Violet Boardman. Despite lacking experience with and knowledge about universities, Laurie was appointed to the Dalhousie Board of Governors in 1939 and served as its chair from 1943 to 1955. He was able to devote time to the board and was known for "inspecting" classes. Laurie passed away in 1965.
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- 1905-1897
George C. Laurence was born in 1905 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He received his BSc (1925) and MSc (1927) in physics from Dalhousie University and earned a PhD at Cambridge University. In 1930 he joined the National Research Council in Ottawa, where he worked on radiation dosages in cancer treatments and promoting safety from radiation exposure. From 1946 Laurence was the scientific advisor to the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. He was appointed chairman of the Reactor Safety Advisory Committee at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 1956 and from 1961-1970 he served as president of the Atomic Energy Canada Board.
Laurence received several awards for his work, including the MBE, the Canadian Association of Physicists medal, the W.B. Lewis medal from the Canadian Nuclear Association, and a number of honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie in 1967. George Laurence married Elfreda Blois in 1931, with whom he had two daughters. He lived in Chalk River, Ontario, from 1946 until his death in 1987.
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Carl Laudau became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because many of their video recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Marina LaPalma was born in Milan, Italy. LaPalma was a performance artist and art critic in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s. She was also a founding member of the Kelsey Street Press in Berkeley in the 1970s. LaPalma became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes with her “demo tape” audio recording which became a part of the centre’s tape collection in 1985.
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- 1946-2005
Darcy Lange was a New Zealand artist known for his video and film work of New Zealand. Lange first used the “long take” technique when using video ad treated his videos as research studies, rather than finished products. In the 1970s, Lange began documenting people in their everyday activities, which included the significant events surrounding Maori land rights during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Dan Lander was born in 1953 in Oshawa, Ontario and educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. During his education, Lander focused in performance, video and sound. Lander became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1984 because of his involvement with a video recording entitled “2 videos by Halifax independent producers” which became a part of their tape collection.
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- 1881-1916
Bertram Howard Landels taught land drainage at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for about six years after he himself graduated from the college in 1909. He was born on 20 May 1881 in River Herbert, Nova Scotia. On 6 December 1915 he enlisted as a sergeant with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Ontario Regiment) and was promoted to lieutenant on 24 August 1916. He went overseas with the 15th Battalion of the Canada Army Infantry and on 26 September 1916 he was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Vimy, France.
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Carl Landan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording Ambition Anagram” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Kevin Lamotte is a lighting designer and is currently the head of lighting design at the Shaw Festival. He started working with the Shaw Festival in 1987 and has also worked with other Canadian Theatre companies, including the National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Centaur Theatre, the Mirvishes, and Neptune Theatre. He is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and has been nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award 11 times.
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Pierre L’Amare is a Canadian filmmaker and animator created, or contributed to, numerous films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. L’Amare became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1985 because of his involvement in a video recording entitled “11 steps to survival” with Ronald Dic which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Rebecca Lake became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Hear Me” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Laing (née Creighton), Anna, 1898-1997
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Born on June 29, 1898, author and ophthalmologist Anna St. Claire Creighton graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1922. After internships at Halifax Children's Hospital and Saint John General Hospital, she practiced at Dubuque, Iowa and then as an ophthalmology intern and resident at Bellevue Hospital in New York. She also taught at the University of Rochester in addition to working at private practices in both New York and Amityville. One of the few early female practitioners in her field, she received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University in 1985. Anna Creighton is also the author of My Father's Reply, an autobiography. She married James R. Laing (Roy) and had two children, Frederick and Ian. Anna died on February 28, 1997.
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- 1939-
Toni Ann Laidlaw (nee Johnston) was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1939. She earned a BA Honours in English and Psychology at the University of Calgary in 1967, followed in 1970 with a Masters of Education with a specialization in Counselling Psychology. Her PhD in Educational Psychology was granted in 1978 by the University of Alberta, her thesis titled: "Concepts of Femininity, 1890-1930: Reflections of Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Theories." In 1982 she became a registered psychologist in Nova Scotia.
In 1974 Toni Laidlaw was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Education at Dalhousie University, teaching in the area of educational psychology and offering one of Dalhousie's earliest classes in women's studies. She became an Assistant Professor in 1978 and an Associated Professor in 1980. In 1990 she was appointed Full Professor in Women's Studies. In 1997 she was appointed to the Division of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, where she served as Program Director and Chair until her retirement in 2005.
In her final faculty position, Toni Laidlaw developed and implemented Dalhousie's medical communication skills curriculum. Her medical education research around communication skills teaching has been widely published, including studies on the needs assessment of communication skills at Dalhousie. She is the author, with C. Malmo and Associates, of Healing Voices: Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women (1990), and with M. Conrad and D. Smyth, of No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women, 1771-1938 (1988). She has also published articles on feminist therapy, family violence and incest, and sexual harrassment.
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Kristiina Lahde is an artist based in Toronto. Her education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1999). Lahde became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recording “September 29, 1999” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Tom Lackey was an historian and author. He co-wrote Sailing Ships of the Maritimes with Charles Armour. Lackey conducted research on student movements in Toronto during the 1960s and 1870s. Little else is known about him.
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Julie La Palme became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1997 because their video recording “Embedded” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1882-1952
Alfred La Liberté was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, he began his musical education on piano in Quebec before attending the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. In 1906, he returned to Canada to teach at the Canadian Conservatory of Music in Ottawa. He then spent some time in New York with Alexander Scriabin, who convinced him to return to Berlin to study with Teresa Carreño. He also spent some time in Brussels, studying compositions with Scriabin. After performing in Europe for a few years, he returned to Montreal in 1911, where he opened a private teaching studio. In 1913, he moved to New York until the end of the First World War, when he returned again to Montreal.
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- 1942-
Jan Kwak was Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie from 2001-2006. She is also a professor Professor Emeritus at the school focusing in physical, colloid and polymer chemistry. Born in the Netherlands on May 6, 1942, Kwak received her BSc, MSc, and PhD from the University of Amsterdam in Physical Chemistry. She came to Dalhousie in 1970 as an assistant professor of Chemistry, and later became the Chair of the Department.
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Lisa Kucharski is a sound artist. Kucharski became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because his audio recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Felix Kubin is a sound artist, or electronic musician who was born in Germany. Kubin became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording “Sometimes Always” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Steve Kriztan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording “X” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Karen Kristjansson is the creator of the workout videos “Move It to Lose It” where she exercises in front of the camera, losing weight while recording. Kristjansson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1997 because their video recording “Move It to Lose It” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Carol Krismer became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1987 because of her involvement as a student on the video recording “NSCAD Club Flamingo Party Tape- 4 student videos”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Seana Kozar is a Canadian folklorist, storyteller, artist and filmmaker who was born with cerebral palsy became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "Unotuched of God, Part 1" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Frank Koustrup is a recording artist who uses sound, writing, videographs and videographs became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their sound recording “PNO” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- b. 1931
George Aqqigiq Koneak was born on January 3, 1931 near Quaqtaq, Quebec. In 1957, Koneak was one of four Inuit men to make a historic first appearance at an Eskimo Affairs committee meeting in Ottawa. After moving with his family to Kuujjuaq, Quebec in 1958, Koneak continued to advocate for Inuit people. Koneak was one of the signatories of the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, a founding member of the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, and a governor of the Makivik Corporation. Koneak was honoured by the Makivik Corporation in 2006 for his work as a pioneer of relations between Inuit and non-Inuit people.
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David Kolber became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990 because their audio recording “What Do I Do? Wheelchair” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Marie Koehler-Wandergraaf is a Canadian artist currently based in the Halifax region. She became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because her video, “Body Talk” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jon Knowles is a Montreal-based artist whose education includes studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Cooper Union and Concordia University. Olson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2004 because their video recording “Share” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Knowles, Florence Seeley, 1852-1940
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Florence Seeley Knowles was born in 1852 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to Caleb Seeley and Elizabeth Perkins Fairbanks. She was the great-grand-niece of the celebrated Nova Scotia painter Gilbert Stewart Newton (1794-1835). In 1927 she married widower Thomas Parkinson-Knowles. She died in 1940 in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
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Katherine Knight was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1977 because of her involvement with a video recording “Televizion Tapes” which featured Knight’s nighttime photography that became a part of their tape collection.
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