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Major, William Azor

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  • 1860-1926
William Azor Major was born in Halifax on 12 March 1860 to Charles and Eliza (Stevens) Major. In 1886 he married Mary E. Jost. Major worked as an insurance broker and was an avid curler and a member of the Halifax Curling Club as early as 1882, serving variously as treasurer, vice president and president from 1901-1906. He remained a senior skip until his death in 1926. He was buried at Camp Hill cemetery.

Mal, Anita

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Anita Mal became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording "Snakes and Ladders" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Malik, Rita

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Rita Malik became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recording “On Being Brown” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mallory, Doug

  • Person
Doug Mallory is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio in the 1990's.

Marche, Sunny

  • Person
  • 1948-2012
Sunny Marche was born in Winnipeg in 1948, attended the Royal Military College, and completed his PhD at the London School of Economics at the age of 38 after a career path switch. When he arrived at Dalhousie, Dr. Marche quickly became a highly respected member of the Faculty of Management. An inspiring teacher, he was the inaugural winner of Dalhousie’s A. Gordon Archibald Award for Teaching Excellence, received three MBA Professor of the Year Awards (2002, 2003, 2005) and also won the Teaching Excellence Award in Management Education, the Faculty of Management’s top teaching award, in 2007. Marche also served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies in 2011. He died in 2012.

Marconi, Guglielmo Marchese, 1874-1937

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Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian inventor known as the father of long-distance radio transmission, and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Often credited as the inventor of radio, he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy. As an entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Britain in 1897, Marconi succeeded in making a commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists.

Markle, Alison

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Alison Markle is a video artist who produced works in the 1990s. Markle became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because his audio recording “Memorandum” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Markle, Gary

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Gary Markle is an Assistant Professor of Textiles/Fashion at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Markle was born in 1963 in British Columbia, but relocated to London, Ontario in the 1970s. His education includes a BFA from the Parson’s School of Design in New York City (1988), and a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1995).

Marsh Jarvis, Phyllis

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Phyllis Marsh Jarvis became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their video recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Marsh, Jonathan Borden, Captain, 1841-1934

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Jonathan Borden Marsh was born in 1841 in Economy, Nova Scotia to Jacob Marsh and Jennie McLellan. He spent his life at sea, ending up as a Master Mariner. In 1863 he married Christianna Munroe, with whom he had at least one child, William Campbell Marsh. He passed away in Economy in 1934 at the age of ninety-two.

Marshall, William E., 1859-1923

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William E. Marshall was born in 1859 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to James Noble Shannon and Adelaide Amelia Allison Marshall. He was educated at the County Academy and Mt. Allison Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick. In September 1876 he entered his father's law office and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He practised law in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, until he was appointed Registrar of Deeds for Lunenburg District in March 1898. Marshall was married in 1883 to Margaret Jane Bingay Campbell, with whom he had one son and one daughter. In January 1909 he published a poetry collection, A Book of Verse. Marshall died in 1923.

Martin, Catherine

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Catherine Martin became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording “The Spirit of Annie Mae” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Martin, Margaret

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Margaret Martin worked at the Halifax Memorial Library c. 1963.

Martinez, Anita Louise

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  • 1939-

Anita Louise Martinez is a photographer and long-standing community activist and volunteer, in particular with reference to the peace movement, women’s equality and empowerment groups, and LGBTQI rights. She has documented numerous local and national organizations and her work has been published in periodicals, magazines and books in Japan, New Mexico, New York and Canada.

Born in Ontario in 1939, at the age of eight she won a Brownie camera, which began her love of photography. At 15 she left her home town and began traveling, eventually settling in New Mexico, where she raised six children. In 1983 she moved to Nova Scotia.

She has studied a breadth of subjects—from woodworking to photography to cake decorating—and holds a nursing degree from the University of New Mexico and a diploma in photography, graphic design and digital imaging from Nova Scotia Community College. In addition, she’s completed workshops in drug and alcohol counseling, suicide prevention, and co-operative housing.

In Halifax, Anita served on various boards and committees: PLURA (Presbyterian, Lutheran, United, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches); Halifax Transition House Association; the National Transition House Association; Urban Core Support Network; Second Stage Housing Association; Take Back the Night Committee; the International Women’s Day Planning Committee; Pandora Women’s Newspaper; and WAYVES. She was membership coordinator on Lamplight Housing Cooperative Board and president of PSAC Union. Anita also served the board of Women’s Employment Outreach and was on the organizing team for Dawn Canada. She was a longtime support person with the Nova Scotia’s Persons with AIDS (PWA) Coalition.

Mascagni, Pietro

  • Person
  • 1863-1945
Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas.

Mason, Dutch

  • Person
  • 1938-2006
Dutch Mason is one of Canada's best-known blues artists. Mason was born in Lunenburg is 1938 and growing up was in a number of bands and musical groups. In 2002, he was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame and in 2005 received an Order of Canada. He has received one of the first East Coast Music lifetime achievement awards, a Juno award, CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues Award and has an award named after him at the Harvest Blues Festival in Fredericton.

Mathers, Margaret Ethel

  • Person
  • 1876-
Margaret Ethel Mathers was born Maud Ethel Bligh in Halifax in 1876 to Howard and Maria Bligh. In 1899 she married Frederick Francis Mathers, who served as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1940-1942. She was involved with numerous benevolent organizations, especially those aimed at improving the lives of girls and women.

Matheson, Charles Winfield

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  • 1878-1968
Charles Winfield Matheson was born in 1878 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Charles and Jane (MacRae) Matheson. He was educated at Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University (BA, 1903) and the University of Washington (MA, 1928). He was called to the bar in PEI in 1908 and in Alberta in 1909, where he practised law for much of his career. In 1942 he was appointed Acting Clerk in Chamber at the Calgary Court House. In 1909 Matheson married Annie Burn, with whom he had six children. He died in 1968.

Mathieson, Paul

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Paul Mathieson is a Canadian lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies, including Neptune Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Tarragon Theatre (Toronto, Ontario), and the Shaw Festival Theatre (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario).

May, Ruth

  • Person
  • 1928-2014
Ruth May established Dalhousie School of Nursing's Outpost Nursing Program, designed to train nurses to work in remote areas, particularly in Canada’s North. Born in 1928 in Auburn, New York, she was educated at Wellesley College and practised as a nurse midwife for many years in St. Mary’s, Labrador, as part of the Grenfell Mission to bring health care to remote parts of the country. She was hired at Dalhousie in 1966 to teach graduate nursing courses and pilot the Outpost Nursing Program. She retired in 1994 and later moved back to the United States. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie. She died in 2014.

Maycock, Bryan

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Bryan Maycock became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a compilation video recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mayfield, Ken

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Ken Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a compilation video recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Mayfield, Ron

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Ron Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s because of their involvement in a compilation tape which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

McAllister, Ian

  • Person
  • 1937-

Ian McAllister joined Dalhousie University in 1971 as a professor of economics, later holding additional administrative and academic positions, including department chair and chair of the Senate Committee on International Development. Prior to coming to Dalhousie, he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities before serving as the Provincial Economist of Newfoundland (1962-65); secretary and economic advisor to the Royal Commission on Newfoundland's Economic Prospects (1965-67); and head of the regional development unit of the Canadian Department of Finance (1968-71).

His professional interests include regional development problems and policy issues and he concurrently served as director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s program on regional development; an economic advisor to Premier Regan; a member of the federal Minister of Industry’s advisory board on regional industrial policy; a member of the Mayor of Halifax’s economic development advisory board; a consultant to the federal Department of Energy on the economics of tidal power; and adviser to Newfoundland’s Public Utilities Board on rural electrification policy. He was a commissioner on Canada’s Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing (1984-86) and has written extensively on these and other themes, including international development and foreign aid, disasters and development, and the role of universities as development contributors.

Officially retired from Dalhousie in 2002, McAllister continues to teach and supervise students. He is a research fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and chair of the Board of the International Ocean Institute – Canada. In April 2015 McAllister received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University.

McCann, Penny

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Penny McCann is a filmmaker whose films range from dramatic narratives to experimental. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, as well as be heavily involved with video and artist-run centres. McCann became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2008 because of a video of her screening became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

McCarter, John Alexander

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  • 1918 - 2005
John Alexander (Alec) McCarter was the head of biochemistry within Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine from 1950-1965. During his years at Dalhousie, he became an avid bird watcher and member of the Izaak Walton Fishing Club. Born in 1918 and raised in Dawson City, Yukon, he was educated at UBC and the University of Toronto before joining the National Research Council Atomic Energy Project (1945-48). Following his years at Dalhousie, he helped to establish the Division of Medical Research of the National Research Council and its transition into the Medical Research Council of Canada. From 1966-1980 he served as the Director for the National Cancer Institute of Canada's Cancer Research Laboratory at Western University, and spent the final years of his research career at the University of Victoria. He died on 14 February 2005.
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