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Moira McConnell became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “Alberta East” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Elizabeth McCormack became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording "Back in the Day" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Thomas McCulloch, Dalhousie's first president, was a Presbyterian minister, author and educator. Born in 1776 in Fereneze, Scotland, to Michael and Elizabeth McCulloch, he was raised in a prosperous, intellectual environment engendered by a community of highly-skilled textile workers. He graduated in logic from Glasgow University in 1792, started medical school, and continued independent studies in languages, politics and church history before training as a minister at the General Associate Synod in Whitburn. In 1799 he was ordained, assigned a presbytery in Stewarton (near Glasgow), and married Isabella Walker, with whom he eventually had nine children.
Four years after his appointment in Stewarton, McCulloch requested an assignment in North America. He was intended for Prince Edward Island, but in 1804 he was inducted into the Harbour Church in Pictou, Nova Scotia. In 1806 he opened a school in his house, a first step toward his dream of establishing a non-sectarian institute of higher education in Nova Scotia. By 1818 he had helped to establish Pictou Academy, where he served as principal. Although an academic success, with a fine collection of scientific instruments and a distinguished library and natural history collection, from its beginning the school was under political and financial pressure.
In 1824 McCulloch resigned from the ministry to concentrate his efforts on teaching and educational reform. He remained at Pictou until 1838, when he became the first president of Dalhousie College as well as Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy. McCulloch’s belief in the importance of mathematics, natural philosophy and the physical sciences was integral to his understanding of a liberal education. He gave public lectures in chemistry, established a museum of natural history at Dalhousie, and continued to pursue insect collecting. He also wrote on theology and politics and composed popular satirical stories, including The Stepsure Letters. McCulloch died in September 1843.
In 2018 Thomas McCulloch was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/thomas-mcculloch.html
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Thomas McCulloch, Jr. (1809-1865) was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was the third son of Dr. Thomas McCulloch and was educated at Pictou, first in the grammar school under John McKinlay, and then in the Academy, under his father. He went to teach at Dalhousie College in 1843 and taught there until the end of 1844. When the College was revived in 1849, he was appointed principal and had charge of Latin, Greek, Rhetoric, Belle Lettres, and Natural Science. Previous to this time, he had taught a very successful private school in the schoolroom connected with the Poplar Grove church. Poplar Grove congregation elected him as an Elder and he continued to discharge his office while residing in the city. In 1853 he was appointed one of the professors in the Presbyterian Church in the West River Seminary. In this institution he taught Latin, Mathematics and Natural History. He returned to Dalhousie in 1863 and taught Natural Philosophy only. He kept an ornithology collection of nearly all the birds in Nova Scotia as well as mineral and botanical collections, some of which were still at Dalhousie when last noted in the 1970s. He wrote a book on taxidermy. Source: "Presbyterian Witness," Saturday, 11 March 1865, p. 1
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McCurdy, Avis Hunter (Marshall)
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Avis Hunter Marshall was born in 1906 in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, to G. Ross Marshall and Nellie Blanche Taylor. A member of the class of 1927, Avis was an active member of the Dalhousie University student community. She belonged to the women’s debating team and the Council of the Students, serving as vice-president in 1925-26. She was an associate editor of the Dalhousie Gazette, for which she was awarded a “D,” and the editor of Dalhousie’s first yearbook in 1927. She was nominated to the Malcom Honor Society in her senior yearand elected Life Vice-President of the Class for 1927. In 1929 Avis married William Jarvis McCurdy, a fellow Dalhousie alumnus and Life President of the Class of 1926. The couple had four children and lived in Toronto, Ontario. Avis was active in many social and political causes, including running for office as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate. She was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto and was vice president of her local Dalhousie reunion committee for the Class of 1927.
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William Jarvis McCurdy was born in Quebec in 1904, son of the Reverend James Farquarhar McCurdy and Amelia Palmer McCurdy. Following in his father's footsteps, McCurdy was educated at Dalhousie University, receiving his BA in 1926. He earned an MA (1927) and PhD (1929) in philosophy from Harvard, then spent three years teaching at McMaster University before being recruited by the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. He remained there until his retirement in 1969.
McCurdy was active in social and political causes, including the Fellowship for the Christian Social Order (FSCO) and the Workers' Education Association (WEA). He served as a national president for the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), and later ran for office as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate. He was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto and was lifetime president of Dalhousie's Class of 1926. In 1929 he married Avis Marshall, with whom he raised four children. He died in 1988.
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Dr. Arthur B. (Art) McDonald was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia on August 29, 1943. He attended Dalhousie University earning a Bachelor’s in Science (Physics) from Dalhousie in 1964, and a Master’s in Science (Physics) in 1965. He then went on the Caltech, where he earned a PhD in Physics in 1969. He went to work at a nuclear research laboratory, then to Princeton University to teach Physics from 1982-1989. He started teaching at Queen’s University in 1989. Art began to study whether neutrinos had mass, and in doing so started the SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, in a mine 2km underground. The SNOLAB work led to the discovery that neutrinos from the sun change or oscillate, which proves they have a mass. This changed the standard model of physics. For his work, he and a Japanese scientist were co-winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. He hold an honorary degree from Dalhousie University (2007) and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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Christie McDonald (also spelled MacDonald) was Canadian-born opera singer and actress. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia on February 28, 1875, she was the daughter of John MacClean MacDonald, a shipbuilder and innkeeper in Pictou and Jessie MacKenzie. The family moved to Boston, Massachusetts when she was nine years old. Her first professional performance was in 1892 and she performed regularly in New York. In 1913, she appeared in "Sweethearts" as Sylvia, a role that was written for her by the composer Victor Herbert. She is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1910 operetta "Spring Maid" by Heinrich Reinhardt. McDonald was married twice, first to William W. Jefferson (son of the actor Joseph Jefferson) in 1901, and then to Henry L. Gillespie (1911).
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Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist, but has been living in Brooklyn, New York since 1996. McDonald is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University. McDonald became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their film “Zombie Loop” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Liz McDonell became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980 because of their involvement in a video recording entitled “Beta tape for exquisite archives” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Debbie McEwen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1986 because of their involvement in the video recording “Transformation video” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ian McGettigan has worked within the sound department in various films and has completed sound engineering and editing for musicians. McGettigan was a part of the band, “Thursh Hermit” in the Halifax, Nova Scotia region in the 1990s. McGettigan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recording “Learn to Party: Thursh Hermit” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Hector McInnes was a teacher, lawyer, businessman and politician in Halifax. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1860, he graduated with his LLB from Dalhousie in 1888, the first of four subsequent generations of Dalhousie law graduates. He served on the board of Dalhousie University from 1904-1937 and was chairman from 1932 until his death in 1937.
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Dr. Greg Kealey (Canadian Social History, Labour History, Security and Intelligence History) is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Rochester. He taught at Dalhousie University and Memorial University before accepting his current position as Vice President of Research at the university of New Brunswick. He is the founding editor of Labour/le Travail, which he edited from 1976-1997. He remains on its editorial board and is the Treasurer and Chair of the publications committee of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. He also edits the Canadian Social History Series for University of Toronto Press.He has written two prize-winning titles: Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism (1980, second ed. 1991); and Dreaming of What Might be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario (1982; winner of the Corey Prize of the AHA and CHA).Gregory Kealey had published and edited other works and publications throughout his career. Several of his articles have been published in Canadian and international historical journals. He has completed, with Reg Whitaker and Andy Parnaby, a history of the Canadian secret service entitled Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America, that is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. To date he has supervised 18 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie (2), Memorial (12), and UNB (4), and has supervised 8 post-doctoral fellows. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.
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- 1862-1934
Donald Sutherland McIntosh was a geologist and professor at Dalhousie University. He earned his BSc from Dalhousie in 1896 and MSc from McGill University in 1910. He worked with E.R Faribault on the Geological Survey and taught at Baddeck Academy before being appointed Assistant Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in September 1909. For 23 years he was the only member of the Geology Department, retiring in 1932. He died in 1934.
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- 1894-1988
John Edward McIntyre was an agriculturalist born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, in 1894. After being educated at Sacred Heart College in Caraquet, from 1917-1919 he studied agriculture in Saint Anne de la Pocatiere, and was appointed Agricultural Representative for the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture at St. Hilaire. In 1921 he graduated with a BSc Agriculture from Ontario Agricultural College, and continued to work for the New Brunwsick Department of Agriculture—at Bathurst from 1921-1928, and at Chatham from 1928-1929. In 1940, he served as the Agricultural Representative for the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture at Shelburne and Sherbrooke for one year. Between 1941-1975 he worked variously for the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, the Potash Company of Canada, Canadian National Railways and the Maritime Fertilizer Council. He died in Moncton in 1988.
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Ian McKay has taught Canadian History at Queen's since 1988. His research interests lie in Canadian cultural history; in the economic and social history of the Atlantic region of Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific reference to working-class movements and to tourism; in the history of Canada as a liberal order; and in the history of both Canadian and international left-wing movements for socialism. His books include The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (1994, 2004, 2009); Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History (2005); Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 (2008), which won the Canadian Historical Association's John A. Macdonald Prize for the best 2008 book in Canadian history; and In The Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (2010), co-authored with Robin Bates, which in 2011 won the International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard award for the best book written in Canadian studies in English or French. His article "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History," Canadian Historical Review 81, 3 (September 2000), 617-645 was recognized as the best article in the journal for the year; the discussions aroused by this article can be consulted in Michel Ducharme and Jean-François Constant, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009). Warrior Nation? Rebranding Canada in a Fearful Age, co-authored with Jamie Swift, is slated for publication in 2012. Over the next ten years, he plans to bring out two more volumes on the history of the Canadian left, as well as a general book on Canada as a liberal revolution and a study of the influence among western socialists of the work of Antonio Gramsci. To date, he has supervised or co-supervised to completion 64 graduate theses, including 27 at the doctoral level.
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Harold Ross McKean was a 1934 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and class winner of the Gold Medal. He was born in Toney Mills, Pictou County, in 1910. After completing post-graduate studies at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he served in both the British and Canadian Medical Corps before setting up a medical practice in Truro, Nova Scotia. Dr. McKean retired in 1984 and died in September 1991.
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Colin McKenzie became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Alsation” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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William MacKenzie was a carpenter for the Acadia Coal Company during the 1890s.
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Rita McKeough is a Canadian media artist. McKeough’s education includes a BFA (1975) from the University of Calgary and a MFA (1979) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Works of McKeough’s have been included in the tape collection of the Centre for Art Tapes.
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J.L. McKim was a merchant who was born in 1845 in Wallace Bay, Nova Scotia. His store at Wallace Bridge was destroyed by a storm in 1873 and the merchandise washed away by high tides. They rebuilt the store, which was eventually sold to the O’Brien family, who opened it as the Bridge Motel. He died in Wallace Bridge in 1924.
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Ian McKinnon educated includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1980), a MFA from Concordia (1997), and a Master of Theological Studies from Trinity College (2010). McKinnon was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and a part-time faculty member at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. McKinnon became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1994 because their video recording “Pools of Time” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ian McLaren is a marine biologist and professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He was born in Montreal and received his BSc (1952) and MSc at McGill University (1955). He spent summers working on an arctic research vessel and studying marine life in Nunavut. After earning his PhD at Yale in 1961, he taught at McGill from 1963-1966 and joined the Department of Biology at Dalhousie in 1967.
McLaren has published over 100 scientific papers, primarily in the discipline of marine biology, as well as a popular book called All the Birds of Nova Scotia. He has served on national academic grant committees and on the boards of regional and national natural history and conservation organizations including the National Science and Engineering Research Council; the Nova Scotia Institute of Science; the Whales and Whaling Advisory Committee, 1977-1980; and the Eminent Panel on Seal Management, 2000-2001. He was a scientific advisor and/or witness to federal and/or provincial review panels of environmental impact statements, including the Hibernia (1985) and the Sable Offshore Energy Project (1997).
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Katherine McLaren was a student at the Atlantic Institute of Education, Dalhousie University, in the 1980s.
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Rhonda McLean became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Group Interview” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
McLelan, Archibald Woodbury, 1824-1890
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Archibald Woodbury McLelan was a shipbuilder, merchant, and politician, serving as the sixth lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. He was born in Londonderry, Nova Scotia in 1824 to Martha Spenser and Gloud Wilson McLelan, a member of the House of Assembly. He was educated in Great Village, Nova Scotia and Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick before joining his father's shipping and retail business.
McLelan went into partnership with his brother-in-law, John M. Blaikie, with whom he built ships on the Great Village River into the early 1880s. Upon his father's death in 1858 he succeeded him in the House of Assembly. He strongly opposed Confederation and was elected as the first federal member of parliament for Colchester as an Anti-Confederate. After reconciling himself to Confederation he was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1869, where he sat as a Liberal-Conservative. He resigned from the Upper House to run again in the 1881 federal election and was returned to parliament as a Conservative. He served as minister of finance from 1885 to 1887 in the second administration of Sir John A. Macdonald. Following this position he became postmaster general and was responsible for introducing the parcel post system into Canada. In 1888 he accepted the position of lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia.
McLelan married Caroline Metzler in 1842, with whom he had three children. McLelan passed away in Halifax at the age of sixty-five in 1889.
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Anne McLellan was born in Noel Shore, Hants County, Nova Scotia on August 31, 1950. She came to Dalhousie in 1968 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. She got her Law degree from Dalhousie in 1974, and a Master of Laws from King’s College in London in 1975. She became a law professor at the University of New Brunswick and then in 1980 moved to teach at the University of Alberta. At U of A she also served as Dean of Law. In 1993 she entered federal politics, in the Liberal party. She won as MP of Edmonton Northwest in 1993 and served four terms as a Liberal MP in Edmonton (until 2006). She served as a Cabinet Minister her whole time as MP – she was Minister of Natural Resources and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians (1993-1997), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1997-2002), Minister of Health (2002-2003), and Minister of Public Safety (2003-2006). She was Paul Martin’s Deputy Prime Minister from 2003-2006. In 2006 she joined the office of Bennett Jones in Edmonton and serves as a Senior Advisor. She serves on many boards and committees, including being the Chair of the Dalhousie Advisory Council and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta (since 2006). She holds two honourary degrees, received the Alberta Order of Excellence, and the Order of Canada (2009). In 2015 she was appointed as the seventh Chancellor of Dalhousie University.
McLennan, John Stewart, Hon., 1853-1939
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The Hon. John Stewart McLennan, industrialist, historian and publisher, was born 5 November 1853 in Montreal to Hugh McLennan and Isabella Stewart. He was educated at McGill and Cambridge universities before moving to Syndey, Nova Scotia. In 1881 he married Louise Bradley, with whom he had three children, Hugh, Margaret and Louise. He married Grace Henoys Tytus in 1915, with whom he had one son, John Stewart, Jr.
In 1904 McLennan bought the Sydney Post (later the Post Record). He was also a director of both the Dominion Iron and Steel Company and the Dominion Coal Company, and the author of Louisbourg, from its Foundation to its Fall, 1713-1758, which was first published in 1918. In 1916 Robert Borden appointed McLennan to the Canadian Senate, where he served until his death on 15 September 1939.
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Heather McLeod is an artist who teaches Art Education as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University. McLeod’s education includes a BA from the University of British Columbia, a MA from Simon Fraser University and a PhD from the University of Victoria. McLeod became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1987 because of their recording entitled “A word in edgewise” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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