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Arthur Haskins was a 1972 graduate of Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He is currently president of the Great Village Garden Club in Great Village, Nova Scotia.
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Frank Harvey is the current Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, serving from 2016 to present. His previous positions have included Chair of the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, the Eric Dennis Chair of Government and Politics at Dalhousie, University Research Professor of International Relations from 2008-2013, Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2011-2013), the 2007 J. William Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, and Research Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Dr. Harvey received a PhD, MA and BA from McGill University.
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Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey was born to John and Margaret (Cobb) Harvey in Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island. He studied at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University, graduating in 1910, and won the Rhodes Scholarship for PEI, graduating from Oxford University with a BA in 1913. He was married to Elizabeth Winifred Ross, with whom he had four children.
Harvey was an educator, author, and archivist. He taught history at McGill University, Wesley College, and the University of Manitoba before being appointed head of the History Department at the University of British Columbia in 1928. In 1931, he became archivist at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and a special lecturer in Canadian History at Dalhousie. In 1956, he retired and became archivist emeritus of Nova Scotia.
Harvey wrote and edited historical books and articles related to the history of Canada, the Maritimes, and Dalhousie University. He was actively involved with several historical organizations and served as president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and was on the editorial boards of the Canadian Geographical Journal , the Canadian Historical Review, and the Dalhousie Review. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1928, awarded the Tyrrell Medal in 1942 to recognize his outstanding work in Canadian history, and served as president of the organization’s Academy of Social Sciences in 1945.
Harvey passed away in Halifax at eighty years of age in 1966.
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Peter Hartwell is an Ontario-based designer who frequently works with the Shaw Festival. He has also designed for Centaur Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Theatre Calgary, Canadian Stage, Toronto Free Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Belfry, Grand Theatre, London, and Thousand Islands Playhouse. He trained at Sadler's Wells and lives in Dundas, Ontario.
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Kevin Hartley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording “Frottage/Do-mage/Fromage 2 vous” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Hart, Margaret Janet McPhee, 1867-1941
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Margaret Janet McPhee was born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1867, the second child of Archibald McPhee and Ann Graves McLane. She maried Edward C. Hart in 1898, with whom she had three children. She died in 1941 in Victoria, BC.
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Richard Harry became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because his audio tape recording from 1987, “My Machine’s a Rock ‘n’ Roll Cynic”, became a part of their tape collection.
Harrison, Robert Beverly, fl. 1938
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R.B. Harrison graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Sc. in 1935. He was employed as a geologist with the Newfoundland Geological Survey in 1938.
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Harris, William Henry, 1882-1965
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William Henry Harris was born in 1882, the eldest son of Joseph Simpson Harris and Emma Ives. He was educated at Pictou Academy. Like his father, he was appointed chief returning officer for Pictou, as well as High Sheriff for the county. He also managed an insurance and financial business. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the Rotary Club and was secretary of the Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Board. He also served on the boards of the Haliburton cemetery and the Pictou Academy Foundation. He passed away in 1965.
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William Henry Harris was born in 1805, son of John Harris. He was married to Anne Arnison, with whom he had at least four children: Joseph Simpson, George Simpson, Thomas Arnison and Margaret. In 1856 he was appointed coroner of Pictou County. In 1857, on his father's retirement, he became High Sheriff of the county, and in 1874 he was appointed by the province as the presiding officer for the municipal elections of the new Town of Pictou. Harris was also the first publisher of The Pictou News. He died in 1883.
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R. Gordon Harris was a Commander in the Royal Canadian Navy. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1931 and became Life Secretary for the class. Harris served as Inspector of Supply and Fleet Accounting in the Royal Canadian Navy and served in Victoria, British Columbia. Harris retired from the Navy and relocated to Alberta, where he worked as Comptroller and Treasurer of Medical Services (Alta.), Inc.
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Joseph Simpson Harris was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1852 to William Henry Harris and Anne Arnison. He farmed in Pictou County and was later appointed High Sheriff, as were his father and grandfather before him. In 1881 he married Emma Ives, with whom he had five children: William Henry, George, Daniel, Margaret, and Christian. Harris died a widower in 1934.
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Mrs. James Harris was born on 26 December 1850 in London, England, as Eliza Mary Theakston, daughter of Major Taylor Theakston and Sophia Wood. In 1876 she married James H. Harris, a gardener and later a florist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who died on 28 February 1902 following an accident. He was an active member of Charles Street Church, where he served as a trustee, treasurer, usher and assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. Eliza Harris died on 11 December 1921.
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Emily Bevan Harrington was born in Halifax in 1869, the daughter of W.H. Harrington and Charlotte Geddie. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 1892, attended Bryn Mawr for one year, and then obtained her MA at Dalhousie by examination in Anglo-Saxon. She died in 1906 after a long illness.
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Charlotte Geddie Harrington (1840-1906) was a Presbyterian church worker and editor. She was born in 1840 in Prince Edward Island. Her parents were John Geddie and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald. She married William Harris Harrington on Sept. 21 1865, and they had two daughters and a son. She died in Halifax on March 7 ,1906.
Charlotte Geddie Harrington's early life involved accompanying her parents to the New Hebrides (Aneityum) where the family moved to pursue missionary work. She was sent to England for education for eight years, after which she returned to the New Hebrides and assisted her parents' missionary work in 1856. She returned to Halifax in 1859, where she settled to marry and raise a family.
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Noel Harding is a Canadian artist and urban innovator known for his monumental scale public art projects and environmental sculptures. As an artist, Noel Harding produced video art in the 1970s, video projection and installation art in the 1980s, and kinetic installations and sculpture as theatre in the 1990s. He presented some of his early installation work at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For the last 20 years, Harding has focused on public art that addresses landscape and environment.
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Howard Harawitz is an electronic music artist. Harawitz began using synthesizers in the 1970s in San Francisco theatre groups. Harawtiz started the Creativity Lab at the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. Harawtiz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Cheryl Harawitz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Oscar Hanson of Little Lepreau, New Brunswick, was a descendant of John Hanson—a pre-Loyalist settler on Minister's Island—and the great-grandson of Quaker Loyalist Joshua Knight of Beaver Harbour and Pennfield. Oscar's father, Robert Varden Hanson (1795-1884), first settled at Little Lepreau in 1836, where he built a sawmill that he later sold to sons Oscar and Gideon.
Oscar has many concurrent careers and activities: landowner; sawmill owner and operator; canning factory owner; ship's merchant and charterer, shipowner, storekeeper; postmaster of Little Lepreau (until 1898); justice of the peace; active organizer for the Liberal Party; member of at least four fraternal organizations; holder of various offices in the parish of Lepreau; and Baptist Sunday school superintendent. He and his brother Gideon owned lands leased to New Brunswick Anthracite Coal Company
Oscar and his wife Helen (Lomax) had seven children who for many years maintained summer residences at Little Lepreau.
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Roy Hansen-Robitschek is a Canadian set, costume, and light designer. He began his career in 1979 and has worked as a designer and teacher at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland since 1992.
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Daniel Hansen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Outsomnia” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Errol E.I. Hancock established the provincial veterinary laboratory at Nova Scotia Agricultural College and served as Nova Scotia's first provincial animal pathologist. Born in 1902 in Port Hope, Ontario, he graduated from Ontario Veterinary College in 1924 and worked in general practice in Ontario for two years and another year in Montreal as a veterinary inspector. He moved to Nova Scotia in 1927 to work on tuberculosis testing of cattle and other disease eradication measures. He was appointed provincial animal pathologist after joining the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture in 1937, the same year that he established the provincial veterinary laboratory. He was a founding member and president of the Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association, a founding member of the Canadian Veterinary Association, and a member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. In September 1972, NSAC's Hancock Veterinary Laboratory building was completed and named in recognition of his work. Hancock retired in 1963 and died on 26 July 2008.
Hammond, Charlotte Wilson, 1941-
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Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is an artist based on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Wilson-Hammond has been heavily involved in the local Nova Scotian artist community. She has been advocating for the Arts on provincial and national levels for decades, and was a founding member of the Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Eyelevel Gallery. In 2002 Wilson-Hammond had a retrospective exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled "Landscape with Thighs".
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Sylvia D. Hamilton was born in Beechville, NS. She grew up in Nova Scotia and attended a segregated school as well as a non-segregated school. She was the first person from Beechville to graduate high school. She attended Acadia University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972. Later, she earned a Master’s degree at Dalhousie (2000). Sylvia is an accomplished filmmaker, including NFB films like “Black Mother Black Daughter” and “Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia”. Her work focuses on the experience of African Nova Scotians/African Canadians and women. She has earned a Gemini award, the Portia White Prize, CBC Television Pioneer Award, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Sylvia Hamilton currently teaches in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College (Dal) and is the current Rogers Chair in Communications. She holds three honourary degrees.
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Shelley Hamilton is a singer, actor, host and writer who has won multiple awards. Hamilton became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Blacken Blink” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1924-2017
Peter Hamilton was Registrar of Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1974-1984. Born 23 July 1924 in Truro, Nova Scotia, he graduated from NSAC's diploma program in 1944. He earned his BSc in Animal Science in 1947 from Macdonald College at the University of Guelph, and in 1952 graduated from University of Maine with an MSc. He started his professional life as an agricultural representative in Hants County and in poultry extension in Eastern Nova Scotia. He also hosted CBC Radio's Country Calendar (later Country Canada) for four years before taking up a professorial appointment at Macdonald College. He returned to Nova Scotia to teach chemistry and animal science at NSAC and in 1974 was appointed College Registrar. Hamilton was inducted into the Dalhousie Heritage Society and recognized at the Faculty of Agriculture Scholarship Banquet for his legacy gift, which established the PY Hamilton Scholarships. He died on 29 January 2017.
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Herbert Noel Hamilton, from Saint John, New Brunswick, was a Dalhousie alumnus (BA, 1949; MA, 1950) and the university's star badminton player during his years at the university. He was also director of the Dalhousie chorus (1948-49) and played violin in the university's concert orchestra (1946-49). Born in 1925, at the age of eighty he earned a PhD from University of Toronto.
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Born in Russia, Boris Hambourg moved to England with his family in 1891 where he studied cello with Herbert Walenn. In 1898, he entered the Hoch Konservatorium in Frankfurt, Germany to study with Hugo Becker and Ivan Knorr. Following his graduation in 1903, he toured widely as a soloist and a member of the Hambourg Trio (with his brothers, Mark and Jan). He moved to Canada with his family in 1910 and established the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. After the death of his father, Mark Hambourg, in 1915, Boris became the director of the conservatory.
Boris Hambourg married the pianist Maria ('Borina') Bauchope in 1923. During this year, he also founded the Hart House String Quartet, with whom he toured regularly from 1923 to 1946. He also founded the Toronto Music Lovers' Club and was an active member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. He died in Toronto on November 24, 1954.
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John Halliburton was born and raised in Scotland in a clerical family. He served on a British frigate during the Seven Years’ War and later started a medical practice in Newport, Rhode Island. He married Susannah Brenton, daughter of Jahleel Brenton. The family settled in Halifax in 1782, where Halliburton's brother-in-law, James Brenton, was an assistant judge on the Supreme Court. He resumed private medical practice and became head of the Royal Navy’s medical department.
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Brian Hall taught biology at Dalhousie University and did research in evolutionary developmental biology (EVO-DEVO), bone and cartilage formation in developing vertebrae embryos, and the neural crest tissue of embryos. Born in 1941, he studied zoology at the University of New England in New South Wales, earning a BSc in 1963 and a PhD in 1968. He came to Dalhousie in 1968, was appointed full professor in 1975, and served as department chair from 1978-1985. He was Izaak Walton Killam Research Professor from 1990-1995, Killam Professor of Biology from 1996-2001, George S. Campbell Professor of Biology from 2001-2007, and a University Research Professor from 2002-2007. His books include Evolutionary Developmental Biology; The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution; The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms; and Variation: A Central Concept in Biology.
Hall retired from teaching as an emeritus professor in 2007 to focus on research and writing on embryonic skeletal development and evolutionary developmental biology, as well as removing gout weed from half an acre of Nova Scotia. He was appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University in 2008, and received an honorary Doctors of Laws from the University of Calgary in 2014.
Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
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George Montagu-Dunk was the 2nd Earl of Halifax, succeeding his father in 1739. Born in 1716, he was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married in 1741 to Anne Richards (d. 1753), who had inherited a great fortune from Sir Thomas Dunk, whose name George Montagu took.
From 1749 to 1761 he served as president of the Board of Trade. It was during his tenure in this position that he helped to found Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, which was named after him. He entered the Cabinet in 1757, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1761, and also served as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Montagu-Dunk left office in July 1765, returning to the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal under his nephew, Lord North, in January 1770. He passed away in 1771, having recently been restored to his former position of Secretary of State.
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotia politician, judge and author. He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on 17 December 1796. In 1856, he emigrated to England, where he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He died in Isleworth, England, on 27 August 1865.
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Les Haley was the ninth principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and a former professor of biology at Dalhousie University. He began his post-secondary studies at the agricultural college in Truro, Nova Scotia, serving as secretary-treasurer of the student council and graduating in 1958 with a degree course diploma. He pursued further studies at the Ontario Agricultural College before earning a BSc in agriculture from the University of Toronto. He returned to the Ontario Agricultural College to study genetics and animal breeding before completing a PhD at the University of California, Davis.
After a brief stint teaching at the University of Saskatchewan, Haley returned to Nova Scotia in 1970 with a job in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie. His research activities included investigations on the genetic variations of oysters, lobsters and mussels; he was also an enthusiastic teacher, serving as a student advisor, supervising graduate students and playing a key role in developing the honours program in marine biology. In 1988 he took up his appointment as principal of the Agricultural College, where he remained until his retirement in 1996. For two years after that he served as deputy minister of Nova Scotia's Department of Agriculture and Marketing. In 2017 he received Dalhousie's Faculty of Agriculture’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Max Haiven is a writer, teacher and organizer, and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Haiven’s education includes a PhD in English and Cultural Studies and an MA in Globalization Studies from McMaster University. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University. Haiven became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2001 because his video recording “Video (0001)” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Barry Guy (b. 1947) is a British composer and double bass player. From 1997 to 2006, he lived in Ireland, before moving to Switzerland with his wife, Maya Homburger, a Baroque violinist.
Guy worked for Caroe and Partners Architects in London for three years while studying the double bass and taking composition classes at Goldsmith’s College in London, England. He gave up a potential career in architecture in the late 1960s to study double bass full-time with James Edward Merritt at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Since graduating, he has performed internationally as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, performing a range of improvised, baroque, and contemporary music. Guy has collaborated with a number of other musicians and ensembles, including the City of London Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Music, London Classical Players, Maya Homburger, Paul Lytton, and Evan Parker, to name a few, and is the founder and artistic director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra (formed in the early-1970s) and the Barry Guy New Orchestra (formed in 2000).
Many of his compositions arise from commissions from ensembles and orchestras with whom he also has a performing relationship. His compositions often feature improvisational elements and/or extended techniques, and he has experimented with graphic notation in a number of his works, including "Nasca Lines," a graphic score commissioned by the Upstream Ensemble in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Although Guy began to discuss a commission with Jeff Reilly (artistic director of the Upstream Music Association, or UMA) circa 1996, his first appearance in Halifax was not until 1999, when he performed one of his works, "Octavia," with the Upstream Ensemble at the Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music. Since then, Guy has collaborated regularly with the ensemble, through performances (sometimes with Maya Homburger), workshops, and compositions. Most recently, the Upstream Ensemble performed his "Witch Gong Game" at the 2012 Open Waters Festival. The "Witch Gong Game," like "Nasca Lines," is a graphic score partially inspired by the work of Scottish artist Alan Davie.
Guy and Homburger also have a CD label, MAYA Recordings, for the production of new, improvised, and early music. He has more than 200 recordings as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, 26 of which are under the MAYA label.
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