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- fl. 1904
W.E. Faulkner lived in Cripple Creek, Colorado ca. 1904, where he worked in the mines. He corresponded with various relatives in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Boston, and Manila.
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- 1875 - 1942
Joseph Everett Faulkner was born 23 March 1875 in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. He was a Master in the Canadian Merchant Navy, and in 1942 he came out of retirement at age 67 to captain the SS Western Head. On 28 May 1942, transporting a cargo of raw sugar from Kingston, Jamaica, to Montreal, the SS Western Head was hit by two torpedoes and sank immediately, fifty miles east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. All thirty crew drowned, including Faulkner, who is buried in Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
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- 1886 - 1976
Dora Guille Faulkner was born in 1886, the eldest daughter of George Everett Faulkner, a Nova Scotia politician, businessman and founder of Faulkner and Co. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in 1906 and an MA in 1911. In 1909 she served as the secretary for the Alumnae Society and in 1910 as an editor at the Dalhousie Gazette. In 1926 she taught art and English at Mount Vernon Seminary near Washington, DC. She died in Nova Scotia in 1976.
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Mike Farrington is a musician best known for playing bass in the Mellotones, a band inspired by R&B, soul, disco, and funk. The Mellotones formed in the late 1990's.
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Dr. Farquharson graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1904 and obtained his medical licence from the Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia that same year.
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George Farquhar was born 17 July 1880 in Wetherby, England, to James and Margaret Ann MacDonald Farquhar. He came to Canada in 1883 and attended public school in Windsor and then Dalhousie University where he earned a B.A. (1907), M.A. (1910), and L.L.B. (1927). He also studied at Pine Hill in Halifax, Edinburgh, and Halle a Salle, Germany. Farquhar married Ruby M. Duffus in 1917 with whom he had three children: Margaret, Mary and Ian.
Farquhar’s career varied from working as a pastor, a newspaper editor, and a civil servant. He was ordained as a minister in 1910 and served as a pastor in Hampton, New Brunswick, (1910-1912) and assistant pastor in Winnipeg (1913-1914) before enlisting to serve in World War I in 1915. He then traveled to England (1916), France (1917-1918), and Russia (1918-1919). Following the war, Farquhar returned to Nova Scotia and worked as a pastor in New Glasgow from 1919-1925.
In 1927 Farquhar was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar but only two years later became editor-in-chief of the Halifax Chronicle. He remained with the paper until 1938 and between 1926 and 1927 wrote a column called “Men and Things.” From 1938 until he retired in 1953, Farquhar served as a member of the Nova Scotia Public Utilities Board.
In addition to these activities, Farquhar was involved with local community organizations, including the Nova Scotia Historical Society and the North British Society. He also sat on Dalhousie’s Board of Governors from about 1941 to 1953.
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Lucia Fanning is Professor Emeritus of the Dalhousie University's Marine Affairs Program. Prior to coming to Dalhousie in 2007, she was involved in addressing transboundary fisheries governance in the Caribbean Sea.
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- 1946-2009
Pierre Falardeau was a Quebec film and documentary creator beginning in the 1970s. Falaradeau’s films frequently showcased an activist, or a political activist, standpoint towards Quebecois independency, which he maintained throughout his career.
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Paula Fairfield grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and became a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in the early 1980s. While at NSCAD, Fairfield became interested in sound and video while undertaking classes in other mediums. Fairfield later moved to Toronto and Montreal to undertake other professional endeavors, before moving to Los Angeles where she currently resides today. Fairfield operates her sound company, Eargasm Inc, in Los Angeles where she works on numerous television and film productions. Fairfield has been nominations for six Emmy awards in sound editing and design for her work in Lost and Game of Thrones. Fairfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1983 because of her video, “Relative activities: doing nothing with somebody” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection
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Christine Eyles was a friend and roommate of Alan Creighton's. She was born in England on July 28, 1900, the daughter of Charles ("Chas") Eyles, a violin maker, and Emma Lucas, a miniaturist and watercolour painter.
Christine was a gifted violinist and graduated as a performer from the Royal College of Music. She was a professional musician from the 1920s to 1950s. In the 1920s, she played with the Bournemouth and BBC Symphony Orchestras. Upon immigrating to Canada in 1930, she played with the Toronto and CBC Symphony Orchestras until the 1950s and the Promenade Symphony throughout her life. In 1969, Christine was awarded a lifetime membership in the Toronto Musicians' Association. She was also noted for being an artist and a poet, with her paintings described as "mystical-abstract." Christine Eyles died in Toronto, Ontario on March 2, 1978 at the age of seventy-seven.
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Richard Lewis Evans was a professor at Dalhousie Law School between 1975–2008 and was the chief architect of the school's application for the 1998 Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Trial Advocacy. He graduated from Osgoode Hall, Toronto, in 1970 and came to Dalhousie in 1975 as the executive director of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (DLAS), a position he held until 1979, and again between 1987-1989 and 1991-1995. He was also a long-serving member of the DLAS Board of Trustees. He created and taught Dalhousie's first Clinical Course in Criminal Law (known as the "criminal clinic") and co-authored the 1985 Christie-Evans-Johnson report. In 2003 he received the Pottier Award for outstanding contributions to Dalhousie Legal Aid. Evans also served on Oxfam Canada's National Board from 1999-2010 and as chair of Oxfam Internationals Board from 2002-2007.
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Maurice Evans was a naval architect and engineer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He married Marjorie Priscilla Lobley in 1950.
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Etter, Amos Benjamin, 1849-1918
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Amos Benjamin Etter (1849-1918) was a merchant in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was born at Mt. Watley, New Brunswick, to Peter Etter and Jane Atkinson, and educated at Amherst Academy. In 1871 he entered into the dry goods business with David T. Chapman in Amherst. In 1882 he formed a partnership with Robert Pugsley, from which he retired in 1910. For many years he also engaged extensively in farming and raising horses.
Etter served first as deputy sheriff (1875-1895) and then as high sherriff of Cumberland County (1895-1908), when he was appointed to the Legislative Council. He was president of the Liberal Association for Cumberland County, and served four years as a town councillor. He was married in 1878 to Clarissa Pugsley and he died in 1918.
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- 1942-
Evans Estabrooks was a former president of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni Association. Born in 1942 on a farm near Sackville, New Brunswick, he attended NSAC between 1958-1962 and graduated with a BSc Agr from Macdonald College at the University of Guelph. Estabrooks worked in horticultural extension in New Brunswick and Ontario before moving to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Fredericton Research Station, where he pursued fruit crop research. In the late 1990s he served as president of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni Association, also holding positions with the New Brunswick Institute of Agrologists and the Agricultural Institute of Canada. After his retirement from government he started a business in horticultural crop production and pest management. He is the author of a 2019 memoir called Haydays.
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- 1908-1980
Arnaldo Estrella was a Brazilian pianist and teacher. Heitor Villa-Lobos dedicated his third piano concerto (W512) to him, which he premiered on August 24, 1957 with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho.
Esterbrooks, Mrs. Harris , fl. 1949
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Mrs Harris Esterbrooks lived in Sackville, New Brunswick, c. 1949.
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Audrey Epp became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their video “Traumatic Landscapes” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ken Enman is a musician from Amherst, Nova Scotia. it is known that Ken Enman created sound recordings at Solar Audio.
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Thomas Emodi was a professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia from 1983-1997, and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Planning from 1997–2003.
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- 1897-1916
Glenn Stephens Ells was born 11 May 1897 in Sheffield Mills, Nova Scotia. Growing up, he worked on the family farm and attended the regular course offered at Nova Scotia Agricultural College. In 1915, after his first year of study, Ells joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, later transferring to the 5th Canadian Machine Gun Company and serving in France. He was killed in action in Courcelette on 28 September 1916. His name is inscribed on the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge.
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- [ca. 1730] - 1795
Reverend William Ellis was born ca. 1730. He arrived in Nova Scotia in 1774 as an itinerant missionary for the (Church of England's) Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Shortly after arriving, Ellis took over a large mission in Hants County, serving congregations in Newport, Falmouth, Windsor, Cornwallis, Wilmot, and Horton. He married Isabella Colquhoun, with whom he had one daughter, Isabella Ellis. He passed away in 1795 and is buried in the Winsdor churchyard.
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- 1951-
Lisle Ellis is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer, known for his improvisational style and use of electronics. Born in Campbell River, British Columbia, he played electric bass as a teenager before entering the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Creative Music Studio in New York City (1975-1979). He lived in Toronto, Ontario from 1982 to 1983, and Montreal, Quebec from 1983 to 1992. He formed the performance and composition collective Vancouver's New Orchestra Workshop. In 1992, he moved to the Uited States where he spent time in San Francisco, San Diego, and New York City. He has performed and recorded with a number of artists.
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Andrew Ellis became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 because their video recording “Video Boyfriend” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain
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- 1900-2002
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was born to Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck in 1900. In 1923, she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, who would become King George VI after the abdication of Edward VIII. She was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She took part in many public engagements in her role as Queen and Queen Mother and was a popular member of the royal family.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain
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Jake Edwards is a recording artist who is known to have recorded songs at Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the middle to late 1980s.
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Pam Edmonds became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Black Box” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1919-2004
Rosemary Gilliat was born in Hove in the United Kingdom in 1919. She grew up in British Ceylon and went to boarding school in Switzerland. She developed a love of travel and an interest in photography at a young age. In the United Kingdom, she worked in photographic studios as well as taking photographs for her own interest. Gilliat immigrated to Canada in 1952, where she found employment as a photographer. She had an interest in the north and in indigenous peoples which led her to travel throughout the country. Gilliat married Michael Eaton in 1963 and moved to Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. There she became an environmental and cultural activist until her death in 2004.
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Janet M. Eaton is an independent researcher, public educator, writer and political activist. She was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and earned her PhD in marine biology at Dalhousie University in the early 1970s. She taught at several Nova Scotia universities, including Dalhousie, St. Mary's, Mount Saint Vincent and Acadia. She transitioned from her career as a marine biologist to work in adult and community education, where she developed a particular interest in systemic change. She was appointed a fellow of the International Systems Institute in the mid-1990s], worked as a consultant to government and NGOs, and since 1999 was a part of the global democracy movement. In the early 2010s, Eaton served as the Sierra Club of Canada's Trade and the Environment representative and as a member of the Canadian Trade Justice Network.
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