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- 1895-1963
Engineering professor H.R. Theakston worked at Dalhousie University for 45 years, beginning in 1918 and stopped by his death on 26 August 1963. He was born in Monkton, Vermont, in 1895 to Henry Theakston and Ella Sponagle. They moved to Nova Scotia during his childhood and he was educated at Sydney Academy and at Dalhousie, where he completed an engineering course in 1915. After serving in World War One, he returned to Halifax to complete a two-year engineering diploma at the Nova Scotia Technical College, graduating with the Governor General's Award. In 1921 he was appointed assistant professor of engineering and Engineer in Charge of Building and Grounds at Dalhousie. Promoted to full professor in 1929, he became head of the engineering department in 1949, and in 1951 was named the first Clarence Decatur Howe Professor of Engineering. He was granted an honorary doctorate from the Nova Scotia Technical College in 1954.
Dr. Theakston played an integral role in the physical development of Dalhousie's Studley Campus. He was an active member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Canadian Standards Association. He also served on the Senates of the Nova Scotia Technical College and Dalhousie University. His contributions to Dalhousie are marked by the Dr. H.R. Theakston Memorial Award, presented each year to the student who achieves the highest standing in Engineering Graphics and, more substantially, by the Sexton Campus building named after him.
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- 1900-1987
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- 1870-1935
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Harry Kenneth Thurston was born 3 March 1950 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Kenneth Alvin and Elizabeth Madeline (Gillis). He graduated from Acadia University with a BSc in Biology in 1971 and married Catherine Rideout the following year; they have one daughter, Megan Ruth.
An avid naturalist, Thurston's literary work often concerns nature and environmental issues. As a freelance writer, editor, poet and playwright, his work has appeared in magazines, literary periodicals and anthologies, including The Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, The Atlantic Anthology: vol. 2 Poetry, and We Belong to the Sea, a Nova Scotia Anthology. He has also been a field correspondent and contributing editor to Equinox (1982-1999); a writer-in-residence at Acadia and St. Mary’s universities; a visiting writer at Mount Allison University; and a teacher in the journalism programme at the University of King’s College. From 1977-1981 he edited and published Germination, a quarterly poetry periodical.
Thurston is the author of books of poetry and prose. He has been awarded various literary awards and honours, including the Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award (2005); the Evelyn Richardson memorial Literary Award (1991, 1997, 2004); the City of Dartmouth Book Award (1994); and the Atlantic Bookseller’s Choice Award (1991). His magazine-published works have garnered him the Author’s Award (1982, 1987); the National Magazine Award (1983); and the Canadian Science Writer’s Association Science and Society Award (1986, 1987).
Thurston resides in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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- 1920 - 1999
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Stephen Tobin was a Canadian merchant and political figure. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1836, the son of Thomas S. Tobin and grandson of Michael Tobin. He was married to Catherine Lyons Grey in 1868, with whom he had two sons, Thomas Finlayson and Stephen Lyons. Tobin and his brothers, Michael and Henry, were educated at Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic boarding school near Lancashire, England.
Tobin ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Nova Scotia Assembly in 1867 before serving as mayor of Halifax from 1867-1870 and from 1878-1881. He was the Danish consul at Halifax and a commissioner of public schools. From 1872-1874 Tobin was the Liberal MP for Halifax. He passed in Montreal in 1905 at the age of sixty-nine.
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- August 13, 1928 - April 17, 2012
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Troop, Jared Douglas Eric, 1897 -
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