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Stewart, Chester B.

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  • 1910-1999

Chester B. Stewart was Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University from 1954-1971. Born on 17 December 1910 in Norboro, Prince Edward Island, he attended Prince of Wales College before entering Dalhousie in 1932. He received a BSc in 1936 and his MD,CM in 1938. He became assistant secretary of the Assoc. Commission of Medical Research from 1938-1940 and served with the Royal Canadian Armed Forces Medical Branch from 1940-1945. In 1946 he was appointed professor of epidemiology at Dalhousie University, a post he held until 1976. After stepping down as Dean of Medicine in 1971 he served as vice president of Health Sciences from 1971-1976. He was also a member of the Isaak Walton Killam Children's Hospital.

Dr. Stewart published over eighty articles on medical research, medical education and medical economics. Other fields of research included aviation medicine, decompression sickness, and tuberculosis. He received numerous awards, including three honorary degrees, the Centennial Medal in 1967, and the Order of Canada in 1972. He died in 1999.

Stewart, Alan Roy

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  • 1942-2020
Alan Roy Stewart was an active member of GAE/GALA, the TightRope Leather Brotherhood, St John's United Church in Halifax, and later Grace United Church in Dartmouth. Stewart played an integral role in attaining "Affirmed" status for St John's through the Affirming Ministries Program offered by Affirm United, an advocacy organization founded in 1982 that supports LGBTQ members of the United Church of Canada. He also helped to organize the first AIDS Vigil in Halifax. He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1942, and received his early education in Yarmouth and at Riverdale Collegiate in Toronto. As a teenager, he joined the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Chebogue, rising to become an officer/instructor. In 1966 he graduated from Mount Allison University with a BA in Philosophy and History, earning a BEd the following year. While at Mount Allison he directed the Theological Society Chapel Choir and served on the Student Representative Council. After graduation he served in the Canadian Royal Navy as a sub lieutenant for five years and taught at Dartmouth High School for three years before buying a motor cycle shop on Gottingen Street, Halifax. From there he went to the Provincial Court as a court clerk, retiring in 2007. He was also active in the NSGEU as a shop steward. He died on 10 June 2020, survived by his longtime partner, Michael Sangster.

Stevenson, Lynn

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Lynn Stevenson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording “Her Voice: Our Story” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Stern, Phyllis Noerager

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  • 1925-2014
Phyllis Noerager Stern was born in San Carlos, California on September 2, 1925. She earned a nursing diploma from Mount Zion Hospital, an AA nursing degree from the College of San Mateo, a BS in nursing from San Francisco State University, a Masters in Nursing from University of California (San Francisco) and a Doctorate in Nursing from UCSF. She also holds an honourary PhD from Dalhousie. She worked in California and Arizona. She came to Dalhousie and worked as a professor and Director of the School of Nursing from 1982-1987. In 1984 she founded the International Council on Women’s Health Issues and served as Councilor General until 2002. From 1983 to 2001 she was the editor-in-chief of Health Care for Women International journal. Her work focused on women’s health internationally, and she is considered an expert in classical (Glaserian) grounded theory method of research. In 2008 she was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing. Phyllis passed away on May 4, 2014.

Steiner, Edie

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Edie Steiner became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1986 because of their involvement in the audio recording entitled “A good listen” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Stein, Laura

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Laura Stein became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1995 because a video recording they directed, "Double Edge" (2 min., 47 sec.) was featured on a Murderecords compilation tape which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Steele, Jonathan

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Jonathan Steele was a shipbuilder from Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Stead, Robert Arthur

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  • 1941-2014
Robert (Bob) Stead, was an educator, municipal politician, community activist and advocate. Born in 1941 in Prince Edward Island, he studied at Acadia University and taught school for six years before returning to Acadia to serve as Assistant Registrar and Director of Admissions, which he did for 27 years. In 1988 he was elected to Wolfville's town council, one of the first openly gay men in Nova Scotia to run for municipal office. He served as mayor from 1997- 2012. During his tenure he initiated legislation to make indoor public places smoke-free and to prohibit smoking in cars carrying children. He was instrumental in the creation of the Wolfville Watershed Nature Preserve and ensured that the Rainbow Flag was flown from the flagpole at Wolfville Waterfront Park. After retiring from municipal government, he served L'Arche Homefires Society as Co-Chair of the Building Our Dream Capital Campaign. He died in 2014, survived by his husband, Danny Chandler.
Stanley, Carleton Wellesley

Stanley, Carleton Wellesley

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  • 1886-1971

Carleton Wellesley Stanley was the fifth president of Dalhousie University, serving from 1931-1945. Although his parents were Canadian, Stanley was born in Rhode Island, USA, in 1886. He studied classics and mathematics at the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA in 1911 before moving overseas to take a degree in classics at New College, Oxford. Two years later he was hired as a lecturer in English literature at Victoria College, Toronto, but in 1916 he left academia to become a salesman. In 1918 he married Isabel Alexander, with whom he had two children. Stanley returned to teaching in 1930 when he joined McGill University as a professor of Greek, being appointed assistant principal soon after.

Stanley took over the presidency of Dalhousie in 1931 and guided the largest Maritime university through the depression years. He is credited with helping to raise the standards of the university's professional schools during his tenure. Following his retirement in 1945, he moved to Winnipeg and joined the English department at United College. He left this position in 1953 and moved to Uxbridge and then Aurora, Ontario, where he died in 1971.

Carleton Stanley received several honorary degrees and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. A widely travelled and fluent writer, for several years he was Canadian correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. He authored two books: Roots of the Tree (1936) and Matthew Arnold (1938).

Stang, Ron

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Ron Stang is an alumnus of Dalhousie University. He studied with Gregory Kealey and, in 1980, he submitted an honours thesis entitled "Community, industry and workers along Nova Scotia's north shore: The Malagash salt miners."

Stanfield, Robert Lorne

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  • 1914-2003
Robert Stanfield was born in Truro, NS on April 11, 1914. His family owned and operated Stanfield’s clothing manufacturers, a thriving Canadian clothing company. His father was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and he had two relatives in federal politics. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1936 and went to Harvard Law School. In 1948 Stanfield became the leader of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative party, and was elected as Premier in 1956. He was Premier for 11 years, and in his government he created provincial parks in Nova Scotia, modernized the roads, created vocational schools (which became NSCC), provided the first consistent funding to universities, created Neptune Theatre, and brought in the first form of Medicare in NS. In 1967 he became the leader of the federal PC party, until 1976. He lost three national elections to Pierre Trudeau, and is often called “the best Prime Minister Canada never had.” He had four children with his first wife Joyce, who died in a car accident in 1954. He remarried in 1957, and when his second wife Mary passed away in 1977, he remarried again to Anne Austin. Robert Stanfield passed away on December 16, 2003 in Ottawa. The Halifax airport was named in his honour in 2007.

Stanbury, Amadita Diana Oland

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  • 1918-2003
Amadita Stanbury was born Amadita Diana Oland, the daughter of Sydney and Herlinda deBedia Oland, and the twin of Bruce S. Oland. She spent her early years in Guilford, England; Havana, Cuba; and Hollywood, California, before returning with her family to Halifax, where she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School. Later she attended Mount Saint Vincent University, as well as studying in Lausanne, Paris and London. She married Norman Stanbury in 1938, with whom she had six children. She was active in her support of the arts, including the Canadian Opera Company, the London Theatre Company, Kiwanis Music Festival and Neptune Theatre. She also served as chair of Mount Saint Vincent University's Project One—Futures for Women and was an early recipient of the university's Alumnae Award of Distinction. She died in 2003.

Stairs, Gilbert S., 1882-1947

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Gilbert S. Stairs was born in Dartmouth in 1882 to merchant John Fitzwilliam and Charlotte Jane Fogo Stairs. He received his BA from Dalhousie University in 1903 and became Nova Scotia's first Rhodes scholar. In 1910 he was working as a barrister with Harris, Henry, Rogers & Harris in Halifax. By 1915 he was married to Amie Beatrice Stairs of Quebec, with whom he had at least one son. He died in Quebec in 1947.

Stairs, George W.

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  • 1887-1915
George Stairs was born on August 25, 1887 to George and Helen Stairs. The Stairs family resided in Halifax since the eighteenth century. Stairs received his elementary school education at the Harrow House, attended the Toronto private school Upper Canada College, and was a student at Dalhousie from 1904-1908. He graduated in 1909 with a Bachelor of Arts with Great Distinction, and set a new academic record with his marks. Stairs went on to work at the Montreal Trust Company for two years, moved to Vancouver to do similar work, and eventually came back to Montreal to set up a business as a manufacturer’s agent. In the early days of mobilization for the First World War, Stairs was among the first to sign up and became a Lieutenant in the 14th Battalion, Canadian Infantry unit, Quebec Regiment at Valcartier. Stairs was the first Dalhousie student to die in the war. He died on April 24, 1915 while defending the Ypres Salient as part of the Second Battle of Ypres (the battle that was later commemorated by the poem “In Flanders Fields”) during the Battle of St. Julien. His brother, John, and cousins, Gavin and Graham, also passed away in the First World War. Stairs donated five thousand dollars to Dalhousie in his will, and is now memorialized at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.

Sprott, Samuel Ernest

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Samuel Ernest Sprott, known as Ernest or “Ern”, was born December 4th, 1919 in Hobart Tasmania, Australia to Moses and D. Florence (Harris) Sprott. He received his M.A. (1942) and B.D (1947) from the University of Melbourne, and went on to Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1954. He was a lecturer at Barnard College at Columbia from 1947 to 1949 and an instructor at Brooklyn College during the summer of 1948. Sprott went on to McGill where he was an assistant professor from 1949 to 1954 in the department of English, and joined the Faculty of English at Dalhousie University in 1958.

While at Dalhousie he was a committee member of the Dalhousie Faculty Association (1963-1965), Faculty Council of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (1963-1965), Committee on Tenure, Salaries and Promotions, Department of English (1969-1973), Committee on Research Fund (Humanities, etc.), Graduate Studies (1969-1972), Selection Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1963-1964) and Canada Council (1966-1967) and Chairman of the Theatre Building Committee (1963-1965) and the Library Building Committee (1964-1965).

Sprott, a writer and lecturer, attended the weekly Distinguished Speakers Series of the English Department until his death. He was published in the Dalhousie Review, Philological Quarterly, Publications of the Modern language Association, as well as published books including Milton’s Art of Prosody (1953), The English Debate on Suicide from Donne to Hume (1961), John Milton: A Maske, the earlier versions (1973) and a book of poems titled Poems (1955). He was also a collector of Australian literature and donated his collection, the S.E. Sprott Australian Literature Collection, to the Killam Library at Dalhousie University in 1984.

On May 20th, 2009 Dr. Sprott died at his home, his final lecture “Shakespeare’s Hall Plays-A Fiftieth Anniversary Lecture” took place January 22, 2009.

Spinney, Frank

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Frank Spinney is a country musician from Nova Scotia. He is a singer, songwriter, scriptwriter and recording artist. He is also a promoter and organizer who has produced shows and special events to raise money for charities.

Spinney began his country music career when he formed "The Ramblers" with his friend Ralph Vidito. The band signed with World Records in Toronto, Ontario and recorded two records. Vidito passed away early on and Spinney went on to form other bands such as Country Born, Southern Gold, and a 10-piece country music show band called Country Generations. In March 2013, he recorded his first Christmas album.

Spinney also wrote, directed, and starred in two feature films: Is the King Really Gone and Nashville Bound. Nashville Bound won a number of awards at the Chicago Film Festival and Nova Scotia Film Festival. Spinney was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011.

Sperry, Henry Drew

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  • 1942-2012

Drew Sperry was an architect based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, known for his early adherence to a landscape approach to architecture, fitting the building to the land, rather than the other way around. Born in Halifax on January 4, 1942, he was educated at Le Marchant Elementary, Gorsebrook Junior and Queen Elizabeth High School before starting an engineering degree at Dalhousie University in 1960. After hearing the Dean of the new School of Architecture at the Nova Scotia Technical College speak to his second-year engineering class, Sperry decided that architecture was better suited to his creativity as well as his problem-solving skills. He enrolled in the BArch program in 1962 and graduated in 1966, having been awarded the school's first Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal for Design.

Following graduation Sperry worked for Robert J. Flinn Design Group as well as collaborating with land planner Harold Verge, with whom he designed the Debrissy Museum in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and the Paper Mill Village Housing Project in Hammonds Plains, which won an award for environmental sensitivity. In 1972 he started his own company, H. Drew Sperry MRAIC, which was initially run out of the family home he'd designed and built with his wife and business partner, Sheila, on Cranston Avenue in Dartmouth. Over time the firm took on projects across the Maritimes, opening partnership offices in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Toronto, and developed an expertise in recreational facilities and housing as well as University land planning.

Drew Sperry died in 2012.

Spatz, Jim

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Dr. Jim (Joseph Myers) Spatz was born in Munich, Germany on March 6, 1949. His family immigrated to Canada through Pier 21 in February 1950, when Jim was around 9 months old. He grew up in Halifax, and attended Dal for Sciences in 1967. He graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1974 and started as a General Practitioner in Dartmouth for 5 years. He went to McGill to train in emergency medicine where he worked until 1988. In 1988 he returned to Halifax to work with his father at Southwest Properties. He became Chairman and CEO of the company. Jim serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlantic Jewish Council, Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee and Blue Line Innovations Incorporated. He is a member of the Parker Street Food and Furniture Bank Advisory Board and serves as a Life Director of Neptune Theatre. Jim also served on the Board of Governors for Dalhousie University from 2001 – 2015, and served as Board Chair from 2008 – 2014. In 2007, Jim along with his late father, Simon, were inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame. In 2013, Jim received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his significant achievements and contributions to the community. In May 2015, Jim was named Atlantic Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year for Atlantic Canada. Jim is also an active member of the World President’s Organization. He created and helped fund the Simon and Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie. The program in Jewish Studies will start in 2015-2016. The Spatz Theatre at Citadel High School in Halifax was dedicated in his family’s name three years ago (2013).

Sparks, Bruce

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Bruce Sparks is a professor of Art and Art History at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Sparks studied photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA 1977) and at the San Francisco Art Institute. He completed his BA (1972) and MA (1996) in English Literature at Carleton University in Ottawa. Sparks exhibited some of his early photography at the Centre for Art Tapes in 1977.

Sousa, John Philip

  • Person
  • 1854-1932
John Philip Sousa was a prominent American composer and bandleader, predominantly known for his marches.

Sommerville, Matthew

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Matthew Sommerville became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 2000s because their audio recording “Deconstructions 1” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Somerset Maugham, William

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  • 1874-1965
William Somerset Maugham was raised by his uncle after he was orphaned at the age of 10. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1897 from St. Thomas' medical school in London, England, but soon left medicine to pursue his writing. He wrote novels, plays, and short stories. He died in Nice on December 16, 1965.

Smith, W., fl. 1823

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W. Smith was a farmer and/or miller in Pictou ca. 1823. He is possibly William Smith, an early settler who established a flour and grist mill on his farm at West River, near Durham. The mill was in continuous use for several generations until J.W. Smith (1870-1935), William's great-grandson, moved it to Pictou and used it as the foundation for the Atlantic Milling Company.

Smith, Thomas Brenton, 1893-1955

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Thomas Brenton Smith was born in 1893 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the son of William Henry Smith and Francinia Lavinia (Hicks). He served as a Staff Sergeant with Liverpool’s No. 2 Clearing Hospital, a Canadian Militia Unit that merged with a Toronto-based unit to become the No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station during World War I. After returning from overseas he worked as an accountant with the Mersey Paper Company.

Smith was active in the Canadian Legion and as an amateur genealogist, compiling information about the families of Queens County. He died in 1955.

Smith, Sidney Earle

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  • March 9, 1897 – March 17, 1959
Sidney Earle Smith was born on March 9, 1897 on Port Hood Island, Nova Scotia. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of King's College, and an LL.B. from Dalhousie University. He was Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Law from 1929-1934, and became president of the University of Manitoba in 1934. He became president of the University of Toronto in 1945, and the Sidney Smith Hall building at the University of Toronto was named after him. He was a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was appointed as Secretary of State for External Affairs under John Diefenbaker. Smith died of a stroke on March 17, 1959.

Smith, Shortie

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Shotie Smith is a music artist known to have made sound recordings at Solar Audio in the 1990's.

Smith, Seth

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Seth Smith is a Nova Scotia-based artist, musician and filmmaker. Smith performs in the band Dog Day as the primary singer/songwriter, and has performed with them across North America and Europe. Smith became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 because their video recording "Triage Burdocks" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Smith, Rowland

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  • 1938 - 2008

Rowland Smith was a McCulloch Professor of English at Dalhousie University. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1938. He earned his BA at the University of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and returned to Natal to obtain his PhD. In 1967 he and moved to Halifax with his wife Ann to take up a teaching position at Dalhousie, later serving as acting Dean of Arts and Science. He was the author of the Smith Report, a recommendation for splitting the faculty of arts and science into two entities, which happened in 1987. In 1994 he was appointed Vice President, Academic at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he remained until 1994, when he left top take up a final appointment at the University of Calgary as Dean of Humanities.

Smith published and lectured extensively on modern British and post-colonial literature in English. In addition to his scholarly activities, he was a director of Opera Ontario, a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers' prize, and a member of the Book Prize jury for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. He also served as a governor of the Neptune Theatre foundation and as director of the Nova Scotia Rugby Football Union, being an avid rugby player himself. His other great love was music, and he was a member of Calgary's Opera's Impresario Circle. He died in 2008.

Smith, Nathaniel

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  • 23 November 1984
Nathaniel [Nat] Smith is civil servant from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Graduating from Halifax West High School in 2002, Smith went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in History from Saint Mary's University in 2006, and both a Masters of Public Administration and a Masters of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University in 2012. In 2013, Smith was part of an initiative to restart the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] organization, a leather club in the Atlantic region that originally closed in 2010. Smith joined the new MACLeather executive, however no further contests were held. Smith moved to Alberta in 2015, where he is currently the Director of Policy, Planning, and Legislative Services for the Alberta Department of Culture.

Smith, Marion Reid

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  • 1891-1944
Marion Reid Smith graduated from Dalhousie University with her BA in 1915. She was born in Dartmouth on 6 October 1891 to Margaret Helen and Willian McVicar Smith. In 1920 she married Henry Wendell Mahon, Dalhousie Class of 1907, and lived until her death around the corner from Dalhousie at 41 Preston Street. She died on 12 May 1944, aged 57.

Smith, Kim

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Kim Smith became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording, “Just Exposure”, became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Smith, Jordan W.

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  • 1864-1948
Jordan W. Smith was a physician in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He was born in Selma, Nova Scotia, in 1864 and educated in small country schools. He taught school for a few years in order to save money to study medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Later, while working as a resident in a Baltimore hospital, he took a post-graduate course from Sir William Osler. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1895 and practised medicine in a small fishing village before opening an office in the town of Liverpool. For the next half century he worked as a country doctor, travelling by horse and buggy, automobile and boat, and delivering over 3000 babies across Queen's County. He also served for 14 years as a member of the provincial legislature, and later on the board of the Nova Scotia Power Commission. He died in 1948.

Smith, Gladys Una

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  • 1893 - [19--]
Gladys Una Smith was born in 1893 in Halifax to J. Harry and Emma Smith. She was educated at Dalhousie University, receiving a BA in 1911 and an MA in 1912 (by examination in Shakespeare_. While she was at Dalhousie she met John Shenstone Roper, whom she married in 1915. Their marriage ended in divorce with no children.

Smith, Cyril R.

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Cyril R. Smith was a lumber dealer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Smith, Clauda

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Olive Winifred Smith was a member of the prominent Halifax Smith family who owned and operated the Smith Company (a fish merchant company) in Downtown Halifax. She lived with her mother Louise and sister Clauda for most of her life, and traveled in Europe, specifically Switzerland. Olive Smith studied at both Acadia Seminary and Dalhousie University from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1911.
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