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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.
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- March 9, 1897 – March 17, 1959
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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.
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- 23 November 1984
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- 1891-1944
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- 1864-1948
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- 1893 - [19--]
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The Smith family of Halifax is best known for owning and operating prominent companies including A.M and Company, a Halifax-based fish merchant.
Family members include Lousie Smith and her daughters Olive Winifred and Clauda Louise Smith. Olive traveled in Europe, specifically Switzerland, and lived with her Clauda and Louise for most of her life. 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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- fl. 1965
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- 1926-1987
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