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Herbert Leslie Stewart's father, the Reverend Samuel Edgar Stewart (B.A.), was born in Carrickfergus, Ireland in 1841, where he later served as the Minister at Joymount Presbyterian Church.
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Reverend George W. Stewart lived in Charlottetown, P.E.I. in the 19th century.
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John Stewart was commander of the No. 7 Dalhousie Stationary Hospital and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was born on 3 July 1848 in Black River, Cape Breton. The son of Rev. Murdoch Stewart, a Presbyterian minister, he was educated at home and at the country school. As a youth he moved to Scotland to work on his aunt's farm, continuing his studies independently and especially enjoying mathematics and literature. He moved to Halifax to attend Dalhousie from 1872-1873, then went to the University of Edinburgh, where he was granted his MDCM in 1877. It was there that Stewart became acquainted with Professor Joseph Lister (later Lord Lister), working first as Lister's dresser, then as his clinical clerk from 1876-1877, before following him to London to work as a house surgeon. After a two-year post, he returned to Nova Scotia, settling in Pictou, where he held a general medical practice for fifteen years.
In 1894 Dr. Stewart relocated to Halifax to work as an operating consultant surgeon. He was an active member in several medical associations, serving as president of the Canadian Medical Association (1905), the Medical Council of Canada, the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, the Provincial Medical Board (1906-1916) and the Dominion Medical Council (1925). At the age of 67, he enlisted as a volunteer and took command overseas of the No. 7 Dalhousie Stationary Hospital. He remained in England and France from 1916-1919 and was decorated with a CBE. After returning from the war, Dr. Stewart was appointed Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine, a position he held until 1932. He died on 26 December 1933.
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J.J. (John James) Stewart was a teacher, lawyer, editor, publisher and businessman. He was born 13 May 1844 in East Branch River Philip (Williamsdale), Nova Scotia, son of William Stewart and Sarah Emily Peppard. Educated at his local public school and then at Amherst Academy, Stewart taught and served as headmaster at the Academy until 1870, when he moved to Halifax to study law with Howard Maclean, being called to the bar in 1874.
In 1875 he became one of 88 shareholders of the Morning Herald, Halifax's fledgling Conservative daily. In 1876 he became the paper’s first president and in 1878 its third editor. He left his law practice and in 1883 bought out the majority of shareholders to become the Herald’s first publisher. Following this success, Stewart branched out into banking, rising to the presidency of the Acadia Loan Corporation and the People's Bank of Halifax.
Stewart was a member of the Masons, the Navy League, the Good Templars and the YMCA, but his primary commitments were to the North British Society and the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was an ardent British imperialist, Canadian nationalist and supporter of Confederation. He devoted much time to the province's Conservative Party and made two unsuccessful bids for election to the provincial assembly.
Stewart died as the result of burns suffered during a fire in his home. His widow, Catherine Olivia MacKay, whom he'd married in 1880, donated his collection of 3,200 books to Dalhousie University Library.
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Jeffrey Stewart was the lighting designer for a production of "Anything Goes" by Neptune Theatre (1990).
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- 1882-1953
Herbert Leslie Stewart was born in County Antrim, Ireland, on 31 March 1882 and was raised in Carrickfergus, near Belfast. He received his MA (1905) and PhD (1907) degrees from Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was awarded the John Locke Scholarship in Mental Philosophy. Stewart later took up the Cobb Scholarship at Edinburgh University, taking classes in Divinity, followed by a junior fellowship in Mental and Moral Science at the Royal University of Ireland and then a lectureship in Moral Philosophy and the History of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1913 Stewart was appointed George Munro Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He continued to teach after his retirement in 1947 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1951.
Stewart wrote extensively across a broad range of subjects, including philosophy, religion, history and literary criticism. His books include Questions of the Day in Philosophy and Psychology (1912), Nietzsche and the Ideals of Modern Germany (1915), Anatole France: The Parisian (1927; reprinted 1979), A Century of Anglo-Catholicism (1929), Modernism Past and Present (1932), From a Library Window (1940), The Irish in Nova Scotia (1949), and Winged Words: Sir Winston Churchill as Writer and Speaker (1953). In addition, he completed two unpublished book-length manuscripts: Thomas Carlyle (ca. 1923) and Repulse to Chaos and the Road to Recovery (ca. 1944). Stewart also published many articles in scholarly and popular journals across North America and Europe.
In addition to his scholarly writing, Stewart was a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio, where he commented on politics and current events. In 1919-1920, he wrote about provincial and city issues in an anonymously penned column, "Man About Town," for the Halifax Evening Mail. In 1922 he was employed by the Halifax Herald as a special correspondent to cover the Cape Breton coalfields labour dispute. He remained a regular columnist for the Herald throughout the 1920s and 1930s. From 1931-1950 Stewart made weekly broadcasts for CHNS, then Nova Scotia's most widely-received radio station. He also provided a Sunday-night commentary on world affairs for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Corporation (later the CBC) from 1931-1947.
In 1921 Stewart founded The Dalhousie Review and remained its editor for 26 years, overseeing its development into an internationally-recognized interdisciplinary quarterly and frequently contributing articles on contemporary issues. He was elected a fellow of The Royal Society of Canada in 1921 and of The Royal Society for the Arts in Britain. He served as President of the Halifax Charitable Irish Society and also presided over the Halifax branch of the Overseas League. He died on 19 September 1953.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Steve and Lisa Monk were associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1987 because of their involvement a benefit. An audio recording, “CFAT Benefit- July 11, 1987” is a part of CFAT’s tape collection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jonathan Steele was a shipbuilder from Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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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.
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Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění (SNKLHU, State Publishers of Literature, Music and Art) was founded in 1953. In 1961, it split into two firms, Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění (State literature publisher) and Státní hudební vydavatelství (State Music Publishers), the latter of which became Editio Supraphon in 1967. In the early 1990s, the music publishing part of the form was separated from the rest of the firm. In 1993, it was privatized under the name Editio Praga. The company ceased to exist in 2000.
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Starr Manufacturing Co. Ltd. was best known as a maker of ice skates. It was founded in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, by John Starr in 1861 as a manufacturer of nails, nuts and bolts. In 1866, employees John Forbes and Thomas Bateman patented the Acme Spring Skate, which clamped onto the soles of boots. Starr became one of the most popular ice skate manufacturers, although other companies copied their spring design. In the 1920s, Starr began making skates that came attached to boots, but lapsed patents and the Great Depression sent the company into decline. It stopped producing ice skates in 1939, continuing the manufacture of steel and polyethylene products before closing down in 1996.
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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).
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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."
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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.
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Standard Clay Products Limited
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Standard Clay Products Limited was at one time the largest manufacturer of clay products in Canada. In 1902, the Standard Drain Pipe Company, which was established ca. 1880 in Saint John, Quebec, built a factory near New Glasgow to take advantage of 63 acres of land from which the raw clay was harvested. The raw clay was located above drainage and easily and cheaply obtainable. The factory comprised two plants and 19 kilns, which had a weekly output of 65 carloads per week, which added up to 52,000 tons yearly. Standard Clay Products employed 150 people in its manufacture of salt-glazed vitrified sewer pipes, ranging in size from 4 to 24 inches, as well as connections, culvert pipes, inverts flue linings, stove linings, fire-brick range bricks, locomotive blocks, gully traps, hollow vitrified building blocks, and cupola linings.
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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.
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Stanbury Investments Limited was incorporated in 1964 and acted as a stockbroker on the Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges. Norman Stanbury acted as President and Amadita Stanbury acted as Secretary. Norman, Amadita, and their son Christopher Stanbury acted as Directors of the company. The company ran investment clubs in which Bruce Oland, Norman Stanbury, and others participated in. Shortly after incorporation, the company experienced financial hardships due to an investment in Tartan Seafoods Limited. In January, 1967 the company took over the business of Stanbury and Company Limited, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The financial position of the companies continued to decline and in January, 1968 Stanbury Investments declared bankruptcy. After bankruptcy, the Stanbury family kept the corporate entity of Stanbury and Company alive and held investments in partnership with Lindwood Holdings Limited.
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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.
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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.
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