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Smith, Sidney Earle

  • Person
  • 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

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

Smith, Seth

  • Person
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

  • Person
  • 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

  • Person
  • 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

  • Person
  • 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

  • Person
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.

  • Person
  • 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

  • Person
  • 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.

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

Smith, Clauda

  • Person
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.

Smith family

  • Family

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.

Smiley, Norene

  • Person
Norene Smiley is a Nova Scotian artist, writer and filmmaker. Smiley’s education includes Art Education and Fine Arts from NSCAD in the 1970s. Smiley’s paintings focus on capturing the mood and emotional energy of individuals, rather than a realistic portrait. Smiley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 with her video "Urban Myths: Tunnels to George's Island" which became a part of the centre's tape collection.

Slopek, Edward

  • Person
Edward Slopek is a media and fine arts artist. Slopek is currently a professor at Ryerson University, where he is the Program Director for the New Media Option in the School of Image Arts. Slopek has a bachelor’s degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, a MA from the University of Leicester and a PhD from McGill University. Slopek has exhibited artwork nationally and internally since the 1970s. His work is also a part of permanent collections, including Canada’s National Gallery.

Slonim, Jacob

  • Person
Jacob Slonim has been a professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science since 1997, and was Dean of the Faculty from 1997-2002.

Slater, Steve

  • Person
Steve Slater was an artist in Halifax and became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s through his involvement on tape recordings and exhibitions.

Sintax error

  • Corporate body
Sintax error became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1987 because of their involvement in a self-titled audio, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Singh, R.

  • Person
  • fl. 1965
R. Singh was a physician and member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Sinclair, Albert McMurda

  • Person
  • 1926-1987
Albert Mcurda Sinclair was a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, in 1926. Following overseas service with the Canadian Armed Forces from 1944-1945, he studied medicine, graduating from Dalhousie 1952. He did post-graduate studies in orthopaedic surgery in Vancouver and London, England, and opened a practice in Halifax in 1960. Dr. Sinclair was appointed Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the Halifax Children's Hospital and later helped to develop the department of orthopaedic surgery at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children. He was an active member in several professional associations, most notably, a founding member and president of the Atlantic Provinces Orthopaedic Society. He died on 19 November 1987.

Simpson family

  • Person
The Simpson family lived in Simpson's Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia during the 20th century. Vernon Simpson (August 20, 1892-January 12, 1941) operated a general store. His wife, Olive Eliza Simpson, died in 1981.

Simmons, Lionel

  • Person
  • [196-?] -
Lionel Simmons was an actor turned cinematographer, best known for his films Stations (1983), Life Classes (1988) and No Apologies (1990). In the early 1970s he lived in Halifax, working as an actor and a photographer. He was one of 17 founding members of AFCOOP (Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative) in 1973.

Simkins, Mark

  • Person
Mark Simkins became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “Traveller/Refugee” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Silver, Suzie

  • Person
Suzie Silver is a video and performance artist who explores queer theory in her works. Silver was educated at the University of California, San Diego in the early 1980s, which is where she was introduced to cinema and video. Silver is now a Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, in Pittsburg. Silver became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1987 because of her involvement with a compilation video recording tape entitled “California Connection” which became a part of their tape collection. This videotape features Silver’s “Learning About Feminine Sexuality”.

Silver, Phillip

  • Person
  • 1943-
Phillip Silver is a Canadian set, costume, and lighting designer and professor. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Alberta in 1964 before studying production design at the National Theatre School of Canada. Since then, he has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including Stratford Festival, Grand Theatre, London, Theatre Plus, Théâtre Français de Toronto, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Edmonton Opera. He taught stage design at York University from 1986 until 2013 and was Dean of York's Faculty of Fine Arts from 1998 until 2008.

Sieniewicz, Thaddeus M.

  • Person
  • 1895-1975
Thaddeus M. Sieniewicz was a physician and professor of clinical medicine at Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1895 and moved to Canada in 1902. He graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1917 as the gold medalist of his class. After serving with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War One, he was appointed medical superintendent of the City Tuberculosis Hospital in 1921 and acting director the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. During World War Two he served overseas as Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Medicine with the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital. Sieniewicz was a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Canada, and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Allergy. He died on 20 September 1975.
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