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William Rockwell graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1886. Fellow classmates from Nova Scotia included G.W.T. Farish and Charles Osborne Tupper. Rockwell died on 19 September 1934.
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- 1989
Rock Meets Bone was a 30-minute radio program that aired on CKDU from September-December 1989. It focused on Nova Scotian grassroots arts and culture through its features on people and subjects including Philip Glass, Gaelic song, and storytelling. The show was created by writer Danny Blouin and director Brian Guns with the assistance of the Naropa Institute of Canada. It was produced by Denny Blouin, Sam Bercholz and Brian Guns, who also voiced the narration. The program's name was derived from a presentation on Nova Scotia culture given at a Buddhist conference in Halifax in March 1989, also produced in part by Brian Guns.
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- fl. 1860s
William Robinson was a merchant in Chester, Nova Scotia, in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Will Robinson is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (2004). Robinson primarily explores the use of sound in unconventional places. Robinson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005 because their video recording for the 2005 CFAT video scholarship became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1916-2000
George Robertson was born on 8 August 1916 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, to Robert Burnley Hume Robertson and Olive Mary Stairs Robertson. He earned his BA and law degree from Dalhousie University; after his service in World War Two he received an LLM from Harvard. From 1951 he was a partner in the former McInnes, Cooper & Robertson law firm, was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1957, and retired in 1987. He died in 2000.
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- 1946-
Clive Robertson is an artist, curator, critic and art historian. Robertson received his MFA in Performance Art studies from the University of Reading in 1971 and PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Art History and Art Conservation department at Queen’s University. Clive has exhibited performance and video works nationally and internationally. Robertson advocated for the artist-run centre movement by directing production and physical spaces for artworks in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Will Roberts became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their video “Trees” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Ted Roberts is a Canadian set and lighting designer, active since 1977. He currently works as the resident designer at Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Paul Robert became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005 because their video recording “Time as Language” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1848-1964
Robb Engineering was a metals manufacturer in Amherst, Nova Scotia, with its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. Originally founded in 1848 for general work on coal mining and lumber machinery, the factory expanded to manufacture boilers, electric engines and small generator plants. They also designed and manufactured locomotive engines. In 1964 Robb Engineering was acquired by the Dominion Bridge Company and its assets merged into Dominion's Canada Car and Foundry subsidiary. Robb Engineering gained notoriety during the 1990s after being blamed as the maker of faulty open web steel joists, some of which experienced catastrophic failure, resulting in at least one roof collapse.
Roads and Engineering Construction - Toronto
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Road is a musical group who is known to have recorded songs at Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the late 1970s.
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Ritchie, Norman John, 1896-1976
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Norman J. Ritchie was born August 12, 1896 as the son of Henry Ritchie of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. He studied science at Dalhousie University from 1915 to 1916, when he interrupted his education to enlist in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force serving with the No. 2 Section of the 4th Division Ammunition Column. He returned to Dalhousie to study engineering in 1919 and in 1921 may have moved to Boston Tech to complete his education. He was employed by Robb Engineering ca. 1967-68. Ritchie passed away in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1976.
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- 1850-1933
Eliza Ritchie was a professor, activist and community leader. Born in Halifax in 1856, she graduated from Dalhousie in 1887 with a Bachelor of Letters, and in 1889 was one of the first Canadian women to earn a PhD, from Cornell University, New York. After further studies in Leipzig and Oxford, she taught school in New England from 1890-1900. Ritchie returned to Dalhousie in 1901 to teach philosophy and in 1919 became the first woman to sit on the Board of Governors. She was a founding member of The Dalhousie Review and an occasional contributor. President of the Dalhousie Alumnae Association since 1911, and always an advocate for female students, she was a driving force behind the building of Sherriff Hall in 1922. In 1986 a women's residence was named in her honour. Eliza Ritchie died in Halifax in 1933.
In 2018 Eliza Ritchie was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/eliza-ritchie.html
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John Ripley was an internationally recognized theatre scholar and teacher who taught at Dalhousie between 1963-1969. During these years he founded the Dalhousie Drama Workshop and was influential in the design and construction of the Dalhousie Arts Centre.
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Mike Riggio is an artist born in Italy in 1946. Riggio became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980 because of their involvement with the video recording “Memorial University art gallery tapes” that became a part of the centre’s tape collection
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Jacqueline Riemer became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording "View from My Window" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Peter J. Ricketts was Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie from 1995-2000, as well as a professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, with cross-appointments in the Marine Affairs and the Marine Environmental Law programmes. Before this, he earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Nottingham in 1974 and his PhD from the University of Southampton in 1982. Ricketts went on to serve as vice-president at Nipissing University, vice-president and then president of Okanagan University College, University Research Officer at Saint Mary’s University, vice-president of Carleton University, and president and vice-chancellor of Acadia University.
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- 1894 - 1948
Lothar Richter founded the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) at Dalhousie University in 1936. Born in 1894 in Silesia, Germany, Richter studied classics, philosophy and Lutheran ideology and earned doctoral degrees in both political science and law. In 1920 he became a civil servant in the Reich Department of Labour in Berlin, helping to draft the new Poor Law and other legislation around workers' compensation, health and employment. In 1933 he moved to England with his wife and young son, having obtained a temporary position at Leeds University through the help of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1934 Carleton Stanley hired Richter as a professor of German, with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation funding his salary. After founding the IPA, which was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation in recognition of the need for greater regional economic and social development, Richter handed over his German courses to his wife, Johanna. The work of the institute contributed to the local community through the development of the Nova Scotia Bureau, Maritime Bureau of Industrial Relations, and the Maritime Labour Institute. Richter also established Public Affairs, Dalhousie’s second quarterly publication. He died in 1948 after a traffic accident.
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Richmond-Robbins, Inc. was a publishing company in New York City in the twentieth century that predominantly published sheet music.
Richmond County Record - Arichat, NS
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Matthew Richardson was a nineteenth century merchant based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is supposed to have been in partnership with Earl Dalhousie, who had considerable funds at command while in British America.
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Richardson, Harriet Taber, fl. 1930-
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Harriet Taber Richardson was an American from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who spent her summers in the Annapolis Royal area from about 1923. An admirer of Samuel Champlain, her interest in him broadened to include Port Royal. In 1928 she teamed up with local historian Loftus Morton Fortier to rebuild the Habitation. She established The Associates of Port Royal, with chapters in Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, with the goal of raising money for the reconstruction.
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- fl. 1930s
Harriet Taber Richardson was an American from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who spent her summers in the Annapolis Royal area from about 1923. An admirer of Samuel Champlain, her interest in him broadened to include Port Royal. In 1928 she teamed up with local historian Loftus Morton Fortier to rebuild Habitation. She established the Associates of Port Royal, with chapters in Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, with the goal of raising money for the reconstruction.
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