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Charlie Purcell is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.
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- 1900-1987
Fred Thompson was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), editor, historian, and publisher. He was a central figure in the IWW for many years.
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- 1870-1931
William Hattie was a superintendent of the Nova Scotia Hospital and a Provincial Officer of Health. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, on 27 July 1870, he received his early education at Pictou Academy before studying medicine at McGill University. After graduating with his MD in 1891, he returned to Nova Scotia to work at the Nova Scotia Hospital, where he was appointed superintendent in 1908. In 1912 he was named Provincial Officer of Health. He died on 4 December 1931.
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- 1880-1958
Kenneth Alexander MacKenzie was a 1903 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and Professor of Medicine from 1926-1945. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1880 and received his early education in Pictou and Springhill before going to Dalhousie. After graduation he practiced briefly in Cape Breton and then took up post-graduate studies in internal medicine in England. During World War One he left his studies to serve with the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Unit. After the war he retuned to England before moving back to Halifax. In 1926 Dr. MacKenzie was appointed Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie, a post he held until 1945. He was an active member in several professional associations, including president of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia from 1932-1933. In 1950 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University. He died on 12 May 1958.
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- 1822-1907
Daniel McNeil Parker was a physician and politician in Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1822, he received his early education in Windsor and at Horton Academy. He studied medicine and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with his MD and LRCS from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He returned to Nova Scotia in the late 1930s and established a family medical practice, which he maintained until the 1890s. Dr. Parker was president of both the Provincial Medical Association of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Medical Association. He was also an active member of the Liberal-Conservative Party; in 1867 he was elected to the Legislative Council, resigning in 1902. He died on 4 November 1907.
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- 1867-1952
Nelson Pratt was a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and a physician in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. He was born in Selma, Hants County, where he received his early education. After teaching for several years he entered Dalhousie Medical School and received his MD in 1900. Ill health led him to live in Montana for some years before returning to his practice in Stewiacke, where he built a house and acquired a farm to raise horses. He died on 6 December 1952.
Tupper, Charles, Sir, 1821-1915
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Sir Charles Tupper was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia on July 2, 1821. He was educated at Horton Academy in Wolfville and graduated with his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1843. On his return to Canada he established a medical practice and pharmacy in Amherst. In 1846 he married Frances Morse, with whom he had six children.
Tupper’s political career began in 1855 when he was elected as a Conservative candidate in the provincial legislature. He went on to serve as Premier of Nova Scotia between 1864 to 1867 and is considered largely responsible for the province joining Confederation. In 1867 Tupper successfully ran for Federal Parliament and became an important figure in national politics, leading the Conservative Party from 1896 to 1901 and serving briefly as Prime Minister in 1896. Tupper died in England on October 30, 1915.
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- 1870-1961
Benjamin Royer was a physician and researcher in public health, and taught in Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine from 1919-1923. He born near Middleburg, Pennsylvania, on 13 December 1870 and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1899, with a residency at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia from 1899-1900. He worked at Jefferson Hospital (1902-1903), the Contagious Disease Hospital (1903-1908), the [Pennsylvania] State Department of Health (1908-1919, 1947-1948), and the Halifax Health Commission in Massachusetts (1919-1923), which is when he made his connection with Dalhousie. From 1919-1921 he lectured in medical jurisprudence at Dalhousie, and from 1920-1923 he was the director of the Public Health Course for Nurses. He returned to the United States in 1924 to take up a position at the American Child Health Association, then the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (1926-1932), the State Emergency Child Health Committee (1933-1938), and the State Sanatorium at Cresson (1943-1947). Dr. Royer died on 16 February 1961 in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.
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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.
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- 1848-1933
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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Bob Quinn is a musician and radio engineer. Quinn was a partner in the Halifax-based Solar Audio & Recording Limited, along with Russell Brannon and, later, Hayward Parrott.
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- 1879-1963
James F. Corston was a graduate and later Professor in the Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Halifax on 12 March 1879, the son of James F. Corston and Nancy McLellan Corston. He received his early education at the Halifax Academy and graduated from Dalhousie with a BA in 1898 and an MD in 1902. He established a medical practice in Halifax, which he maintained until his retirement. He joined the Faculty of Medicine in 1913 as a Lecturer in therapeutics and renal diseases. Corston taught at Dalhousie until 1945, when he retired as Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. He was also a member of the Dalhousie Board of Governors for many years. After retirement from Dalhousie, he continued to practice as Medical Examiner for United States Immigration in Halifax. He died in Halifax on 17 August 1963.
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- 1897-1976
Eldrid Gordon Young was a Dalhousie professor and biochemist, and conducted secret research in chemical warfare for the Department of National Defence during World War Two. He was born in Quebec City in 1897, and graduated with an MA from McGill University in 1919 and a PhD from Cambridge University in 1921. Following post-doctoral studies in Chicago, he moved to Halifax in 1924 to work at Dalhousie, retiring in 1948 as head of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Young was a member of many professional organizations and national and international societies. He was awarded an Honorary DSc from Acadia University in 1957 and an Honorary LLD by Dalhousie University in 1965. He died on 24 March 1976.
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- 1899-1991
Charles Beecher Weld was physician, researcher and professor of medicine at Dalhousie University. He was born in Vancouver in 1899 and educated at the University of British Columbia (BA, MA) and the University of Toronto (MD). He served overseas in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War One and in 1936 he joined Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine as a professor of physiology, a position he held until 1965. He continued to teach in other capacities at Dalhousie until 1969 and was awarded an honorary degree in 1970. Dr. Weld published over ninety-five papers, was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was active in community organizations and professional associations. He died in 1991.
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- 1851-1912
Norman Cunningham was a physician and graduate of Dalhousie Medical College (1876). He was born in 1851 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the son of farmers. After graduating from Dalhousie he taught at Bell Hospital Medical College in Dartmouth from 1877-1911, when he was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. He was married in 1880 to Eliza D. McQueen and died in 1912.
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- 1901-1987
Ernest Ireson Glenister was born in Halifax in 1901. He graduated with a BA from Saint Mary's College in 1920 followed by an MD from Dalhousie Medical School in 1925. He entered a general practice with Dr. Peter Hebb in Dartmouth before establishing his own general practice in 1920, where he remained until 1943, when he moved to Toronto to pursue post-graduate studies. He studied ophthalmology and received his FRCS in 1945. Returning to Halifax, Dr. Glenister set up a specialist practice, retiring in 1974. He also worked at the Glaucoma Clinic in the Victoria General Hospital from 1962-1974. He was an active member in many professional associations, and was the first secretary of the Nova Scotia Society of Ophthalmologists. He died on 27 November 1987.
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- 1891-1976
Hector Pothier was a physician and politician born in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, in 1891. He received his early education at the local school in Eel Brook before studying at St. Anne's College in Digby County and graduating from Dalhousie Medical School in 1919. During World War One, Dr. Pothier served as a medical surgeon in the Army Medical Corps, then took post-graduate studies at St. Vincent Hospital in New York City, returning to Weymouth, Nova Scotia, in 1920 to set up a medical practice. He was affiliated with several community organizations and was elected MLA for the municipality of Clare in 1963. He served for four years, during which time he retired his medical practice and settled in Beaver River. He died in 1976.
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Andrew Madden, MD, was born in Dromore, County Down, Ireland, on 2 February 1782, the son of Edward Madden and Rose Brannigan. He came late to medicine, graduating at the age of thirty-five with his diploma as surgeon and physician from Glasgow University in 1817. Later that year, he sailed from Glasgow for Quebec, serving as the ship's surgeon and responsible for some 300 passengers. While passing through the Gut of Canso the ship was forced to land in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the passengers were put ashore.
According to tradition, Madden was so taken with the Strait or Gut of Canso that he never took up his land grant in Quebec, but returned and settled at Arichat, where he practiced served as the province's health officer for 40 years. He died 30 January 1858 and was buried on his 76th birthday. He was married to Ann Jackman, born in Halifax ca. 1798 and died in Arichat, Nova Scotia, on 23 March 1868.
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- 1903-1978
Carleton Lamont MacMillan was a Dalhousie-educated physician and the author of Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor. Born in Goldboro, Nova Scotia, in 1903, he was educated at the Sydney Academy and Acadia University. After graduating from Dalhousie Medical School in 1928 he opened a private practice in Baddeck, Cape Breton, and served the surrounding area for forty years. He was a member of the Canadian Medical Association and the Nova Scotia Medical Association, and was elected to the Order of Canada in 1972. An active member of his Cape Breton community, he served as an MLA from 1949-1967. He died in 1978.
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Mark Buntrock was a set designer with Neptune Theatre (1988-1991) and worked on three productions: "Brass Rubbings," "Olde Charlie Farquharson's Son," and "Sincerely, a Friend."
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Bonnie Beecher is a lighting designer from Toronto, Canada, who has designed for over 350 theatre, opera, and dance productions. She has worked with various companies in Canada, including The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, The Canadian Opera, Opera Atelier, Soulpepper theatre, The National Arts centre, The National Ballet of Canada, Tarragon theatre, The Segal, The Citadel, and Ballet British Columbia. She has also worked with The Dutch National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Glimmerglass Opera, The Versailles Royal Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The New Zealand Opera, The Dortmund Ballet, The Royal Flanders Ballet, Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse, The State ballet of Georgia, and Ballet Im Reveir in Germany. She also designed the lights for 7 world premieres for The Stuttgart Ballet, and collaborated with the Kevin O'Day Ballet in Mannheim, Germany for 14 seasons (2002-2016) where she designed the lighting for more than 25 world premieres for the company.
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Lesley Wilkinson is a lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including Young People's Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Crow's Theatre, Shaw Festival, Theatre Calgary, Soulpepper Theatre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, and The Fredericton Playhouse. She has also worked with the Canadian Opera Company and the Pacific Opera Company.
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James Edward Cameron is a production, art director, and musician based in Toronto, Ontario. He has worked with exinteriorviewpoints (2011-present), Ravenwood Theatre (2006-2010), Triple Sensation (2007-2009), Resurgence Theatre Company (2000-2004), Fleck Films (2000), Cinar / Salter Street Films (1997-1999), Ewola Films (1995-1996), Juste Pour Rire (1993-1995), Centaur Theatre (1991-1993), and Neptune Theatre (1992). He has a diploma in design from the National Theatre School of Canada (1993).
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Yvonne Sauriol is a set and costume designer who has worked with various Canadian theatre companies, including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, and Neptune Theatre.
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Françoise Baylis is a Canadian bioethicist whose work is at the intersection of applied ethics, health policy and practice. The focus of her research is on issues of women's health and assisted reproductive technologies, while her research and publication record also extends to topics such as research involving humans (including human embryo research), gene editing, novel genetic technologies, public health, the role of bioethics consultants and neuroethics. She works as a public intellectual who regularly engages with print, radio, television and online media, and she is a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada.
Baylis was born in Montreal in 1961. She holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University (1983), and an MA (1984) and PhD (1989) in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario. In 1996 she came to Dalhousie University as an Associate Professor in the Office of Bioethics Education and Research (later the Department of Bioethics), and in 2004 she was appointed Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy. She is currently appointed to the Faculty of Medicine, with cross-appointments in both Philosophy and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Baylis is the founder and leader (since 2003) of Novel Tech Ethics (now NTE Impact Ethics), an interdisciplinary research team based at Dalhousie University.
In 2007 Baylis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Other notable career achievements include being named to the Who's Who in Black Canada and the Canadian Who's Who; holding three Governor-in-Council appointments, including membership in the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (1999-2001); serving as a member of Governing Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2001-2004); sitting on the Board of Directors, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (2006-2010); serving as the Royal Society of Canada Academic Secretary (Academy I) and the Atlantic Steering Committee Chair (2012-2015); and holding a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Bioethics and Philosophy (2004-2018). In 2016 Professor Baylis was inducted into both the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada. In 2022 she received the prestigious Killam Prize, granted annually by the Killam Trusts.
Further details of her scholarly and professional activity can be found at https://www.dal.ca/sites/noveltechethics/our-people/francoise-baylis.html.
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D'Arcy Morris-Poultney is a Canadian set, lighting, and costume designer. He has worked with several theatre companies, including Neptune Theatre, Onelight Theatre, and Mulgrave Road Theatre. He has received three Robert Meritt Awards for Outstanding Set Design of "The Toxic Bus Incident" (with Onelight Theatre); Outstanding Costume Design of "A Christmas Carol: The Musical" (with Neptune Theatre); and Outstanding Costume Design of "The Veil" (with Onelight Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and Mermaid Theatre). More recently, he worked as the Executive Director for the Cecilia Concert Series (2015-2017), and he currently works as a Small Business Advisor at Scotiabank in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He received a BA in Political Science and Economics from Bishop's University (1987); Diploma in set and costume design from the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec (1992); Certificate in set and costume design from the Banff Centre for the Arts (1993); Certificate in Computer Graphics from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, Nova Scotia (2001); and Certificate in Small Business Management from Dalhousie University (2004).
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Eo Sharp is a set and costume designer based in Quebec. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the University of Toronto before moving to Montreal to study at the National Theatre School of Canada. Since then, she has worked with various Canadian Theatre companies, including SIN 4 (in Montreal), Neptune Theatre (Halifax), the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Stratford Festival, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Imago Theatre, and Teatro Comenici/Festival Théâtre des Amériques. She won the Mecca Award for best design in "Looking for Romeo" (Sin 4 Productions) and "Human Collision/Atomic Reaction" (The Other Theatre/Festival Théâtre des Amériques).
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John Jenkins was the lighting designer for a production of "Of Mice and Men" at Neptune Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
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Geofrey Dinwiddie worked with Neptune Theatre as a set designer. He won a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Set Design for his work on "Blithe Spirit" (2012) and "A Christmas Carol: The Musical" (2010). Other productions that he has worked on with Neptune Theatre include "Sweeney Todd," "Mamma Mia," "It's a Wonderful Life," and "Snake in the Grass." He has also worked with other theatre companies, including Sudbury’s YES Theatre.
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David Boechler is a Canadian designer. He studied at the University of Alberta, the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (England), and the University of Regina. He has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including the Shaw Festival, Buddies in Bad Times, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Globe Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Network, and Northern Light Theatre, among others.
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Julia Tribe is a set and costume designer based in Toronto, Ontario. She has designed fr various theatre, opera, and dance companies across Canada, including 4th Line Theatre, Theatre Archipelago, Tapestry New Opera Works, Red Sky Productions, Canadian Stage Company, Mirvish Productions, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, National Arts Centre, Soulpepper, and the Canadian Opera Company. She is a founding member of the Contrary Theatre Company and an educator of theatre design and communication at York University.
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Steve Lucas is a set, lighting, and projection designer who has designed for over 300 productions of theatre, dance, and performance art in theatres internationally for 27 years. He lives in Dunedin, Ontario.
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Susan Ferley is a Canadian director and actor. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta. She has acted in various plays across Canada, including "The Diary of Anne Frank" (Carousel Theatre); "If We Are Women" (Globe Theatre); and "Glass Menagerie" (Western Canada Theatre Company). She was the Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre in Regina from 1990 until 1998, after which she served on the Board of Directors of Canada Council for the Arts (1998-2001). From 2001 until 2016, she was the Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. She has taught in theatre training schools and programs across the country, including Studio 58, Banff Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta, University of Regina, and the National Theatre School of Canada.
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Ian Rye is a Canadian set and costume designer. He has been with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) since 2006, serving as the Director of Production; Director of Artistic Administration; and the Chief Executive Officer (2016-present). Before joining POV, he worked as the Production Manager at the Belfry Theatre and as a set, lighting, and sound designer for various theatre and opera companies across Canada, including Alberta Theatre Projects, the Arts Club Theatre, the Belfry Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, Chemainus Theatre, Malaspina University, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Touchstone Theatre, the Victoria Dance Series, Ballet British Columbia, and the Vancouver Playhouse. Rye studied theatre production and design at the University of Ryerson an the Banff Centre for the Arts. He recently completed his Master of Business Administration through Royal Roads University.
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Jennifer Cooke is a set and costume designer based in Quebec and a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has designed for the Young Neptune Company, the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Centaur Theatre, and Théâtre Français de Toronto.
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