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Parlow, Kathleen

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  • 1890-1963
Kathleen Parlow was a child prodigy violinist, born in Calgary, Alberta on September 20, 1890. She studied with her cousin Conrad Coward in San Francisco, California from age 4, and then with Henry Holmes from age 14. She gave her first recital at age 6 and appeared regularly as a child, including performances at Buckingham Palace and with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1906, she moved to St. Petersburg with her mother to attend the St. Petersburg Conservatory and study with Leopold Auer. She was the first international student at the Conservatory. From 1907 onward, she toured professionally in North America and Europe. In 1926, she moved back to the United States permanently, where she taught and performed as a soloist and chamber musician. She joined the Toronto Conservatory of Music faculty in 1941. She died in Oakville, Ontario on August 19, 1963.

Parks, Ron Doug

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  • 1945-
Ron Doug Parks is a music producer who has been active in the Nova Scotia music industry since the 1980s.

Parker, Etta

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Etta Parker became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording “The Plight of the Piping Plover” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Parker, Daniel McNeil

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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.

Palmer, Don

  • Person
  • 1939-
Don (Donald Charles) Palmer is a saxophonist, flutist, and teacher from Nova Scotia. Born on April 9, 1939 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he played clarinet in the Royal Canadian Artillery Band in Halifax and attended the Maritime Conservatory from 1956 to 1959. In 1959, he moved to New York where he studied with Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano, among others. Palmer returned to Sydney as the artist-in-residence at the College of Cape Breton (1975-1977) and became the director of jazz studies at Dalhousie University in 1978. In 1987, he co-founded the Atlantic Jazz Festival with Jo Stern.

Palmer, Chris

  • Person
Christopher Palmer was born in The Hague, Netherlands, and grew up in London, England. He studied music at the Royal College of Music in London and then at the University of Ottawa. He is a professional bassoonist with Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax.

Palko, Madelaine

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Madelaine Palko was educated in Fine Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and in Communication and Media Studies at Concordia University. She became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980 when she was featured on a video recording “Tele-video: four Halifax artists”, which became part of their tape collection.

Pahlke, Ariella

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Ariella Pahlke is a documentary and video artist who currently resides in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia. Pahlke has been teaching, curating, and creating documentaries and independent shorts over the past nineteen years. She has exhibited works nationally and internationally. Pahlke is currently involved in the Centre for Art Tapes, Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Documentary Organization of Canada.

Page, Frances Hilton

  • Person
  • 1905-1989
Frances Hilton Page taught psychology at Dalhousie University from 1929 until his final retirement in 1986. He was initially appointed by the University of King's College to teach psychology in Dalhousie's Philosophy Department and became the head of the newly-formed Department of Psychology, where he taught from 1948-1962. He then served as head of Philosophy, retiring in 1971, but teaching part-time until he was 81 year old. He sat on the editorial advisory board of the Dalhousie Review from 1962 until his death in 1989, and served as Vice-President (1959-69) and Acting President and Vice-Chancellor ( 1969-70) of the University of King's College. He was an ordained United Church priest and In 1966 he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Pine Hill Divinity Hall.

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

  • Person
  • 1860-1941
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist and composer and was prime minister of Poland in 1919.

Pacem in Maribus Convocation.

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Pacem in Maribus, meaning "Peace in the Oceans," is an annual conference that was first organized through the efforts of Elisabeth Mann Borgese in 1969. With assistance from the government of Malta, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the conference was created as a forum for discussion on the law of the sea, marine science, and the denuclearisation of the seas, to be attended by diplomats, international and national civil servants, industrialists, fisheries experts, oceanographers, economists, and the like. Since the first conferences in Malta, Pacem in Maribus has played a crucial role in the formulation and promotion of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and has been hosted by a variety of countries, including Mexico, Japan, Algeria, Yugoslavia, China, Sri Lanka, and Canada. Pacem in Maribus conferences are attended by delegates from the developed and developing world and are regarded as important events for discussing the world's oceans and the potential of its resources to sustain humankind.

P. Jurgenson

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  • 1861-
The P. Jurgenson publishing firm was established in 1861 in Russia by Pyotr Ivanovich Jurgenson, with assistance from Nikolay Rubinstein (brother of the pianist, Anton Rubinstein). In 1867, the company added a printing plant, and, starting in 1870, began to purchase several smaller Russian publishing companies. By the time of his death 1904, P. Jurgenson was the largest publishing house in Russia. His sons, Bors and Grigory Jurgenson took over the company following his death, until is expropriation by the Communist regime in 1918. In 2004, the company reverted to the P. Jurgenson name.

Oxorn, Harry

  • Person
  • 1920-2008
Harry Oxorn was a 1945 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. Born in 1920, he completed post-graduate studies at Yale and McGill before moving to Ottawa, where he ended up heading the departments of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Reddy Memorial and the Ottawa Civic Hospitals. He was professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa, and also taught at McGill University and Hong Kong University. In 1994 he received the President's Award from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, and in 2003 he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada. His textbook Human Labor and Birth, first published in 1964, is considered one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. He died in 2008.

Oxford University Press

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  • 1478-
The Oxford University Press predominantly published academic books from the sixteenth to nineteenth century, before moving into commercial publishing under the directorship of Charles Cannan and Humphrey Milfrod. Its music department was established in 1923 under Hubert J. Foss.

Owens, Dan

  • Person
Dan Owens became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980s because of their involvement in video recordings which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Ouzounian, Richard

  • Person
  • 1950-
Richard Ouzounian is a director, playwright, critic, and artistic director. Born in New York in 1950, he graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Arts in 1972. Since then, he has been involved with over 250 theatre productions, working with various theatre companies across Canada. He served as the Artistic Director of Neptune Theatre (1986-1989), Manitoba Theatre Centre (1980-1984), Festival Lennoxville (1978-1980), and Young People's Theatre (1979). He was also the associate director of the Stratford Festival (1986-1989). From 1995-2000, he was Creative Head of Arts Programming at TV Ontario and from 1991 to 200, he worked as a theatre critic from Radio 1. From 1990 to 2004, he hosted Say It With Music on Radio 2. In June, 2000, he became the theatre critic for The Toronto Star.

Outram, Joseph, fl. 1844

  • Person
Joseph Outram lived in Halifax ca. 1844. He may be the same Joseph Outram (1803-1855) who wrote A Hand-book of Information for Emigrants to Nova Scotia (Halifax: A. Grant, 1864) and The Counties of Nova Scotia: Conditions and Capabilities (Halifax: A. Grant, 1867).

Outlook

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Outhouse, Milton

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  • 1837-1913
Milton Outhouse was born in 1837 in Tiverton, Nova Scotia, the son of James and Maria Outhouse. He began work as a fisherman, like his father, eventually becoming a port master. In 1870 he married Mariah Blackford, with whom he had at least one daughter. He died in 1913.

Osler, Stephen

  • Person
Stephen Osler is a scenic designer, artist, and intaglio print maker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has worked with various theatre companies, including Neptune Theatre in Halifax and the Ship's Company in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia (mid-1980s-1990s). He attended the Ontario College of Art and Design before beginning his career in the Atlantic Provinces. He also worked as the art director for CBC's "This Hour has 22 Minutes" (2009-2010) and was the production designer for the films "One Heart Broken into Song" (1999); "Violet" (2000); "Young Triffie's Been Made Away With" (2006); and the television series "The Industry" (2001-2003).

Orentlicher, John

  • Person
John Orentlicher was born in Virginia in 1943 and grew up in Washington, D.C. He received a BA in 1968 from the Goddard College in Vermont, after interrupting his studies to serve in the Peace Corps from 1964 to 1966. He received a MFA from the School of Art Institute in Chicago in 1970. Orentlicher taught the Art Video program at Syracruse University, and has been the Chair of many media programs over the years. He is currently a Professor Emeritus. Orentlicher has exhibited artwork internationally and has won international awards.

Orenstein, Joan, 1923-2009

  • Person
  • 1923-2009
Joan Orenstein was an accomplished Canadian stage and film actor. She was born Joan Travell on 4 December 1923 in London, England, and studied sociology at the London School of Economics during World War Two. She emigrated to North America in the late 1940s after meeting her Canadian-born husband Henry Orenstein. They moved to New York for two years, where he studied painting, she worked for the economist Karl Polanyi, and together they helped to register voters for the civil rights movement. After moving to Toronto she worked with the United Jewish Peoples Order and sang with the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. In the mid fifties, when Henry's work brought them to Halifax, which would remain their home, Joan began writing for radio and television while raising their five daughters. She began acting in her forties, and had leading roles on major stages across Canada, including Centuar Theatre, Montreal; National Arts Centre, Ottawa; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; Belfry Theatre, Victoria; Theatre Calgary; the Shaw Festival; and the Manitoba Theatre Centre; and, primarily, Neptune Theatre, Halifax. She also acted for radio, television and film, winning an Atlantic Canada Award and Genie for her work in The Hanging Garden (1997) and an Atlantic Canada Award for The Event (2003). The youngest of her daughters, Sarah Orenstein, was also an actor, appearing with her mother in Mrs Klein and Song of this Place at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Joan Orenstein died on 10 October 2009.

Orenstein, Henry, 1918-2008

  • Person
  • 1918-2008
Henry Orenstein was a visual artist and long-time graphic designer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Born in 1918 in Midland, Ontario, he grew up in Toronto, where he developed a lifelong interest in politics and human rights. He was a foot soldier in World War Two, which cemented his commitment to pacifism. After the war he met and married his wife Joan Tramell. They left England for New York, where he studied painting at the Art Students League, later returning to Toronto to work as an artist. In the 1950s they moved to Halifax, where Orenstein was employed by the CBC as a graphic designer. He also taught animation and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design while producing his own art and becoming an active member of Halifax's arts community. His work hangs in Sudbury Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He died on 8 August 2008.

Oore, Jasmine

  • Person
Jasmine Oore is a filmmaker. Oore became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "After the Fall” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Oore, Irène

  • Person
Irène Oore is a professor of French language and literature at Dalhousie University. She received her BA from the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, with a double major in French Literature and American Literature, and an MA from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, where she wrote her thesis on Quebec novelist, André Langevin. Her PhD is from the University of Western Ontario, London, where she wrote about the work of Quebec writer, Marie-Claire Blais. She has also written on Anne Hébert, André Giroux, Sergio Kokis, Monique Bosco, Aki Shimazaki, Lise Tremblay and others.

Ontarion

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Ontario

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