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Lennie Gallant became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in an audio recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Paula Gardner became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording “Ida and Me” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1974 -
The Gargoyle Puppet Theatre was founded in Halifax in 1974 by James MacSwain, Linda Moore, Sandy Moore, Karen Schlick, and Robert Zeigler (who left the company after the first year). The group performed extensively in Halifax and the surrounding area in schools, festivals, daycares, and a variety of open venues. Gargoyle Puppet Theatre productions were taped and shown on ATV in thirteen ten-minute long episodes and, in 1974, the Atlantic Film Co-op worked on a twenty-minute film of their play The Philosopher's Stone. Three exhibits of their puppets were held in Halifax: one at Eyelevel Gallery, one at Pier One Theatre, and one at the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery. The Gargoyle Puppet Theatre also presented a range of workshops on puppet theatre. Their productions used primarily hand, rod, and shadow puppets, while the scripts were usually written by members of the company.
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- ca. 1955
Bryan Garnett-Doucette was raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, before moving to Halifax in 1976. He was a member of the Gay Alliance for Equality/Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GAE/GALA], serving as Treasurer and Secretary at different times in the late 1970s. He volunteered with GayLine, a helpline for LGBT+ Nova Scotians, for over 20 years. Garnett-Doucette met his partner, Ron, in the early 1980s through an LGBT billeting service, and they moved in together in 1984. In recognition of their ten year anniversary in 1994, they changed their last names to Garnett-Doucette. Ron and Bryan were one of the three couples who, in 2004, challenged the Province of Nova Scotia for recognition of same-sex marriage. They won this case on September 24, 2004, and were legally married on June 4, 2005.
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- ca. 1963 -
Ron Garnett-Doucette is an LGBTQ+ activist from Saint John, New Brunswick. Garnett-Doucette graduated from Simond's High School in 1981, and moved to Halifax in 1984 to be with his partner, Bryan Garnett-Doucette, who he met through a Halifax-based LGBT billeting service. In celebration of their ten year anniversary in 1994, Ron and Bryan changed their last names to Garnett-Doucette. Ron and Bryan were one of the three couples who, in 2004, challenged the Province of Nova Scotia for recognition of same-sex marriage. They won this case on September 24, 2004, and were legally married on June 4, 2005. In addition to this legal challenge, Ron was a member of the Gay Alliance for Equality/Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GAE/GALA] from the early 80s until it's closure in 1995, and was a volunteer for the GayLine, a helpline run by GAE/GALA. He was also a resource person for PFLAG from 1994 - 2008.
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The Gass Family lived in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Robert Gass was born in 1861 in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, to James and Nancy Gass. He owned a general store and lumber mill. In 1884 he married Nerissa Miller, with whom he had ten children. Their eldest child and only daughter, Clare, was born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, on 18 March 1887. Clare was later known for the diary she kept during the First World War. As an adolescent, she attended the Church School for Girls, a private Anglican school in Windsor, Nova Scotia (later the Edgehill School). Three years after her graduation in 1905, she left home for Montreal to train as a nurse at the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing from 1909 to 1912, afterwards taking up private nursing practice for three years. After a brief training period in Quebe, she left for Europe in May of 1915 as a Lieutenant nursing sister with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill). From 1915-1918, she was posted mainly in France, with some time spent stationed in Cliveden, England, and Rhyl, Wales, and served in multiple hospitals. She spent the year after the war on transport duty, tending to wounded soldiers returning home. She was demobilized in 1919 and returned to Montreal, where she left nursing to pursue social work. She worked in the Social Service Department of the Montreal General Hospital for 28 years before returning to her hometown. Robert Gass died in 1937. Clare Gass died at the age of 81 at the Camp Hill Veterans’ Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 5 August 1968.
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Gauvin, Gentzel & Company was a photographic studio founded by George A. Gauvin and Adolphe E. Gentzel in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia
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- 1972-1995
The Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) was the outgrowth or renaming of the Gay Alliance for Equality (GAE), which was a Halifax-based organization founded in the summer of 1972. GAE was incorporated in 1973 and changed its name to the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) in 1988. The organization created a help line (the Gayline), which offered information, referral and peer counselling; a Speaker's Bureau to educate the public about gay issues; and a civil rights committee to organize educational and political activity. In January 1976 GAE established a social club and bar on Barrington Street called the Turret. The only gay bar in Halifax for many years, the Turret became the social, political and cultural centre for Halifax's gay and lesbian communities and hosted a national conference of gay organizations in 1978. In the summer of 1982 the Turret was closed and re-opened as Rumours Bar on Granville Street (moving to Gottingen Street in 1987). The bulk of the organization's revenues came from the bar; at its peak, it had revenues of half a million dollars a year. In addition to operating Rumours and the Gayline, GAE/GALA also organized activities for Pride Week, protested anti-gay political, legal and media discrimination, networked with other gay groups across Canada, and acquired funding for projects such as a community health promotion. It also published its own newsletter (the Gaezette) and supported the successful campaign of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia (LGRNS) to include sexual orientation in the Human Rights Act in 1991. GALA disbanded in 1995 due to financial difficulties.
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Michelle Gay became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 because her video recording “Wind Lines” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1972-1996
The Halifax Gayline was a phoneline intended to provide information, counselling, and referral service to gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, as well as those questioning their sexuality. Staffed by trained volunteers, it was funded initially by the Gay Alliance for Equality [GAE] and later by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GALA]. Later, other Gay bars donated resources for the phone line. In the nineties the name was changed to the Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Line. The line opened in 1972 and ceased operations in 1996 after 25 years.
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G.D. Campbell and Sons. G.D. Campbell and Company.
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G.D. Campbell and Sons or Campbell and Co. was founded by Gordon D. Campbell in Weymouth, Nova Scotia. It was a shipbuilding, lumber, general store and trading outfit. In 1904 the Campbell Lumber Co. was established at Weymouth Bridge, N.S and shipped timber across Canada, as well as to the United States, Britain, and South America. The Campbell Lumber Co. ceased operations in 1920. However, G.D Campbell and Sons mercantile business continued to thrive and remained in business until 1955.
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- 1957-1996
Wendy Geller is a Canadian artist born in 1957 in Winnipeg. Her education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Geller’s work focused on video and performance during her time in Halifax from 1978 to 1982. During this time she performed extensively in the Halifax area, including the Centre for Art Tapes. After receiving her MFA, Geller taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from the 1980s to 1990s. Geller’s video work has been exhibited internationally.
Geological Association of Canada.
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The George E. Smith Company, named after its founder, was a hardware company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Upon Smith's death on February 16, 1916, the company remained in operation.
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George E. Roy was born in England and received his PhD from the University of London. He began teaching in 1960, and was Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Management in 1987.
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Ron Gerold was involved with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s, as his work became a part of their tape collection. Gerold was also involved with the Canadian Housing Federation in 1987.
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- 1797-1864
Dr. Abraham Gesner was born near Kentville, NS in 1797. He went to medical school in London, England and graduated in 1825 as a surgeon and physician. He found an interest in geology during university, and did extensive geological surveys in New Brunswick. He also did some geological work in PEI and Nova Scotia. His geological collection was turned into a museum, which eventually became the New Brunswick Museum, and is considered the oldest intact geological collection in Canada. Starting in 1846 he began to develop kerosene for oil lamps, and patented the invention in 1854. Kerosene became the standard lighting fuel in homes. The company he established in New York was bought by Standard Oil, which eventually became Imperial Oil. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1863 and became professor of Natural History at Dalhousie. He wrote many books on geology and the petroleum industry. He died in Halifax in 1864.
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- 1945-1996
Joseph A. Ghiz was born on Prince Edward Island in 1945. He received his Bachelor of Commerce and Law degrees from Dalhousie University in 1966 and 1969, and his Masters of Law from Harvard University. He became the elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1981, and was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward Island the following year. He was elected as premier in 1986 and 1989, and became Dalhousie's Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1993–1995. Ghiz died in 1996 at age 51.
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Beth Gibson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording “Blue Eyes” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- fl. 1748-1773
John Gibson was a geographer and engraver based in London, England. He was apprentice to John Blunbell of the Stationers Company, and then to John Pine. Gibson proved a talented geographer and engraver who produced numerous maps, especially for books and magazines. He worked in collaboration with other map sellers such as Emmanuel Bowen and John Roque. His best-known work was the pocket atlas, The Atlas Minimus (1758). Although little is known about his life beyond his publications, he was imprisoned for debt in King’s Bench from May to June of 1765.
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck)
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- 1836-1911
W.S. Gilbert was an English dramatist and librettist, best known for the comic operas that he wrote in collaboration with the composer, American Sullivan.
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- 1918-1934
Ivan Maxwell Gillis (1918-1934) was born in Prince Edward Island and moved to Halifax with his parents in 1925. Blind from birth, Gillis entered school at Halifax’s School for the Blind and graduated in 1934. From there he entered Dalhousie University and in specific classes designed to accommodate him he specialized in English, German, philosophy and history. He began his musical career at age 7 while at the School for the Blind, eventually taking up the organ and continuing his musical studies after he graduated from Dalhousie University in 1942. He did graduate studies at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. After he graduated he gave many recitals both at home and across Canada, often playing his own award winning compositions. His life was cut short in 1946 when he died at age 27.
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Edwin Gilpin was born in 1921 in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, the son of The Reverend Edward Gilpin and Eliza Wiswall. He served in various educational and clerical capacities. He was principal of the Halifax Grammar School, Archdeacon and subsequently Dean of Nova Scotia. He also served as Chancellor of King’s College, Windsor, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Nova Scotia. He died in 1906.
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Joan Gilroy is an activist, feminist and social worker whose career has straddled the community and the academy.
Born and raised in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, the second of five children, Joan Gilroy's early education took place in one- and two-room schoolhouses until she moved to Truro to complete high school. She received her BA from Dalhousie University in 1956, followed by an MSW in 1958 from the Maritime School of Social Work, which was then associated with the University of King's College. She returned to the school as a field instructor and director of admissions between periods of employment as a social worker in Nova Scotia and Montreal.
In 1969 she joined the faculty of the Maritime School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, and in 1990 was the first woman to be appointed director of the school, a position she held until her retirement in 1998. During her tenure she took two study leaves, earning an MA from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Toronto in 1974, and pursuing a PhD between 1980-1983 in the Department of Sociology in Education at OISE.
Gilroy’s teaching, research, professional activities and community work has focused on children, women, and feminist social work practice. She was a founding member for the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers, a founding member and chair of the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Women’s Caucus, and chair of the Women’s Caucus of the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
Her contributions to social justice have been recognized by both her peers and the wider community: among other honours she has received YMCA’s Women’s Recognition (1993); the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers’ Freda Vickery Award (1997); Certificate of Commendation from Canada’s Governor General (1997); Dalhousie University’s A. Gordon Archibald Award (2002); and the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service Award (2005).
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- 1955-
Philip Girard is a writer, author and research professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. He was born 18 May 1955 in Chatham, Ontario, and grew up on a farm in nearby Merlin.
Girard earned a BA from Brock University, Ontario (1976), and an LLB from McGill University, Montreal (1979), before clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice W.Z. Estey (1979-1980). Following his clerkship he taught at the University of Western Ontario (1980-1983) and in 1983 began a Masters degree in legal history and jurisprudence at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1986. In 1984 he began teaching at Dalhousie Law School and has been called “one of Dalhousie’s most scholarly professors,” introducing a course in Canadian legal history. He has been a visiting professor at the Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan (1982), Osgoode Hall Law School (1993-1994),and the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi (1997). He has served as acting Dean of the Faculty of Law (1991-1993), president of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (2003-2004), Associate Editor of the Osgoode Society for Legal History, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (Law) (2002-2006).
Girard’s research interests include property law, sexual orientation and the law, and legal history of the Maritime provinces. His work has been published in both law and history journals and anthologies, and his Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, won the 2006 Chalmers Award. Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax (2011).
Philip Girard married Dr. Sheila Zurbrigg in 1984, with whom he has two children: Daniel (born 1985) and Gabriel (born 1988).
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