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Pugh, Anthony

  • Person
  • [19--] - 2012
Anthony R. Pugh was born and raised in Liverpool, England. He attended Cambridge University where he received his BA (1953); MA (1954); and PhD (1959). He taught at the University of London, King's College, and Queen's University of Belfast before moving to Canada, where he taught in the French Department at the University of New Brunswick. As a scholar, he published studies of Honoré de Balzac, Blaise Pascal, and, perhaps most notably, Marcel Proust. He was well known in the Fredericton music community, serving on the UNB Creative Arts Committee and the Board of Directors for Debut Atlantic, and writing concert program notes for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and other groups. He died on 6 February 2012.

Archer, Violet

  • Person
  • 1913-2000
Dr. Violet Balestreri Archer is a distinguished Canadian composer. She wrote more than 280 compositions and was an active promoter of Canadian and twentieth-century music. She was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1913, lived most of her life in Edmonton, Alberta, and passed away on February 22, 2000 in Ottawa, Ontario.

Munday, Janet Stephanie (Jenny)

  • Person
  • 1953 -

Janet Stephanie (Jenny) Munday was born in Toronto in 1953 and grew up in New Brunswick and Quebec. She completed a secretarial course at the Capital Business College of Fredericton in 1974 and studied political science at the University of New Brunswick, graduating in 1978. Munday has worked as an actor in theatre companies across Canada, appearing at Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, The National Arts Centre, Ship’s Company Theatre, Rising Tide Theatre and the Banff Playwrights Colony. She has also acted in film, television and radio. Munday is also a director and dramaturge and has written several works for the stage, including Relatively Harmless, The Last Tasmanian and Battle Fatigue. Other work includes radio drama, magazine articles and reviews.

Munday was co-founder and co-artistic director of the Comedy Asylum in the early 1980s. From 1989-1992 she was artistic director of the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre. From 1993-1995 she served as artistic associate and writer-in-residence at Theatre New Brunswick, and was the first artist-in-residence at Live Bait Theatre. Munday was the fourth Crake Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison University from 2004-2008 and is currently artistic director of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC).

Among the many awards and recognitions that Munday has received are a Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Special Achievement Award; the inaugural Mallory Gilbert Award from the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and Tarragon Theatre; and an honorary membership to the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.

Head, Kevin

  • Person
Kevin head is a singer and songwriter originally from Nova Scotia, known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio. Kevin Head currently lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Nichol, Dave

  • Person
Dave Nichol is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.

Llewellyn, John

  • Person
John Llewyn is a folk musician living in Kingston, Nova Scotia. John Llewellyn is known to have made sound recordings at Solar Audio.

MacIsaac, Dorothy

  • Person
Dorothy MacIsaac is a recording artist known to have make sound recordings at Solar Audio in the 1970's.

Cox, Debbie

  • Person
Debbie Cox is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.

Cox, Sharon

  • Person
Sharon Cox is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865

  • Person
  • 1796-1865
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotia politician, judge and author. He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on 17 December 1796. In 1856, he emigrated to England, where he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He died in Isleworth, England, on 27 August 1865.

Ventham, Richard J.P.

  • Person
  • 1899 - 1971
Richard J.P. (John Patrick) Ventham was born in Hampshire, England, on 17 March 1899. He served in the Royal Navy until 1919. In 1936, he and his wife Lilian immigrated to the Hydrostone area of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ventham served as the secretary for the Nova Scotia Rifle Association and the Halifax representative council member of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association. He died 5 August 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Cameron, Alan Emerson

  • Person
  • 1890 - 1977

Alan Cameron was an authority in Canadian mining engineering and metallurgy and was the second president of Nova Scotia Technical College (1947-1957). Born in 1890 in London, ON, Cameron graduated from McGill University with a BA in mining engineering in 1913 and an MSc in 1914. His first position was at the University of Alberta, where he helped to develop its Department of Mining Engineering. During World War One, Cameron worked with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Northwest Territories, before serving in France and Belgium as a lieutenant of engineers with the Imperial Munitions Board.

After the war, Cameron taught at the Khaki University in England before rejoining the University of Alberta. He earned his ScD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925 and was engaged in professional consulting, particularly in oil and mineral exploration in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Following his promotion to full professor, he was appointed secretary of the Research Council of Alberta. His professional pursuits in the Canadian north from 1925-1937 included the search for radium in the Great Bear District and the exploration of the Headless Valley of the South Nahanni River district. In 1937 he left Alberta for an appointment as deputy minister in the Nova Scotia Department of Mines, where he served until 1947, when he became president of The Nova Scotia Technical College.

Alan Cameron was also president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Mining Society and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He was the Nova Scotia representative on the Dominion Council of Professional Engineers, and he prepared and presented the Nova Scotia brief to the Royal Commission on Coal in 1944. He retired from his position as president of The Nova Scotia Technical College in 1957 and he died 7 March 1977 in Wolfville, NS.

Dexter, Lucius Dill

  • Person
  • 1858 - 1943
Lucius Dill Dexter was born on 8 February 1858 as one of four children of Isaac Vincent Dexter (1824-1887) and Agnes Kirk Gold (1830-1905). Dexter was listed in Canadian population censuses as a farmer (1881-1916) and later as a carpenter (1921). He wrote the History of Brooklyn [Nova Scotia], published in 1934, and died on 12 February 1943 in Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia.

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.

MacKeen, John Crerar

  • Person
  • 1898-1972
Lieutenant-colonel John Crerar (Jack) MacKeen was a prominent Nova Scotia businessman and a protégé of Izaak Walton Killam, the financier and educational philanthropist. The son of David E. MacKeen and Jane Kate Crerar, he was born 15 December 1898 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After serving in the First World War, he attended Halifax County Academy and the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He later received an honourary law degree from Dalhousie University. MacKeen was the chairman and executive of many companies, including Nova Scotia Light and Power, where he was employed for four decades. From 1931 he served as president, assuming the title of chairman of the board in 1961, a post he held until January 1972, nine months before his death.

Miller, Elliot Black

  • Person
  • 1888 - 1914
Elliot Black Miller was born ca. 1888 to Dr. Charles John Miller and Elizabeth Grant MacKenzie of High Street, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. She had two older sisters, Dalmeny E. Miller (b. 25 Dec. 1881) and Flora (Ora) W. Miller (b. 7 Oct. 1883). In 1912, Elliot Miller married a bank manager, Albert (Bert) Scott Fraser (b. 10 Feb. 1886), with whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth Scott Fraser (b. 21 Sept. 1913). She died in the summer of 1914.

Mills, John W.

  • Person
  • 1838 - 1922
John W. Mills was born 1 December 1838. A barrister and attorney in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, he worked with various committees regarding the poor districts in Halifax and Mahone Bay and in 1874 became a founder, officer and master of the Mason's Charity Lodge no. 69 in Mahone Bay. He died 25 November 1922.

McWhinnie, John

  • Person
  • 1835-1920
John R. McWhinnie was born 9 August 1835 in Nova Scotia to Sophie (Eye) and John McWhinnie. He was a master mariner and then farmed for twenty years before his death from pneumonia on 13 June 1920 in Port Wade, Annapolis County.

Richard, Angus Daniel

  • Person
  • 1865-1923
Angus Daniel Richard was born 14 August 1865 in La Have, Lunenburg County, to Doreas (Wilkie) and Elias Richard. He worked as a master mariner in international shipping, until he drowned at sea on 2 October 1923 while captain of the Governor Parr schooner.

Hamilton, Herbert Noel

  • Person
  • 1925 -
Herbert Noel Hamilton, from Saint John, New Brunswick, was a Dalhousie alumnus (BA, 1949; MA, 1950) and the university's star badminton player during his years at the university. He was also director of the Dalhousie chorus (1948-49) and played violin in the university's concert orchestra (1946-49). Born in 1925, at the age of eighty he earned a PhD from University of Toronto.

Reid, Robie Lewis

  • Person
  • 1866 - 1945
Robie Lewis Reid was a noted historian and jurist in British Columbia, as well as an avid collector of Canadian history books. He was born in Steam Mill Village, Kings County, on 3 November 1866 and attended Pictou Academy before studying law at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1890. In 1893, he and Frederic William Howay formed the law firm of Howay & Reid in New Westminster, BC. In 1907, he co-founded Bowser, Reid & Wallbridge with William J. Bowser and D.S. Wallbridge. He was a Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1927-1943 and is credited with founding the British Columbia Historical Quarterly. He died on 6 February 1945.

Adshead, John Geoffrey

  • Person
  • 1904 - 1979

John Geoffrey Adshead was born in 1904 in Manchester, England. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School before entering Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, graduating with first class honours with distinction in mathematics. He was also a half-blue in lacrosse, later touring the United States as a member of the Oxford-Cambridge lacrosse team. In 1927 he was appointed at the University of King's College, transferring to Dalhousie University in 1947 as acting head of the Department of Mathematics, a position made permanent in 1953.

In addition to his popularity with students, he was considered by his colleagues to be an excellent cook. In P.B. Waite's reminiscences of faculty life in the 1950s, he writes that "one remembers Adshead's baked halibut with oyster stuffing, served with a Poilly Fuissé" (http://hdl.handle.net/10222/63115). Adshead retired in 1964 and died in 1979.

Hillis, James Stanley

  • Person
  • 1903 - 1954
James Stanley Hillis was a Dalhousie University alumni. He was married to Pauline E. Hillis, with whom he had one child, Eric Stanley Hillis.

Morse, Norman H.

  • Person
  • 1921-2007
Norman H. Morse was an economic historian and taught at Dalhousie University from 1965-1984, serving as chairman of the Department of Economics from 1968-1972. He was born in West Paradise, Nova Scotia, in 1921 and was raised on the family farm. He earned his BA from Acadia University (1940) and MA from the University of Toronto (1942) before joining the RCAF. After active duty during World War Two, he returned to the University of Toronto to complete his PhD (1952) as a student of Harold Innis. From 1945-1965 he taught economics at Acadia University, becoming head of their Department of Economics and Sociology and acting dean before moving to Dalhousie. He died in 2007.

Guptill, Ernest

  • Person
  • 1919 - 1976

Ernest Guptill was a physicist and Dalhousie professor for three decades. He was born on 5 September 1919 on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, where he attended school until his family moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in order that he and his two brothers could attend university. He received his BSc from Acadia University (1940) and his MA from the University of Western Ontario (1942). He earned his PhD at McGill University (1946), where he worked on radar research in collaboration with the Canadian National Research Council. He and W.H. Watson co-invented slotted waveguide antenna, a device used by aircraft, ocean vessels, fishing boat, and NORAD’s nationally linked radar stations.

Guptill moved to Halifax in 1947 to take up an appointment at Dalhousie University. His research included an early experiment in nuclear magnetic resonance with W.J. Archibald. In 1958, following a year-long sabbatical at the University of Leiden, Guptill was appointed George Monroe Professor of Physics and head of the physics department. He served on the National Research Council and with the Nova Scotia Research Foundation. In addition to his research and teaching, Guptill was a passionate sailor. On 20 March 1976, he died of hypothermia in a boating accident in Halifax's Northwest Arm, one hundred feet off Point Pleasant Park. His family established a memorial trust fund in his name to provide an annual scholarship for a Grand Manan High School student, and he is also commemorated by the annual E.W. Guptill Memorial Lecture series in Dalhousie's department of physics and atmospheric science.

Greenough, Herbert Eugene

  • Person
  • 1853-1931
Herbert Eugene Greenough was born on 24 December 1853 in Cambridge, MA, to John and Delia Greenough, and in 1861 the family moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Greenough entered the service of the Nova Scotia Railway in 1867, retiring in 1911 after 44 years of service. He was a committed union member and wrote under the pen-name "Blue-nose Boy" for The Halifax Mail, The Halifax Herald and a local union publication called The Journal. In 1881, Greenough married Mary Louisa (Minnie) Letson, with whom he had ten children. At the time of the Halifax Explosion they were living at 29 East Young Street; their home was destroyed and their daughter, Dorothy, was killed. Grenough died on 23 December 1931.

Chapma, Allan James

  • Person
  • 1932-2005
Allan James Chapman was born to Annie Marguerite (Daisy) Chapman and Sidney Chapman on 4 June 1932, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He served as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer from 1951-1980 and was married to Joan Chapman, with whom he had three children, Jean Ann, Andrew and Glen. He died in Ottawa on 5 September 2005.

Raymond, Boris

  • Person
  • 1925 - 2013
Boris Raymond taught library science and sociology at Dalhousie University from 1974 until his retirement in 1991, when he was appointed as an honorary adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. He was born in 1925 to Dmitry and Olga (Ostroumoff) Romanoff in Harbin, China, and emigrated to the United States in 1941. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he returned to University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an MA in sociology and an MLS (Master of Library Science). In 1964 he started work as a bibliographer at UC Berkley libraries, before moving to Canada to pursue an MA in history and employment as a serials librarian at the University of Manitoba. In 1974 he moved to Halifax and began teaching library science and sociology at Dalhousie University, while working on his doctorate at the University of Chicago, which he received in 1978. He died on 6 May 2013.

Eaton, Janet

  • Person
  • [19--] -
Janet M. Eaton is an independent researcher, public educator, writer and political activist. She was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and earned her PhD in marine biology at Dalhousie University in the early 1970s. She taught at several Nova Scotia universities, including Dalhousie, St. Mary's, Mount Saint Vincent and Acadia. She transitioned from her career as a marine biologist to work in adult and community education, where she developed a particular interest in systemic change. She was appointed a fellow of the International Systems Institute in the mid-1990s], worked as a consultant to government and NGOs, and since 1999 was a part of the global democracy movement. In the early 2010s, Eaton served as the Sierra Club of Canada's Trade and the Environment representative and as a member of the Canadian Trade Justice Network.

Murray, Robert Graham

  • Person
  • 1916 - 1995
Robert Graham Murray, QC, was a professor at Dalhousie Law school from 1950-1982, and professor emeritus until the time of his death. Born 1916 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to Judge Robert Harper Murray and Frances (Creighton) Murray, he was educated at Halifax County Academy. He earned his BA and LLB from Dalhousie University, winning the prestigious Carswell Prize and a scholarship for postgraduate study at Harvard, where he was granted an LLM in 1941. He served in the legal branch of the RCAF during World War Two before joining his father's former law firm, Murray and McKinnon. In 1950 he began his teaching career and was appointed Viscount Professor of Law in 1951. His teaching focus was in the laws of evidence and community planning. Murray was active in his professional and extended community, serving as president of the Community Planning Association of Canada, member of the Board of Commissioners of Victoria General Hospital, vice chairman of the Provincial Health Services and Insurance Commission and member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada. He was married to Helen Muirhead , with whom he had five children. Murray died on 20 September 1995.

Dobson, Edith Archibald

  • Person
  • 1897 - 1990
Edith "Polly" Archibald Dobson was born in Halifax on 17 November 1897, the youngest of three daughters of Edith MacMechan and Dalhousie professor Archibald MacMechan. Educated at Wakefield Girls' High School in Yorkshire, England, and then Halifax Ladies' College, she became the social secretary to Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, at times living with the Bell family at Beinn Bhreagh, their Cape Breton estate. It was there that she met her husband, Commander C.C. (Tommy) Dobson, a member of the Admiralty Commission sent to evaluate Bell's hydrodrome invention. The couple married in 1920 in England and had twin daughters. They traveled extensively, following Dobson's posts. After his death in 1940, Edith returned to Canada and served in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service. In 1947, she settled in Nova Scotia and founded the Red Cross Lodge at Camp Hill Hospital, which she ran until her retirement in 1972. She died in 1990 following a short illness.

Stone, Marjorie

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  • [194-] -

Marjorie Stone is McCulloch Professor Emeritus of English at Dalhousie University, where she was first hired in 1983. She is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1995), co-editor of Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship (2006), co-editor of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems (2009) and a Volume Co-Editor for 3 of 5 volumes in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2010).

Stone is a past president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (1996-98) and was a 2011 Fellow of the National Humanities Centre in the National Research Triangle, North Carolina. She served on several granting council committees in Canada, on the advisory boards of journals including Victorian Review and English Studies in Canada, and on the NAVSA Advisory Board.

Morse, Norman Harding, 1920-2007

  • Person
  • 1920-2007
Norman Harding Morse was an economist and professor at Dalhousie University. He was born on 6 November 1920 in West Paradise, Nova Scotia, son of Harris Harding and Annie Marion (Longley) Morse. He obtained a BA (1940) and MA (1941) from Acadia University, and an MA (1942) from the University of Toronto. He served with the RCAF as co-pilot of Canso aircraft on night patrol over the North Atlantic from 1942-1945. After the war he taught economics at Acadia before completing his PhD at the University of Toronto (1952). He returned to Acadia in 1953 and became head of the Department of Economics in 1964, and served as Dean of Arts from 1964-1965. During 1963-1964 he was a visiting professor at Dalhousie University, then took a full-time appointment in the Department of Economics from 1965-1984. Morse was on the Canadian Council of Rural Development and published several dozen papers and articles. He died on 13 August 2007 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

Lawson, William

  • Person
  • [172-] - 1838
William Lawson was a Halifax merchant, office holder, justice of the peace, and politician. He was the son of John Lawson and Sarah Shatford.

Richardson, Harriet Taber

  • Person
  • 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.

Morgan, Graham J.

  • Person
  • 1940-

J. Graham Morgan was a social anthropologist, Dalhousie professor and President and Vice Chancellor of the University of King's College from 1970-1977. Born in Barrow-in-Furness, England, on 11 August 1940, he studied at the University of Nottingham, McMaster University, and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1966 he joined Dalhousie's Sociology Department (later Sociology and Social Anthropology), serving as chair from 1995-2000. From 1970-1978, he held a joint appointment at the University of King's College, where he guided the creation of the university's Foundation Year Programme.

Morgan was an active scholar and member of dozens of departmental, faculty, university and national committees, including University Senate (1987-1991) and chair of the Senate Library Committee (1995-1998). He retired from teaching in 2004.

Cameron, Alexander

  • Person
  • fl. 1851-1896
Alexander Cameron was a postmaster in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, as was his bother John D. Cameron.

Maclellan, David Kirkpatrick Stewart

  • Person
  • 1918 - [19--]

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan was born in 1918, the son of Edward K. and Helen Maclellan. After working as a journalist in Halifax, he served in Italy as a public relations officer for the Canadian Army during World War Two. He was editor of Canadian Printer and Publisher and later joined the Canadian Geographical Journal, shortening its name to Canadian Geographic and doubling its circulation. He was married to Margaret Fales Gilmore in 1942.

In 1978, Maclellan shortened the magazine’s name to Canadian Geographic and designed a direct-mail campaign to tell the Canadians about the newly invigorated magazine.

Cameron, Lily Fraser

  • Person
  • 1922-2007
Lily Fraser Cameron was a 1942 graduate of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, and the first female graduate from NSAC to attend the agriculture program at MacDonald College, McGill University. She was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, in 1922 and attended the agricultural college in 1940-1942, graduating with a Senior Degree in the General Class. Cameron was awarded a certificate of appreciation in 1945 from the Minister of Finance for her services as a War Finance worker in Canada's Ninth Victory Loan. She died in 2007 in Burlington, Ontario.

Roland, Albert E.

  • Person
  • 1911-1991

Albert E. Roland was Provincial Botanist for the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Born in Aylesford, Kings County, in 1911, he graduated from Acadia University with a BA in 1931 before attending University of Toronto to study plant pathology, earning an MA in 1936, and then the University of Wisconsin, where he was granted a PhD in 1944.

In 1944 he joined the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and started teaching at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He was an active researcher and writer and published prolifically, including the seminal Flora of Nova Scotia (1944), which was revised in 1988 as Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia (ed. Marian Zink); Geological Background and Physiogeography of Nova Scotia (1982); and, with Randal Olson, Spring Wildflowers (1993). The herbarium collection at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College is named in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the understanding of Nova Scotia's natural history.

Albert Roland was a member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, the Agricultural Institute of Canada, the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists, and the Canadian Botanical Association. He served as president of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists (1958-1959) and became a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada in 1971. Named as one of thirty outstanding graduates of Acadia University between 1910-1960, he was granted an honorary DSc from Acadia (1972), the centennial medal (1967) and an LLD from Dalhousie University (1980). He died in September 1991 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Cox, Parker

  • Person
  • 1909-2002
Parker Cox taught English at Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1947-1973, where he also served as Registrar and Dean of Residence. He was born in 1909 in Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, and grew up in the surrounding area along with his brother Kenneth Cox, who was Dean of NSAC from 1946-1964. Cox earned his BA at Acadia University in 1930 and his MA at University of Toronto in 1934. Between 1930-1931 he taught at Wolfville High School; from 1931-1933 he taught at Colchester Academy. He served as Master of Rothesay Collegiate School from 1934-1944, then Principal of Shelburne Academy from 1944–1947. Parker Cox died on 1 August 2002.

Jenkins, Bill

  • Person
  • 1916-2009
Bill Jenkins was the seventh principal of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, from 1964-1972. Born on 17 October 1916 in New York City, at age 13 he moved to Baddeck, Nova Scotia, with his mother, variously living in Sydney and Truro, as well as Sackville, New Brunswick. In 1938 he graduated with a BSc from MacDonald College at McGill University, followed by an MSc in 1942. In 1943 he enlisted in the No. 6 District Depot. After being promoted to First Lieutenant, he joined the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and served overseas with the Anti-Tank Company. After the war he studied for his MA in Economics at Cornell University (1947), followed by an MPA in 1952 and PhD in Public Administration in 1961 from Harvard University. He worked for both the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Nova Scotia Agricultural College, where he was appointed principal in 1964. On his retirement in 1972, he joined the staff of the Council of Maritime Premiers Higher Education Commission, serving as the Executive Vice President of Atlantic Provinces Economic Council until 1992. Bill Jenkins died in Truro, Nova Scotia, on 2 November 2009.

Kinsman, Gordon Barss

  • Person
  • 1927-1999

Gordon Barss Kinsman developed and introduced Nova Scotia's first wild blueberry extension program and encouraged the introduction of cultured wild blueberry methods. Born on 19 March 1927 in Lakeville, Kings County, he studied at Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Macdonald College at McGill University, and the University of New Hampshire. In 1949 he joined the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture as their first extension specialist for berry crops and was involved in developing a certified strawberry plant program. In 1962 he was appointed director of horticulture and biology services at the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, and in 1978 became director of marketing and economics, directing a change in emphasis from service-oriented to developmental marketing. After his retirement in 1986, he became an agricultural consultant.

He was a charter member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists and a member of the VON Truro Branch and the Golden K Truro club. In 1990 he received the Calyx award from the North American Blueberry Council. A founding member of the Westmount Park Garden Club, he was awarded a medal of appreciation from the Nova Scotia Garden Association and recognition from the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. Kinsman was also active in cultural and heritage projects and was a life member of the Colchester Historical Society, chairman of the Nova Scotia Federation of Museums, Heritage and Historical Societies, and chairman of the Provincial Advisory Committee on Heritage Property. In 1978 he was awarded Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award and in 1994 he received the President's Award from the Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage. He was chairman of the Truro Planning Advisory Committee and of the Joint Planning Advisory Committee for the Town of Truro, Town of Stewiacke and County of Colchester. He published nine agricultural historical papers and five genealogies. He died in 1999.

Landels, Bertram Howard

  • Person
  • 1881-1916
Bertram Howard Landels taught land drainage at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for about six years after he himself graduated from the college in 1909. He was born on 20 May 1881 in River Herbert, Nova Scotia. On 6 December 1915 he enlisted as a sergeant with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Ontario Regiment) and was promoted to lieutenant on 24 August 1916. He went overseas with the 15th Battalion of the Canada Army Infantry and on 26 September 1916 he was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Vimy, France.

MacKenzie, Arthur Whittier

  • Person
  • 1898-1986
Arthur Whittier MacKenzie was a politician and Liberal member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Born on 15 June 1898 in Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, he graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1915 before joining the Army and serving overseas during the First World War. He remained in the Army through the Second World World War, retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. From 1945-1956 he represented Guysborough as a Liberal MLA, serving in the province's Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Lands and Forests from 1945-1954, and as Minister of Highways and Public Works from 1954-1956. He died in 1986.

Byham, Ray D.

  • Person
  • [19--]-1993
Ray Byham taught piano and music history at Dalhousie University from 1969-1993. The Byham Memorial Prize in Piano Studies is named in his memory.

McIntosh, Donald Sutherland

  • Person
  • 1862-1934
Donald Sutherland McIntosh was a geologist and professor at Dalhousie University. He earned his BSc from Dalhousie in 1896 and MSc from McGill University in 1910. He worked with E.R Faribault on the Geological Survey and taught at Baddeck Academy before being appointed Assistant Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in September 1909. For 23 years he was the only member of the Geology Department, retiring in 1932. He died in 1934.

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.

Baxter, Larry

  • Person
  • January 17, 1951 -

Larry Baxter is an HIV/AIDS activist, community volunteer, and former health care worker residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Raised in the Annapolis Valley, Larry graduated from Middleton Regional High School in 1969 before attending Dalhousie University, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1972. Larry was the Program Director and Youth Consultant for the Canadian Red Cross from 1972-1996. He later worked as a home support worker until is retirement in 2014.

As a person living with HIV, Larry has participated in and/or facilitated a wide range of organizations and research projects regarding HIV/AIDS. Larry has been a knowledge user on projects related to HIV and aging, as well as a patient advisor on several primary health care focused research projects within Nova Scotia. Larry chaired AIDS Nova Scotia [formerly MACAIDS] for a term, and sat on the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission on AIDS from 2000-2010. He was Secretary for the NAMES Project from 1999-2013, serving as the main custodian of the AIDS Memorial Quilt for over a decade until it was passed onto the Canadian AIDS Society. He has also volunteered in myriad other ways to support interests such as food security, care-giving and social justice.

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