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Authority RecordShandi Mitchell is an author and filmmaker who currently resides in Atlantic Canada. Her shorts films, “Baba’s House” and “Tell Me” have won multiple awards and have been featured at festivals across North America including TIFF, Eastman Kodak House, New York, and Vancouver. “Baba’s House” has won numerous awards including the Kodak Cinematography Award, CBC-WIFT Toronto Writers Award, Kodak Filmmakers Award, Best Canadian Short, Best Art Direction, and received two Gemini nominations.
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- fl. 1859-1930
Robert Mitchell was a prominent nineteenth-century Nova Scotia physician. Known affectionately as "Dr. Bob," he was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1859. He returned to Amherst to practise medicine and also served for many years as physician and surgeon to the Dorchester Penitentiary.
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Christopher Mitchell is a recording engineer who has worked in studios in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Chris Mitchell is a saxophonist, composer, and arranger based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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The Matt Minglewood Band is a four member band performing in the genres of blues and country, as well as rock. By his early twenties, Matt Minglewood went on to join a band entitled Sam Moon, Matt Minglewood & the Universal Power. This band soon evolved into the Moon Minglewood Band. They toured the country extensively and, by the middle 1970s, they morphed into the Minglewood Band and recorded their first album, ‘The Red Album’, in 1976. A recording contract with RCA Records soon followed.
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- 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.
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- June 27, 1942-
Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist and recording artist. Mills worked as a pianist for CBC Television, and is best known for his Gold-certified single "Music Box Dancer," which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the Spring of 1979. Mills made a number of recordings at Solar Audio Recording Studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Eric Mills is an invertebrate zoologist, biological oceanographer, and historian of science. Born in 1936 in Toronto, Ontario, he received his BSc from Carleton University in 1959 and his MSc and PhD from Yale University in 1962 and 1964. His teaching and research included work at Carleton University; Queen’s University; the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. From 1967-2002 he taught at both Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, serving as chairman of Dalhousie's Department of Oceanography from 1990-1992 and as the inaugural director of King's History of Science & Technology Program from 2001-2002. He retired from full-time employment as Professor Emeritus of the History of Science in the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, and Inglis Professor, University of King’s College.
Mills' earliest work was in marine ecology, leading to his involvement with the Hudson 70 Expedition, the first Canadian biological oceanographic research in the Antarctic. His later studies in the history of science included nineteenth-century natural history, the development of biological and physical oceanography, and the history of Canadian science. He has maintained vigorous personal and professional interest in birds and birding throughout his life.
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John Frederick Miller was born in 1924 in Colorado. He received his BA from the University of Colorado (1951) and an MSLS (Masters in Library Science) from Simmons College, Boston (1955). He was a library fellow at Brandeis University before working in turn at Yale University Library, Connecticut State Department of Education, Harvard College Library, and the University of Massachusetts. In 1966 he came to Dalhousie University Library as the head of technical sevices, later being promoted to Assistant Director of the School of Library Services. In 1968 he was appointed Director of Summer School and Extension. His research interests included the social history of merchant seamen, a project which he undertook in cooperation with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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- 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.
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The Reverend Edward Miller was a writer, editor, and one-time fellow and tutor of New College, Oxford. His essays were published in The Contemporary Review.
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Christof Migone is an artist, curator and writer. His education includes a MFA from NSCAD University in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tishc Schools of the Arts of New York University in 2007. Migone became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because his audio recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jan Meyerowitz is associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1986 because of his involvement with a video recording “Projects to Boost Cape Breton”. Meyerowtiz is originally from Cape Breton and has had a focus on activism within his artistic mediums of film and photography.
Meyerhof, George Geoffrey, 1916-2003
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George Geoffrey Meyerhof was a distinguished geotechnical engineer, best known for his work on the bearing capacity of foundations. He is the author of over 200 papers, a book on structural and soil mechanics, and a booklet called "Memories of a Civil Engineer in World War II."
Born in Kiel, Germany in 1916, Meyerhof was the son of the late Nobel Laureate in Physiology, Otto Meyerhof. After graduating in 1938 with a B.Sc. from London University, he worked with consulting structural engineers in England for several years. In 1946 he joined the British government's Building Research Station near London, where he carried out extensive research on soil mechanics and foundation problems. In 1950 he obtained his Ph.D in engineering from London University, which later awarded him a D.Sc.
Meyerhof emigrated to Canada in 1953 and was appointed Supervising Engineer in the Foundation of Canada Engineering Corporation in Montreal. In 1955 he joined the Nova Scotia Technical College (later TUNS) and served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering between 1964-1970.
Meyerhof was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and many other scientific and engineering societies in Canada and abroad. In 1999 Meyerhof received the Order of Canada for distinguished service in geotechnical engineering. He was also awarded the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia's prestigious F.H. Sexton Award and the year 2000 Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (United Kingdom). He was awarded the Centennial Medal of Canada, the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal, and the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to Canada. Other honours include the Duggan Medal and the Julian C. Smith Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the R.F. Legget Award of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the Engineering Award of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, and the Karl Terzaghi Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Meyerhof was the first President of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, a Council Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Council Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, a Terzaghi Lecturer of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Buchanan Lecturer of Texas A&M University, and a Hardy Lecturer of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. His honorary degrees include Doctor of Engineering degrees from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany and the Technical University of Nova Scotia; Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Ghent (Belgium), McMaster University (Hamilton) and Queen's University (Kingston); and the Doctor of Laws degree from Concordia University (Ottawa).
He was a founding member of the Halifax Grammar School, and a supporter of music and theatre in Halifax.
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Margot Metcalfe is a photographer based in Nova Scotia. Metcalfe exhibits her work nationally, and her work belongs in private and public collections nationally and internationally. Metcalfe became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1997 because their video recording “Assertiveness Play” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Lori Meserve became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 through her video tape recording entitled “Face to Face”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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