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Daniel Hansen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Outsomnia” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Roy Hansen-Robitschek is a Canadian set, costume, and light designer. He began his career in 1979 and has worked as a designer and teacher at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland since 1992.
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- ca. 1827-1910
Oscar Hanson of Little Lepreau, New Brunswick, was a descendant of John Hanson—a pre-Loyalist settler on Minister's Island—and the great-grandson of Quaker Loyalist Joshua Knight of Beaver Harbour and Pennfield. Oscar's father, Robert Varden Hanson (1795-1884), first settled at Little Lepreau in 1836, where he built a sawmill that he later sold to sons Oscar and Gideon.
Oscar has many concurrent careers and activities: landowner; sawmill owner and operator; canning factory owner; ship's merchant and charterer, shipowner, storekeeper; postmaster of Little Lepreau (until 1898); justice of the peace; active organizer for the Liberal Party; member of at least four fraternal organizations; holder of various offices in the parish of Lepreau; and Baptist Sunday school superintendent. He and his brother Gideon owned lands leased to New Brunswick Anthracite Coal Company
Oscar and his wife Helen (Lomax) had seven children who for many years maintained summer residences at Little Lepreau.
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- 1919-
Hänssler-Verlag is a German music publishing company, founded in 1919 as Musikverlag Hänssler by Friedrich Hänssler. Originally intended to publish church music, the firm now also publishes contemporary and jazz music.
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Cheryl Harawitz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Howard Harawitz is an electronic music artist. Harawitz began using synthesizers in the 1970s in San Francisco theatre groups. Harawtiz started the Creativity Lab at the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. Harawtiz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Hard Times became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 because their audio recording “Underground Connection” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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The Harding family resided in Lockeport, Nova Scotia. William E. Harding was a merchant.
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Noel Harding is a Canadian artist and urban innovator known for his monumental scale public art projects and environmental sculptures. As an artist, Noel Harding produced video art in the 1970s, video projection and installation art in the 1980s, and kinetic installations and sculpture as theatre in the 1990s. He presented some of his early installation work at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For the last 20 years, Harding has focused on public art that addresses landscape and environment.
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- 1840-1906
Charlotte Geddie Harrington (1840-1906) was a Presbyterian church worker and editor. She was born in 1840 in Prince Edward Island. Her parents were John Geddie and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald. She married William Harris Harrington on Sept. 21 1865, and they had two daughters and a son. She died in Halifax on March 7 ,1906.
Charlotte Geddie Harrington's early life involved accompanying her parents to the New Hebrides (Aneityum) where the family moved to pursue missionary work. She was sent to England for education for eight years, after which she returned to the New Hebrides and assisted her parents' missionary work in 1856. She returned to Halifax in 1859, where she settled to marry and raise a family.
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Emily Bevan Harrington was born in Halifax in 1869, the daughter of W.H. Harrington and Charlotte Geddie. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 1892, attended Bryn Mawr for one year, and then obtained her MA at Dalhousie by examination in Anglo-Saxon. She died in 1906 after a long illness.
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- 1850-1920
Mrs. James Harris was born on 26 December 1850 in London, England, as Eliza Mary Theakston, daughter of Major Taylor Theakston and Sophia Wood. In 1876 she married James H. Harris, a gardener and later a florist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who died on 28 February 1902 following an accident. He was an active member of Charles Street Church, where he served as a trustee, treasurer, usher and assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. Eliza Harris died on 11 December 1921.
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- c. 1775-1825
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- 1852-1934
Joseph Simpson Harris was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1852 to William Henry Harris and Anne Arnison. He farmed in Pictou County and was later appointed High Sheriff, as were his father and grandfather before him. In 1881 he married Emma Ives, with whom he had five children: William Henry, George, Daniel, Margaret, and Christian. Harris died a widower in 1934.
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- 1911-[198?]
R. Gordon Harris was a Commander in the Royal Canadian Navy. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1931 and became Life Secretary for the class. Harris served as Inspector of Supply and Fleet Accounting in the Royal Canadian Navy and served in Victoria, British Columbia. Harris retired from the Navy and relocated to Alberta, where he worked as Comptroller and Treasurer of Medical Services (Alta.), Inc.
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- 1805-1883
William Henry Harris was born in 1805, son of John Harris. He was married to Anne Arnison, with whom he had at least four children: Joseph Simpson, George Simpson, Thomas Arnison and Margaret. In 1856 he was appointed coroner of Pictou County. In 1857, on his father's retirement, he became High Sheriff of the county, and in 1874 he was appointed by the province as the presiding officer for the municipal elections of the new Town of Pictou. Harris was also the first publisher of The Pictou News. He died in 1883.
Harris, William Henry, 1882-1965
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William Henry Harris was born in 1882, the eldest son of Joseph Simpson Harris and Emma Ives. He was educated at Pictou Academy. Like his father, he was appointed chief returning officer for Pictou, as well as High Sheriff for the county. He also managed an insurance and financial business. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the Rotary Club and was secretary of the Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Board. He also served on the boards of the Haliburton cemetery and the Pictou Academy Foundation. He passed away in 1965.
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Harrison, Robert Beverly, fl. 1938
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R.B. Harrison graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Sc. in 1935. He was employed as a geologist with the Newfoundland Geological Survey in 1938.
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Richard Harry became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because his audio tape recording from 1987, “My Machine’s a Rock ‘n’ Roll Cynic”, became a part of their tape collection.
Hart, Margaret Janet McPhee, 1867-1941
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Margaret Janet McPhee was born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1867, the second child of Archibald McPhee and Ann Graves McLane. She maried Edward C. Hart in 1898, with whom she had three children. She died in 1941 in Victoria, BC.
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Kevin Hartley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording “Frottage/Do-mage/Fromage 2 vous” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Peter Hartwell is an Ontario-based designer who frequently works with the Shaw Festival. He has also designed for Centaur Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Theatre Calgary, Canadian Stage, Toronto Free Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Belfry, Grand Theatre, London, and Thousand Islands Playhouse. He trained at Sadler's Wells and lives in Dundas, Ontario.
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- 1886-1966
Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey was born to John and Margaret (Cobb) Harvey in Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island. He studied at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University, graduating in 1910, and won the Rhodes Scholarship for PEI, graduating from Oxford University with a BA in 1913. He was married to Elizabeth Winifred Ross, with whom he had four children.
Harvey was an educator, author, and archivist. He taught history at McGill University, Wesley College, and the University of Manitoba before being appointed head of the History Department at the University of British Columbia in 1928. In 1931, he became archivist at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and a special lecturer in Canadian History at Dalhousie. In 1956, he retired and became archivist emeritus of Nova Scotia.
Harvey wrote and edited historical books and articles related to the history of Canada, the Maritimes, and Dalhousie University. He was actively involved with several historical organizations and served as president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and was on the editorial boards of the Canadian Geographical Journal , the Canadian Historical Review, and the Dalhousie Review. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1928, awarded the Tyrrell Medal in 1942 to recognize his outstanding work in Canadian history, and served as president of the organization’s Academy of Social Sciences in 1945.
Harvey passed away in Halifax at eighty years of age in 1966.
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Frank Harvey is the current Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, serving from 2016 to present. His previous positions have included Chair of the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, the Eric Dennis Chair of Government and Politics at Dalhousie, University Research Professor of International Relations from 2008-2013, Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2011-2013), the 2007 J. William Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, and Research Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Dr. Harvey received a PhD, MA and BA from McGill University.
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The Harza Engineering Company was founded by Leroy F. Harza in 1920 with its main office in Chicago, Illinois. An independent engineering and consulting firm, it specialized in the development and use of water, power, and land resources. Among its areas of expertise were regional planning, specifically water control, power, irrigation flood control, agricultural production, and transportation. It worked extensively in both the energy and environmental sectors of the engineering industry, and the company is perhaps best known for its work on hydroelectric power development.
During the period covered by the records in this collection, Calvin V. Davis served as the chairman of the company. E. Montford Fucik became the President of Harza and Arthur P. Gauss the Executive Vice President in 1963. Charles MacLennan, donor of these papers, served as a Vice President as well. From the 1950s to 1970s Harza employed over 400 people, most of whom were graduate engineers, scientists, and registered professional engineers.
On October 6, 2000, Harza Engineering and Montgomery Watson announced their intent to merge. The company is now called MWH, and based in Pasadena, California.
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Arthur Haskins was a 1972 graduate of Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He is currently president of the Great Village Garden Club in Great Village, Nova Scotia.
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Bruce Hatcher is a marine ecologist and oceanographer at Cape Breton University, where he holds the Chair in Marine Ecosystem Research and is the Director of the Bras d’Or Institute. From 2001-2004 he taught biology at Dalhousie University and was the director of Marine Affairs Program.
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- d. 1991
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Rosalie Hatchett became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980s because of their involvement in various video recordings which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1865-[after 1950]
Byron Ulric Hatfield was born in Port Greville, Nova Scotia in March 1865. He attended Dalhousie University between 1888 and 1890. Hatfield was ordained in Fall River, Nova Scotia on July 23, 1889 and preached in numerous locations throughout Nova Scotia and the New England states. He preached in Fall River, Nova Scotia until 1890 and in Jeddore, Nova Scotia from Spring 1890 until August 1891, when he moved to Georgetown, Massachusetts. While Hatfield was serving in Georgetown he attended the Newton Theological School in Newtown Centre, Massachusetts and worked with the National Temperance League from 1891-1893. He also visited Palestine when he attended the American School for Oriental Research in Jerusalem. Hatfield graduated from the Newton Theological School in 1893 and continued to preach in Georgetown until July 1895. He preached in Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts from August 1895 to January 1896 and then then moved to Danielson, Connecticut, where he preached until December 1900. He preached at the Union Baptist Church in Mystic, Connecticut until March 1904. Then he preached at the Central Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York from March 1904 to September 1906. He moved back to Connecticut in September 1906 and preached at the Montauk Avenue Baptist Church in New London until May 1908. Then he moved back to New York and preached at the Liberty Street Baptist Church in Newburgh, New York.
Hatfield was an amateur photographer who took glass plate photographs of southeastern Nova Scotia and Jerusalem during the early twentieth century. He developed his own photographs and prepared glass plate lantern slides, many of which he coloured by hand. Hatfield toured the eastern United States and gave illustrated presentations titled "The Land of Evangeline: The Land of Romance, Legend, and Picturesque Beauty" and "The Holy Land." He also appeared as himself in the 1940 film "The Ramparts We Watch," directed by Louis De Rochemont.
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