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Ian McAllister joined Dalhousie University in 1971 as a professor of economics, later holding additional administrative and academic positions, including department chair and chair of the Senate Committee on International Development. Prior to coming to Dalhousie, he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities before serving as the Provincial Economist of Newfoundland (1962-65); secretary and economic advisor to the Royal Commission on Newfoundland's Economic Prospects (1965-67); and head of the regional development unit of the Canadian Department of Finance (1968-71).
His professional interests include regional development problems and policy issues and he concurrently served as director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s program on regional development; an economic advisor to Premier Regan; a member of the federal Minister of Industry’s advisory board on regional industrial policy; a member of the Mayor of Halifax’s economic development advisory board; a consultant to the federal Department of Energy on the economics of tidal power; and adviser to Newfoundland’s Public Utilities Board on rural electrification policy. He was a commissioner on Canada’s Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing (1984-86) and has written extensively on these and other themes, including international development and foreign aid, disasters and development, and the role of universities as development contributors.
Officially retired from Dalhousie in 2002, McAllister continues to teach and supervise students. He is a research fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and chair of the Board of the International Ocean Institute – Canada. In April 2015 McAllister received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University.
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MC and MC Hardware Magazine - Vancouver.
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Massenet, Jules Émile Frédéric
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Massachusetts-Halifax Relief Committee.
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Mason Chapman was a four-piece band formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1979. The original line up included Doris Mason (keyboards, vocals), Bruce Chapman (keyboards, vocals), Dave Skinner (drums, vocals), and Mike Andrusyk (bass, vocals). The band played exclusively throughout the Atlantic Provinces and presented a sound that relied heavily on keyboards and four-part vocal harmonies. Mason Chapman featured music from several genres – pop, jazz, R&B, swing, and contemporary.
The band recorded its debut self-titled album at Solar Audio Recording Studies in 1982. The album includes ten original compositions. It was engineered by Carl Falkenham and Keith Delong and produced by Glen Meisner. The album was released by M.C. Records (MC 1001). M.C. Records also released a 7 inch single (RCI 539-S1).
Guest musicians joining the band included John Hollis on sax, guitarist Georges Hebert, Roger Simard on percussion, Eugene Husaruk , Juan Fernandez, Denise Lupien, Luis Grinhauz on violins and Guy Fouquet on cello. String arrangements were done by Skip Beckwith.
After the album was released, Roger Arsenault joined the band on bass and vocals. The band continued to perform until 1984. In 2012, the band reunited for a series of concerts at Stayner's Wharf in Halifax, Montes in Dartmouth, and the Shore Club in Hubbards.
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Anita Louise Martinez is a photographer and long-standing community activist and volunteer, in particular with reference to the peace movement, women’s equality and empowerment groups, and LGBTQI rights. She has documented numerous local and national organizations and her work has been published in periodicals, magazines and books in Japan, New Mexico, New York and Canada.
Born in Ontario in 1939, at the age of eight she won a Brownie camera, which began her love of photography. At 15 she left her home town and began traveling, eventually settling in New Mexico, where she raised six children. In 1983 she moved to Nova Scotia.
She has studied a breadth of subjects—from woodworking to photography to cake decorating—and holds a nursing degree from the University of New Mexico and a diploma in photography, graphic design and digital imaging from Nova Scotia Community College. In addition, she’s completed workshops in drug and alcohol counseling, suicide prevention, and co-operative housing.
In Halifax, Anita served on various boards and committees: PLURA (Presbyterian, Lutheran, United, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches); Halifax Transition House Association; the National Transition House Association; Urban Core Support Network; Second Stage Housing Association; Take Back the Night Committee; the International Women’s Day Planning Committee; Pandora Women’s Newspaper; and WAYVES. She was membership coordinator on Lamplight Housing Cooperative Board and president of PSAC Union. Anita also served the board of Women’s Employment Outreach and was on the organizing team for Dawn Canada. She was a longtime support person with the Nova Scotia’s Persons with AIDS (PWA) Coalition.
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Marshall, William E., 1859-1923
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Marsh, Jonathan Borden, Captain, 1841-1934
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