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Susan Horne had various roles within the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, including Head of the Home Economics/4H Branch, Chair of the Agricultural Awareness Committee, and Special Policy Advisor. She is a member of the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame.
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- 1912-2003
Rueben (Rube) Hornstein was born in London, Ontario in 1912 and attended the University of Western Ontario, where he received his bachelor degree in physics in 1934 and his master's in physics in 1936. In 1938, he obtained his master's in meteorology from the University of Toronto. Upon his graduation, he worked in the meteorological branch of the federal Department of Transport and as a forecaster at the St. Hubert and Malton Airports. In March 1940, he became the officer-in-charge of the meteorological section of Eastern Air Command in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was granted an Order of the British Empire for his service by King George VI in 1946. From 1946 until 1972, he was the officer-in-charge of the Halifax Atlantic Weather Centre.
Hornstein also gave weather reports on CBC for Halifax, hosting the show "Ask the Weatherman" on the radio and working with the TV news program "Gazette" in 1954. After his retirement in 1972, he produced talking books, including those for blind and disabled students. Over his lifetime he was granted several awards and in 1975, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) created the Rube Hornstein Prize in Operational Meteorology in his honour. In 2002, he received the Queens Gold Medal as part of her Golden Jubilee. Hornstein passed away on January 30, 2003 in Halifax.
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- 1927-2010
Norman Horrocks was a Dalhousie professor, school director, and faculty dean. Born in Manchester on 18 October 1927, he began his library career in England, where he worked from 1945-1953, interrupted by three years serving in the British Army Intelligence Corps from 1945-1948. He was elected a Fellow of the Library Association and later worked in Cyprus and Australia, where he obtained a BA in constitutional history, before moving to the United States and earning MLS and PhD degrees at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1971 he accepted a position in the new library school at Dalhousie, where he was instrumental in convincing the American Library Association (ALA) to accredit the Master of Library Service program. Considered vital to the progress of library studies at Dalhousie, he eventually became Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Studies. In 1986 he left Dalhousie to work as the Editorial Director of Scarecrow Press in New Jersey, but returned to the university in 1995 and stayed until his retirement. Decorated with multiple awards, he was the first person to have been elected an honorary member of the Canadian, American and British national libraries and in 2006 was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died in 2010.
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- 1911-2000
Alan Hovhaness was an American twentieth-century composer. He was highly regarded and performed during his lifetime, with over 500 compositions to his name.
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- 1886-1960
The Right Honorable C.D. Howe was the first Chancellor of Dalhousie University, from 1957 to 1960. His association with Dalhousie dates to 1908, when he was appointed Professor of Engineering, leaving in 1912 to work for the government, followed by success as a businessman and later politician. He was a powerful Canadian Cabinet minister of the Liberal Party, serving in the governments of Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957.
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- 1804-1873
Joseph Howe was born 13 December 1804 in Halifax, NS, the son of John and Mary (Edes) Howe. He married Catherine Susan Ann McNab on 2 February 1828. Howe was a printer, journalist and editor of the Novascotian from 1828-1841 and joint editor of the Morning Chronicle from 1844-1846. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia from 1836-1863, and held a variety of positions in the Executive Council, including the position of premier from 1860-1863. Howe is known for his part in the libel case on behalf of freedom of the press in Nova Scotia in 1835, and for his part in the winning of responsible government in 1848. Howe was made Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on 7 May 1873 and died less than a month later on 1 June 1873.
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- 1871-2000
Hudební matice was a Czech music publishing company, founded in 1871 in Prague as a firm dedicated to Czech composers. The firm dissolved in 1889 and became part of Umělecká beseda (The Artistic Forum). In 1952, it was transferred to Statni hudebni nakladatelstvi, the predecessor of Editio Supraphon. When Editio Praga (the last successor of Supraphon) ceased in 2000, the original catalogue of Hudební matice entered the public domain.
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Hughenden Record - Edmonton, AB
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Ann Hughes was the widow of carpenter Edward Hughes of Granville, Nova Scotia. At the time she sold her land in Granville, she was living in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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- 1929-1997
Charles Campbell Hughes was an anthropologist and educator who worked as a postgraduate researcher with Alexander and Dorothea Leighton and Jane Murphy on the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria, and the Sterling County Study in Digby County, Nova Scotia, between 1957-1961. He also collaborated with them on an earlier health study of the Inuit people of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, where he gathered field research for his doctorate in anthropology (1957) from Cornell University. In 1962 he was appointed to the African Studies Center, Michigan State University, where he was a director and later professor. He moved to the University of Utah in 1974, serving as a professor of anthropology as well as director of graduate programs at the medical school until his death in 1997.
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Glynis Humphrey is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Humphrey was raised in Wales, United Kingson before immigrating to Edmonton at the age of 10. Her education includes a Fine Arts Diploma from Grant MacEwan College (1993) and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1996). Humphrey became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because her video recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Bishop Carleton Hunt was the inaugural W.A. Black Chair of Commerce at Dalhousie University. He was raised and educated in Massachusetts and received his first degree from the Boston University School of Business Administration. After serving in World War One as a military instructor at George Washington University, he worked for an economics engineering firm reporting on fundamental business conditions for merchants, bankers and investors. Appointed by Dalhousie in 1920, he also lectured in economics at Nova Scotia Technical College from 1920-1923. The university calendars indicate that he was on leave for the last several years of his tenure at Dalhousie, and in 1927 he earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and did not return. He was the author of a much cited history of the development of the business corporation in England.
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Andy Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their audio recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Dylan Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because his audio recording “Behaviour” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Sherry Lee Hunter is a dance theatre performer based in Toronto, who has multiple sclerosis. Hunter was a part of the physical performing troupe, Jest In Time, who performed together for 27 years. Hunter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1981 because of her involvement in the video recording “Walls performance”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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I.H. Mathers and Son Ltd. was a shipping company founded by Isaac H. Mathers in 1872 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mathers’ son, Isaac Harry, joined the company in 1890 and became the company president in 1906. The company exported lumber and canned lobster, later diversifying into other products and expanding their trade into the West Indies and Scandinavia. Harry Isaac Mathers II became president in 1945. Under his leadership the company expanded to include a tugboat business in the 1960s and a freight business in the 1990s. I.H. Mathers is currently a fully integrated marine, offshore and logistics services provider with offices in Halifax, Dartmouth, and St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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Cindy Illsley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1995 because their video recording “Chloe” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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