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White, Portia

  • Person
  • 1911-1968
Portia May White was born in Truro, NS on June 24, 1911. She was raised in a large family. Her father was a minister and was the first black graduate with a Doctorate of Divinity from Acadia University. He was also the only Black Canadian chaplain during WWI. Portia grew up in Halifax and attended Dalhousie University in 1929, then found a teaching job. She worked as a schoolteacher in Africville and Lucasville, NS. She was a great singer and always performed in her father’s church. In 1941 she made her first national debut in Toronto. In 1944, she made her international debut, performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She then toured the world performing. She retired early after some health problems, and settled in Toronto in 1952 to teach singing. She was a singing coach for the first cast of the stage show of Anne of Green Gables. She performed in 1964 for Queen Elizabeth II in PEI. Portia died from cancer on February 13, 1968 at the age of 56. She has been named a person of national historic significance in Canada (1995) and had a commemorative postage stamp made in her honour for the millennium. The Portia White Prize in Nova Scotia also exists in her honour.

White, Rick

  • Person
Rick White is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter from New Brunswick. White was a member of the music group “Eric’s Trip”, and produced and recorded music for a variety of other musicians and artists. White became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1995 because their video recording “Social Dance” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

White, Ted

  • Person
Ted White became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Outsomnia” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Whitman, Arthur Hanfield

  • Person
  • 1870-1950
Arthur H. Whitman was a Halifax merchant and businessman born and educated in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. After the Halifax Explosion, when serving as the president of the Halifax Board of Trade, he founded a Community Chest fund that later evolved into United Way Halifax.

Whittaker, Roger

  • Person
Roger Whittaker was born in Nairobi Kenya on March 22, 1936 to parents who originally hailed from Staffordshire, England. While in school in Kenya, Whittaker was involved in choir and also gained exposure to the percussion and rhythms of East African music which he has said, "[has] played a great part in everything I have ever written and sung." In 1959, he arrived in Britain to study zoology, biochemistry, and marine biology at Bangor University. During this time, Whittaker continued his involvement with music by singing and entertaining in local clubs and writing his own songs. After having been approached by a major music publisher to record his first single for his university’s Rag Week Show, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, Whittaker then recorded his second single, “Steel Men”, which received air play and entered the British charts while he was sitting his exams. By this time, he consulted with his professors to leave his studies to focus on music. Whittaker made radio and television appearances throughout the 1960s when his singles, “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Mexican Whistler”, had started gaining attention in Europe by the late 1960s. Whittaker eventually gained success in the U.S. with the single “The Last Farewell” in 1975, which gradually become a worldwide hit selling over 11,000,000 copies. In the 1980s, he launched a major international songwriting competition, ‘Children Helping Children’, from the United Nations in New York through UNESCO. Children from all over the world were asked to submit lyrics and poems on the subject of promoting peace and understanding, the best of which Whittaker would put to music and record. All proceeds raised by sales were donated to UNESCO’s Education for Handicapped Children programme. During this time, Whittaker was also involved in making a film about his native Kenya. The result, ‘Roger Whittaker in Kenya’, was screened in Britain by BBC Television in 1983, followed by a worldwide transmission. By the 1990s, Whittaker continued to record and tour extensively and, by the early 2000s, he announced plans to retire. However, having moved to Ireland to live near the River Shannon, Whittaker was inspired to write again and eventually began recording and touring again.

Wien, Frederic Carl

  • Person
  • 1943-
Dr. Fred Wien was born in Osterode, Germany in 1943. He moved to Canada at a young age and eventually attended Queen’s University from 1962-1966, getting a BA in Political Studies and Spanish. He went on to get a MA and PhD in Development Sociology, Government and Latin American Studies from Cornell University (1966-1971). After teaching at the University of Western Ontario, he came to Dalhousie in 1973. He became the Director of the Maritime School of Social Work from 1981-1986. Focusing on sociology of development, education, and employment, Dr. Wien’s work also focused heavily on marginalized groups in Nova Scotia, particularly First Nations groups, like the Mi’kmaq. He created education opportunities and programs for First Nations and other marginalized students at Dal during his career. From 1992-2006 he was the Deputy Director of Research with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and recently the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health. In 2015, Dr. Wien was appointed to the Order of Canada for "contributions in support of Indigenous populations in Atlantic Canada as a professor and as a promoter of economic and social autonomies."

Wilkinson, John M.

  • Person
John M. Wilkinson was originally from Guysboro, Nova Scotia. In 1954 he married Janet Mabel White in Boston, MA. They subsequently lived in Alberta for several years before returning to Nova Scotia in 1958.

Wilkinson, Lesley

  • Person
Lesley Wilkinson is a lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including Young People's Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Crow's Theatre, Shaw Festival, Theatre Calgary, Soulpepper Theatre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, and The Fredericton Playhouse. She has also worked with the Canadian Opera Company and the Pacific Opera Company.

Willens, David

  • Person
Little is known about David Willens. His composition "Sonata for piano" was sent to the Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon in 1959 by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Music, but there is no record of its subsequent publication. He also wrote a "Suite for two pianos" in the 1950s and a "Sonata for violoncello and piano" in 1955.

William Cox, Andrew

  • Person
Andrew William Cox became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Untitled” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Williams, Bob

  • Person
Bob Williams became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording “Jerico and His Fortress” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Williamson, Samuel William

  • Person
  • 1869-1967
Samuel William Williamson was a physician and 1896 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. Born in Loganville, Nova Scotia, on 13 January 1869 to Hugh Williamson and Jessie Ross, he was educated as a teacher before studying medicine. After spending one year as a resident at the Victoria General Hospital and two years in practice in Hebron, Yarmouth County, in 1899 he opened a general practice in Yarmouth. During World War One he worked as a medical examiner for both the Yarmouth recruiting centre and the artillery training centre. Dr. Williamson was a key figure in the founding of Yarmouth's first hospital and later served as its chief of medical staff. He was president of the Western Counties Medical Society and the medical officer for Western Nova Scotia. In 1960 he was made honorary president of the Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association. He died in 1967.

Willis, John

  • Person
  • 1907 - 1997
John Willis taught at Dalhousie Law School during the 1930s and 1940s, one of a generation of young scholars who challenged established legal thought under such banners as sociological jurisprudence, the socialization of law, and realism. Born in England in 1907, Willis was educated at Winchester and Oxford, graduating with a double first in classics and jurisprudence. In 1933, after studying at Harvard, he arrived at Dalhousie Law School for a one-year teaching contract. With the exception of a few years in practice and working at the International Monetary Fund, his life was spent teaching law at Dalhousie, York University, University of British Columbia, and University of Toronto, where he helped to re-imagine and reconstruct its law school. Following his retirement in 1980, Willis lived in Annapolis Royal until his death on June 16, 1997.

Wilson, Bertha

  • Person
  • 1923-2007
Bertha Wilson was born September 18, 1923 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. She attended the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a Masters in Arts in 1944. In 1945 she married her husband John Wilson, a reverend, and in 1949 they immigrated to Canada. In the 1950s the Wilsons moved to Halifax because her husband got a job in the navy, and Bertha decided to go to Dalhousie Law School. She graduated and was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1957. After moving back to Ontario, she was called to the Bar in 1959. She practiced law from 1959-1975 with Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt. She was the first female lawyer to work there, and eventually became a partner in 1968. She was called to the Ontario Court of Appeals in 1975, the first woman to hold that position. In 1982 to she called to the Supreme Court, and became the first female Supreme Court Justice in Canada. She was specialized in legal research, and ruled on cases involving human rights, ethnic and sexual discrimination, matrimonial property, child custody, family rights, and access to information. Notable cases over which she ruled were R. v. Morgentaler in 1988 (abortion procedures) and R. v Lavallée in 1990 (battered-wife syndrome as self-defense). She was a pioneer in foundational cases interpreting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. After retiring in 1991, Bertha was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and the chair of the Task Force on Women in the Legal Profession. She was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, and became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992. Bertha Wilson passed away in Ottawa on April 28, 2007.

Wilson, D'Arcy

  • Person
D’Arcy Wilson is an Atlantic Canadian artist whose work laments past and ongoing colonial interactions with the natural world, from her own perspective as a descendent of European settlers in Canada. Her interdisciplinary work has been presented across the country, most recently at Dalhousie University Art Gallery (2019), The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (2018), The Rooms Art Gallery (2019) the Owens Art Gallery (2016), and the 2019 Bonavista Biennale (Floe), as well as M:ST, Flotilla, and Connexion ARC. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award (Atlantic). D’Arcy is based in Corner Brook, NL, where she is Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus.

Wilson, David

  • Person
  • 1929-
David Wilson was Dalhousie University's first full-time music professor and the inaugural chair of the Department of Music, from 1968-1971. During his academic tenure, Wilson directed the Dalhousie Chorale and established an early music ensemble, which grew into Musica Antiqua. In 1978 he co-founded the Early Music Society of Nova Scotia; he also published the society's newsletters, which evolved into which Consort, an illustrated magazine featuring music news and musicological articles. He was music director of the Halifax Baroque Ensemble; a member of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra (1957–61); president of Musique Royale; president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (Halifax Branch); a lecturer on French Organ Music at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (1999); and organist/choir director at Saint James Anglican Church, Halifax (1992-2018).
George E. Wilson, ca. 1931 [PC1, Box 1, Folder 33, Item 2]

Wilson, George Earle

  • Person
  • 1890-1973

George Earle Wilson taught history at Dalhousie University from 1919-1969. He was hired as a lecturer in history and political economy just prior to the opening of the 1919-20 session, giving up a travelling fellowship at Harvard University. In 1921 Wilson was promoted to associate professor, and in 1925 to full professor and head of the history department. He also served as Dean of Arts and Science from 1945-1955 and was named professor emeritus in 1965, continuing to teach part-time until 1969, when he retired after five decades of service.

In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1961 he was elected President of the Humanities and Social Science section of the Society.

George Earl Wilson died on 7 June 1973. The Department of History continues to award the Dr. George E. Wilson Prize, which was established on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1927.

Wilson, Samantha

  • Person
Samantha Wilson is an actor, artistic director, director, and workshop leader who has worked with various Canadian theatre companies including 2b Theatre, DaPoPo Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Fire Exit Theatre (US), Theatre Yes, HTYP, and Eastern Front. She attended the Master of Fine Arts program at York University, and has taught at both York University and Dalhousie University.

Winham, Gilbert Rathbone

  • Person
  • 1938-2019
Gil Winham was a political science professor and leading scholar on the political and legal dimensions of international trade negotiations. Born in New York City on 11 May 1938 to Alfred R. Winham and Margery Rankin Post, he served in the United States Navy for three years prior to earning a diploma in international law from the University of Manchester. After completing a doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winham taught at McMaster University. He joined Dalhousie University in 1975, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He served as the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Study from 1975-1982 and was appointed Eric Dennis Memorial Professorship of Government and Political Science in 1992. His scholarly work and public service led to invitations as a Visiting Researcher to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the University of Toronto, and El Colegio de Mexico, and to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was also a regular instructor and consultant on trade policy simulation courses at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, and a member of dispute settlement panels of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Gil Winham died in Berwick, Nova Scotia, on 1 January 2019.

Wolfe, Augusta E.

  • Person
  • 1851-1939
Augusta E. Wolfe was born Augusta E. Croft on January 3, 1851 in West Dublin, Nova Scotia, to farmers Fred and Margaret Croft. In 1886 she married Daniel Edgar Wolfe, a fisherman, with whom she had at least one son, Harold E. Wolfe, who died at sea. She died a widow on July 4, 1939.

Wongus, Jasmine

  • Person
Jasmine Wongus is an artist based in East Preston, Nova Scotia. Her artwork frequently focuses on the subject matter of race and culture, specifically on her albinism as an African-Nova Scotian. Jasmine’s education includes a Bachelor of Informatics from Dalhousie University, as well as education from NSCAD University and Athabasca University into 2D, 3D and game design. Wongus became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 with her audio recording “Vessel of Me” on the recording “CFAT Audio Scholarships 2002” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Wood, Phyllis B. (Scott)

  • Person
  • 1928-
Phyllis Barbara (Scott) Wood was born on February 11, 1928 to Walter Burton Scott and Wilma Jean Scott, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She attended LeMarchant Street School and Queen Elizabeth High School, graduating in 1946. Phyllis attended the University of King's College from 1946 to 1949 on a scholarship and graduated with a BA in 1949.

Woodbury, William Weatherspoon

  • Person
  • 1882-1967
William Woodbury was a professor of orthodontics at Dalhousie University from 1911-1952 and Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry from 1935-1947. He was born in 1882 and graduated with his BSc from Dalhousie University in 1905 before studying at the Philadelphia Dental College. He received an honorary LLD from Dalhousie in 1953, when he was also appointed professor emeritus. He died on 13 October 1967.

Woodland, Mary Corning

  • Person
  • 1925 - 2019
Mary Corning Woodland was a niece of Dr. George Hart Woodland, who graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1901.

Woods, Chris

  • Person
Chris Woods is a Canadian artist born in 1970 and is a self–described “military brat”. Woods has been a professional artist since 1988. Chris’ recent artworks have focused on the consumer landscape of shopping malls, fast-food restaurants and convenience stores. Woods’ video recording “Sanctuary of the Heart” was included in a 1988 Centre for Art Tapes compilation.

Woods, W.C.

  • Person
W.C. Woods became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording "Memories in Clay: The Work of Joan Parson Woods" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Woolave, Patricia

  • Person
Patricia Woolave became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their sound recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Worthen, James

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James Worthen is a Halifax based artist who works in the film and television industry in the costume department as a costume designer. Worthen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1996 because their video recording “The Rainbow’s End” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Wyse, Russell

  • Person
Russell Wyse is a Canadian filmmaker. Wyse became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Yeo, William

  • Person
James Yeo (1790-1868) was a was a Cornish-born shipbuilder, merchant, farmer and political figure in Prince Edward Island. James established a shipbuilding business in Port Hill, Prince Edward Island. James had three sons: William Yeo (1813-1873), James (1827-1903) and John (1834-1924). James and John worked with the family shipbuilding business. John and James built over 200 vessesls in their time. William, from Appledore, was also known as "Black Ram" and lived in England.

Young, Alexander J.

  • Person
  • 1938-2000

Alexander (Sandy) Young was a prominent Nova Scotian educator, author and sports historian. Born in New York City in 1938, he was educated in Pennsylvania and Maryland before moving to Canada in 1970 to join Dalhousie’s School of Physical Education. Young was an active member of the Dalhousie community, serving as president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association in the mid-1980s, director of the School of Health and Human Performance from 1989-1993, and helping to establish Dalhousie’s popular “Noon-time Ball” competition. He continued teaching at the university until 1998.

Young was widely known for his commitment to and knowledge of Nova Scotia athletics. He was the author of Beyond Heroes: A Sport History of Nova Scotia (1998), which examined the cultural and historical impact of sports in the province. He was a founder the Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre and co-hosted the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for some twenty years. He died on 6 August 2000 at the age of sixty-two, survived by his four daughters, Nicole, Michelle, Julie and Gabrielle.

Recognition for Sandy Young’s years of dedication to Nova Scotia sport include the 2000 renaming of the Dalhousie Award to the Sandy Young Award and a posthumous induction to the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2002.

Young, Elrid Gordon

  • Person
  • 1897-1976
Eldrid Gordon Young was a Dalhousie professor and biochemist, and conducted secret research in chemical warfare for the Department of National Defence during World War Two. He was born in Quebec City in 1897, and graduated with an MA from McGill University in 1919 and a PhD from Cambridge University in 1921. Following post-doctoral studies in Chicago, he moved to Halifax in 1924 to work at Dalhousie, retiring in 1948 as head of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Young was a member of many professional organizations and national and international societies. He was awarded an Honorary DSc from Acadia University in 1957 and an Honorary LLD by Dalhousie University in 1965. He died on 24 March 1976.

Young, George Renny, 1802-1853

  • Person

George Renny Young was a publisher, lawyer, author and politician. He was born in Falkirk, Scotland, on 4 July 1802 to John Young and Agnes Renny. In 1814 he came with his family to Nova Scotia, where he helped to establish John Young and Company with his father and brother William. Young worked for the family dry goods business until 1821, when he started at Pictou Academy. In 1824 he founded a weekly newspaper, The Novascotian. In 1827 he sold the paper to Joseph Howe in order to pursue legal studies in Britain. He became an attorney in 1833 and a barrister in 1834, when he established an insurance practice with William that would last into the 1850s. In 1838 he married Jane Brooking, with whom he had one son, John.

Young entered the Nova Scotia assembly in 1843 as the member for Pictou County. He was a strong and vocal supporter of the reformers, protesting the General Mining Association’s monopoly in the province and supporting the creation of a Halifax and Quebec Railway. In 1848 he became a minister in J.B. Uniacke’s government. In the following years Young’s physical and mental health deteriorated. Although he did not seek re-election in 1851, he continued to voice his political opinions in a series of letters published in the British North American.

George Young wrote articles, books and letters to newspapers on a variety of topics. His first book, The British North American Colonies, was published in 1834. He also wrote a romantic fiction, The Prince and his Protégé, which appeared in a variety of formats in 1844. Young lectured and served as president of the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute. He died in Halifax on 30 June 1853.

Young, James

  • Person
  • fl. 1970s
James Young was an honours student in the sociology program at Dalhousie University during the 1970s.

Young, John

  • Person
  • 1773-1837

John Young was a Halifax merchant, author, and politician. Born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1773 to Janet and William Young, he was educated at the University of Glasgow ca. 1790. Young performed well in his theological studies but chose to pursue business in Falkirk and Glasgow. He married Agnes Renny, with whom he had nine children, including George, Charles, and William. In 1814 Young and his family moved to Nova Scotia, where he founded John Young and Company.

Young became interested in agriculture shortly after his arrival in Nova Scotia. Between 1814 and 1816, under the pseudonym "Agricola," he wrote letters to The Acadian Recorder, championing ideas such as the creation of a provincial farming board, rural farming societies, and other initiatives. His suggestions were popular and supported by Lord Dalhousie, who established a Central Board of Agriculture in 1819. Young was appointed secretary and treasurer, making him responsible for mediating between the board and the newly formed farming societies, importing and distributing seeds, tools and other items, managing agricultural competitions, and handling correspondence and other administrative duties. In 1822 many of Young’s Agricola letters were published in the book The Letters of Agricola on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage. While the board was initially popular and well supported, the House of Assembly failed to renew its charter in 1826.

In 1823 Young ran unsuccessfully in Halifax for a seat in the assembly, and in 1824 he won a Sydney by-election. He proved to be a vocal and active member in the assembly, where he remained until his death in Halifax on October 6, 1837.

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