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James MacIntosh lived in Pictou, Nova Scotia, and died in the 1820s. His executors were George Glennie and Mary Ann MacIntosh.
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James MacIntosh lived in Pictou and died in the 1820s. His executors were George Glennie and Mary Ann MacIntosh.
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Dave MacIsaac, born 1955, is an internationally recognized musician known for playing such stringed instruments as the guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and dobro. MacIsaac grew up in a musical household with his father Alex Dan being a fiddler. His introduction to the music was also through the generous fiddlers visiting his home and through listening to Cape Breton 78 rpm recordings. He fashioned his guitar accompaniment after the piano playing of Mary Jessie MacDonald, developing his own techniques to imitate her walking bass lines and, like Mary Jessie, he is daring in his interplay between chording and melody. MacIsaac provided guitar accompaniment for Buddy MacMaster at Cape Breton Club dances in Halifax, performed with him on the "Ceilidh" television shows and many times at Glencoe Hall in Glencoe Station, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Dorothy MacIsaac is a recording artist known to have make sound recordings at Solar Audio in the 1970's.
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- 1843-1927
Jason M. Mack was born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia, the son of Jason Mack and Augusta Miller of United Empire Loyalist descent. He served as stipendiary magistrate for the Liverpool police district.
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- 1848-1929
Alexander Howard MacKay graduated from Dalhousie University in 1873 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Honors Certificate of the second class in Mathematics. He was the first student to graduate from Dalhousie University with Honours. MacKay delivered the valedictory address at convocation on April 30, 1873.
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- 1906-1979
D.C. (Donald Cameron) Mackay was born in 1906 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, son of William and Jane. The family moved to Nova Scotia in 1912 and Mackay began his education at Halifax Academy. After a brief period of study at Dalhousie University, Mackay entered the Nova Scotia College of Art, graduating in 1928. In 1929 he began graduate studies at the Chelsea School of Art in London, England, and took classes at the Académie Colorossi in Paris.
In 1930 MacKay moved to Toronto, Ontario. He worked as an illustrator while studying at the University of Toronto, then taught illustration and etching at the Northern Vocational School and at the Art Gallery of Toronto. In 1934 he was married to Mollie Bell and returned to Halifax, where he began work as an instructor and later served as vice-principal at the Nova Scotia College of Art. He also held an appointment as special lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Dalhousie.
Mackay joined the Canadian Navy at the beginning of World War Two and in 1943 he was appointed an Official War Artist. He retired from service in 1945 and returned to the Nova Scotia College of Art as principal, also taking up his lecturing position at Dalhousie. After the death of his wife, Mollie, he was remarried in 1966 to Margaret MacNeil, with whom he had one daughter, Margot. Mackay remained principal of the Nova Scotia College of Art until his retirement in 1971. He was the illustrator and co-author, with Harry Pier, of Master Goldsmiths and Silversmiths of Nova Scotia and their Marks (1948) and Silversmiths and Related Craftsmen of the Atlantic Provinces (1973). Mackay illustrated many other books and periodicals, especially those related to Canadian history. He died in 1979.
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- 1871 - [before 1937]
Duncan Oliver MacKay was a Dalhousie student who received his BA in 1890, graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1891, and served as a Presbyterian minister.
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- ?-1920
Ebenezer MacKay graduated from Dalhousie University in 1886 with First Rank Honours in Experimental Physics and Chemistry and the McKenzie Gold Medal. He also won prizes in Classics and Mathematics. He went on to receive a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was appointed the Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University in 1896 and stayed there until his sudden death in 1920.
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- 1944-
Frank MacKay is a recording artist who is known to have recorded songs at Solar Audio & Recording Limited in the late 1980s.
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- 1946-2019
Frank MacKay was the lead singer of The Lincolns, an R&B band formed in Truro, Nova Scotia in 1961. Fellow band members included Layne Francis, Lee Taylor, Rod Norrie, and Brain Chrisholm whom MacKay had met at school at age fifteen. He was mentored by Murray Dorrington. MacKay started pursuing a solo career around 1970 while still performing with The Lincolns which became known as one of Nova Scotia's most popular dance bands of the 60's. Frank MacKay passed away in May of 2019 following surgery.
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Laura MacKay became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "Manufactuary" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1902-1977
Robert William "Murray" MacKay was a professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University and superintendent of the Nova Scotia Hospital. Born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, on 17 February 1902, he was educated at West Branch Elementary School, Pictou Academy and Dalhousie Medical School, graduating in 1928. He studied psychiatry at Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba and at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. In 1931 MacKay returned to Halifax for a position as Assistant Superintendent of the Nova Scotia Hospital. He was appointed Acting Superintendent in 1935 and Administrator-Superintendent in 1937, a post he held until his retirement in 1967. He lectured on psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine until 1940, when the department was founded and he became a full-time professor. Dr. MacKay was a member of Canadian and American psychiatric associations, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the Board of Governors of Pine Hill Divinity Hall. The Nova Scotia Hospital named the Children's Unit after Murray MacKay following his retirement. He died on 9 May 1977.
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- 1929-2013
William Andrew MacKay was a Canadian lawyer and former judge, civil servant, legal academic and eighth president of Dalhousie University.
He was born on 20 March 1929 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Robert Alexander and Mary Kathleen MacKay. He began his schooling in Halifax and received his high school diploma in Ottawa before returning home to Dalhousie University, where he earned a BA (1950), JD (1953), and LLM (1954). He was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1954 and appointed Queen’s Council in 1973.
MacKay began his professional career in 1954 with the Canadian Department of External Affairs. In 1957 he was hired as an assistant professor of law at Dalhousie University, promoted to associate professor in 1959 and full professor in 1961. He received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study at Harvard University in 1961 and was appointed George Munro Professor of Law. From 1964-1969 he served as Dean of Law and Weldon Law Professor, and in 1969 became Vice-President of Dalhousie under the administration of Henry D. Hicks. MacKay was appointed president and vice-chancellor on Hicks' retirement in 1980, positions he held until 1986. Throughout his administrative career he continued to teach constitutional and international law. After retiring from Dalhousie he served as Ombudsman for Nova Scotia from 1986-1988 and became a judge in the Federal Court of Canada (Trial Division) in 1988, where he served until 2004. From 2004-2007 he was a Deputy Judge of the Federal Court.
Andrew MacKay married Alexa Eaton Wright in July 1954, with whom he had one daughter, Margaret Kathleen. He died on 12 January 2013.
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- 1898-1972
Lieutenant-colonel John Crerar (Jack) MacKeen was a prominent Nova Scotia businessman and a protégé of Izaak Walton Killam, the financier and educational philanthropist. The son of David E. MacKeen and Jane Kate Crerar, he was born 15 December 1898 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After serving in the First World War, he attended Halifax County Academy and the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He later received an honourary law degree from Dalhousie University. MacKeen was the chairman and executive of many companies, including Nova Scotia Light and Power, where he was employed for four decades. From 1931 he served as president, assuming the title of chairman of the board in 1961, a post he held until January 1972, nine months before his death.
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- 1865-1938
Arthur Stanley MacKenzie was an important figure in education in Nova Scotia for over forty years. He was born in Pictou on 20 September 1865, the son of George Augustus and Catherine Denoon Mackenzie. He was educated in public schools in Pictou, New Glasgow and Halifax before studying at Dalhousie, where he won the George Munro Bursary and exhibition and the Sir William Young gold medal and honours in mathematics and mathematical physics; he received is B.A. at Dalhousie in 1885. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1894. In 1895 MacKenzie married Mary Lewis Taylor, of Indianapolis, who died one year later. MacKenzie subsequently raised their daughter, Marjorie, on his own.
MacKenzie taught at Yarmouth Seminary from 1885-1887. He was hired as a tutor in mathematics and physics at Dalhousie from 1887-1889 and then spent two years at Johns Hopkins as a scholar and teaching fellow. From 1891-1905 he taught physics at Bryn Mawr College and then returned to Dalhousie University as George Munro professor of physics. He was appointed university president in 1911, a position he held until his retirement in 1931.
MacKenzie was widely recognized for his research contributions. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, the American Physical Society, and the National Research Council of Canada. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Society of Canada. He took an active role in his community, serving as president of both Ashburn Golf Club and the Halifax Curling Club. MacKenzie received an honorary degree from McGill University in 1921 and Dalhousie University in 1931. Arthur Stanley Mackenzie died in Halifax on 2 October 1938.
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- 1898-1986
Arthur Whittier MacKenzie was a politician and Liberal member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Born on 15 June 1898 in Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, he graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1915 before joining the Army and serving overseas during the First World War. He remained in the Army through the Second World World War, retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. From 1945-1956 he represented Guysborough as a Liberal MLA, serving in the province's Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Lands and Forests from 1945-1954, and as Minister of Highways and Public Works from 1954-1956. He died in 1986.
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MacKenzie, Charles Guy, Reverend, 1895-19??
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Charles Guy MacKenzie was born in 1889 in Sackville, New Brunswick. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1915 and became a United Church minister. From 1936-1940 he served at Sackville United Church in New Brunswick.
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Colin MacKenzie became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their film “Train Train” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1910-1966
Ian MacKenzie was professor of surgery at Dalhousie University from 1957-1967 and head of the department of surgery at Victoria General Hospital, Halifax. Born in 1910 in Scotland, he graduated from medical school at the University of Edinburgh in 1933. In 1939 he was awarded a Commonwealth Research Scholarship to study cancer at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. Returning to Britain at the outbreak of World War Two, he served in France and the Middle East, first with the 9th Lancers and later with the RAMC, before being posted for special duties in 1942. He was parachuted into Yugoslavia to serve with Marshal Tito at partisan headquarters, and was later dropped into occupied France for service with the French resistance movement. For his services he was awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star and mentioned in dispatches. He was also appointed MBE.After demobilization in 1946 he returned to the department of surgery at Edinburgh University, and later moved to the department of surgery at Durham University. He joined Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine in 1957. In Halifax, he also served as consultant surgeon to the Canadian Forces Hospital and to the Camp Hill Hospital. Before his death in 1967 he was engaged in cancer research.
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- 1872-1940
Dr. Jemima (Mina) MacKenzie was born in Waterside, Nova Scotia on August 18, 1872. She went to Pictou Academy and worked as a school teacher before attending Dalhousie Medical School. She graduated in 1904 and worked an internship in Boston, before leaving to pursue missionary work in India with her sister. She worked in various rural communities in India, started a hospital, and adopted dozens of orphaned children. In 1919 she was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, India’s highest honour, for her work in medicine in India. She returned to Nova Scotia in 1920 when her father was ill, and practiced medicine out of her home in Pictou County until she returned to India in 1923 after her father’s death. She worked in India until 1939, when she returned to live in Nova Scotia until her death in 1940. During her time in India she started many hospitals and orphanages. Many of her adopted children moved to Canada, where their descendants have continued the work of Dr. Mina through the Dr. Mina MacKenzie Memorial Trust Fund, which continues to provide healthcare and orphanages in rural India.
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- 1847-1879
John James (J.J.) MacKenzie was a graduate of Dalhousie College, earning his BA in 1871 and his MA in 1872. He was born in Greenhill, Pictou County, in 1847. From 1869-1872 he taught at Pictou Academy. He moved to Germany in 1872, earning his PhD at Leipzig University in 1876. In 1877 he returned to Halifax to take up an appointment at Dalhousie as Chair of Physics, a position he held for less than two years, as he died of pneumonia in 1879 at age thirty-one. In addition to teaching, J.J. MacKenzie delivered a popular series of public science lectures in Halifax and was an active promoter of the Technical Institute.
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Karen MacKenzie became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their audio recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1880-1958
Kenneth Alexander MacKenzie was a 1903 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and Professor of Medicine from 1926-1945. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1880 and received his early education in Pictou and Springhill before going to Dalhousie. After graduation he practiced briefly in Cape Breton and then took up post-graduate studies in internal medicine in England. During World War One he left his studies to serve with the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Unit. After the war he retuned to England before moving back to Halifax. In 1926 Dr. MacKenzie was appointed Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie, a post he held until 1945. He was an active member in several professional associations, including president of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia from 1932-1933. In 1950 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University. He died on 12 May 1958.
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- 1880-1981
Luther Burns MacKenzie was born in West River, Pictou County, in May 1880 and moved to Bedford at the age of two. He earned his BA from Dalhousie University in 1900 and an MD from New York University in 1904, after which he established a private medical practice in New York City. In 1920, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at New York University. MacKenzie played a significant role in the expansion and development of the Bellevue-New York University Medicine Centre. In 1947 he was awarded the NYU Alumni Meritorious Service Medal and was made Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine in 1951. He was appointed to the NYU Board of Governors and awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1957. Dalhousie bestowed this same distinction in 1980, conferred on his 100th birthday. Dr. MacKenzie died in August 1981.
MacKenzie, Norman Archibald MacRae, Hon.
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Norman MacKenzie, better known as Larry, was born in 1894 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Pictou Academy before moving to Saskatchewan at the age of fifteen to farm with his brothers. In 1913 he entered Dalhousie, where he studied for one year before enlisting in the army. From 1914-1918 he served overseas, returning to Dalhousie to graduate with his BA in 1921 and his LLB in 1923. He received his LLM from Harvard University, where he also won a Carnegie fellowship to study international law at Cambridge.
Following two years as legal advisor to the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927 MacKenzie took up a professorial appointment at University of Toronto, where he taught for thirteen years. In 1940 he became president of the University of New Brunswick, and from 1944-1960 he served as president of the University of British Columbia. He was appointed to the Senate from 1966-1969. MacKenzie and his wife, Margaret Thomas (1903–1987), had three children: Bridget, Susan, and Patrick Thomas. He died in 1986.
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- 1883-1957
William Roy Mackenzie (1883-1957) was a Canadian folklorist, literary critic, and author who collected songs and ballads in Nova Scotia in the early twentieth century. He was born in River John, Pictou County, Nova Scotia on February 14, 1883. He studied at Dalhousie University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1902 and a Master of Arts in 1903. He went on to study with George Lyman Kittredge at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Arts in 1905 and a PhD in English in 1910.
In 1918, Mackenzie joined the faculty of the Department of English at Washington University. He wrote two books on Nova Scotia ballads and was considered by many to be one of the greatest authorities on Shakespeare. He died in 1957.
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Veronique MacKenzie-Bourne became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2001 because their video recording “In the Wings” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1880 - 1970
Irwin Cameron Mackie was a metallurgist and inventor. He was born in Bayview, Prince Edward Island, in 1880 and graduated from Dalhousie in 1901. In 1902 he moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, to join the company that became DOSCO (Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation), where eventually he was appointed Director of Metallurgy and Research. In the late 1920s he developed the "Mackie Process," a method for preventing cracks from appearing in rails by slowing down the cooling process, which was adopted and employed by steel producers around the world by the early 1930s. In 1946 he received the Inco Medal and in 1962, one year after retiring from what was then the Dominion Steel Company, he was granted honorary membership in the Canadian Standards Association. He died in Sydney in 1970.
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Albert Scott MacKintosh lived and worked as a pharmacist in Oxford, Nova Scotia.
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Jennifer Macklem is a Canadian artist based in Ottawa. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works within video, painting, sculpture, and installation. Macklem became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2007 because their film, "History of the Albatros" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jennifer Macklem is a Canadian artist based in Ottawa. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works within video, painting, sculpture, and installation. Macklem became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2007 because their film, "History of the Albatros" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Jessie I. MacKnight was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia and would become a notable pharmacist in Nova Scotia and a lecturer at the Maritime College of Pharmacy. She began her career as a teacher, but would go on to graduate from the Maritime College of Pharmacy. She initially worked at the Victoria General Hospital and later joined the Maritime College of Pharmacy as director of dispensing practice. She retired in 1961, after 40 years of service.
One of the first women teaching pharmacy in Canada, MacKnight was known to have little patience for mediocrity, poor effort, or carelessness and was often heard stating "think, listen, repeat" to her admiring students. As a professor at the Maritime College of Pharmacy for 38 years, Dr. MacKnight's influence on generations of students is honoured by a teaching excellence award bearing her name. In addition, the dispensing laboratory was named after her in tribute in 1986.
Jessie MacKnight was also an active member of the Halifax community, having been a member of the Halifax Club of Business and Professional Women. She was instrumental in compiling the forty-year history of the organization in 1976 and was honoured with an honorary lifetime membership certificate.
MacKnight passed away on 18 June 1985.
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- fl. 1866-1867
Robert P. Maclaren attended medical school at the University of Edinburgh in 1866-1867.
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- 1913 - 1993
Edward (Ted) MacLatchy was born 25 December 1913 in Truro, Nova Scotia, to H.O. MacLatchy and Clare L. Symons. He was educated at Colchester County Academy and Dalhousie University, from which he graduated with a BA in 1935 before entering Dalhousie Law School.
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Alaisdair MacLain is an eastern-Canadian composer, born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia on January 8, 1955. While attending Mount Allison University, he worked at the Windsor Theatre as an arranger, composer, and pianist. He also studied at Julliard, L'Ecole d'Art americaine in Fontainebleau, France, and at the University of Toronto. In October 1996, he was the first composer-in-residence with Symphony Nova Scotia. His works have been performed throughout Canada, the United States, Britain, France, China, and Japan, and range from solo instrumental and vocal works to those for chamber ensembles, choir, and orchestra.
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