Hughenden Record - Edmonton, AB
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.
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.
Homer, Kenneth Churchill, 1915-2003
Kenneth Churchill Homer was born in 1915 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Mount Allison University and worked briefly for CBC Radio Halifax. He was the sole broadcaster remaining at the Springhill Mines after the explosion in 1958, reporting across the continent on the surviving miners.
For the next four decades he lived in New Brunswick, working as a freelance writer and broadcaster. He was married to Mary Dees Clark, with whom he had one son. He died in 2003.
Samuel Johannes Holland, born in 1728 in Deventer, the Netherlands, was a military officer, politician, and early surveyor of Canada. He began his military career in 1745 with the Dutch Artillery and in 1754 he moved to England and became a lieutenant in the Royal Americans. He arrived in North America with the British Army early in 1756, where he created early maps of New York state, worked as an engineer under Brigadier-General James Wolfe during his 1758 attack on Louisbourg, surveyed Louisbourg, Halifax, and Fort Fredericton, and participated in the 1759 siege of Quebec.
Holland was appointed Surveyor General of the Northern District of North America in 1764 and was named to the Council of Quebec. From 1764 to 1767 he surveyed Prince Edward Island, Îles de la Madeleine, and Cape Breton. He then began mapping the north eastern seaboard for the British Army and helped to negotiate provincial and state boundaries in the northeast.
Holland returned to England in 1775 and rejoined the British Army. In 1777, he returned to North America as a British aide-de-camp until he was recalled to Quebec in 1778. In 1779, he was named to Quebec’s Legislative Council, where he remained until 1792. He continued to act as Surveyor General until 1801.
Holland was married to Gertrude Hasse in 1749. She remained in the Netherlands when Holland left for England and, later, North America. The couple had separated by the early 1760s when Holland married Marie-Joseph Rollet, with whom he had ten children. Holland and his family lived in various places in British North America, including Louisbourg, Quebec, and New Hampshire. Samuel Holland passed away in Quebec on December 28, 1801.
Lawrence Himmelman was the son of Ernest Himmelman, the founder and proprietor of The Himmelman Supply Company and its subsidiary companies. Professionally, Lawrence worked with his father to manage this shipping and retail business. Upon his father's death in 1981, Lawrence continued to act as a shipping agent and broker into the 1980s. By 2000, the subsidiary companies were disbanded, leaving only LaHave Investments in operation to this day.
Lawrence was an active member of the LaHave community. He was president of the Bridgewater Curling Club; secretary and on the board of trustees for the LaHave School; he was involved wiht the LaHave United Church; he was a shareholder of Bowl More Limited; and he was vice-president of Perma Engineering.