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The Himmelman Supply Company was formed in 1923 by Ernest H. Himmelman (b. August 18, 1895 - d. March 21, 1981), and his brother Seth. Ernest had been an inspector at a shoe manufacturing plant in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts but quit so he could return to Nova Scotia and work in the fishing and shipping industries. He married Winnie Wentzell on June 30, 1918 and was appointed Captain of the M/V "Kathleen Creaser" in 1919. Lawrence Himmelman was born on August 17, 1923.
In 1923, Ernest and his brother Seth purchased the "Helen G. MacLean," a 100-ton schooner. In 1926, the company purchased a 100-ton auxiliary schooner and named it "O.K. Service." This was the first of 12 ships that were operated by Himmelman Supply Company as the O.K. Service fleet. Himmelman Supply Company was officially incorporated in Nova Scotia in 1929.
The O.K. Service fleet pioneered the shipping of live lobsters from eastern Nova Scotia ports to Boston in the early 1930s and continued this operation until the mid-1950s when road transportation became feasible. The company shipped freight throughout Atlantic Canada, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. In addition to lobsters, the fleet shipped explosives, molasses, and other commodities from Canada and typically returned with rum and other cargo from southern ports. Vessels were typically purchased with financial support from shareholders and were eventually decommissioned, sold, or lost at sea. See the series description of each vessel for a detailed administrative history.
To help conduct his shipping operation, Ernest Himmelman founded several subsidiary companies, including O.K. Service Shipping Limited, which owned many of the vessels in the O.K. Service fleet, Himmelman Shipping Company, which was involved in chartering ships and ships' agency, and the Oakland Shipping Company, which was also involved in chartering ships and ships' agency. Ernest also operated a general store in LaHave, Nova Scotia. See the series description of these companies for a more detailed administrative history. Ernest's son Lawrence joined him in his business activities, eventually taking over the business operations.
In 1941, Ernest Himmelman began breeding Hereford cattle at his farm. He won national acclaim for the quality of his breeding operation. In 1960, his Hereford bull "Whittern National Velvet" was judged Canada's grand champion at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario. Ernest was appointed president of the Canadian Hereford Association in 1964 and was a member of the Board of Directors for a number of years.
Ernest and Lawrence were active members of the LaHave community, and were involved in the Bridgewater Curling Club, the local school and volunteer departments, the LaHave United Church, and other community groups. They also unsuccessfully attempted to acquire a cable television license.
Competition from larger freight agencies and the small size of the LaHave and Oakland ports made business increasingly difficult in the 1970s. LaHave Shipping Limited sold the M/V "O.K. Service XI" in 1972 and Himmelman Supply Company sold the M/V "O.K. Service X" in 1975. A large ship was purchased in 1975 and named the M/V "O.K. Service," a throwback to the original "O.K. Service" purchased in 1926, but this ship was decommissioned in 1983. The general store in LaHave, Nova Scotia was closed in 1977.
Ernest Himmelman died on March 21, 1981. Lawrence Himmelman continued to act as a shipping agent and broker into the 1980s. O.K. Service Shipping Limited was disbanded in 1985 and Himmelman Shipping Company was finally struck off the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies in 1992. Himmelman Shipping Company was struck off in 2000 and Oakland Shipping Limited was struck off in 2006. LaHave Investments was reorganized in 1989 and still exists as of March, 2010.
Himmelman Shipping Company Limited.
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Himmelman Shipping Company Limited was a subsidiary of Himmelman Supply Company. It was incorporated in 1974 and owned the motor vessel "O.K. Service" which shipped high explosives to the Caribbean. (See series O.K. Service for more information) The company was also involved in ships' agency and chartered vessels that shipped explosives from Himmelman's dock in Oakland, Mahone Bay. The last annual statement was filed in 1999 and the company was struck from the Registry of Joint Stock Companies in 2000.
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Pauline E. Hillis was a Dalhousie University alumnae. She was married to James Stanley Hillis, with whom she had one child, Eric Stanley Hillis.
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John Hillis operates the film production company, Truefaux, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hillis became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recordings “Ethan’s walk” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1903 - 1954
James Stanley Hillis was a Dalhousie University alumni. He was married to Pauline E. Hillis, with whom he had one child, Eric Stanley Hillis.
Hillcrest Investments Limited.
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Hillcrest Investments Limited was an investment and holding company established by Don Oland. Don Oland served as president and his wife E.M. Oland acted as Secretary. J.W.E. Mingo served as a Director of the company. The company consolidated the personal holdings of Don Oland and his wife and made investments in a variety of Canadian and international companies.
Hill, Shuldham Samuel Crawford , 1837-
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Shuldham Samuel Crawford Hill was born 23 June 1837 in England. He emigrated from Liverpool to Quebec in 1883 with his wife and family.
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Ian Hill was acting Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Science from 2015-2016, during Chris Moore's administrative leave. He is now the Associate Vice-President of Research and a professor of physics at Dalhousie.
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Robert and Iain Highet became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1987 because of their involvement in the video recording entitled “Industrial Arts in Nova Scotia - The Future is Now” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Donald Higgins was born in 1943 to Donald Joel and Ethel Mary Higgins. He was a political science and public administration professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1973 until his death in 1989. He specialized in local and regional government issues and was very interested in municipal government structures, education and city development and planning. Higgins was active in the Community Planning Association of Canada and involved with the Ward One Resident’s Association in his South End Halifax community. Donald Higgins was also the co-founder of the Gorsebrooke Research Institute and author of Urban Canada: Its Government and Politics (1977) and the follow up Local and Urban Politics in Canada (1986).
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- 1915-1990
Henry Davies Hicks was Premier of Nova Scotia and President of Dalhousie University. He was born 5 March 1915 in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, the son of Henry Brandon Hicks and Annie May (Kinney) Hicks. After graduating from Bridgetown High School he obtained a BA from Mount Allison University (1936) and a BSc from Dalhousie (1937). As a Rhodes Scholar he received an MA (1939) and BCL (1940) from Oxford University. In 1941 he was admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia before joining the Royal Canadian Artillery and training as a radar specialist. He served in Canada, England and Belgium and had reached the rank of captain when he was discharged in 1945.
Hicks was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1945 as a Liberal for Annapolis County and served as Nova Scotia's first Minister of Education from 1949-1954. He became premier in 1954, but was unable to unite the party, and his government was defeated in the 1956 election. From 1956-1960 he served as Leader of the opposition. In 1960 he left politics to accept the post of Dean of Arts and Science at Dalhousie University. From 1963-1980 he served as University President, and is recognized as transforming Dalhousie from the "College By the Sea" into a leading national research university. During Hicks' tenure, the campus underwent a transformation as new facilities were built, expanded or acquired, including academic and research buildings, theatres and galleries, athletic facilities and student housing. In September 2002 the Arts and Administration Building was renamed the Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building. In 1970 Hicks was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. On 27 April 1972, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada, in which he served until his retirement in 1990.
Hicks was married to Pauline Banks in 1949 (d. 1963). In 1965 he married Gene Morrison (d. January 1988). In 1988 he married Rosalie Comeau. On the afternoon of 9 December 1990, Hicks and his wife Rosalie were returning to Halifax from the Annapolis Valley when their vehicle crossed the centre line and struck an oncoming car. Hicks and his wife were killed, along with two of the four passengers in the other vehicle.
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- 1916-1988
(Margaret) Gene Morison Hicks was born in 1916 in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. She attended Dalhousie University in the 1930s and became the negotiator for the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union in the 1950s. She married Henry Davies Hicks when they were both fifty years old, in 1966. She was a member of the Dalhousie Women's Club.
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- [19-] - 1997
Gary Hicks was a plant biology professor at Dalhousie University for twenty-seven years until his death in 1997. He was involved in running the honours program at Dalhousie University and supervising graduate-level research. Gary Hicks was a tissue culture specialist for research on fruit cloning. The Gary Hicks Memorial Award was established in 1997 and is awarded to a student studying plant science.
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- fl. 1869-1923
H.H. McCurdy and Co. was a general store in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In addition to groceries, hardware and other retail and wholesale goods, the store offered tailoring and dressmaking services. The founder of the company, H.H. McCurdy, was in partnership with H.K. Binel until 1891.
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Brad Hewey is a Christian music artist who has recorded in Nova Scotia. He is married and has three children. Hewey released Brighter Day, a full-length album of Christian music, in 2011.
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- 1938-2010
Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1938, Jacques Hétu is one of the most-performed Canadian composers. He studied composition at the Conservatoire in Montreal with Clermont Pépin (1956-1961), then at the École Normale de Musique in Paris with Henri Dutilleux and the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen (1961-1963). From 1963 until 1977, he taught composition and analysis at the Université Laval in Quebec, before becoming a professor of analysis at the Université du Québec à Montréal (1979-2000).
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- 1870-1935
Edouard Hesselberg was a pianist and composer. Born in Riga, Latvia on May 3, 1870, he studied at the Conservatory of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and with Anton Rubinstein. He moved to the United States in 1892 and was appointed a piano teacher and examiner at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1912. He also taught at various ladies' colleges in Ontario, the Hamilton Conservatory of Music, and the London Conservatory of Music. He returned to America in 1918 and died in Los Angeles on June 12, 1935.
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Robert Hersey was a Halifax based artist and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design during the late 1980s. Hersey was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes during the late 1980s.
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Kathleen Heron-Maxwell wrote music for several popular songs in the first half of the twentieth century in London, England, including "Keep on Hopin'," "Dear Old London," and "Smiles."
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Oren Hercz is a film producer with Journeyman film productions based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hercz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2008 because their video “Charles’ Farm” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Mary Eliza Herbert was born in 1829 to Catherine (Eagan) and Nicholas Michael Herbert in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Raised in a Methodist family, Mary and her half-sister Sarah were actively involved with local religious and temperance organizations. They were also early Maritime writers of poetry and prose whose works frequently concerned social and moral issues.
In 1851, Mary Herbert founded and edited a short-lived regional literary publication entitled The Mayflower or Ladies Acadian Newspaper. The Mayflower published works by local authors, including Mary, but ceased publication in 1852 after nine known issues. Mary Herbert’s poetry and prose also appeared in other local periodicals, including The Acadian Recorder and The Novascotian. Her literary accomplishments included a popular book of poetry entitled The Aeolian Harp; or, Miscellaneous Poems (1857), which also included works by her sister Sarah, Belinda Dalton; or, Scenes in the Life of a Halifax Belle (1859), Woman as She Should Be; or, Agnes Wiltshire (1861), Flowers by the Wayside (1865), The Young Men’s Choice (1869), and the unpublished novel Lucy Cameron.
Mary Herbert passed away in Halifax on July 15, 1872.
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Guy Henson was a prominent figure in Nova Scotia education for nearly forty years. Born in Paris, France, on 21 July 1910, Henson was the son of Herbert A. and Elizabeth B. (née Campbell) Henson of Great Britain. The family moved to Nova Scotia's Annapolis County when Henson was a year old, and he graduated from Bridgetown High School in 1926. He spent the next three years at Acadia University, graduating with a BA (magna cum laude). He then worked as a newspaper proofreader, reporter and junior news editor; an assistant commissioner for the Maritime Provinces Trade Commission to Ontario; and Secretary to Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. MacDonald before embarking on his distinguished career in education.
Henson was an active member of his community. He was the first president of the Province House Credit Union Limited; chairman of the Halifax Cooperative Council; president of the Halifax Cooperative Society Limited; first president of the Halifax Opera Association; president of the Halifax Branch of the United Nations Association, as well as a national vice-president; first president of the Halifax Music Festival Association; chairman of the Nova Scotia Committee for UNICEF; and president of the Nova Scotia Festival of the Arts. Henson received honours and distinctions from the Royal Canadian Legion, the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People; the Nova Scotia Federation of Home and School Associations; the Halifax and District Federal Local 273; Canadian Labour Congress; and the Nova Scotia chapter, Canadian Institute of Assessors.
In recognition of his widespread contributions to society, Henson received a Doctor of Civil Laws from Acadia University in 1974. He was nominated for a Vanier Award in 1976, and on 19 April 1978 he received the Order of Canada. Guy Henson died on 23 May 1978.
In 2018 Guy Henson was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/guy-henson.html
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Lola Henry (born Helena) worked as the personal secretary for four Dalhousie University presidents, including A.S. MacKenzie, Carleton Stanley, A.E. Kerr and Henry Hicks, as well as for the Board of Governors. Born in 1903, she worked for a Halifax doctor until 1921; in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, she volunteered in an emergency hospital set up in the YMCA on Barrington Street. She first came to work at Dalhousie University as a filing clerk in 1921; in 1968, she received an honorary doctorate, presented by Henry Hicks.
Henry, Carey, Baird and Company.
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Nelson Henricks is an installation and video artist based in Montreal. Henricks has exhibited works internationally. His education includes a BFA in Cinema from Concordia University (1994), and a Diploma in Visual Arts from the Alberta College of Art (1986). Henricks became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Planetarium” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Nelson Henricks is a Canadian artist and instructor who has taught art history and video production at Concordia University and McGill University. His education includes Diploma in Visual Arts from the Alberta College or Art (1986), a BFA in Cinema from Concornia University (1994), and is current PhD candidate at the Universitie Du Quebec. Henricks became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2008 because a video of their interview became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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John Edward Hennigar-Shuh was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 9 April 1944. Raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Hennigar-Shuh graduated from Mount Allison University in 1966 with a major in philosophy and a minor in English. After graduation he took courses in education and taught English at the Sackville Composite High School in New Brunswick. In 1970 he graduated cum laude with a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, completing his required fieldwork teaching in an Urban League Street Academy in Harlem. He later founded New Options, an educational and social service project in the North End of Halifax that served working class and disadvantaged young people who had not completed public school. Between 1976-1978, Hennigar-Shuh also taught in the Education Department at Dalhousie University. He held various positions at the Nova Scotia Museum, including Manager of Development and Partnerships at the Maritime Museum. He currently serves as president of the Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation, a charitable foundation that raises funds to support the work of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. He also coordinated successful capital campaigns for the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, and for a Learning Centre at Ross Farm Museum in New Ross, Nova Scotia.
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- 1873-1950
Dr. Annie Hennigar was born July 9, 1873 in Noel, Hants County, Nova Scotia. She started out as a teacher but wanted to become a doctor. She saved enough to attend Dalhousie Medical school, and graduated in 1906. She is considered the first female “country doctor” in the Maritimes. She practiced medicine for 44 years. She was also an accomplished painter and won an award in 1946 from the American Physicians Art Association for a painting called “Courage”. Annie Hennigar died August 10, 1950 at the age of 77. Her home in Chevrie, NS is a Hants County historic site. (known as Dr. Annie Hennigar-Sanford after her marriage).
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Jolene Henderson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because their sound recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1892 - 1954
George Hugh Henderson was a leading Canadian physicist during the first half of the twentieth century, best known for his work on radioactivity. He was born in St. Augustine, Florida on December 8, 1892, the son of John Alexander and Margaret Macdonald Henderson. After the death of his parents, Henderson was raised by his grandfather in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was educated at the Pictou Academy, Dalhousie University and Cambridge University, where he studied with Ernest Rutherford.
Henderson taught at the University of Saskatoon from 1922-1924 before moving back to Halifax to take up the position of professor of mathematical physics at King's College (Dalhousie), where he remained and worked for the remainder of his life. He was a fellow of the National Research Council of Canada, the Nova Scotia Research Foundation, and the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, of which he was a past president. During the First World War, Henderson was not eligible for overseas fighting due to his eyesight and became an engineer officer in the Army. He remained in Canada, where he was enlisted in a garrison until 1918. At this point, he was released from the army to undergo war research, supported by one of the first scholarships issued by the National Research Council of Canada. During the Second World War, Henderson contributed to mine-sweeping and acoustic torpedo research as a physicist for the Royal Canadian Navy, where he gathered a group of forty scientists in Halifax for research and establishing a liaison with the Director of Scientific Research (Admiralty) in England. In 1943, Henderson was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his outstanding contributions as the superintendent of the Naval Research Establishment at Halifax.
Henderson was married to Ruth Wallace Ross, with whom he had two daughters, Nancy and Margaret. He died in 1954 as the result of a heart attack.
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