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(William) Edward Broome was a Canadian choral conductor, organist, composer, and educator. Born in Manchester on January 3, 1868, Broome spent most of his childhood in Wales where he studied piano and organ with Roland Rogers and conducting with Jules Riviere. He received his piano diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England 1884 and was named a Fellow of the Guild of Organists in 1889.

He moved to Canada in 1893, where he was the organist-choirmaster at the First Presbyterian Church in Brockville, Ontario (1893-1895); the Douglas Methodist Church in Montreal, Quebec (1895-1906); the Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, Ontario (1906-1925); and the Knox United Church in Calgary, Alberta (1926-1927). He received his Bachelor of Music from Trinity College in 1901 and his Doctorate of Music from the University of Toronto in 1908. In 1907, he began teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and from 1910 to 1925 he directed the Toronto Oratorio Society. He died in Toronto, Ontario on April 28, 1932.

Murray G. Brown is a research economist and retired professor of health economics at Dalhousie University.

He was born 10 November 1936. He received his BA Hon. in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1961and his MA from Queen's University the following year. His MA in economics was granted by the University of Chicago in 1968, followed in 1974 by a PhD, with his dissertation, "Experience and Earnings of Male Physicians in the United States."

From 1964-1973 Dr. Brown taught in the Department of Economics at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. In 1973 he joined Dalhousie University's Department of Preventative Medicine, now the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, and held both joint and cross appointments in the Department of Economics and the School of Health Service Administration. From 1992 until his retirement he taught primarily within the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Brown's research activities have spanned multiple departments, faculties and special research units, institutes and programs within Dalhousie. He has also been involved in research, committee work and task-force work for the Nova Scotia Department of Health and other public sector bodies.

Velma Purdy Brown was born in 1915 in Truro, the eldest daughter of Gordon Dencil and Elsie Mae (Talbot) Purdy. After finishing school she worked at Truro Printing and Publishing and Margolian's Department Store. In 1940 she married Frederick Cameron Brown and in 1964 moved to Dartmouth and Halifax.

Brown was active and involved in the arts, her church, and charitable activities. A prolific writer of poetry and prose for her own pleasure, she also contributed to various local church publications. She was involved in producing newsletters and other materials, particularly relating to the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA). Her own poetry flourished from 1971-1979 when she had her work published in many UAPA and other publications. Brown died in 2009.

Charles Tory Bruce was a highly regarded Canadian journalist, poet and writer born in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, on 11 May 1906. His parents, William Henry and Sarah Tory Bruce, both traced their ancestry to late-18th-century settlers.

Bruce graduated in 1927 from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, where he served as editor of the campus newspaper, Argosy. After graduation he privately published his first book of poetry, Wild Apples, and was hired as a journalist for the Halifax Chronicle. Within a year he moved to the Canadian Press news bureau and in 1929 married Agnes King, with whom he had four children; his son, Harry Bruce, also became a successful writer.

Shortly after his second book of poetry was published, Tomorrow’s Tide (1932), Bruce relocated to Toronto with the Canadian Press, where he worked as an editor, war correspondent and, ultimately, as general superintendent, until his retirement in 1963. His wartime experiences are believed to have deeply influenced his personal life and his writing. His poetry publications include Personal Note (1941), Grey Ship Moving (1945) and The Flowing Summer (1947). His poetry also appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Saturday Night, Canadian Poetry and The Saturday Evening Post.

Bruce’s The Mulgrave Road received the 1951 Governor General’s award for English-language poetry or drama, and in 1952 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, Mount Allison University. He wrote one novel, The Channel Shore (1954), followed by a collection of linked short stories, The Township of Time (1959), both of which were republished in the 1980s.

Bruce’s final writing project was a history of the Southam family and their business empire, News and the Southams (1968). He died in 1971 in Toronto.

William Harry Bruce is a Canadian writer. He was born in Toronto on 8 July 1934, the son of novelist and poet Charles Tory Bruce and Agnes (King) Bruce. In 1955 he graduated from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, with a BA in English Literature. The following year he received a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics and Politics.

From 1955-1959 Bruce was on staff at The Ottawa Journal as a parliamentary correspondent. He was a reporter for The Globe and Mail from 1959-1961, and from 1961-1964 an assistant editor at Maclean’s Magazine. He served one year as managing editor of Saturday Night before helping to start The Canadian Magazine, where he stayed until 1966. He worked for several years as a contributing columnist to publications including The Star Weekly, The Toronto Daily Star and Maclean’s, until in 1971 he was appointed executive editor for Nova Scotia Power Company. During 1972 he hosted CBC Radio’s Gazette. From 1973-1979, Bruce worked primarily as a freelance writer.

Bruce won an ACTRA Nellie Award for best radio drama for 1977. In 1978 his book Lifeline was the winner of the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for non-fiction. He received a National Magazine Award in 1981 and, in 1983 and 1984, he won the top writing prize at the Atlantic Journalism Awards. He has received honourary degrees from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Harry Bruce married Penny Meadows in 1955, with whom he has three children.

John Bubar—known to his students as "Johnny Plant"—was the first head of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Plant Science Department. Born on 13 September 1929 in Hartland, New Brunswick, he was the first of three sons of Charles Humphrey Bubar and Ida Margaret Pratt. He grew up on farms near Hartland alongside his Pratt uncles, who were successful agriculturalists.

He graduated from Hartland High School in 1946 and spent one year in Normal College and another year teaching in a one-room school. He left teaching to attend Nova Scotia Agricultural College and McGill University's Macdonald College, earning a BSc in Agriculture in 1952. Two years later he completed his MSc at Penn State University, then returned to Macdonald College, where he earned his PhD. His doctoral research led to the development of the "Leo" Birdsfoot Trefoil, the first named cultivar of the forage crop species.

Bubar taught at Macdonald College for a decade before returning again to NSAC in 1967, where he taught for twenty years and carried out agronomy field trials both on and off campus. In 2010 a scholarship for top students from New Brunswick was established in his name.

John Bubar died on 1 April 2014 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

George A. Burbidge was the first Dean of the Maritime College of Pharmacy and is more widely referred to as the "Founder of Canadian Pharmacy." Born in Newfoundland in 1871, at a young age he moved with his family to Halifax, where he was educated. He planned to study medicine, but when his father died he became a pharmacy apprentice. He was registered with the Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society in 1899 and operated two drug stores in Halifax until 1921, when he turned his energies to the Maritime College of Pharmacy, becoming its first dean in 1925.

Burbidge was associated with numerous pharmaceutical associations and was instrumental in the founding of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association in 1907. The Association's goals were to guard against the Dominion's negative impact on the role of pharmacy in Canada; to promote uniform standards; and to hold annual conventions for pharmacists to exchange knowledge. Burbidge was the only full-time faculty member of the College of Pharmacy from 1921 until his death in 1943. During his tenure the one-year diploma program was expanded to a four-year BSc in Pharmacy.

George Burden is a retired physician from Bedford, Nova Scotia, an avid traveller and collector of rare coins and maps. A graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie Medical School, he donated his collection of ancient Greek coins to King's College and his collection of ancient Roman coins to the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University. In his alternate career as a freelance writer, he has written about travel and medical history, as well as publishing poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in The Readers Digest, The Halifax Sunday Herald, The Medical Post, Funny Times, The Writer and Just For Canadian Doctors.

Dr. Burden is a past recipient of the Governor General’s Medal. He has served with the venerable Explorers Club as regional chairman for the Quebec/Atlantic provinces and as Director at Large. He became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2012. In 2014 he succeeded his father as the 31st Baron of Seabegs (Seybeggis-traditional), Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is currently an associate member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs in Edinburgh as well as the Canadian Commissioner for the Scottish Clan Lamont.

Lawrence Johnstone Burpee (1873–1946) was an historian, civil servant, librarian and writer. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Lewis Johnstone Burpee and Alice de Mill, sister of James De Mille. In 1899 he married Maud Hanington, with whom he had five children, Lawrence, Edward, Lewis, Ruth and Margaret.

Burpee was educated at home and at public and private schools. In 1890 he entered the Canadian civil service and served as private secretary to three successive ministers of justice. From 1905-1912 he was librarian of the Carnegie public library in Ottawa. From 1912 until his death, he was Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission.

Burpee published extensively in the areas of Canadian bibliography, geography and history. He died in Oxford, England, in 1946.

Alan Cameron was an authority in Canadian mining engineering and metallurgy and was the second president of Nova Scotia Technical College (1947-1957). Born in 1890 in London, ON, Cameron graduated from McGill University with a BA in mining engineering in 1913 and an MSc in 1914. His first position was at the University of Alberta, where he helped to develop its Department of Mining Engineering. During World War One, Cameron worked with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Northwest Territories, before serving in France and Belgium as a lieutenant of engineers with the Imperial Munitions Board.

After the war, Cameron taught at the Khaki University in England before rejoining the University of Alberta. He earned his ScD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925 and was engaged in professional consulting, particularly in oil and mineral exploration in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Following his promotion to full professor, he was appointed secretary of the Research Council of Alberta. His professional pursuits in the Canadian north from 1925-1937 included the search for radium in the Great Bear District and the exploration of the Headless Valley of the South Nahanni River district. In 1937 he left Alberta for an appointment as deputy minister in the Nova Scotia Department of Mines, where he served until 1947, when he became president of The Nova Scotia Technical College.

Alan Cameron was also president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Mining Society and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He was the Nova Scotia representative on the Dominion Council of Professional Engineers, and he prepared and presented the Nova Scotia brief to the Royal Commission on Coal in 1944. He retired from his position as president of The Nova Scotia Technical College in 1957 and he died 7 March 1977 in Wolfville, NS.