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Victoria General Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1859-
The Vitcoria General Hospital were in the decision of the City of Halifax to build a hospital that was completed in 1859. Various problems delayed the delivery of health care and it wasn't until April of 1867 when the first patient was received in the restructured Provincial and City Hospital - a jointg body of the two levels of government. In 1887 the Province assumed total responsiblity for the Hospital which was also renamed, in the year of Royal Jubilee, as the Victoira General Hospital. Consolidation of most Halifax hospitals under one administration happened in 1994 and the Victoria General Hospital became a site under the Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre.

Vickery, Edgar Jenkins, 1862-1940

  • Person
  • 1862-1940
Edgar Jenkins Vickery was born in 1862 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to John and Mary Vickery. Orphaned young, at the age of fourteen he went to sea as a cabin boy. In 1887 he opened a book and stationary shop on Main Street in Yarmouth and, later, The Book Room on Barrington Street in Halifax. In Yarmouth, he also operated a circulating library, charging 2 cents per day or 10 cents per week. Vickery married Mary Katherine Dudman in 1888, with whom he had four children. Vickery died in 1939.

Vickery family

  • Family
Edgar Jenkins Vickery married Mary Katherine Dudman (daughter of William Dudman and Susan Martha Starr) in 1888. Together they had four children: John Edgar Vickery (1890), Herbert Bradford Vickery (1893), Mary Frances Vickery (1898), and Katherine Starr Vickery (1903). Mary Frances Vickery married John Edwin Goudey in 1921 and Katherine Starr Vickery married Arthur Kay.

Vey Duke, Emily

Emily Vey Duke is a Canadian artist who works in printed matter, installation, new media, curation, sound and video. Vey Duke’s education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College or Art and Design and a MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Vey Duke worked as the Artistic Director of the Khyber Gallery in Halifax, and currently teaches at Syracuse University in New York. Emily Vey Duke frequently, if not always, collaborates with longtime partner, Cooper Battersby. Vey Duke became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because her film with Cooper Battersby, "Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure", became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Verrall, Ann

  • Person
Ann Verrall is a Halifax-based artist who is currently a writer, director, producer and educator within Shortworks Productions, a film production company that she owns. Verrall received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Verrall’s work specializes in working with young adults for the creation of videos that explores the lives of youth. Her projects have been broadcasted on television channels, including CBC, and exhibited internationally. Verrall has also taught film at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Regina.

Vernon, Michael

  • Person
Michael Vernon became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Group Interview” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Verdi, Giuseppe

  • Person
  • 1813-1901
Giuseppe Verdi is a well-known Italian opera composer from the nineteenth century.

Verabioff, Mark

  • Person
Marx Verabioff is a Canadian artist and is based in Los Angeles, who is known for his artwork that uses word as image. He has exhibited artwork internationally Verabioff is a 1985 graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Ventham, Richard J.P.

  • Person
  • 1899 - 1971
Richard J.P. (John Patrick) Ventham was born in Hampshire, England, on 17 March 1899. He served in the Royal Navy until 1919. In 1936, he and his wife Lilian immigrated to the Hydrostone area of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ventham served as the secretary for the Nova Scotia Rifle Association and the Halifax representative council member of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association. He died 5 August 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Veniot, Harvey Alfred, Hon.

  • Person
  • 1915-2009
Harvey Alfred Veniot was a lawyer, judge, and politician. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1915 to Alexander R. Veniot and Gladys Maclean and was educated at Pictou Academy, Saint Francis Xavier University, Dalhousie Law School, and the University of Saskatchewan. He was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1940 and served as MLA for Pictou West from 1956 to 1974, including seven years as Speaker of the House. After his political defeat in 1974 he returned to practising law and in 1978 was appointed judge in the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia. He died in 2009.

Veldhoven, Gerard

  • Person
  • 1940-
Gerard Veldhoven is a longtime LGBTQ activist; he and Norman Carter were the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Atlantic Canada. Born in the Netherlands in 1940, he immigrated to Canada as a teenager and has largely lived in Halifax, Amherst and Pictou, Nova Scotia. For many years he wrote a weekly column on LGBTQ issues that appeared in regional newspapers. He has spearheaded Pride events and other LGBTQ awareness campaigns across Cumberland County and in 2011 was nominated to the Order of Nova Scotia. He has served as both president and vice president of the board of directors for the Pictou County Centre for Sexual Health (PCCSH), and was the 2016 recipient of Sexual Health Nova Scotia’s Sexcellence Award. His memoir, A Passion for Equality, My Personal Journey, was published in 2020.

Vehicle.

  • Corporate body

Vaughan, Rose

  • Person
Rose Vaughan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in an audio recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Varsity

  • Corporate body

Vardy, Leigh Ann

  • Person
Leigh Ann Vardy is a lighting designer born and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has worked as a designer for theatre and dance companies across Canada, including the Globe Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Segal Centre, Centaur Theatre, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and the Charlottetown Festival, among many others. She has won five Robert Merritt Awards for design and has been nominated for the Siminovitch Prize. She is an instructor and coach at the National Theatre School of Canada.

VanWart, George C.

  • Person
  • 1868-1938
George Clowes VanWart was a physician in Fredericton, New Brunswick, for 47 years. He was born in Lower Queensbury, New Brunswick, on 5 August 1868 and graduated from Fredericton Collegiate School before attending the University of New Brunswick for one year. He earned his MD in 1890 from the University of Pennsylvania, worked for one year in London and Dublin, and returned to Fredericton to set up a private practice. He was also on staff at Victoria Public Hospital from 1891-1938, where he became head of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Department. Dr. VanWart was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1913 and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1931. He was elected three times as president of the Council of Physicians and Surgeons in New Brunswick. He was also a member of the Fredericton Board of School Trustees from 1899 and was elected chairman in 1913, a position he held until a week prior to his death. He died on 1 October 1938.

VanWart, Arthur F.

  • Person
  • 1896-1973
Arthur F. VanWart was a New Brunswick surgeon and the son of Dr. G.C. VanWart. He was born in 1896 in Fredericton and received his BA from the University of New Brunswick in 1917 and an MA in 1920. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto and graduated with his MD in 1921. Following a fellowship in surgery in Chicago, he returned to Fredericton in 1923 to take up a position at Victoria Public Hospital, eventually becoming Chief of Surgery. He was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1938-1945, president of both the New Brunswick Medical Society and the Canadian Medical Association, and served on the Senate of the University of New Brunswick. In 1949 he received an Honorary LLD from the University of New Brunswick. Dr. A.F. VanWart died in March 1973.

van Berkel, Lis

  • Person
Lis van Berkel became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “How Lesbians Kiss” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Upstream Music Association

  • Corporate body
  • 1990 -
The UpStream Music Association (UMA) is a new music collective of performers and composers from the Halifax, Nova Scotia area. The association was inspired by a series of informal improvisation sessions in the spring of 1989 and became a non-profit charitable organization after its incorporation on April 4, 1990, shortly before the first performance of the Upstream Ensemble. The founding members of UMA were Steve Tittle, Bob Bauer, Tom Roach, Jeff Reilly, Steven Naylor, Sandy Moore, Paul Cram, and Don Palmer. The UMA is still an active arts organization in Halifax.

Up Start Theatre Company.

  • Corporate body

Upstart Theatre originated with Tom Regan, who wanted to establish a Halifax theatre dedicated to producing plays previously unseen in the Halifax area. The first step to achieving his goal was the founding of Dark Night, a play-reading group, with Martin Surrette, L.H. Paris, and Sharon Kline. In 1988 Regan, Paris, and Kline were joined by Iris Quinn, Lynn Ostergaard, Pamela Robinson, Moira Dann, David Renton and Deborah Allen as the founding members of Upstart Theatre. Sten Eirik and Jennifer Hogan joined the group shortly thereafter. Upstart Theatre was self-supporting with assistance from provincial government grants and local donations, and was run primarily by volunteers.

In its first season, Upstart offered Lynn Ostergaard’s Moving Day and George Boyd’s Gideon’s Blues. The company was praised for tackling thought-provoking material. Although the company was artistically acclaimed, financial problems plagued it from the start. This, combined with the loss of venue in 1991, caused the theatre to cancel its 1991/1992 season. Although it was able to produce Betty Lambert’s Under the Skin in the fall of 1992, it was officially dissolved in September 1993.

Unsworth, Nancy

  • Person
  • [196?] -
Nancy Unsworth is a painter who lives in Amsterdam and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.)

University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.)

  • Corporate body
  • 1789 -

The University of King’s College, founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789, was the first university to be established in English Canada. The college was the first in Canada to receive a charter in 1802 and is the oldest English-speaking Commonwealth university outside the United Kingdom.

King’s remained in Windsor until 1920 when a fire ravaged the campus, burning its main building to the ground and raising the question of how or if the college was to survive. The college accepted the terms of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to rebuild in Halifax, entering into association with Dalhousie University. Under this agreement, King’s agreed to pay the salaries of a number of Dalhousie professors, who in turn would help in the management and academic life of King’s College. Students at King’s would also study at Dalhousie and have access to all of the amenities of the larger school, and the academic programs at King’s (except for Divinity) would fold into the College of Arts and Sciences at Dalhousie. Today, students continue to take courses offered at both King’s and Dalhousie and can graduate with a joint degree that carries the stamp of each university.

During the 1970s the King’s Faculty of Divinity became part of the Atlantic School of Theology (AST), the college introduced its Foundation Year Program and established the only degree-granting school of journalism in Atlantic Canada. This was the beginning of a long period of academic innovation and a shift of the college toward a national profile.

Universal Edition

  • Corporate body
  • 1901-
Universal Edition (UE) is a publishing company, founded on June 1, 1901 in Vienna to compete with German publishing firms and retailers in Leipzig, Germany. After a period of disruption during the annexation of Austria by the Nazi Party, UE regained its prominence in 1952 with the restoration of its original shareholders. The firm continues to operate today.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 159.

  • Corporate body
The United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) was chartered in 1901 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. It was a charter member of the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1935, and in 1937 also was one of the founding unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Once in the CIO in 1937, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee and then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a small dissident faction of TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the AFL under their old, UTWA, name. In 1996, UTWA merged with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 152.

  • Corporate body
The United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) was chartered in 1901 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. It was a charter member of the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1935, and in 1937 was one the founding unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Once in the CIO in 1937, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee and then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a small dissident faction of TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the AFL under their old, UTWA name. In 1946 mill employees from Cosmos Cotton mill joined United Textile Workers of America as Local 152. In 1996, UTWA merged with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

United Fishworkers and Allied Workers' Union

  • Corporate body
  • 1945-
United Fishworkers and Allied Workers' Union had its beginnings when a number of fishermen's organizations joined together to form the United Fishermen's Federal Union (UFFU). In 1945 the UFFU joined with the Fish Cannery, Reduction Plant and Allied Workers' Union and the first Convention of the new United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union was held.
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