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Authority RecordHarris, William Henry, 1882-1965
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William Henry Harris was born in 1882, the eldest son of Joseph Simpson Harris and Emma Ives. He was educated at Pictou Academy. Like his father, he was appointed chief returning officer for Pictou, as well as High Sheriff for the county. He also managed an insurance and financial business. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the Rotary Club and was secretary of the Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Board. He also served on the boards of the Haliburton cemetery and the Pictou Academy Foundation. He passed away in 1965.
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- 1805-1883
William Henry Harris was born in 1805, son of John Harris. He was married to Anne Arnison, with whom he had at least four children: Joseph Simpson, George Simpson, Thomas Arnison and Margaret. In 1856 he was appointed coroner of Pictou County. In 1857, on his father's retirement, he became High Sheriff of the county, and in 1874 he was appointed by the province as the presiding officer for the municipal elections of the new Town of Pictou. Harris was also the first publisher of The Pictou News. He died in 1883.
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- 1911-[198?]
R. Gordon Harris was a Commander in the Royal Canadian Navy. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1931 and became Life Secretary for the class. Harris served as Inspector of Supply and Fleet Accounting in the Royal Canadian Navy and served in Victoria, British Columbia. Harris retired from the Navy and relocated to Alberta, where he worked as Comptroller and Treasurer of Medical Services (Alta.), Inc.
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- 1852-1934
Joseph Simpson Harris was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1852 to William Henry Harris and Anne Arnison. He farmed in Pictou County and was later appointed High Sheriff, as were his father and grandfather before him. In 1881 he married Emma Ives, with whom he had five children: William Henry, George, Daniel, Margaret, and Christian. Harris died a widower in 1934.
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- c. 1775-1825
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- 1850-1920
Mrs. James Harris was born on 26 December 1850 in London, England, as Eliza Mary Theakston, daughter of Major Taylor Theakston and Sophia Wood. In 1876 she married James H. Harris, a gardener and later a florist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who died on 28 February 1902 following an accident. He was an active member of Charles Street Church, where he served as a trustee, treasurer, usher and assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. Eliza Harris died on 11 December 1921.
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Emily Bevan Harrington was born in Halifax in 1869, the daughter of W.H. Harrington and Charlotte Geddie. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 1892, attended Bryn Mawr for one year, and then obtained her MA at Dalhousie by examination in Anglo-Saxon. She died in 1906 after a long illness.
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- 1840-1906
Charlotte Geddie Harrington (1840-1906) was a Presbyterian church worker and editor. She was born in 1840 in Prince Edward Island. Her parents were John Geddie and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald. She married William Harris Harrington on Sept. 21 1865, and they had two daughters and a son. She died in Halifax on March 7 ,1906.
Charlotte Geddie Harrington's early life involved accompanying her parents to the New Hebrides (Aneityum) where the family moved to pursue missionary work. She was sent to England for education for eight years, after which she returned to the New Hebrides and assisted her parents' missionary work in 1856. She returned to Halifax in 1859, where she settled to marry and raise a family.
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Noel Harding is a Canadian artist and urban innovator known for his monumental scale public art projects and environmental sculptures. As an artist, Noel Harding produced video art in the 1970s, video projection and installation art in the 1980s, and kinetic installations and sculpture as theatre in the 1990s. He presented some of his early installation work at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For the last 20 years, Harding has focused on public art that addresses landscape and environment.
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The Harding family resided in Lockeport, Nova Scotia. William E. Harding was a merchant.
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Hard Times became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1992 because their audio recording “Underground Connection” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Howard Harawitz is an electronic music artist. Harawitz began using synthesizers in the 1970s in San Francisco theatre groups. Harawtiz started the Creativity Lab at the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. Harawtiz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Cheryl Harawitz became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording “Holy Mackerel: It’s the CFAT Barbecue” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1919-
Hänssler-Verlag is a German music publishing company, founded in 1919 as Musikverlag Hänssler by Friedrich Hänssler. Originally intended to publish church music, the firm now also publishes contemporary and jazz music.
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- ca. 1827-1910
Oscar Hanson of Little Lepreau, New Brunswick, was a descendant of John Hanson—a pre-Loyalist settler on Minister's Island—and the great-grandson of Quaker Loyalist Joshua Knight of Beaver Harbour and Pennfield. Oscar's father, Robert Varden Hanson (1795-1884), first settled at Little Lepreau in 1836, where he built a sawmill that he later sold to sons Oscar and Gideon.
Oscar has many concurrent careers and activities: landowner; sawmill owner and operator; canning factory owner; ship's merchant and charterer, shipowner, storekeeper; postmaster of Little Lepreau (until 1898); justice of the peace; active organizer for the Liberal Party; member of at least four fraternal organizations; holder of various offices in the parish of Lepreau; and Baptist Sunday school superintendent. He and his brother Gideon owned lands leased to New Brunswick Anthracite Coal Company
Oscar and his wife Helen (Lomax) had seven children who for many years maintained summer residences at Little Lepreau.
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Roy Hansen-Robitschek is a Canadian set, costume, and light designer. He began his career in 1979 and has worked as a designer and teacher at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland since 1992.
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Daniel Hansen became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Outsomnia” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1902-2008
Errol E.I. Hancock established the provincial veterinary laboratory at Nova Scotia Agricultural College and served as Nova Scotia's first provincial animal pathologist. Born in 1902 in Port Hope, Ontario, he graduated from Ontario Veterinary College in 1924 and worked in general practice in Ontario for two years and another year in Montreal as a veterinary inspector. He moved to Nova Scotia in 1927 to work on tuberculosis testing of cattle and other disease eradication measures. He was appointed provincial animal pathologist after joining the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture in 1937, the same year that he established the provincial veterinary laboratory. He was a founding member and president of the Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association, a founding member of the Canadian Veterinary Association, and a member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. In September 1972, NSAC's Hancock Veterinary Laboratory building was completed and named in recognition of his work. Hancock retired in 1963 and died on 26 July 2008.
Hammond, Charlotte Wilson, 1941-
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Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is an artist based on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Wilson-Hammond has been heavily involved in the local Nova Scotian artist community. She has been advocating for the Arts on provincial and national levels for decades, and was a founding member of the Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Eyelevel Gallery. In 2002 Wilson-Hammond had a retrospective exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled "Landscape with Thighs".
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Sylvia D. Hamilton was born in Beechville, NS. She grew up in Nova Scotia and attended a segregated school as well as a non-segregated school. She was the first person from Beechville to graduate high school. She attended Acadia University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972. Later, she earned a Master’s degree at Dalhousie (2000). Sylvia is an accomplished filmmaker, including NFB films like “Black Mother Black Daughter” and “Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia”. Her work focuses on the experience of African Nova Scotians/African Canadians and women. She has earned a Gemini award, the Portia White Prize, CBC Television Pioneer Award, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Sylvia Hamilton currently teaches in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College (Dal) and is the current Rogers Chair in Communications. She holds three honourary degrees.
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Shelley Hamilton is a singer, actor, host and writer who has won multiple awards. Hamilton became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recording “Blacken Blink” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1924-2017
Peter Hamilton was Registrar of Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1974-1984. Born 23 July 1924 in Truro, Nova Scotia, he graduated from NSAC's diploma program in 1944. He earned his BSc in Animal Science in 1947 from Macdonald College at the University of Guelph, and in 1952 graduated from University of Maine with an MSc. He started his professional life as an agricultural representative in Hants County and in poultry extension in Eastern Nova Scotia. He also hosted CBC Radio's Country Calendar (later Country Canada) for four years before taking up a professorial appointment at Macdonald College. He returned to Nova Scotia to teach chemistry and animal science at NSAC and in 1974 was appointed College Registrar. Hamilton was inducted into the Dalhousie Heritage Society and recognized at the Faculty of Agriculture Scholarship Banquet for his legacy gift, which established the PY Hamilton Scholarships. He died on 29 January 2017.
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Herbert Noel Hamilton, from Saint John, New Brunswick, was a Dalhousie alumnus (BA, 1949; MA, 1950) and the university's star badminton player during his years at the university. He was also director of the Dalhousie chorus (1948-49) and played violin in the university's concert orchestra (1946-49). Born in 1925, at the age of eighty he earned a PhD from University of Toronto.
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Born in Russia, Boris Hambourg moved to England with his family in 1891 where he studied cello with Herbert Walenn. In 1898, he entered the Hoch Konservatorium in Frankfurt, Germany to study with Hugo Becker and Ivan Knorr. Following his graduation in 1903, he toured widely as a soloist and a member of the Hambourg Trio (with his brothers, Mark and Jan). He moved to Canada with his family in 1910 and established the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. After the death of his father, Mark Hambourg, in 1915, Boris became the director of the conservatory.
Boris Hambourg married the pianist Maria ('Borina') Bauchope in 1923. During this year, he also founded the Hart House String Quartet, with whom he toured regularly from 1923 to 1946. He also founded the Toronto Music Lovers' Club and was an active member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. He died in Toronto on November 24, 1954.
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John Halliburton was born and raised in Scotland in a clerical family. He served on a British frigate during the Seven Years’ War and later started a medical practice in Newport, Rhode Island. He married Susannah Brenton, daughter of Jahleel Brenton. The family settled in Halifax in 1782, where Halliburton's brother-in-law, James Brenton, was an assistant judge on the Supreme Court. He resumed private medical practice and became head of the Royal Navy’s medical department.
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