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Government of Canada. Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

  • Corporate body
  • 1987-
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada. The agency was founded in 1987 and Gerald Merrithew was the first Minister responsible for the agency. Rob Moore, P.C., M.P. is the current Minister responsible for the agency.

Gounod, Charles-Francois

  • Person
  • 1818-1893
Charles-Francois Gounod was a French composer predominantly known for his operas (e.g., "Faust"). He spent most of his working life in Paris, although he also lived for some time in London and Italy.

Gould, Alfred, Captain, 1841-1896

  • Person
Alfred Gould was a sea captain from Great Village, Nova Scotia. He was born in Noel, Hants County in 1841 to Matthew Gould and Ann O'Brien. His brother, Stewart Gould (1845-1915), was also a sea captain. In 1865 Alfred married Melinda McLellan. He passed away on May 30, 1896.

Goto, Ami

  • Person
Ami Goto became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2007 because their film, “Brain Frame” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Gosse, Clarence Lloyd

  • Person
  • 1912-1996
Clarence Gosse was a 1939 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School, class president and a founder of the Dalhousie Medical Journal. Born in Newfoundland in 1912, by 1922 he was living in Nova Scotia. After a year of post-graduate training in urology in Cleveland, he served overseas with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was a member of one of the first surgical teams on D-Day. He served overseas for three years before being appointed a professor of urology at Dalhousie and chair of the Department of Urology at the Victoria General and Camp Hill hospitals. Dr. Gosse was active in his professional associations and the general community; he was appointed Nova Scotia's Lieutenant Governor in 1973, a post he held for five years. He died on 21 December 1996.

Gospel Heirs Quartet

  • Corporate body
Gospel Heirs was a gospel quartet. The quartet recorded an album at Solar Audio Recording Studio in February 1986.

Goree, Eli

  • Person
Eli Goree is a Canadian actor. Goree was a part of the Canadian production of “Sesame Street”, which was his television debut at the age of six. Goree hosted “The Big Black Rap Show” on CKDU in Halifax, and was the host of a season of CBC’s “Street Cents”. Goree has also been a Gemini and Young Art Award nominee. Goree became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because their video recording “The Chosen One” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Gordon, Terrence W.

  • Person
  • 1942-
Author and educator W. Terrence Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 14 October 1942. He studied French, Italian and linguistics at University of Toronto, where he received a BA (1966), MA (1967), and PhD (1972). Gordon began his teaching career at the University of Alberta (1970-1972) before joining Dalhousie as an assistant professor of French in 1972, becoming a full professor in 1987 and being appointed Alexander McLeod Chair in Modern Languages in 1999. He retired in 2002 as a professor emeritus. He was a founding member of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association and helped to launch Italian studies at Dalhousie in 1998. He has written or edited 26 books and over 150 articles, reviews and other papers. Gordon is married to Therese-Celeste Smith-Gordon and has two sons, Perry and Paul-Michael.

Goldmark, Rubin

  • Person
  • 1872-1936
Rubin Goldmark was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Although his works were frequently performed during his lifetime, he is better known today as the teacher of Aaron Copland and George Gershwin. Born in New York City, he completed his undergraduate degree at City College in New York before moving to Austria to attend the Vienna Conservatory. He then returned to the United States whre he taught at the National Conservatory. At this time, he also studied piano with Antonin Dvorak and piano with Rafael Joseffy. Apart from a brief stay in Colorado Springs, when he was the director of the Colorado Conservatory of Music (1895-1901), he spent the rest of his life in New York.

Godfrey, John F.

  • Person

Dr. John Ferguson Godfrey was born December 19, 1942 in Toronto to Senator John Morrow Godfrey and Mary Burwell. Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960 and went on to attend Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland in 1961. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College (University of Toronto) in 1965, a Master of Philosophy degree from Balliol College (Oxford) in 1967, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from St. Antony’s College (Oxford) in 1975.

In 1970, Godfrey became a history professor at Dalhousie University. During this time, he worked with Dr. David Crook on developing a method of teaching History 100 to non-history majors, using lectures, videos, rap sessions and happenings, and dividing historical events from 1870-1970 into ten thematic decades.

Dr. Godfrey was Don of Chapel Bay at the University of King’s College from 1971-1976 and went on to serve as President and Vice-Chancellor of King’s College from 1977-1987. In 1988, he became the editor of Financial Post, a position he held until 1991. Godfrey also served as Chairman of the Art Gallery of Dalhousie and was a member of the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, the Halifax Board of Trade, and the National Board of C.U.S.O. He was active in many other associations.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Godfrey ran unsuccessfully as a provincial Liberal candidate for Halifax-Citadel. He ran and won in Toronto's Don Valley riding in 1993 and served as Parliamentary Secretary under Jean Chrétien from 1996-2004. In 2004, Godfrey was appointed Minister of State for Infrastructure and Communities by Paul Martin, a portfolio he held until 2006. That year, Godfrey announced he was running for the Liberal leadership, but he withdrew due to health problems and announced his support for Bob Rae. In 2008, Godfrey resigned his seat.

Glube, Howard C.

  • Person
  • 1903 - 1998
Howard C. Glube was a Dalhousie alumnus and later president of the Dalhousie Club of New York in the 1950s. He was born 1 September 1903 in Halifax to Harry and Sarah Glube, who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Poland. He graduated from Dalhousie with a BA in 1923 and an LLB in 1925 before moving to Long Island City, New York, where he died in 1998.

Glube, Constance R.

  • Person
  • 1931-2016
Constance Rachelle Glube was born in Ottawa, Ontario on November 23, 1931. She attended McGill University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952. She was married to her husband Richard Glube, from Halifax, the same year (they had four children). She then went to Dalhousie Law School where she was one of two women in her law class, and graduated in 1955. After being admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1956, Constance struggled to find work as a lawyer, because many firms did not want to hire women. She eventually joined the law firm of Kitz, Matheson and later became a partner in the firm of Fitzgerald and Glube. Glube became a solicitor with the legal department of the City of Halifax in 1969, and in 1974 she was appointed Halifax’s city manager. Glube was the first woman to oversee the operations of a Canadian city. In 1977 she became the first woman on the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. In 1982 she was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, making her the first female Chief Justice in Canada. In 1998 she was appointed Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. Constance Glube retired on December 31, 2004. In 2006 she was given the Order of Canada for her “part in serving the community as a legal trailblazer, including becoming the first female chief justice in Canada.” In 2009, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association established the Contance R. Glube CBA Spirit Award to recognize achievement in law by Nova Scotian women lawyers. Constance Glube holds honourary degrees from Dalhousie University (1983), Mount Saint Vincent University, and Saint Mary’s University. Constance Glube died on February 15, 2016 in Halifax, NS.

Glossop-Harris, Florence

  • Person
  • 1884-1931
Florence Glossop-Harris, daughter of Augustus Harris and Florence Edgcumbe, had a long career as an actress and director of Shakespeare, managing her own theatre company, The Florence Glossop-Harris Company, which performed predominantly in London, England, and toured the Caribbean and Canada. She was married to the English Shakespearean actor Frank Cellier (1884-1948).

Glenister, Ernest Ireson

  • Person
  • 1901-1987
Ernest Ireson Glenister was born in Halifax in 1901. He graduated with a BA from Saint Mary's College in 1920 followed by an MD from Dalhousie Medical School in 1925. He entered a general practice with Dr. Peter Hebb in Dartmouth before establishing his own general practice in 1920, where he remained until 1943, when he moved to Toronto to pursue post-graduate studies. He studied ophthalmology and received his FRCS in 1945. Returning to Halifax, Dr. Glenister set up a specialist practice, retiring in 1974. He also worked at the Glaucoma Clinic in the Victoria General Hospital from 1962-1974. He was an active member in many professional associations, and was the first secretary of the Nova Scotia Society of Ophthalmologists. He died on 27 November 1987.

Giroux, Aube

  • Person
Aube Giroux is a Canadian documentary film-maker whose films often feature a food production subject matter. Giroux’s education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, where she focused in Media Arts. Giroux became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1999 because her video, “Beyond Pyramids” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Girard, Philip

  • Person
  • 1955-

Philip Girard is a writer, author and research professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. He was born 18 May 1955 in Chatham, Ontario, and grew up on a farm in nearby Merlin.

Girard earned a BA from Brock University, Ontario (1976), and an LLB from McGill University, Montreal (1979), before clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice W.Z. Estey (1979-1980). Following his clerkship he taught at the University of Western Ontario (1980-1983) and in 1983 began a Masters degree in legal history and jurisprudence at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1986. In 1984 he began teaching at Dalhousie Law School and has been called “one of Dalhousie’s most scholarly professors,” introducing a course in Canadian legal history. He has been a visiting professor at the Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan (1982), Osgoode Hall Law School (1993-1994),and the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi (1997). He has served as acting Dean of the Faculty of Law (1991-1993), president of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (2003-2004), Associate Editor of the Osgoode Society for Legal History, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (Law) (2002-2006).

Girard’s research interests include property law, sexual orientation and the law, and legal history of the Maritime provinces. His work has been published in both law and history journals and anthologies, and his Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, won the 2006 Chalmers Award. Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax (2011).

Philip Girard married Dr. Sheila Zurbrigg in 1984, with whom he has two children: Daniel (born 1985) and Gabriel (born 1988).

Gilroy, Joan

  • Person

Joan Gilroy is an activist, feminist and social worker whose career has straddled the community and the academy.

Born and raised in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, the second of five children, Joan Gilroy's early education took place in one- and two-room schoolhouses until she moved to Truro to complete high school. She received her BA from Dalhousie University in 1956, followed by an MSW in 1958 from the Maritime School of Social Work, which was then associated with the University of King's College. She returned to the school as a field instructor and director of admissions between periods of employment as a social worker in Nova Scotia and Montreal.

In 1969 she joined the faculty of the Maritime School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, and in 1990 was the first woman to be appointed director of the school, a position she held until her retirement in 1998. During her tenure she took two study leaves, earning an MA from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Toronto in 1974, and pursuing a PhD between 1980-1983 in the Department of Sociology in Education at OISE.

Gilroy’s teaching, research, professional activities and community work has focused on children, women, and feminist social work practice. She was a founding member for the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers, a founding member and chair of the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Women’s Caucus, and chair of the Women’s Caucus of the International Association of Schools of Social Work.

Her contributions to social justice have been recognized by both her peers and the wider community: among other honours she has received YMCA’s Women’s Recognition (1993); the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers’ Freda Vickery Award (1997); Certificate of Commendation from Canada’s Governor General (1997); Dalhousie University’s A. Gordon Archibald Award (2002); and the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service Award (2005).

Gilpin, Edwin, 1821-1906

  • Person
Edwin Gilpin was born in 1921 in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, the son of The Reverend Edward Gilpin and Eliza Wiswall. He served in various educational and clerical capacities. He was principal of the Halifax Grammar School, Archdeacon and subsequently Dean of Nova Scotia. He also served as Chancellor of King’s College, Windsor, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Nova Scotia. He died in 1906.

Gillis, Ivan Maxwell

  • Person
  • 1918-1934
Ivan Maxwell Gillis (1918-1934) was born in Prince Edward Island and moved to Halifax with his parents in 1925. Blind from birth, Gillis entered school at Halifax’s School for the Blind and graduated in 1934. From there he entered Dalhousie University and in specific classes designed to accommodate him he specialized in English, German, philosophy and history. He began his musical career at age 7 while at the School for the Blind, eventually taking up the organ and continuing his musical studies after he graduated from Dalhousie University in 1942. He did graduate studies at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. After he graduated he gave many recitals both at home and across Canada, often playing his own award winning compositions. His life was cut short in 1946 when he died at age 27.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck)

  • Person
  • 1836-1911
W.S. Gilbert was an English dramatist and librettist, best known for the comic operas that he wrote in collaboration with the composer, American Sullivan.

Gibson, John, fl. 1748- 1773

  • Person
  • fl. 1748-1773
John Gibson was a geographer and engraver based in London, England. He was apprentice to John Blunbell of the Stationers Company, and then to John Pine. Gibson proved a talented geographer and engraver who produced numerous maps, especially for books and magazines. He worked in collaboration with other map sellers such as Emmanuel Bowen and John Roque. His best-known work was the pocket atlas, The Atlas Minimus (1758). Although little is known about his life beyond his publications, he was imprisoned for debt in King’s Bench from May to June of 1765.

Gibson, Beth

  • Person
Beth Gibson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording “Blue Eyes” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Ghiz, Joseph A.

  • Person
  • 1945-1996
Joseph A. Ghiz was born on Prince Edward Island in 1945. He received his Bachelor of Commerce and Law degrees from Dalhousie University in 1966 and 1969, and his Masters of Law from Harvard University. He became the elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1981, and was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward Island the following year. He was elected as premier in 1986 and 1989, and became Dalhousie's Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1993–1995. Ghiz died in 1996 at age 51.

Gesner, Abraham

  • Person
  • 1797-1864
Dr. Abraham Gesner was born near Kentville, NS in 1797. He went to medical school in London, England and graduated in 1825 as a surgeon and physician. He found an interest in geology during university, and did extensive geological surveys in New Brunswick. He also did some geological work in PEI and Nova Scotia. His geological collection was turned into a museum, which eventually became the New Brunswick Museum, and is considered the oldest intact geological collection in Canada. Starting in 1846 he began to develop kerosene for oil lamps, and patented the invention in 1854. Kerosene became the standard lighting fuel in homes. The company he established in New York was bought by Standard Oil, which eventually became Imperial Oil. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1863 and became professor of Natural History at Dalhousie. He wrote many books on geology and the petroleum industry. He died in Halifax in 1864.

Gerold, Ron

  • Person
Ron Gerold was involved with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s, as his work became a part of their tape collection. Gerold was also involved with the Canadian Housing Federation in 1987.
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