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Pottersfield Press was founded in 1978 by its managing editor, Lesley Choyce, and grew out of the literary annual, Pottersfield Portfolio. The press is committed to promoting work written by Maritime and Newfoundland writers and first-time authors, and publishes a wide range of fiction and non-fiction about Atlantic Canada, including biography, history, health and the environment.
Pottersfield Press books have received numerous awards, including the Milton Acorn People's Poet of Canada Award, Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award and the Evelyn Richardson Award for best nonfiction book. Many of Pottersfield's children's books have been selected for the "Our Choice" list by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. The press is based in Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, and its books are distributed in Canada and the United States by Nimbus Publishing.
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- 1946-
Julien Poulin is a Canadian filmmaker from Quebec. He has performed numerous roles in various popular films and series in Quebec.
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Tom Power became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005 because their video recording “12 Steps” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Powers Brothers was established by Frank Powers in 1874, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Originally the business consisted of a small hardware store and a sheet metal shop; they specialized in tinsmithing, but soon branched out into plumbing. Frank's brother James T. Powers was an early partner in the firm, leaving the business in 1884 to start a hardware store in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
In 1904 Frank Powers' son Archibald F. ("Archie") Powers took over as President, and in 1906 Archie's brother William T. ("W.T.") joined as Secretary-Treasurer. By 1911, the year of Frank's death, the firm was thriving. With continued expansion, the company became incorporated in 1926. By the early 1960s, they had become one of the largest contractors in Nova Scotia and beyond, providing service in the fields of plumbing, heating, air conditioning, hardware, and marine supplies in the Atlantic Provinces and beyond. Their contracts included work on private residences, government buildings, schools, commercial properties, churches, and universities, etc.
Beginning with just a handful of men, the firm grew to have as many as 150 people on the payroll at any given time, with a typical average of 80-100. By 1953 many of the employees had been with the company 25 years and longer. In 1957 Archie Powers was rewarded for the work he has done in his associations by becoming the sole awardee of the simultaneous honours of Honourary Life Chairman of the Nova Scotia Branch and Life Member of the National Association of Master Plumbers and Heating Contractors of Canada, Inc. Frank Powers III and Jack Powers, sons of Frank Powers II, joined the company in 1938 and 1953 respectively, working through the ranks to become Vice-President and Director of the company as of 1957, and ultimately partners at the helm by 1976.
The company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1974, and at that time it was believed to be the oldest mechanical contracting firm in Canada. Powers Brothers closed permanently in September 1985.
Murphy and Wharton was a plumbing company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was acquired by Powers Brothers in 1978.
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Gilbertto Prado is a Brazilian multimedia artist. He is a professor in the Department of Plastic Arts at the University of São Paulo, School of Communications and Arts. Prado’s education includes Engineering and Visual Arts, including a PhD in Arts at the University of Paris, Pantheon Sorbonne. Prado became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording “Narciso 25.10.88” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1867-1952
Nelson Pratt was a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and a physician in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. He was born in Selma, Hants County, where he received his early education. After teaching for several years he entered Dalhousie Medical School and received his MD in 1900. Ill health led him to live in Montana for some years before returning to his practice in Stewiacke, where he built a house and acquired a farm to raise horses. He died on 6 December 1952.
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- 1944-2015
David Stanley Precious was a leader in the field of dental surgery and specialized in cleft palate/cleft lip surgeries. He was a professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Dentistry, chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences from 1985-2004, and Dean of Dentistry from 2003-2008. Born in Ottawa on 23 April 1944, he earned a BSc (1961) and Doctorate in Dental Surgery (1969) at Dalhousie before doing his residency at McMaster University.program and finished in 1972. During his career he worked and taught in Vietnam, Brazil, Tunisia and India. He was the president of the Nova Scotia Dental Association, president of medical staff at the Victoria General Hospital, National Chief Examiner for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, president of the Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He received the Order of Canada in 2007, the Humanitarian award from the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Canadian Dental Association Medal of Honour, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and two honorary degrees from Laval and Dalhousie (2013). The Dalhousie University Medal in Dentistry was renamed in his honour in 2012. He died on 3 February 2015.
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Lesley Preston is a Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Dalhousie University and her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from the University of Calgary. She previously worked as a free-lance set designer in Canada, including at Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She designed the set for the world premiere of Step Dance at Neptune.
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Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
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- 1883-1981
Princess Alice was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria a member of the British royal family . She married Alexander Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, in 1904, and they had two children, Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith and Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon.
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Progress Enterprise - Lunenburg, NS.
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Dawna Proudman became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1982 because of their involvement in the video recording “Coming out strong”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection. Dawna is an artist, writer, editor and a writing teacher. Dawna often holds workshops on writing and provides children’s programs and activities in the Durham, Ontario area.
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Provincial Workmen's Association, Pioneer Lodge No. 1
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- 1879-1918
The Provincial Miners Association was formed on 29 August 1879 by coal miners in Springhill, Nova Scotia, to protect the interests of miners and other colliery workers. They adopted a constitution on 1 September 1879 and established Pioneer Lodge No. 1 in Springhill. The association was incorporated as the Provincial Workmen's Association in 1881 with a mandate to improve the living and working conditions of miners through political activism, lobbying and strikes, when necessary. The first Cape Breton lodges were organized that same year, by the association's secretary and agent Robert Drummond, including Drummond Lodge (South Mines), Equity (Caledonia), and Island and Unity Lodges (Bridgeport). By 1917 the PWA and United Mine Workers of Nova Scotia had merged to form the Amalgamated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia. In 1918 the remaining lodges of the Provincial Workmen's Association were dissolved.
Publicoffer, Jacob and Frederick
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- fl. 1821
Jacob and Frederick Publicoffer [Publicover] are known to have owned land in New Dublin, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia in the early 19th century. The Publicovers became a prominent shipping family around the Lahave River.
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- [19--] - 2012
Anthony R. Pugh was born and raised in Liverpool, England. He attended Cambridge University where he received his BA (1953); MA (1954); and PhD (1959). He taught at the University of London, King's College, and Queen's University of Belfast before moving to Canada, where he taught in the French Department at the University of New Brunswick. As a scholar, he published studies of Honoré de Balzac, Blaise Pascal, and, perhaps most notably, Marcel Proust. He was well known in the Fredericton music community, serving on the UNB Creative Arts Committee and the Board of Directors for Debut Atlantic, and writing concert program notes for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and other groups. He died on 6 February 2012.
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- 1975 - [19--]
Lemuel Publicover was born on 25 May 1865 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He was the son of Jacob Solomon Publicover and Margaret Sarah Himmelman. Publicover was married three times: to Johanna Slauenwhite on 2 January 1889; Fanny Wagner on 19 October 1893; and Mary Veinot on 28 January 1899. The Publicovers were a prominent shipping family on the Lahave River, and Lemuel was master of the schooner Algoma.
Pullen, H.F. (Hugh Francis), 1905-1983
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- 1905-1983
Hugh Francis Pullen was born 9 July 1905 at Oakville, Ont. and entered the Royal Naval College at Esquimalt, B.C. in 1920. He spent two years at sea with the Canadian Pacific Steamships and rejoined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1924. In 1944 he received the Order of the British Empire for his services while commanding a convoy escort group. He retired from the navy in 1960, his last appointment as flag officer Atlantic Coast, Maritime commander Atlantic, and commander Atlantic Sub-Area (NATO), 1957-1960. Rear-Admiral Pullen held executive positions in several voluntary organizations such as the United Appeal, The Royal Commonwealth Society, The Royal Life-Saving Society of Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Society, and the Anglican Church of Canada. In 1960 he was chairman for the World Refugee Campaign in Nova Scotia, and also served as a member of the National Council of the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards, 1963-1969. Pullen was awarded the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) and the Canadian Forces Decoration (C.D.) for his services.
Pullen was a co-founder of the Maritime Museum of Canada in 1948 (now Maritime Museum of the Atlantic), and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Halifax Grammar School. He was also first commodore of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association and a member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society. He was the author of several books and articles on Maritime history. Among his best known works are 'Atlantic Schooners' (1967), 'The Shannon and the Chesapeake' (1970), and 'The Pullen Expedition' (1979), for which he won the John Lyman Book Award in 1980 from the North American Society for Oceanic History. H.F. Pullen died 4 May 1983 in England. He was married to Helen (MacKean); they had seven children.
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Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada
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Charlie Purcell is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.
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