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Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

  • Corporate body
  • 1991 - 2011
Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church was an LGBT-focused United church built and run by the LGBT community, and serving it with projects such as Manna for Health, a food bank directed at people facing serious illness and poverty. The church was founded by J.J. Lyon, Robert Byers, Bruce Moore and Terry Parker following an informal evening of Christmas carol singing. Worshippers began meeting in February 1991 in the small boardroom at the Aids Coalition Office on Gottingen Street, Halifax. In September 1991 the congregation officially became part of the Metropolitan Community Church, adopted the name Safe Harbour MCC and moved to the Brunswick Street United Church, having outgrown their original space. In September 1992 the congregation hired Reverend Darlene Young to be the first minister of Safe Harbour MCC, and moved to the Universalist Unitarian Church on Inglis Street. In April 1993, Safe Harbour officially welcomed its first members, when 20 people joined the church. On Sunday, 5 September 2004, the congregation celebrated its first service in its own space in Bloomfield Centre, where it stayed for two years before moving to its final home at Veith House in Halifax's north end. After the death of Reverend Darlene Young in 2008, Bob Bond served as interim pastor until Reverend Jennifer Paty was hired in 2009. She conducted Safe Harbour's final service on Eastern Sunday 2001.

Saga Productions.

  • Corporate body
  • 1976-1985
Saga Productions was a media production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company was registered in 1976. Tom Jorgensen was the recognized agent. The company was struck-off in 1985.
Saini, Deep

Saini, Deep

  • Person
  • 1955-
Deep Sanai served as the twelfth president of Dalhousie University from 2020-2022. A career academic and accomplished researcher in plant biology, he was vice-chancellor and president of Australia's University of Canberra from 2016-2019. He grew up in India and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Physiology from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He taught at four of Canada’s U15 universities, was vice-president of the University of Toronto and principal of the university’s Mississauga campus, dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and director general of the Plant Biology Research Institute at the Université de Montréal. He began his term as the 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University on April 1, 2023.

Saint-Saens, Camille

  • Person
  • 1835-1921
Camille Saint-Saens was a Romantic-era French composer. He is predominantly known for his symphonic poems and his opera "Samson et Dalila".

Sandler, Ilan

  • Person
Ilan Sandler is a South African-Canadian artist who works with sculpture and installation artworks. He owns and operates Sandler Studio Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sandler became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2004 because their video recording “Tactility” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Sandy Lake Action Group

  • Corporate body
  • ca. 1972-1983
The Sandy Lake Action Group was an organization active in the 1970s and 1980s that worked to protect the environment of the Sandy Lake area in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Sanger, Peter

  • Person
  • 1943-

Peter Sanger is a Nova Scotia poet and literary critic who taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) from 1972-1998. Born in 1943 in Bewdley, England, he immigrated to Canada in 1953. He received his BA in history from the University of Melbourne, MA in history from the University of Victoria, and BEd from Acadia University. He taught in Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland before joining the Humanities Department at NSAC, teaching English literature, technical writing, and agricultural and scientific history, retiring as the head of the department and professor emeritus. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University.

Sanger’s literary career includes poetry, essays and biographies. His first published book, The America Reel (Pottersfield Press, 1983), was followed by early poetry collections Earth Moth (Gooselane Editions, 1991), The Third Hand (Anchorage Press, 1994), and After Monteverdi (Harrier Editions, 1997). His most recent collection is Odysseus Asleep: Uncollected Sequences, 1994-2019 (Gaspereau Press, 2019). He was a long-serving poetry editor for The Antigonish Review and was instrumental in establishing and developing the Agricola Archival Collection.

Saunders, Joyan

  • Person
Joyan Saunders is a Canadian artist and education who taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, York University, and the University of California, San Diego. Saunders is mainly a video or media artist, who has exhibited artwork internationally. Saunders’ video work focuses on colour and formal composition, which makes her video work akin to painting.

Saunders, Sylvia Lee

  • Person
Sylvia Lee Saunders was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1981 because of her involvement with a video recording “Walls performance” with Sherry Lee Hunter which became a part of their tape collection.

Sauriol, Yvonne

  • Person
Yvonne Sauriol is a set and costume designer who has worked with various Canadian theatre companies, including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, and Neptune Theatre.

Savoini, Lorenzo

  • Person

Lorenzo Savoini is a costume and lighting designer who has worked with various theatre companies in North America, including Soulpepper Theatre, The Stratford Festival, Les Grand Ballet Canadian, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, MTC, Tarragon Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Blyth Festival, The Globe Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Buddies in Bad Times, Theatrefront, TheatreRun, and The Belfry Theatre. He is the Director of Design for the Soulpepper Theatre Company.

He has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Guelph. He has taught theatre design at the University of Guelph and York University.

Savoy, Carolyn

  • Person
  • 1947-2015
Carolyn Savoy was born on July 21, 1947 in Saint John, NB. She graduated from UNB in 1969, and then attended Boston College for her Masters, and got a PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1992. She also did a certificate of Public Administration at Dalhousie in 1986. She started teaching and coaching at St. Francis Xavier for seven years, and then in 1977 took over the women’s basketball team at Dalhousie. She coached the Dalhousie Women’s basketball team for 32 years, had a 75% win percentage (858 wins), and is the winningest women’s basketball coach in CIS history. She graduated 100% of players who played between 3-5 years. She was a five-time AUS coach of the year, and won 11 AUS league titles and 5 AUS conference titles. She produced 9 national team athletes and 16 CIS All-Canadians. She served as the sports psychology consultant for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols 1991 NCAA championship team. She worked as a professor at Dalhousie, and also served on the Dalhousie Faculty Association. “A former president of Basketball Nova Scotia, she was the technical chair for the Pan American wheel chair games in 1982. A member of Canada Basketball’s Board of Directors from 1981 to 1987, she was the chair of the National Coaching School for Women in 1988. A master course conductor and Canada Basketball level 4 coach, Carolyn was the head coach of Nova Scotia’s Canada Games women’s basketball team in 2001 and was an assistant coach with Canada’s junior national team in 1979.” She published two books and was an accomplished public speaker. Carolyn has been inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame, the Saint John Sports Hall of Fame, and has an award at Dalhousie named in her honour. Carolyn Savoy passed away in 2015.

Scammell, Harold L.

  • Person
  • 1905-1991
Harold L. Scammell was a physician and senior medical administrator. Born on Island East River, Pictou County, in 1905, he received his early education at Pictou Academy and graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1927. After practising medicine in Pictou for one year, he returned to Halifax as resident physician at Victoria General Hospital. In 1929 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals by the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, which involved appraising over 300 hospitals in Canada and the United States. In 1931 he joined Victoria General Hospital as the Medical Assistant Superintendent and later became the Registrar and Secretary Treasurer of the Provincial Medical Board. In following years, he worked as a medical officer with the Workmen's Compensation Board. Harold Scammell remained closely connected to Dalhousie, serving as registrar and executive assistant to the president and lecturing in the Faculty of Medicine. He was instrumental in developing Dalhousie Student Counselling Services as well as the Bachelor of Science in Nursing. He was named Dalhousie Medical Alumnus of the Year in 1986. He died on21 January 1991.

Schirmer

  • Corporate body
  • 1861
Schirmer is one of the oldest classical music publishers in the United States. The publishing house was founded in 1861 by Gustav Schirmer (1829-1893) and Bernard Beer when they took over the New York publisher Kerksieg and Bruesing. In 1866, Beer sold his portion of the company, and the name changed from Beer & Schirmer to Schirmer. In 1968, the family company was bought by MacMillan. In 1986 it was sold to Robert Wise of Music Sales, Inc., who designated Hal Leonard as the sole distributor of the Schirmer catalogue. Imprints of Schirmer include Beer & Schirmer (1861-1866) and G. Schirmer (1866-).

Schlesinger

  • Corporate body
  • 1810-
A.M. Schlesinger was a publishing firm founded in Berlin in 1810 by Adolph Martin Schlesinger (1769-1838). A second firm was established in Paris by his son Maurice Schlesinger, under the name M. Schlesinger (1821-1846), and another son, Heinrich Schlesinger, continued the Berlin company after his father's death. Composers published by the firm include Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and a series of posthumous publications of piano compositions by Frederic Chopin. The Berlin company was sold to Robert Lienau in 1864, who continued to use the Schlesinger name until the twentieth century.

Schlözer, Pavel

  • Person
  • c. 1841-1898
Pavel Schlözer was a Polish pianist, teacher, and composer. Little is known about his life. In 1879, he taught at the Institute of Music in Warsaw and in 1892, he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. The only extant knwon works by Schlözer are two etudes for piano, and some contest that Schlözer is not their true composer, arguing that they were written by the more well-known composer Moritz Moszkowski.
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