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Authority RecordCP Allen High School Stage Band & Jazz Vocal Ensemble.
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Sharon Cox is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.
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- 1909-2002
Parker Cox taught English at Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1947-1973, where he also served as Registrar and Dean of Residence. He was born in 1909 in Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, and grew up in the surrounding area along with his brother Kenneth Cox, who was Dean of NSAC from 1946-1964. Cox earned his BA at Acadia University in 1930 and his MA at University of Toronto in 1934. Between 1930-1931 he taught at Wolfville High School; from 1931-1933 he taught at Colchester Academy. He served as Master of Rothesay Collegiate School from 1934-1944, then Principal of Shelburne Academy from 1944–1947. Parker Cox died on 1 August 2002.
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- 1899-1994
Kenneth Cox was the sixth principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and made significant contributions to the Maritime agricultural industry. Born in 1899 in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester County, he received his early training at NSAC, where he graduated with the Class of 1921. In 1924 he earned a BSc in Agriculture from the Ontario Agricultural College, studying animal husbandry. He followed this with graduate studies in agronomy at Macdonald College, McGill University, graduating with an MSc in 1929.
Cox returned to Nova Scotia to work at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Nappan, where he was employed as assistant to the superintendent and carried out research on cereals, forages, root crops and fertility. In 1937 he was appointed Provincial Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy at NSAC, and Vice-Principal and Farm Director in 1941. He became Acting Principal in 1946 and was appointed Principal in 1948, a position he held until his retirement in 1964.
Respected across the agricultural community, Kenneth Cox was a member of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists and served as president of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists and honorary president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. In 1960 he was made a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and an honorary life member of the Canadian Seed Growers Association. His contribution to agricultural education was recognized with an honorary LLD from McGill in 1964.
In 1968 the Cox Institute of Technology on the NSAC campus was named in his honour and in 1991 Kenneth Cox was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award. He died in 1994.
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John Cox became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2000 because their video recording “Delusions of Adequacy” was featured on a compilation tape that became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1864 - [19--]
Frederick Warren Cox was a physician who received the first two years of his training at Halifax Medical College. He was born on 8 July 1864 in Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, to Francis Cox and Catherine Creelman. After attending Halifax Medical College he completed his medical education at Bellevue Hospital, New York, the first public hospital in the United States. He practised medicine in Ellis, Kansas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Heron Lake, Minnesota; and Vermillion, South Dakota, where he served as mayor from 1898 -1900. Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish American War, Dr. Cox was appointed assistant surgeon to the South Dakota Volunteers and served with his regiment in the Philippines. He was an occasional contributor to some of the best medical journals in the West.
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Debbie Cox is a recording artist known to have created sound recordings at Solar Audio.
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- 1905-1997
Norman Barrie Coward was a pediatrician and long-serving member of Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine. Born on 14 August 1905 in St. Thomas, the US Virgin Islands, he was educated privately and at Colchester County Academy in Truro, Nova Scotia, before graduating from Dalhousie medical school in 1928. He completed a two-year internship at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and was a resident at Toronto's Riverdale Infectious Diseases Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then spent twelve months at children’s hospitals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
In 1933 Coward joined Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine as a lecturer and clinical instructor in pediatrics. He was appointed professor and department head in 1958, also serving as Physician-in-Chief at Grace Maternity Hospital, the Halifax Infirmary and the Children’s Hospital. He retired from pediatrics in 1971, but continue in his role as Medical Director of Halifax’s Hearing and Speech Clinic, which he had helped found, until 1995. Dr. Coward died on 16 October 1997.
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Valerie M. Cowan worked for Dalhousie University as a consulting analyst in the Human Resource Planning Pilot Project in the 1980s.
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Stanley A. Cowan was a Dalhousie University English professor from 1969 to 1994 when he took an early retirement. Educated at Montana (B.A.) and Yale (M.A.), Cowan taught introductory and upper level English courses at Dalhousie.
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Mrs. Gordon Cowan (fl. 1920-1972) was the grandaughter of Captain Alexander Rose Rettie, who was shipwrecked with his vessel "Forest Chief."
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- 1879-1963
James F. Corston was a graduate and later Professor in the Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Halifax on 12 March 1879, the son of James F. Corston and Nancy McLellan Corston. He received his early education at the Halifax Academy and graduated from Dalhousie with a BA in 1898 and an MD in 1902. He established a medical practice in Halifax, which he maintained until his retirement. He joined the Faculty of Medicine in 1913 as a Lecturer in therapeutics and renal diseases. Corston taught at Dalhousie until 1945, when he retired as Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. He was also a member of the Dalhousie Board of Governors for many years. After retirement from Dalhousie, he continued to practice as Medical Examiner for United States Immigration in Halifax. He died in Halifax on 17 August 1963.
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James Corston was a Halifax-based carpenter born in Orkney, Scotland. His work included the Lower Selma Presbyterian Church, which currently houses the East Hants Historical Society. He was married in 1875 to Nancy McLellan.
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Corning and Chipman, Barristers and Solicitors
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- 1885-1909
Corning and Chipman was founded in 1885 by barristers Thomas E. Corning and Lewis Chipman, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. They acted as agents for the London and Lancashire Life Assurance Company and the Liverpool-based Imperial Merchant Service Guild. Thomas Corning was the Yarmouth County recorder, treasurer and solicitor, as well as MLA for Yarmouth from 1882-1886. Lewis Chipman read law with Corning before the firm was created, which he left in 1909 to join Chipman and Sanderson.
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Allan Cooper was born 15 March 1954 in Moncton, New Brunswick. He attended Mount Allison University in Sackville, where he was active in music and poetry circles. In 1982 he took over editing the poetry magazine Germination from Harry Thurston, and between 1982-1990 he published work by Canadian poets such as Jan Conn, Douglas Burnet Smith and Leigh Faulkner. In 1983, Cooper was elected president of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, and in 1986 he founded Owl's Head Press. Cooper has published over a dozen poetry collections, twice won the Alfred G. Bailey Award, and received the Peter Gzowski Award in 1994.
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Martha Cooley works in the Nova Scotian film industry, through the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. Cooley’s education includes a diploma in Screen Arts from the Nova Scotia Community College and a Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie University. In 2011, Cooley received the Canadian Progress Club’s “Women of Excellence Award” in the Arts and Culture Division. Cooley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2008 because their video “Bell Lake” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1914-1974
Cooley Brothers Jewelers was started in 1914 by brother Charles L. and Robert W. Cooley, who immigrated to Canada from London, England, in 1912 and 1914 respectively. Charles' son, Donald Leonard Cooley, born in 1926, began his career as a watchmaker and jeweler in the family business in 1946. The store was renamed Cooley Jewelers and was located at 1569 Barrington Street; the company was a member of the Halifax Jewellers Association. Cooley Jewelers went out of business ca. 1974.
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William Cooke fl. 1785, and served with the Prince of Wales American Volunteers, a Loyalist militia.
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Jennifer Cooke is a set and costume designer based in Quebec and a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has designed for the Young Neptune Company, the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Centaur Theatre, and Théâtre Français de Toronto.
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Gregory Cook was born in 1942 in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. In 1958, he began attending Acadia University. He became involved in editing The Athenaeum, the student newspaper, and then founded and edited Amethyst, a student literary quarterly. Cook graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in English but remained at Acadia University to edit Amethyst until 1964. Through his work with Amethyst he had begun a correspondence with many Canadian writers including Ernest Buckler, Alden Nowlan and Irving Layton. Upon leaving Acadia University in 1964, he founded and edited The Crier, a magazine that focused on the arts from a Maritime perspective. The Crier was short-lived, lasting only four issues. Next, in 1964, Cook formed Crier Publications Ltd., a publishing company that did numerous printing jobs for many Nova Scotia organizations such as Acadia and Neptune Theatre. In 1966 Cook returned to Acadia University where he completed his Masters in English, writing his thesis on Ernest Buckler. Several years later, he was hired as a lecturer in the English Department at Acadia University. In 1972, he edited the book Critical Views of Canadian Writers: Ernest Buckler. In the 1970's he also worked as a freelance journalist and had articles published in Maclean's and The Atlantic Advocate. In the late 1970's he served as Executive Director of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Gregory Cook continues to work as a reporter, freelance writer and lecturer. His poems have been published as books, in numerous periodicals and broadcast on CBC radio. He is a member of Writers' Union of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick and honorary member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
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- 1929 - 2007
Shirley Conover was a Leslie Pearson Senior Fellow at Dalhousie University's School for Resource and Environmental Studies and made significant contributions to the field of environmental assessment and management in Canada and internationally. Born 9 July 1929 in Brantford, Ontario, to Hazel and Carter MacMillan, she was educated at Oberlin College and Yale University before earning her PhD in marine zoology at Dalhousie. In the 1970s and early 1980s she led teams carrying out environmental impact assessments for the Davis Strait, Sable Island and Hibernia oil fields. Later she became director of two CIDA international development projects through Dalhousie University: Environmental Management Development in Indonesia and the Environment and Resource Management Project in the Philippines. Both projects supported government and academic infrastructure development and provided heavily used baseline ecological information. They were also a fertile training ground for many distinguished professionals in Canada, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 1990 Conover was appointed to chair the Environmental Assessment Panel for the Halifax Harbour Clean-up Project. She was a member of the Canadian Environmental Advisory Council to federal environment ministers for eight years, served as secretary to the International Association for Impact Assessment and, in 2002, she was awarded the Rose Hulman Award for her contributions to environmental assessment in The Hague, Netherlands. Conovers died 8 January 2007 in Cobourg, Ontario.
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Marcia Connelly became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1995 because their video recording “Social Dance” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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