Ross Boutilier is an LGBTQ activist and community volunteer who pursued a number of successful challenges to his federal employer to gain equal treatment and benefits for same-sex relationships. He and his partner, Brian Mombourquette, also challenged both federal and provincial legislation to gain equal access to marriage and became one of three couples married as a result of the 2004-09-24 Marriage Decision.
Born in 1956, Ross is a retired geophysicist with a 30-year career with Natural Resources Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He began community work as a volunteer and resource person with the Metro Area Committee on AIDS in 1989-1993. From 1993-1998 he was a member, producer and coordinator of the editorial collective producing the Gaezette (now Wayves). He served as treasurer of Safe Harbour Community Church between 1993-2003 and as a volunteer, coordinator and city liaison officer with the Halifax Pride Committee from 1994-2003. In 1996 he founded Manna For Health special needs food bank, for which he also served as a treasurer and liaison officer until 2003. Ross was a steward and elected official with the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada from 1996-2006—in that capacity he served in multiple roles, including as chair of the Human Rights Committee.
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Gena Branscombe was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, educator, and pianist. Born in Picton, Ontario on November 4, 1881, she received her Bachelor of Arts in composition from the Chicago Musical College (1900), studying with Felix Borowski, Alexander von Fielitz, Florenz Ziegfield, Arthur Friedheim, Hans von Schiller, and Rudolph Ganz. She also spent some time in Berlin studying with Engelbert Humperdinck. In 1932, she received an honorary Master of Arts from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she had been director of the piano department from 1907 to 1909.
Branscombe spent most of her life in the United States, although she visited Canada frequently and some of her compositions have Canadian connections (e.g., Quebec Suite). She is best known for her choral compositions, particularly those written for women's voices, and she frequently conducted her own works in Canada, England, and the United States. She was also the founder and conductor of the Branscombe Chorale in New York (1935-1953), and conducted various choirs in New Jersey. She was also the president of the Society of American Women Composers and the vice-president and director of the National Association of American Composers and Conductors.
She married John Ferguson Tenney and had four daughters. She died at the age of 95 in New York on July 26, 1977.
Braybrooke, David, Professor, 1924-2013
David Braybrooke was born 18 October 1924 in Hackettstown, New Jersey. While an undergraduate at Hobart College, he joined the United States Army, serving from 1943-1946. He resumed his formal education and received a BA in Economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard in 1948, and an MA (Philosophy) and PhD (Ethics, Epistemology and Economic Theory) from Cornell in 1951 and 1953, respectively. As a graduate student and over the following decade, he taught at Hobart, the University of Michigan, Bowdoin College and Yale.
In 1963 Braybrooke joined Dalhousie University, holding a joint appointment in political science and philosophy until his retirement in 1990, after which he was made Professor Emeritus. Soon after he moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the Centennial Commission Chair in the Liberal Arts as a Professor of Government and Philosophy, a position that he held until his second retirement in 2005.
Braybrooke was an active member of many professional associations, including the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy during the late 1960s; in 1970 he was a founding member of and presenter at the initial conference of the Atlantic Region Philosophical Association (ARPA) in Halifax. He served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) from 1970-1971, and variously as the Director, Vice President and President of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) during the early 1970s. From 1981-1982 he was Vice-President of the American Political Science Association. He acted as the local representative for the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association during the 1981 Learned Societies Conference at Dalhousie. Under the auspices of the Council for Philosophical Studies, he helped to plan and stage a Summer Institute on Public Choice Theory at Dalhousie in 1984. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1980 and was involved in its activities throughout the following decade, in particular helping to elect new fellows and contributing to the Royal Society's Canadian Global Change Forum from 1986-1990.
Concurrently with his appointment at Dalhousie, Braybrooke was a visiting professor at universities including Pittsburgh, Toronto, Minnesota, California at Irvine, Waterloo, Chicago and Tulane, as well as holding visiting fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge, the University of British Columbia and Queen's University.
Braybrooke's research interests included problems in ethics, philosophy, and political and social science. He wrote over eighty articles and a number of monographs, including A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process (with C.E. Lindblom, 1963), Traffic Congestion Goes through the Issue Machine (1974), A Case Study In Issue Processing, Illustrating a New Approach (1974), Logic on the Track of Social Change (with B. Brown and P.K. Schotch, 1995), Natural Law Modernized (2001), and Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse to Edification (2005).
Braybrooke married Alice Noble in 1948, with whom he had three children: Nicholas, Geoffre and Elizabeth Page. He later married Michiko (Gomyo), with whom he lived in Austin and spent summers in Halifax. He died on 7 August 2013 in Texas.
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(William) Edward Broome was a Canadian choral conductor, organist, composer, and educator. Born in Manchester on January 3, 1868, Broome spent most of his childhood in Wales where he studied piano and organ with Roland Rogers and conducting with Jules Riviere. He received his piano diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England 1884 and was named a Fellow of the Guild of Organists in 1889.
He moved to Canada in 1893, where he was the organist-choirmaster at the First Presbyterian Church in Brockville, Ontario (1893-1895); the Douglas Methodist Church in Montreal, Quebec (1895-1906); the Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, Ontario (1906-1925); and the Knox United Church in Calgary, Alberta (1926-1927). He received his Bachelor of Music from Trinity College in 1901 and his Doctorate of Music from the University of Toronto in 1908. In 1907, he began teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and from 1910 to 1925 he directed the Toronto Oratorio Society. He died in Toronto, Ontario on April 28, 1932.
Murray G. Brown is a research economist and retired professor of health economics at Dalhousie University.
He was born 10 November 1936. He received his BA Hon. in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1961and his MA from Queen's University the following year. His MA in economics was granted by the University of Chicago in 1968, followed in 1974 by a PhD, with his dissertation, "Experience and Earnings of Male Physicians in the United States."
From 1964-1973 Dr. Brown taught in the Department of Economics at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. In 1973 he joined Dalhousie University's Department of Preventative Medicine, now the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, and held both joint and cross appointments in the Department of Economics and the School of Health Service Administration. From 1992 until his retirement he taught primarily within the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Brown's research activities have spanned multiple departments, faculties and special research units, institutes and programs within Dalhousie. He has also been involved in research, committee work and task-force work for the Nova Scotia Department of Health and other public sector bodies.