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Elizabeth Shaw became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “’T’ is for Treasure” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- July 27th, 1924 - May 22nd, 2013
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Maureen Shebib is an activist and human rights lawyer. Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, she worked as a postal carrier before studying law at Dalhousie University, where she earned her LLB in 1984 and articled with Dalhousie Legal Aid. After several years spent working in Ontario she returned to Nova Scotia and earned her LLM from Dalhousie in 1998, where she also taught. She served as legal counsel to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission for five years and was the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Adjudicator for three years. In 2005 she was appointed the Coordinator of Equity and Community Issues at St. Francis Xavier University.
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James Sheddon is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sheddon is an AIDS activist and is the Coordinator of the Mens’ Sex Project in Halifax, which promotes safe sex and self-respect for queer men. Sheddon became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1994 because their video recording “The Trap” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Kim Sheppard became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their video submission to “Traumatic Landscapes” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1947-
Tom Sherman is a media artist who received his BFA from Eastern Michigan University in 1970. Sherman moved to Canada in 1972, and ran artist-run centres, created media works, and became a regular on-air contributor to CBC before becoming associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax in the late 1970s and 1980s. The CFAT tape collection are video artworks and videos relating to larger exhibitions that happened in Halifax by Sherman. Sherman is currently a professor at Syracruse University, where he teaches video and media history, theory and production.
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- 1947-
Susan Sherwin is an internationally-renowned feminist philosopher and health care ethicist and a Dalhousie professor emeritus. She was born in Toronto in 1947 and educated at York University and Stanford University, where she wrote the first doctoral dissertation in the United States on feminist ethics. In 1974 she became the first woman to be hired by Dalhousie's Department of Philosophy, later serving as the first woman to serve as president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA). She has served on numerous significant committees, including the Royal College Ethics and Equity Committee; the Standing Committee on Ethics at Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); the Advisory Group on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies at Health Canada; and the Chief Public Health Officer’s Ethics Advisory Committee for the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1999) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2007). In 2006, she won the Killam Prize in Humanities and, in 2007, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Bioethics Society. Her book No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care (1992) was revolutionary in the emergent field of feminist bioethics; she is also the author of The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (1998). In 2015 she received the Order of Canada.
In 2018 Sue Sherwin was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/eliza-ritchie.html
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Fran Shiebrooke became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1985 because of their involvement in the video recording of a video workship entitled “Edit Workshop Raw Material” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Dorothy and Samuel Shields lived in Bedford, Nova Scotia, during the 1940s and 1950s. Samuel owned a barber shop in Halifax’s Roy Building; his wife Dorothy was born in Bermuda and moved to Nova Scotia after they married. The couple participated in local organizations, including the Canadian Authors Association and the Nova Scotia Centre of the Poetry Society. Dorothy Shields served a three-year presidency of the Poetry Society and wrote poems and articles, a number of which were published locally. Her work was also featured in an anthology called Chapbooks. She was also active in politics and served as president of the provincial Women's Liberal Association.
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Shipping Register and Shipbuilder - Montreal
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- 1984-
Ship's Company Theatre was founded in 1984 by Michael Fuller and Mary Vingoe, with a production of "You'll be in Her Arms by Midnight and Other Parrsboro Stories" on board the dilapidated M.V. Kipawo ferry in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The Kipawo is still used for two productions a year, and a second stage was added in 1995. Ship's Company Theatre also produces a concert series and occasionally tours the Maritimes.
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Jean Marie Sholds was born in 1929 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Her father Russell John Sholds was a well-known amateur athlete and pitcher for the Yarmouth Gateways baseball team from 1929-1934. Jean Marie was educated at the Lunenburg Academy, graduating in 1947. In 1950 she moved to Ottawa, Ontario, where she worked for the Department of National Health and Welfare. She was married to James Doan of Gibson, Ontario.
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David Short became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980 because of their involvement in the video recording “Tele-video: four Halifax artists”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Paul Shreenan became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2001 because their video recording “Fenced Off” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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- 1913-1998
John Edward Shuh was a long-serving faculty member at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, from his start in 1948 teaching at Camp Debert until he retired after serving as acting principal of the college in 1972. He was born on 10 August 1913 in Waterloo, Ontario, and he graduated with an MS in Agronomy from McGill University in 1942. Shush was also the director of Field Crop Services: Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing. In 1987 he was named a distinguished life member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. He died in Truro, Nova Scotia, on 1 July 1998.
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Elijah Hyatt Schurman was born in 1838 in Freetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of John Cale Schurman and Ann Maria Schurman. He married Elizabeth Jane Herrett in 1862 in Rodney, Nova Scotia, with whom he had eight children. In 1876 he married Eunice Reid in Oxford, Nova Scotia, with whom he had four children. Shurman was employed for some years at the Oxford Woolen Mills. He died of pneumonia in 1930 in Oxford.
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- 1895-1975
Thaddeus M. Sieniewicz was a physician and professor of clinical medicine at Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1895 and moved to Canada in 1902. He graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1917 as the gold medalist of his class. After serving with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War One, he was appointed medical superintendent of the City Tuberculosis Hospital in 1921 and acting director the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. During World War Two he served overseas as Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Medicine with the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital. Sieniewicz was a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Canada, and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Allergy. He died on 20 September 1975.
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Phillip Silver is a Canadian set, costume, and lighting designer and professor. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Alberta in 1964 before studying production design at the National Theatre School of Canada. Since then, he has worked with various theatre companies across Canada, including Stratford Festival, Grand Theatre, London, Theatre Plus, Théâtre Français de Toronto, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Edmonton Opera. He taught stage design at York University from 1986 until 2013 and was Dean of York's Faculty of Fine Arts from 1998 until 2008.
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Suzie Silver is a video and performance artist who explores queer theory in her works. Silver was educated at the University of California, San Diego in the early 1980s, which is where she was introduced to cinema and video. Silver is now a Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, in Pittsburg. Silver became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1987 because of her involvement with a compilation video recording tape entitled “California Connection” which became a part of their tape collection. This videotape features Silver’s “Learning About Feminine Sexuality”.
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Mark Simkins became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their video recording “Traveller/Refugee” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Lionel Simmons was an actor turned cinematographer, best known for his films Stations (1983), Life Classes (1988) and No Apologies (1990). In the early 1970s he lived in Halifax, working as an actor and a photographer. He was one of 17 founding members of AFCOOP (Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative) in 1973.
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The Simpson family lived in Simpson's Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia during the 20th century. Vernon Simpson (August 20, 1892-January 12, 1941) operated a general store. His wife, Olive Eliza Simpson, died in 1981.
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- 1926-1987
Albert Mcurda Sinclair was a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, in 1926. Following overseas service with the Canadian Armed Forces from 1944-1945, he studied medicine, graduating from Dalhousie 1952. He did post-graduate studies in orthopaedic surgery in Vancouver and London, England, and opened a practice in Halifax in 1960. Dr. Sinclair was appointed Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the Halifax Children's Hospital and later helped to develop the department of orthopaedic surgery at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children. He was an active member in several professional associations, most notably, a founding member and president of the Atlantic Provinces Orthopaedic Society. He died on 19 November 1987.
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- fl. 1965
R. Singh was a physician and member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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Sintax error became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1987 because of their involvement in a self-titled audio, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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