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Ship's Company Theatre

  • Corporate body
  • 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.

Sholds, Jean Marie

  • Person
  • 1929 -
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.

Short, David

  • Person
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.

Shreenan, Paul

  • Person
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.

Shuh, John Edward

  • Person
  • 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.

Shurman, Elijah Hyatt, 1873-

  • Person
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.

Sieniewicz, Thaddeus M.

  • Person
  • 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.

Silver, Phillip

  • Person
  • 1943-
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.

Silver, Suzie

  • Person
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”.

Simkins, Mark

  • Person
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.

Simmons, Lionel

  • Person
  • [196-?] -
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.

Simpson family

  • Person
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.

Sinclair, Albert McMurda

  • Person
  • 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.

Singh, R.

  • Person
  • fl. 1965
R. Singh was a physician and member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Sintax error

  • Corporate body
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.

Slater, Steve

  • Person
Steve Slater was an artist in Halifax and became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s through his involvement on tape recordings and exhibitions.

Slonim, Jacob

  • Person
Jacob Slonim has been a professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science since 1997, and was Dean of the Faculty from 1997-2002.

Slopek, Edward

  • Person
Edward Slopek is a media and fine arts artist. Slopek is currently a professor at Ryerson University, where he is the Program Director for the New Media Option in the School of Image Arts. Slopek has a bachelor’s degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, a MA from the University of Leicester and a PhD from McGill University. Slopek has exhibited artwork nationally and internally since the 1970s. His work is also a part of permanent collections, including Canada’s National Gallery.

Smiley, Norene

  • Person
Norene Smiley is a Nova Scotian artist, writer and filmmaker. Smiley’s education includes Art Education and Fine Arts from NSCAD in the 1970s. Smiley’s paintings focus on capturing the mood and emotional energy of individuals, rather than a realistic portrait. Smiley became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 with her video "Urban Myths: Tunnels to George's Island" which became a part of the centre's tape collection.

Smith family

  • Family

The Smith family of Halifax is best known for owning and operating prominent companies including A.M and Company, a Halifax-based fish merchant.

Family members include Lousie Smith and her daughters Olive Winifred and Clauda Louise Smith. Olive traveled in Europe, specifically Switzerland, and lived with her Clauda and Louise for most of her life. Olive Smith studied at both Acadia Seminary and Dalhousie University from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1911.

Smith, Clauda

  • Person
Olive Winifred Smith was a member of the prominent Halifax Smith family who owned and operated the Smith Company (a fish merchant company) in Downtown Halifax. She lived with her mother Louise and sister Clauda for most of her life, and traveled in Europe, specifically Switzerland. Olive Smith studied at both Acadia Seminary and Dalhousie University from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1911.

Smith, Cyril R.

  • Person
Cyril R. Smith was a lumber dealer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Smith, Gladys Una

  • Person
  • 1893 - [19--]
Gladys Una Smith was born in 1893 in Halifax to J. Harry and Emma Smith. She was educated at Dalhousie University, receiving a BA in 1911 and an MA in 1912 (by examination in Shakespeare_. While she was at Dalhousie she met John Shenstone Roper, whom she married in 1915. Their marriage ended in divorce with no children.

Smith, Jordan W.

  • Person
  • 1864-1948
Jordan W. Smith was a physician in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He was born in Selma, Nova Scotia, in 1864 and educated in small country schools. He taught school for a few years in order to save money to study medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Later, while working as a resident in a Baltimore hospital, he took a post-graduate course from Sir William Osler. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1895 and practised medicine in a small fishing village before opening an office in the town of Liverpool. For the next half century he worked as a country doctor, travelling by horse and buggy, automobile and boat, and delivering over 3000 babies across Queen's County. He also served for 14 years as a member of the provincial legislature, and later on the board of the Nova Scotia Power Commission. He died in 1948.

Smith, Kim

  • Person
Kim Smith became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording, “Just Exposure”, became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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