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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.
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Jacob Slonim has been a professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science since 1997, and was Dean of the Faculty from 1997-2002.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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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- 1891-1944
Marion Reid Smith graduated from Dalhousie University with her BA in 1915. She was born in Dartmouth on 6 October 1891 to Margaret Helen and Willian McVicar Smith. In 1920 she married Henry Wendell Mahon, Dalhousie Class of 1907, and lived until her death around the corner from Dalhousie at 41 Preston Street. She died on 12 May 1944, aged 57.
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- 23 November 1984
Nathaniel [Nat] Smith is civil servant from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Graduating from Halifax West High School in 2002, Smith went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in History from Saint Mary's University in 2006, and both a Masters of Public Administration and a Masters of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University in 2012. In 2013, Smith was part of an initiative to restart the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] organization, a leather club in the Atlantic region that originally closed in 2010. Smith joined the new MACLeather executive, however no further contests were held. Smith moved to Alberta in 2015, where he is currently the Director of Policy, Planning, and Legislative Services for the Alberta Department of Culture.
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- 1938 - 2008
Rowland Smith was a McCulloch Professor of English at Dalhousie University. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1938. He earned his BA at the University of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and returned to Natal to obtain his PhD. In 1967 he and moved to Halifax with his wife Ann to take up a teaching position at Dalhousie, later serving as acting Dean of Arts and Science. He was the author of the Smith Report, a recommendation for splitting the faculty of arts and science into two entities, which happened in 1987. In 1994 he was appointed Vice President, Academic at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he remained until 1994, when he left top take up a final appointment at the University of Calgary as Dean of Humanities.
Smith published and lectured extensively on modern British and post-colonial literature in English. In addition to his scholarly activities, he was a director of Opera Ontario, a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers' prize, and a member of the Book Prize jury for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. He also served as a governor of the Neptune Theatre foundation and as director of the Nova Scotia Rugby Football Union, being an avid rugby player himself. His other great love was music, and he was a member of Calgary's Opera's Impresario Circle. He died in 2008.
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Seth Smith is a Nova Scotia-based artist, musician and filmmaker. Smith performs in the band Dog Day as the primary singer/songwriter, and has performed with them across North America and Europe. Smith became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2002 because their video recording "Triage Burdocks" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Shotie Smith is a music artist known to have made sound recordings at Solar Audio in the 1990's.
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- March 9, 1897 – March 17, 1959
Sidney Earle Smith was born on March 9, 1897 on Port Hood Island, Nova Scotia. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of King's College, and an LL.B. from Dalhousie University. He was Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Law from 1929-1934, and became president of the University of Manitoba in 1934. He became president of the University of Toronto in 1945, and the Sidney Smith Hall building at the University of Toronto was named after him. He was a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was appointed as Secretary of State for External Affairs under John Diefenbaker. Smith died of a stroke on March 17, 1959.
Smith, Thomas Brenton, 1893-1955
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Thomas Brenton Smith was born in 1893 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the son of William Henry Smith and Francinia Lavinia (Hicks). He served as a Staff Sergeant with Liverpool’s No. 2 Clearing Hospital, a Canadian Militia Unit that merged with a Toronto-based unit to become the No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station during World War I. After returning from overseas he worked as an accountant with the Mersey Paper Company.
Smith was active in the Canadian Legion and as an amateur genealogist, compiling information about the families of Queens County. He died in 1955.
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W. Smith was a farmer and/or miller in Pictou ca. 1823. He is possibly William Smith, an early settler who established a flour and grist mill on his farm at West River, near Durham. The mill was in continuous use for several generations until J.W. Smith (1870-1935), William's great-grandson, moved it to Pictou and used it as the foundation for the Atlantic Milling Company.
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Smoky River News - Edmonton, AB
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain).
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The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was a Church of England missionary organization operated in the British Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Society was founded in 1701 by Reverend Thomas Bray and operated in North America until the establishment of the United States of America in 1783. The Society continued to operate in British North America and expanded into a global missionary organization through the 19th century. In 1965, the Society was reorganized as the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG). The Society continues to operate as "United Society" or US.
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Solar Audio & Recording Limited.
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- 1975-2003
Solar Audio & Recording Limited was a recording studio founded by Russ Brannon in 1975. The studio operated on Wyse Road in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and then on Hunter Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company recorded hundreds of musicians and musical groups and, in the 1990s, moved into post audio for film and television productions. Solar Audio was not a record label, but many artists who self-released records that recorded and mixed at the studio used the studio’s name.
In 1986, Solar Audio & Recording Limited was sued by Sound Images, Incorporated, a recording studio based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sound Images purchased a sound console from Solar Audio and sued the company in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia when the console could not be installed as planned. Associate Chief Justice Ian H. M. Palmeter dismissed the charges after concluding that "something happened to the console after the time it was shipped by Solar to Cincinnati."
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William Somerset Maugham was raised by his uncle after he was orphaned at the age of 10. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1897 from St. Thomas' medical school in London, England, but soon left medicine to pursue his writing. He wrote novels, plays, and short stories. He died in Nice on December 16, 1965.
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