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Charles Balish was born 15 January 1896 in Beirut, Lebanon. He emigrated to Nova Scotia, settling in Lockeport and married Eva May Knickerson (born 11 November 1900 and died 11 November 1980) of Cape Sable Island. The Balishes ran a general store which may be seen on the 1938 Lockeport Lockout film. Mr. Balish documented events which were important to the growth of his family, his community and his province. Charles Balish died in February 1986.

The Baptists Board of Christian Education seems to have been in existence from 1967 - 1971, based on the documents we have currently available. It seems the the board included members from many Baptist Churches in Atlantic Canada, including Halifax and Moncton.

The Baptists Girls' Work Committee seems to have been in existence between 1965 - 1971. Based on the correspondence and committee minutes, the committee spanned over many baptists churches in Atlantic Canada, including Halifax and Moncton. Based on the correspondence and committee minutes the

Charles Augustus Barnstead was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 20 December 1871, the son of Jeremiah and Mary (Cameron) Barnstead. He began his pharmaceutical career at the age of 16 when he was an errand boy for a Halifax druggist. He later also worked as a dispensing clerk for Rawley's Drug Store on Duke and Granville Streets in Halifax. At the age of 21, Barnstead acquired his license as a druggist and opened his own store half a block down from Rawley's at 122 (later 1798) Granville Street in Halifax. "Dr. Charlie" was well known for his fast acting medicines and cures. His business employed one clerk; he had a large cat which he referred to as his "night watchman." At one time the building suffered damages from a fire, but they were all repaired, and the business carried on. Charles Barnstead died on 12 April 1959 at the age of 87. His business was purchased by another druggist who carried on a similar business, retaining Barnstead's name until it was finally sold and the building was torn down in 1974.

Peter Barrett was born in Keason, Cornwall, England in 1841. He emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1866 to work in the Acadia Coal Mines at Albion Mines in Pictou County. Following his travels to the United States and Ontario, he returned to Albion Mines where he worked for several years. He married Hortense Langille on 16 January 1873. In June 1873, the Barretts moved to Springhill, where Peter worked in the mines. While in Springhill, he acquired some property and became involved in a legal battle which resulted in the loss of all of his property. The Barretts removed to Truro in October 1877, and to Cornwall on 8 November 1877.

Edward Barron Sr. was a member of the Second Battlion of the 60th Regiment of the Royal Americans in the British Army and served in Quebec during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham under General James Wolfe in 1759. As a result of this service Colonel Barron was granted a large tract of land in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. The area, situated between Minudie and River Hebert, is now known as Barronsfield in his honour. He subsequently received additional lands from the Athol grant.

Robert Barry (ca. 1759-1843), an active Methodist, arrived in Nova Scotia from Scotland in 1783. He became a merchant and partner with his brother, Alexander, in the firm A & R Barry. He married Mary Jessop of Delaware (ca. 1770-1832) in 1789 and moved to Liverpool ca. 1810. The Barreys had nine children who survived to adulthood: William Hoosse, Thomas Smart, Samuel John Wesley, John Alexander, Mary Elizabeth, Charlotte Elizabeth Hosse, Ellen, Margaret Cole, and Robert Martin. Margaret Cole Barry (1802-1860), married John Hicks (1790-1843) at Liverpool, N.S. on 16 December 1826. They had eight children: Charlotte (1827-1851), Mary Ellen (1829-1916), John Thomas (1831-1918), Walter (1832-1871), Francenia (b. 1835), Dorival (1837-1901), Albenia (b. 1839), and Robert Alex (1841-1843).

Peter Barss was born on 4 July 1941 and is a descendant of the Barss family of Lunenburg County. He emigrated from Massachusetts in 1973 and has a BA and MA in English Literature from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied photography in 1971-1972 under Lee Broman at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Barss is an accomplished photographer, having operated the Barss Photographic Studio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia for many years. He is the author of Images of Lunenburg County.

Edna Bassett, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the wife of Norman Bassett, a railroad ticket agent. The Bassetts travelled throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico between 1910 and ca. 1950, and visited Nova Scotia in 1937.

Norman Bassett was a railroad ticket agent at Union Station in Indianapolis, Ind. Between 1910 and ca. 1950, he travelled throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico with his wife, Edna, and attended annual conventions for ticket agents. In 1937 the Bassetts travelled to Nova Scotia for the National Convention of the United States Railroad Ticket Agents.

James Sydney Battis was born December 21, 1886 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Levi and Eliza Battis. He married Jessie Gertrude (Scott) Battis and had 3 children: Margaret, Bill and George. He earned a living as a brakesman with the Intercolonial Railway (ICR) until October 1915, when he volunteered for service as a soldier in the First World War. He joined the Nova Scotia Highlanders, 85th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the rank of Private, left Halifax on the S.S. Olympic on October 13, 1916 and arrived in Liverpool, England on October 19, 1916. On February 10, 1917 his unit was sent to Boulogne, France. He was killed in action on June 19, 1917.

Jessie Gertrude (Scott) Battis was born circa 1887, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Scott. She married James Battis on June 28, 1910 in Moncton, New Brunswick. In 1915 they lived in Amherst, Nova Scotia before moving back to Moncton, New Brunswick in 1916, shortly after James enlisted with the army. She carefully kept the letters.

Edward Bayer of Lower Horton, N.S. married H. (Stint) McClelland of County Down, Ireland, ca. 22 March 1864 in Wolfville, N.S. They had a daughter, Lavinia.

In the early 1800s the excessive consumption of alcoholic drink in Yarmouth County created a need for some form of temperance reform. -- In the 1820s, after Mr. Trask and Jonathan Raymond had opened taverns in Beaver River, Josiah Porter worried that some residents were drinking to excess. -- Eventually, at Josiah Porter’s instigation, eight men from Beaver River signed a pledge of abstinence, which had been prepared by John Wetmore, who in 1828 was Beaver River’s school teacher. -- The pledge was signed, and the society established, on 28 April 1828 or 25 April 1829. By 1830 the number of signatories had increased from eight to sixty-eight. In 1831 the pledge was amended to include abstinence from wine, except for medical and sacramental uses, and to make the partaking of wine or spirituous liquors for medical purposes without a physician’s prescription a violation of the pledge. -- Other than the pledge and minute book, the constitution or bylaws under which this society operated have long been lost. Initially, according to J. Murray Lawson, it was named the “Beaver River Society”; J. Roy Campbell called it the “Beaver River Temperance Society”. -- Eventually, in 1854, the society changed its name to the Beaver River Total Abstinence Society. -- In the Town of Yarmouth, as elsewhere in Yarmouth County, the Church’s ministers supported and encouraged the temperance movement. For example, Reverend Harris Harding, who was the senior pastor of the First Yarmouth Baptist Church for 57 years, embraced the cause of temperance.

Dr. James Murray Beck, a university professor, researcher and writer, was born in Lunenburg in 1914 to Allan Clyde Beck and Florence Louise Silver. He was educated at Acadia University, Wolfville, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (History) in 1934 and a Master of Arts (History) in 1938. After serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a radar officer during World War II, he returned to Nova Scotia in 1945 and taught veterans preparing to enter university. He resumed his studies at the University of Toronto, obtaining a Master of Arts (Political Science) in 1946 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science) in 1954. Dr. Beck taught political science at the University of Toronto 1948-1950, Acadia University 1950-1952, the Royal Military College of Canada 1952-1963, and Dalhousie University 1963-1980, retiring from Dalhousie in 1980. As a scholar he was well-respected for his research and writing on Nova Scotian and Canadian politics, especially for his books Politics of Nova Scotia, 1985, Joseph Howe Vol. 1: Conservative Reformer 1804-1848, 1982 and Joseph Howe Vol. 2: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873, 1983. He contributed many articles to Dalhousie Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Acadiensis, Dictionary of Canadian Biography and Encyclopedia Britanica. He served as a member of the Nova Scotia Advisory Committee on Government Institutions and Division of Powers, part of the effort to formulate a position and strategy for Nova Scotia in the Canadian constitutional reform debates of 1991-1992. Dr. Beck received 3 honourary degrees from Dalhousie University (1981), St. Francis Xavier University (1985) and the Royal Military College of Canada (1985). He was the first recipient of the Dalhousie Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence (1980) and he was made a member of the Order of Canada (1995). Dr. Beck died in Halifax on June 30, 2011 at the age of 96.

Born in 1903 [Halifax, Nova Scotia?], Dr. Beckwith received his medical training at Dalhousie University and postgraduate training in Montreal and Toronto. His decision to pursue a career in internal medicine and chest diseases was largely due to being ill with tuberculous during his training in Toronto. In 1937, he developed a health unit in Cape Breton, the first of its kind in Nova Scotia. He returned to Halifax after nine years in Cape Breton and became Superintendent of the Halifax Tuberculosis Hospital and a member of the staff at Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine, Department of Preventative Medicine. In 1951 he was made Associate Professor of Medicine. In 1956 he became Executive Secretary (full-time) of the MSNS of Nova Scotia. In 1968, he retired, but remained a consultant until his death in 1973. During his career he was president of the Nova Scotia Tuberculosis Association, the Canadian Tuberculosis Association, and the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Council.

Merchant and colonial governor Jonathan Belcher was born at Cambridge, Mass. in 1682. A graduate of Harvard University (1699), he built a sizeable fortune as a merchant in Boston and served as governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1730-1741, and governor of New Jersey from 1746 until his death on 31 August 1757. He was also the founder of Princeton University. Governor Belcher and his first wife Mary (Patridge) had six children: Elizabeth, Andrew (b. 1706), Sarah (b. 1708), Jonathan (1710-1776); William (b. 1712) and Thomas (b. 1713). Sarah married Byfield Lyde in 1727. Jonathan received an AB (1728) and AM (1731) from Harvard University and master's degrees from Cambridge University and the College of New Jersey (Princeton). He studied law at the Middle Temple in London, England in 1730 and was called to the English bar in 1734. In 1741 he moved to Dublin where he was eventually appointed deputy secretary to the lord chancellor of Ireland. He remained in Ireland until 1754 when he was appointed the first chief justice of Nova Scotia. He arrived at Halifax in October 1754 and was named a member of the Executive Council. Belcher also served as lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia from 1761 to 1763 and Masonic grandmaster of Nova Scotia from 1760 until his death on 30 March 1776, at Halifax. He married Abigail Allen at Boston on 8 April 1756 and had seven children, only two of whom survived to adulthood.

The Bell family of Halifax, N.S., is descended from the Hon. Hugh Bell (1780-1860), educator, businessman, officeholder, politician and philanthropist. Originally from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Hugh Bell came as a child to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He married first in 1808 Elizabeth Lane at Halifax and secondly in 1815 Ann Allison at the Mantua estate near Newport, N.S. He was related through his second wife to Charles Frederick Allison, founder of Mount Allison University. Hugh Bell and several of his descendents owned businesses in Halifax. They were strongly involved with the Methodist Church in Nova Scotia and Sackville, N.B.

The Bell Gift Cemetery Company was incorporated in 1877. The cemetery is located in West New Annan, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. The organization was established to be responsible for the upkeep of the cemetery and for collecting fees to maintain it.

Winthrop Pickard Bell was a philosopher, author, and historian. He received a BA in mathematics from Mount Allison University in 1904 and took engineering courses at McGill and Cornell before obtaining an MA from Mount Allison in 1907 and an MA in philosophy from Harvard in 1909. He continued his studies at Cambridge, England, and at Leipzig and Gottingen in Germany. In 1914, he received a Ph.D. from Gottingen. During World War I, Bell was imprisoned in Germany and sent to the civilian prisoner of war camp at Ruhlebeu. Upon his release, he returned to England where he was recruited to work for the British Secret Service. After two years, he returned to Canada due to ill health and began teaching at the University of Toronto. Following a teaching position at Harvard, Bell returned to Nova Scotia and engaged in business until he retired to begin writing. From 1946, he researched and published The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia (1961). He also served as president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. Bell was married to Hazel Deinstadt (1889-1966). He died at Chester on 4 April 1965.

Andrew Mackinlay Bell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 12 February 1847, the son of Joseph (1819-1883) and Maria (Goodfellow) Bell (1822-1898). He worked for Black Brothers in Halifax until 1875, when he established his own business, which became known as A.M. Bell and Company. He married Mary Emerancy Pickard (1847-1918) of Sackville, New Brunswick, on 17 July 1883. He sold his business in 1914 and died on 7 August 1918. His son, Ralph Pickard Bell, was born in Halifax on 28 March 1886. He studied at Mount Allison University and went on to become the university's first chancellor in 1960. During the Second World War he served as Director-General for Aircraft Production in Canada. He was also a prominent business man who was involved with the timber trade and fisheries in Nova Scotia. He spearheaded the creation of National Sea Products Limited and also served as a vice-president of the Bank of Nova Scotia. He married Annie Marguerite Deinstadt in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on 22 May 1907. She was born on 7 June 1884 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, the daughter of Rev. Thomas James and Rebecca (Beer) Deinstadt. She died in Halifax, Nova, Scotia on 17 March 1943. Their eldest child was Dorothy Allison Deinstadt Bell who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 20 February 1908. She was married on 11 June 1933 in Westmount, Quebec, to James Isbester Maclaren, the son of James and Menota (Isbester) Maclaren. She died on 2 July 1991 at Martins Point, Nova Scotia.

The Belmont Amateur Athletic Club seems to have been in existence in Halifax from 1896 - 1903. Little is know about the club besides the fact that it was a sports club, given that the surviving items, a treasurer's book, and a tin box, give little information on the clubs history.

Robert Allen Benjamin (1920-2014), professional photographer, was born 3 November 1920 in Brookfield, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada to Stairs Benjamin (1891-1936) and Helen Francis (Titus) Benjamin (1910-1950). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to 49 Lyle Street in Dartmouth, NS. He studied photography in New York City, then in 1940 opened a photographic business Industrial Commercial Portraits which became Benjamin Studio in 1947, located in the Bell Building in Dartmouth, NS. The business lasted until 1970. He died in Deland, Florida, United States on 25 July 2014.

Bennett Smith & Sons was a shipbuilding and shipping company with offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Saint John, New Brunswick. Bennett Smith was well known as one of the largest and wealthiest shipowners in the Maritimes. After his death in 1886, Bennett Smith & Sons was taken over by Bennett's sons, John Marshall Smith and Charles Dewolfe Smith.