Gladys Irene Moffatt (1891-1972), singer and vaudeville performer, was born February 24, 1891 in Halifax to Alexander Moffatt and Emma (Hicks) Moffatt. She started acting as a child for the Halifax Stock Company, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She then performed light opera with the Robinson Opera Company among others before going into vaudeville in 1908 as part of a comic duo “Harrison and Moffatt”. Gladys married her partner, Charles Aloysius Harrison in Saint John, New Brunswick on June 12, 1908. They performed in Halifax, Truro and Amherst as well as in Saint John, Montreal and Ottawa. In 1909 they emigrated to the United States. They divorced in 1915. In the 1920s she changed to a singing act accompanied by piano player Walter Mohr, then with Jerry Clebb. From 1921 to 1923 she went on a tour, performing her vaudeville act in major cities in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Nebraska. She performed under the names “Glad Moffatt: Glad Singer of Glad Songs”, “Glad Moffatt: The Sunshine Girl”, “Gladys Moffatt The Charming Song Bird” as well as simply Glad/Gladys Moffatt. She married Thomas S. Myatt (1884-1956) on 23 March 1938 in Halifax. She died in May 1972 in Bedford and is buried in Nine Mile River.
The Moir family business was established under Benjamin Moir, a native of Scotland, who opened a bakery shop on Brunswick Street, Halifax, N.S. in 1830. After his death in 1845, his son William C. Moir took over the bakery. Between 1862 and 1869 Moir built a five-story plant occupying Grafton, Argyle, and Duke Streets featuring a steam bakery, flour mill and retail store which originally operated under the name Moir and Co. A confectionery plant was opened in 1873 managed by William's son, James W. Moir, who introduced the production of chocolates. In 1875 the name of the firm became William C. Moir and Son. James W. Moir succeeded his father as head of the business in 1896 and his brother, William C. Moir Jr., also joined the firm as an associate. In 1903 the firm known as Moir Son and Co. was incorporated as a joint stock company under the name Moirs Limited. A paper box plant was added to the establishment at Halifax, and a chocolate refining plant, saw mill and wooden box (shook) manufacturing plant were constructed in Bedford where the company later established its own hydro power station. On 29 December 1925, Moirs Limited was incorporated to acquire the old firm. The company was reorganized in 1926 and established branch sales offices and warehouses across Canada and foreign agencies in the West Indies, Central and South America, South Africa, and New Zealand. In 1956 the company left family hands and was reorganized under new president F.M. Covert. Standard Brands Canada Limited acquired Moirs in 1967. The Moirs plant continued in Dartmouth as part of Hershey Foods Corporation.
James Moody (1744-1809) came to Nova Scotia (NS) in 1786 as a United Empire Loyalist, from New Jersey, United States of America, during the American Revolutionary War. Lieutenant Moody distinguished himself fighting with the British, then settled in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, as a farmer, merchant, and shipbuilder. He became a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature, Captain of the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment and later Lieutenant Colonel of the Clare Township militia. His brother John Moody (ca1757-1781) was captured and hung as a traitor November 13, 1781. James’ first marriage was to Elizabeth Brittain in New Jersey and they had three children: John (1768-ca.1809), Maria (1775-1848) and an unnamed child. After Elizabeth’s death, James Moody married a widow, Mrs. Jane Robinson Lynson in March 1782 in New York. After James’ death in 1809, Jane Moody petitioned and was given a grant for her husband’s military service. James and Elizabeth’s son John Moody (1768-ca1809) came to Nova Scotia with his father, was a merchant and land owner in Weymouth, married Margaret Budd (1767-1857) in 1789 in Yarmouth, NS and had four children: James Budd Moody (1790-1829), Elizabeth Jane Moody (1793-1794), John Wentworth Moody (1796-1817), and Elisha William Budd Moody (1799-1863). Elisha W.B. Moody was a merchant, ship owner and land owner in Yarmouth, agent for Lloyd’s of London shipping insurance company and Justice of the Peace. Elisha married twice, first to Sarah Rachel Harding circa 1825 and second to Mary Anne Stewart. They had three children including John Wentworth Moody (1826-1894) who worked as a merchant and Lloyd’s agent with his father and eventually inherited the business. He was also a director of the Bank of Yarmouth, Vice-consul for Sweden and Norway at Yarmouth, president of the Yarmouth Marine Association and a magistrate for Yarmouth County. He married Janette Braine on 17 November 1857 in New York, USA, and had five children including Elisha William Budd Moody (1863-1942). Elisha attended Kings College in Windsor, NS, then lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a time before moving back to Yarmouth where he worked at the Bank of Yarmouth and took on his father’s duties as shipping insurance agent for Lloyd’s. In 1901 he moved to Hamilton, Ontario to be treasurer of Cosmos Imperial Mill. He married Esther Louise Doane in Yarmouth on September 11, 1889 and they had one son Philip Doane Moody (1890-1975) and one daughter Olive Janette Moody (1894-1951). Olive was born in Yarmouth and died in Hamilton. Philip was born in Buenos Aires, worked as a salesman and owned a gas station in Hamilton, served in First World War and had an interest in sports, especially softball. He married Lillian Ruth Nellis Mothersill on 6 March 1918 in Hamilton and had four children. Philip died May 21, 1975 in Hamilton, Ontario.
The Moose River Rescue Fund Committee was established after the Moose River Mine Disaster, which occurred on 12 April 1936. For several days three men had been trapped 43 metres underground after the gold mine collapsed around them, and dozens of rescuers eventually managed to rescue of two of the men. A fund consisting of donations from the public was incorporated and administered under the auspices of the Canadian Red Cross Society. The proper and just distribution of these donations was a matter of political concern, hence a national committee was appointed to determine who had participated in the rescue operation, what role they had, how much they had worked, and how much compensation they were entitled to. Cyrus D. Sampson (1897-1966) of Westville, a mining engineer with the Intercolonial Coal Co. Ltd., was chosen investigator and secretary. Sampson had led a team of miners from Westville, Nova Scotia, to assist in the rescue efforts. After several months of investigation and collecting accurate statements from all who were involved in the rescue operations, the more detailed and accurate picture of the rescue operation led to proper distribution of funds.
Joseph W. Morrill was born in Grafton, New Hampshire on 30 October 1894, the son of Warren C. and Francelia (Sleeper) Morrill. He served in the United States Navy and was serving aboard the USS Old Colony at the time of the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. He was married to Ernestine L. Hunt.
Born in Hopkinton, Mass. in 1759, Charles Morris arrived in Halifax, N.S. with his parents, Hon. Charles and Elizabeth Morris, in 1761. He succeeded his father as surveyor general of lands for Nova Scotia from 1802 to 1831. Charles married Charlotte Pernette (1771-1844) ca. 1786 and became a member of the Council on 2 June 1808. He died on 17 December 1831.
James Loran Morrison was born on 3 February 1919 in Economy, Nova Scotia, the son of James Levi and Myrtle Mary (Marsh) Morrison. He was hired in 1938 by the Truro Police Force as a constable. He joined the Navy Shore Patrol in 1944 and served until 1947. After demobilization he moved to Toronto where he was hired as a constable. In 1953 he returned to Economy, Nova Scotia, where he managed a family-owned service station and general store. He operated the business until 1980, when he retired. He died in January 1981.
C. Blair Morrow of Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, was born 18 July 1937 to Bill and Florence Morrow in Prince Edward Island and grew up in Fairview subdivision of Halifax, NS. He married Lorraine Morrow and had 2 sons Kale and Robbie. He was employed in the road construction industry all his life, worked at various times with Warnock Hersey, SNC Lavalin, Jacques Whitford and Stantech, mostly on concrete supports for bridges. He enjoyed coaching hockey and baseball, researching genealogy and taking photographs of the iron bridges he worked on. He died 3 September 2016 in Lower Sackville, NS.
Nathaniel Niles Morse was born on 15 February 1876 in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Charles C. and Francis S.N.K. Morse. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1904. He thereafter served as an anesthetist. Morse is believed to have been part of a Harvard University medical team that came to Halifax to offer medical relief after the Explosion of 1917. He married Helen Louise Stewart, a native of Stanstead, Quebec, at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1904. They had two daughters, Nancy and Mary. He died on 24 February 1937 in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
Harry Stafford Morton was born in Port Greville, Nova Scotia on 18 August 1905, the son of Charles Stewart (1876-1955) and Maie Howard (Stafford) Morton (1879-1931). He studied at St. Andrew's College in Toronto, Ontario, 1918-1921, Dalhousie University where he received his BA (1925) and M.Sc. (1927). He received his medical training at the University of London, graduating with an MB, BS in 1930. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, England, in 1935 and was added to the Medical Register of the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1937. In 1938 he joined the Canadian Navy, serving as a surgeon commander with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He retired as a surgeon captain in 1945. Thereafter, he taught at McGill University Medical School and served as Chairman of the Surgical Fellow Training Program, 1946-1964; and as Examiner for the Medical Council of Canada and McGill University, 1946-1964. He was Chairman of the Cancer Committee of the Quebec Medical Society and was founder of the Quebec Tumor Registry. He was made a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999. He served as a director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada, 1962-1988, and the Board of Regents of Mount Allison University, 1964-1983. He authored 37 scientific publications and in 2000 published Canadian Medical Officers in the Royal Navy, World War II. He died on 8 December 2001 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was buried in the Morton family plot in Brookside Cemetery, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Rachel Perot Wainwright was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 25 November 1909, the daughter of Lumley Gregor (1863-1910) and Mary Haliburton (King) Wainwright (1866-1950). She was educated at the Halifax Ladies Academy and at St. Leonard's School in St. Andrew's, Scotland. Thereafter, she studied at King's College and the Halifax Conservatory of Music. She married Harry Stafford Morton on 15 July 1937. She was an active volunteer and was a founding member of the first Montreal Meals on Wheels service, a former president of the Montreal Volunteer Bureau, and she served with the National Council of Women. She died on 6 March 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Malcolm Mosher was born on 4 December 1883 at Avondale, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Daniel and Merinda (Martin) Mosher. He graduated from the Maritime Business School in Halifax in 1902, and began working as a clerk the same year. On 2 November 1908 he married Florence B. Larder of Halifax. The couple adopted one daughter, Marial. In 1914 Mosher went into business on his own as an importer and grocery broker, establishing Mosher Brokerage Company in Halifax. The business prospered and Mosher became a well known and respected member of the Maritime business community. Mosher was very active in Halifax community life, particularly in the affairs of the Brunswick Street United Church, where he was a treasurer, a chorister, and a board member. He was also a member of the Halifax Curling Club, Gorsebrook Golf Club, the North British Society, St. John's Lodge, the Scottish Rite, and the Rotary Club. Malcolm Mosher died suddenly of a heart attack on 16 May 1951 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Marial Mosher was born on 29 January 1917 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the adopted daughter of Malcolm and Florence B. (Larder) Mosher. She became interested in dance at an early age. When she was eighteen, she went to New York and studied dance under Albertina Rasch and others. In 1939 Marial Mosher returned to Halifax, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. She continued dancing at Madame Hylda's School of Dance in Halifax, and gave performances for servicmen with Uncle Mel's Show. In 1941, Marial Mosher gave up her career as a dancer to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Following her return from the services in 1945, she studied sociology at Acadia University, graduating in 1951, and subsequently taught anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University for many years. She also served as a staff officer at Eastern Command Headquarters for ten years. In 1953, Marial Mosher was one of a small group of Canadian service women selected to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, in recognition of her distinguished military service. She died in Halifax on 4 October 2008.
The Committee on Appointment, Promotion and Tenure or Permanence is a standing committee of Senate, and was known in the past as the Committee on Appointments, Rank and Tenure. This Committee is responsible for matters dealing with the awarding of academic rank, tenure and permanence to administrators with academic rank, who are not members of the bargaining unit represented by the Mount Saint Vincent Faculty Association. The Vice-President Academic acts as Chair. This Committee communicates the decision reached in each case of appointment, promotion and tenure or permanence to the Chair of Senate, to the President and/or to the Board of Governors, as appropriate. The Committee considers individuals recommended for emeritus status, and makes recommendations to Senate concerning the granting of emeritus status. Members of the committee include four elected members of faculty serving as members of the University Review Committee/University Review Committee for Librarians.
The Committee on Teaching and Learning is a standing committee of Senate. This Committee was originally known as the Committee on Continuing Education and Summer School until it was folded into the Committee on Teaching ca. 1995.
The Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarship Committee is a standing committee of Senate. The first meeting of the newly-formed Committee on Admissions and Awards (originally there was a separate Committee on Scholarships and a separate Committee on Admissions) was held December 1966, and at various times this Committee has been known as the Committee on Admissions, Scholarships and Bursaries. This title was later changed to the Committee on Admissions and Scholarships.
The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee is a sub-committee of the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning and reports to Senate through that standing committee. Referred to at various times as the Curriculum Committee (established in 1965) and the Curriculum Sub-Committee, the Committee's purpose is to serve as consultant and advisor to Senate on matters dealing with undergraduate curriculum. The membership of the Committee consists of the Dean of Professional Studies and the Dean of Arts and Science as alternating Chairpersons, the Registrar, two full-time members of faculty from each division, and one faculty member at large, as well as, one third or fourth-year student representative named by the Student Union.
Formed on 15 June 1975 through the intiative of the Department of Recreation, the Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia is an umbrella organization which represents and serves regional multicultural councils in the province and their affiliated groups. Its objectives are to promote, encourage and assist cultural groups to develop and preseve their cultural identities, to act as a co-ordinating centre for local associations and councils, and to act as a liaison between the various cultural groups and departments of government. The association was incorporated under the Societies Act on 22 July 1975 and its first board meeting took place in Halifax on 8 August 1975. The programs developed by the association serve the multicultural community in the areas of education, performing and visual arts, immigration and anti-racism concerns, library service, radio broadcasts, and publications, including several books and a quarterly newsletter, Share (first issue published October 1975). MANS has also sponsored, co-sponsored and produced numerous festivals including Community Ethno Cultural Arts Festival, the Canadian Heritage Festival, and Celebration, which began in 1985 and is currently known as the annual Nova Scotia Multicultural Festival
Beamish Murdoch, barrister, writer, and historian, was born at Halifax, N.S. on 1 August 1800, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Beamish) Murdoch. In 1822 he was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia and began a legal practice. He also began to contribute articles to the Acadian Recorder and Acadian Magazine. He served as MLA for Halifax Township, 1826-1830, after which he published his first book, Epitome of the Laws of Nova Scotia (1832-33). In 1841 he became clerk of the Central Board of Education followed by recorder for the city of Halifax, 1852-1860. He retired in 1860 and began to write A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadie, published between 1865 and 1867. Murdoch was active in several civic and charitable organizations, including the Charitable Irish Society (vice president, 1824-1825); Poor Man's Friend Society, 1825; Nova Scotia Philanthropic Society in the 1830s; and the Halifax Temperance Society (president, 1842). He died on 9 February 1876 at Lunenburg.
Norman Dudley Murray was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 29 March 1900, the son of Norman Grant and Gertrude L. (Pickering) Murray. He saw active service in the First World War, enlisting in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 1 April 1916 and serving until he was discharged on 15 October 1919. Thereafter, he returned to Halifax and attended Dalhousie Law School, graduating in 1922. In 1923 he married Nellie Jean Archibald in Truro, Nova Scotia. He was eventually made Dartmouth Town Magistrate. He was keenly interested in early film photography. He was active in the pre-Second World War militia (87th and 88th Field Artillery Batteries), which met in the armories in the old wooden Park School in Dartmouth. He re-enlisted for active service in 1942, but due to his wife's health he was placed in charge of civil defense for Dartmouth, where he was involved in responding to both the V-E Day riots and the Magazine Explosion in 1945. He was appointed a K.C. on 30 December 1950. He died on 30 November 1955.
Jon Earl Murray was born at Middleton, N.S., the son of Lloyd and Kathleen (MacNeil) Murray. He attended the Nova Scotia Technical College where he graduated with a B. Arch. in 1972. He commenced his professional practice in architecture in 1975 and registered with the Nova Scotia Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. From 1972 to 1985 he was associated with the firm Architectural Resources Consultants Company Limited. He also taught briefly at the School of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia, 1981. As a freelance architect, Murray specialized in restoration of private homes and commercial buildings, small-scale rehabilitation, and design of modern homes for which he received several awards including the Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Architecture in 1991 and Lieutenant Governor's Award for Architecture Medal of Excellence in 1993. He worked primarily in metropolitan Halifax-Dartmouth and surrounding counties, as well as Cape Breton and New Brunswick. His projects included renovations for W.R. MacAskill house at St. Peter's and Baddeck Library, and the design and construction of Chocolate Gourmet Treats Limited ("Treats") stores and Silversides Subdivision, Waverly. Formerly a resident of Centreville, N.S., he died 28 December 1993 at London, England.
Paul Burns Murray was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, on 21 March 1927, the son of Isaac and S. Audrey G. (Mullin) Murray. He was educated at Mount Allison University and the Royal College of Music in London, England. Mr Murray was a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music degree and successfully completed the requirements for Associate of the Royal College of Music (1953) and Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (1952). He was director of school music in Saint John, 1955-1961, and then moved to Toronto as supervisor of music for Scarborough schools and organist and choirmaster of Metropolitan United Church. He was also chairman of school music for the North York Board of Education, 1963-1967. He moved to Halifax in 1967 and became music consultant for the Nova Scotia Department of Education and organist and choir director of Saint Matthew's United Church, Halifax. Mr. Murray founded the Halifax Chamber Choir in 1970. He was a past President of the Canadian Music Educators Association from 1976 to 1979. He was married to Helen and had two children. He died on 9 July 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nancy (Walstrom) Jabbra, retired anthropology professor, was born in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States to Octavia Seawell Walstrom and Douglas Peter Walstrom. She married Joseph G. Jabbra in August 1974 and is the mother of two children: Michael and Mary. She earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Anthropology in 1964 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, US; her Master of Arts (MA) in 1970 from Indiana University, Bloomington, US; and her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1975 from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, US. Dr. Jabbra worked as professor of Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia 1975 to 1990, then moved to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, where she served as founding Chair of the Women’s Studies Department from 2004 until retirement in 2012. She has co-authored 18 books and book chapters and 33 articles in scholarly journals and she was a member of 20 professional societies, served as President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association from 1987-1989.
National Sea Products Limited originated in Lunenburg in 1899 as W.C. Smith & Co., a ships' chandlery and salt fish operation. In 1926 the latter company merged with Lunenburg Sea Products, a cold storage and fresh fish plant, while retaining its company name. Soon the new company began to modernize its offshore fishing ships by installing diesel engines in existing vessels and constructing new types of dory trawlers and diesel powered otter trawlers. In addition, it was one of the first fishing companies to install radio-telephone communications between fishing vessels and port, and to introduce other electronic and navigational equipment. Further expansion led to the construction of new plants at Louisbourg, North Sydney, Lockeport and Digby, as well as Shippegan and Loggieville, N.B., and sales offices were opened in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Boston. In 1938 both Lunenburg Sea Products and W.C. Smith & Co. were acquired by a holding company, Smith Fisheries Ltd. During World War II the company built two modern otter diesel trawlers, Cape North and Cape LaHave, that revolutionized the Atlantic fishing industry by replacing offshore line fishing by draggers towing trawls along the ocean floor. The company also improved its processing methods and equipment, and developed a variety of new frozen seafood products. In 1945 Lunenburg Sea Products, its associated companies, and Maritime National Fish Company of Halifax were acquired by outside interests and amalgamated into National Sea Products Ltd. In the 1960s Nat Sea built a new plant at Battery Point on Lunenburg Harbour that was considered one of the most modern and largest fish plants in the world. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as with the fishing industry in general, Nat Sea was plagued by over-inventory and a weak market. But in 1983 the establishment of federal government quota and allocation systems helped stabilize the industry and improve the company's financial outlook. In 1998 Nat Sea became a division of High Liner Foods Incorporated, one of North America's largest marketers of fresh and frozen seafood and frozen pasta products. In 2003 the sale of National Sea Products' High Liner Foods fleet to Clearwater Seafoods, Halifax, was announced.