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Kathy Moggridge Kuusisto was born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1948. She completed her undergraduate degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, in 1970 and received her MA from the University of Essex, England, in 1980. She moved to Nova Scotia in 1971. From 1972 to 1975 she was employed by the Nova Scotia Museum as editor of The Occasional and coordinator of the national inventory of Historic Buildings. She also taught courses at St. Mary's University, 1978-1984, and at Dalhousie Library School, 1984-1985. From the late 1970s to 1985 she was an historical researcher for several different projects, and is currently employed by the Secretary of State in Halifax.

The Knowles family originated with Henry Knowles, who was born in 1609 in England and came to Boston, and then to Rhode Island, with Roger Williams in 1635. In 1767 the Knowles family moved to Newport, Nova Scotia. In 1865, Thomas Benjamin Knowles (1840-1936) left Nova Scotia to study for the ministry at Bethany College in West Virginia. He remained in the United States and raised a family of nine sons with Cordelia Mary (Baldwin) Knowles. They were subsequently joined by other members of the Knowles family who left Nova Scotia for Ohio.

The Knights of Columbus were originally founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut on 29 March 1882. The organization was established as a fraternal benefit society with the founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity in order to render financial aid to members and their families. The society is divided into 'states councils' at the provincial level and 'councils' at the local level. Initially, the Supreme Office in Connecticut established the Maritime Provinces jurisdiction in 1904. The first local council was formed in Sydney in 1905. In 1919 the Supreme Office began work to separate the Maritime Provinces into their own State Councils. The Nova Scotia State Council was formally established on 10 May 1921. The following local councils with their dates of establishment were the original Charter Councils: Sydney (1905), Halifax (1906), Antigonish (1906), New Glasgow (1912), and Sydney Mines (1919). The State Council supports a permanent and systematic scholarship program which began with seven scholarships in 1921. The Knights of Columbus have also taken a very prominent part in helping students from the developing world attend the Coady Institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish.

Janet Kitz came originally from Camwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland. She moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and married Leonard Kitz in 1971. Since 1980 she has conducted research on the Halifax Explosion. In 1987 she helped to mount an exhibit on the disaster, A Moment in Time, at Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, where she was working as a research associate. She is the author of a number of books on the Halifax Explosion.

Jean Isabel (Burgess) Kirstine was born in 1917 to Nelsie Winnifred McLeod (1880-1975) and David W. Burgess (1873-1945) in Hanover, Ontario, Canada. She married Gordon McPhail “Mac” Kirstine (1915-2012) in 1940, worked as a school teacher, and raised 5 children in Walkerton, ON. In the 1970s Jean started researching her family history, compiled a genealogy on her mother’s McLeod ancestors from Nova Scotia. She traced her mother’s paternal line from father Jason McLeod (1845-1933) to James Bent McLeod (b.1799) to James McLeod (b.1772) to John McLeod Jr. (1744-1825) of Liverpool, NS who came to Nova Scotia from Scotland in 1762. Jean died in 2007 in Hanover, ON, age 89.

Prior to 1879 local government in Nova Scotia was the responsibility of the appointed Court of General Sessions of the Peace, which was composed of all those who held commissions as justices of the peace within a particular county. The Kings County Court of General Sessions of the Peace began with the creation of the county in 1759. Meeting two or more times a year, the court had both administrative and judicial functions. It was empowered to appoint local officials, who had been nominated by the Grand Jury; levy county and poor rates; exercise control over roads, bridges, prisons, hospitals, and other public works; regulate animals, weeds, fires, taverns, and the inland fisheries and perform other duties assigned by statute. It could also sit as a court of justice, with limited criminal jurisdiction, using the Grand and Petit Jury system from England. The Grand Jury decided whether a charge should proceed to trial. The Petit Jury decided on an accused’s guilt or innocence. Jury members were selected by lot from a list of male residents who either owned land or held a minimum amount of personal wealth. Concern about the difficulties caused in crossing the Avon river to attend meetings in Horton resulted in the creation of Hants County in 1781 and the consequent removal of Falmouth and Newport townships to the new county. Parrsborough Township, on the opposite side of Minas Basin, remained part of Kings County until 1840 when, for similar reasons, the township was divided between Colchester and Cumberland counties. The passage of the County Incorporation Act in 1879 replaced the administrative functions of the Court of General Sessions with an elected municipal council. Its judicial function was assumed by the Supreme Court on County Circuit.

Reverend (Rev.) William Colsell King came to Nova Scotia as an Anglican missionary sponsored by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel of London, United Kingdom. He was missionary at Douglass and Rawdon townships in 1797 until 1808 when he accepted the position of Principal at King's College School in Windsor (now called King's Edgehill School). Rev. King married Harriott Sophia DeWolf (1781-1807), the daughter of Honourable Benjamin and Rachel (Otis) DeWolf. In 1824 Rev. King married a second time, to Ann (Nixon) DeWolf and became step-father to 11-year old Thomas N. DeWolf.

Stephen Kimber is a writer, editor, and broadcaster based in Halifax, N.S. He was editor and publisher of Cities magazine through his company, Marimedia Associates Ltd. In 1983 he began teaching journalism at the University of King's College where he became an associate professor. He was appointed director of the School of Journalism in 1996. From 1989 to 2001 he was a weekly columnist and feature writer for the Halifax Daily News. He is the author of four non-fiction books including Net Profits: The Story of National Sea (1989), and his articles have appeared in numerous national publications. As a broadcaster, he was a current affairs producer for the Canadian Television Network and a writer, producter, editor, and host for several Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television and radio programs. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Dan McArthur Award for radio documentary production, National Author Award for Best Business Magazine article, Canadian Food Writers' Award, and a Citation of Merit from the Atlantic Journalism Awards.

Gordon Frederick Kent was born in Scotsburn, N.S. in 1939, the son of Robert and Annie (Gibbon). He married Sue Marilyn MacKay on 11 August 1973 in Gays River, N.S., and settled in Halifax where he worked for Martime Telegraph and Telephone Company. In 1978 he began a project to record the Kent family history.

Clarence Bernard Kelly was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 3 February 1923 the son of William and Pansy Kelly. He grew up in the north end on Almon Street and attended A. MacKay School. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army serving with the North Nova Scotia Regiment. He fought in both the Normandy and Holland campaigns and was wounded three times. He lost his left leg below the knee as a result of a landmine and after three months convalescing in England he returned to Halifax. He married Marguerite Andrews in 1946 and found employment with Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow, Limited where he worked as Advertising Manager until 1976. Thereafter, he worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs until retirement in 1983. He was an outspoken advocate for injured veterans and was a founding member of the War Amputees of Canada in 1947. He died in 1990.

Murray McLean Kellough was born on a farm near Lake Egmont, Nova Scotia, on 21 February 1874, the youngest son of William and Elizabeth Kellough. As a young man he moved to Halifax and worked in the grocery business. He subsequently worked in the same field in Boston and Winnipeg. He lost his Winnipeg business during the Great Depression and subsequently worked a small farm in Selkirk, Manitoba, growing experimental crops and studying at the University of Manitoba. On 30 January 1907 he married Jessie Russell Phillips of Halifax and together they had three children. His wife died on 21 January 1919 from influenza and his children were sent back to Nova Scotia for a year. Thereafter, they returned and his wife's older sister, Annie Blanche Phillips, helped to raise the children. Ultimately, Murray Kellough moved back to a small farm on the edge of Winnipeg. He died there on 27 July 1965.

Barbara Anne Carter Keddy was born at Yarmouth, N.S. on 13 December 1938. She received her RN licence from the Yarmouth School of Nursing in 1959. She continued to work and teach at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital until 1971 when she moved to Halifax to continue university studies. She obtained a diploma in public health nursing (Dalhousie, 1973), a B.Sc. in nursing (Mount Saint Vincent, 1975), MA in sociology (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) from Dalhousie. Since 1979, Keddy has been appointed to various academic positions in Dalhousie University's School of Nursing, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, and Women's Studies. She has served as chairperson and board member for numerous professional associations and was the first national president and founder of the Nova Scotia Association for the History of Nursing. Keddy has written extensively for several academic journals.

Halifax-based filmmaker Lulu Keating was born at Antigonish, N.S. in 1952. She attended St. Francis Xavier University 1969 to 1972 and in 1971 became a volunteer with Canadian Crossroads International in Zimbabwe. She also attended the Vancouver School of Art, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and the Summer Institute of Films, participating in motion picture studies programs. Her first film, an animated short entitled Lulu's Back in Town (1980) was part of a national tour and played at the Guttenburg Gallery in Washington. Keating formed her own production companies, Red Snapper Films Ltd. ca. 1983 and Mission Piece Productions Ltd. with Chris Zimmer in 1988. She wrote and directed her first feature film, Midday Sun, in 1989, based on her experiences in Zimbabwe. Keating has also worked with CBC Television and the National Film Board, and taught film workshops across Canada as well as a film production course in Oxford, England. She is active in a variety of organizations including the Canadian Film and Television Association, Atlantic Independent Film and Video Association, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, Dramatists Cooperative, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative which she joined in 1980 and served as president, 1984-1986.

John Perham “J.P.” Messervey (1890-1982), mining engineer and government administrator, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada October 6, 1890 to Albert Frederick Messervey and Miriam Louise (Perham) Messervey. A graduate of Nova Scotia Technical College, J.P. Messervey joined the Nova Scotia Department of Public Works and Mines in 1922 and became Deputy Inspector of Mines in 1936. He directed rescue operations at the Moose River mine disaster that same year. From 1947 to 1958, Messervey was Deputy Minister of Mines, retired in 1958. Messervey wrote 3 pamphlets on minerals in Nova Scotia, taught mining at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax, NS (dates unknown), and was involved in creating films for training miners. He married Hilda Louise Massey (1913-1997) in 1965. He died in Halifax on September 6, 1982.

Joseph George Jabbra, university administrator and professor, was born in 1938 in Ferzol, Zahle, Lebanon to George Jabbra and Rose (Shehade) Jabbra. He married Nancy Walstrom in August 1974 and had two children: Michael and Mary. Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra earned a law degree at St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon in 1965 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in Political Science from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC in 1970. From 1971 to 1990 he was a professor, then Vice President Academic Research at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to Los Angeles, California, United States to take up a similar post at Loyola Marymount University. In 2004 he was appointed President of Lebanese American University in Lebanon and New York state. He has co-authored 12 books and more than 30 scholarly articles and is a member of 15 professional societies.

Charles Hugh Lepailleur Jones was born in Montreal, Quebec on 1 May 1876, the son of Charles Goode and Maria (Barker) Jones. He was educated in public schools in the city and attended McGill University. He married Elisabeth Kennedy in 1903. He served in the Canadian Militia with the Sault-Ste-Marie Regiment and during the First World War was commander of the 227th Battalion and was promoted to a full colonel in 1917. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire on 28 September 1918. Upon his return to Canada he became an industrialist working with various paper production and power companies as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. He served as the first president and general manager of the Mersey Paper Company, Limited in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, beginning in 1928-1929. He died in Quebec City in 1949.

Novelist Alice C. Jones, daughter of Hon. A.G. Jones, businessman and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, and his first wife Margaret Wiseman (Stairs), was born 26 August 1853 at Halifax, N.S. She studied languages and travelled to France and Italy. While abroad, Jones wrote a prize story for Toronto Week and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts", to Frank Leslie's Monthly, N.Y. She went on to contribute numerous articles and short stories to Canadian magazines and published several novels, also using the pseudonyms Alix John and Isabel Broderick. Her first novel, The Night Hawk, was published in 1902. Among her best-known works are: Bubbles We Buy (1903), currently published under the title The Privateer's Fortune (Halifax, 2002), and Gabriel Praed's Castle (1904). Jones died 27 February 1933 at Mentone, France.

Alfred Gilpin Jones, businessman, office holder, and politician, was born 28 September 1824 at Weymouth, N.S., son of Guy Carleton Jones and Frances (Jones). He was educated at Weymouth and Yarmouth Academy before moving to Halifax at the age of 18. He began work as a bookkeeper for Thomas Clifford Kinnear, West India merchant and ship owner, and was made partner as early as 1850. When Kinnear retired in 1872, Jones established his own firm, A.G. Jones and Company, in the same line of business, which he presided over until 1900. He became involved in politics and provided financial and moral support to the Anti-Confederation League prior to his election to the House of Commons as MP for Halifax 1867-1872, 1874-1878, 1887-1891. After 1872 he ran for election as a Liberal. Jones also served as minister of militia and defence, 1878, and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, 1900-1906. He sat on the boards of Dalhousie University and Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home, served as president of Nova Scotia Marine Insurance Co. and director of Acadia Fire Insurance Co., and was lieutenant-colonel of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion before organizing the Halifax Volunteer Artillery Brigade in 1864. Jones and his first wife Margaret Wiseman (Stairs), daughter of Hon. William Stairs, were married in 1850 and had seven children. In 1877 he married Emma Albro. Jones died at Halifax on 15 March 1906.

Howard Parker Jones was born in Weymouth on September 27, 1863 and was the second son of St. Clair Jones and Helen Cecelia (Ladd) Jones. Howard Jones was educated at the Collegiate school and at King’s College, Windsor where he earned his M.A. in 1881. In 1884, he travelled to Germany to study at the University of Heidelburg and earned a PhD in German Literature in 1886. On July 6, 1893 he married Elizabeth Isabel Ridd of Windsor. Elizabeth Ridd was born on January 22, 1859 in Barnstable, England to Mary and Frederic Ridd. After their marriage, they moved to New York where he was appointed as an instructor in German at Cornell University from 1893-1898. During this time, Howard and Elizabeth had three children, Helen Lorna born on April 26, 1895, Frederick Howard Marling born on September 5, 1896 and Edith Madeline born in 1898. In 1898 Howard Parker Jones became professor of modern languages at Hobart College, Geneva, New York and held that position until 1906 when he was appointed chair of Modern Languages at Dalhousie University. Howard Jones published several articles and, in 1900, he authored A German Reader, with Notes and Vocabulary. He continued to teach until his death on April 29, 1924 at age 60. Elizabeth Jones died on October 26, 1938 in Bedford.

The Jones and Clayton families, both prominent in the African Nova Scotian United Baptist Church community, were united by marriage when Rev. Dr. Willard Parker Clayton (1921-2007) married Annie Jean Jones (1932- ) on June 24, 1954 in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. Willard was born in 1921 in Liverpool NS to Licentiate Samuel James Clayton (1886-1967) and Idella Mae (Croxen) Clayton (1888-1978) and raised in Upper Hammonds Plains NS. He left school to work with his father in the family cooperage business (making wooden barrels to transport foodstuffs), then joined the Canadian Army in 1942. Willard P. Clayton served overseas during the Second World War (1939-1945) in the Royal Highland Regiment, Black Watch of Canada, Canadian Army European Theatre (Infantry). He saw Front Line action in France, Holland, Germany, and Belgium before being honorably discharged in 1946. He was ordained as a Christian minister in The African United Baptist Association on September 25, 1952. Clayton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952, a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1955 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1963, all from Acadia University. He went on to earn a Doctor of Religion degree in 1980 in the United States. In addition to ministering, Rev. Dr. Willard P. Clayton was employed full time, first with the Federal Public Service (1952-1962) then the Digby County and Halifax County Bedford District School Boards as classroom teacher (1963-1974) and Vice-Principal (1974-1986). Within the Church, Willard served as Executive Member of The African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia from 1954 to 1996. Together with his wife Jean they worked in church ministry to the Black community in Nova Scotia for 50 years. Clayton was also a writer, with 4 books published between 1982 and 2005. Rev. Dr. Clayton died on April 17, 2007 in Halifax NS.
Annie Jean (Jones) Clayton was born in 1932 in Tracadie NS to Deacon Sydney Morgan Jones (1899-1993) and Amelia Jean (Desmond) Jones (1900-1952). Sydney M. Jones was one of 16 Blacks to enlist in the 106th Battalion, Nova Scotia Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was wounded at Passchendaele, Belgium during the Third Battle of Ypres while serving as a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the First World War (1914-1918). After the war, he served as Deacon for the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church and lived in north end Halifax, where his daughter Jean grew up. She graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1951 with Grade 12. After her marriage to Willard Clayton in 1954, she worked as a pastor’s wife within the Church and raised their three daughters: Joyce, Shelley, and Heather. In 1975 Jean earned a diploma as a Social Service Worker from Nova Scotia Institute of Technology and started working outside the home and church. From 1975 to 1994 Jean was employed with the Black United Front, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Halifax Metro United Way, and finally Human Rights Resources Development Canada. Jean Clayton was also a writer, especially of poetry. As of 2023, she lives in Halifax NS.

Charles Herbert Johnson was born in Oxford, Nova Scotia, circa 1878, the son of the Rev. Dr. D.W. and Jenny L. (Morse) Johnson. He graduated with a BA in 1898 from Mount Allison University, a degree in theology in 1900 from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and an MA from City College of New York. He married Louise Harriet Paisley of Sackville, New Brunswick in 1904. He held numerous pastorates in the Atlantic Provinces with the Methodist Church and, after 1925, with the United Church of Canada. He died on 13 July 1974 in Kamloops, British Columbia and was buried in Berwick, Nova Scotia.

John S. Derrick, educator, was born in the Seychelles Islands on February 21, 1924. In 1948 he emigrated to British Columbia, where he worked as a teacher. Following a period of teaching at Rothessay Collegiate, Mr. Derrick moved to Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960 to become Headmaster of King's College School. In 1969, Mr. Derrick arranged for King's College School to take over the Edgehill Girl's School in Windsor, which was in danger of closing down, thereby creating King's-Edgehill School. In 1973, Mr. Derrick resigned as Headmaster of King's-Edgehill and moved to Lahave, N.S., where he taught at Bridgewater High School until his retirement to Halifax, N.S. in 1992.-- Mr. Derrick's daughter, Ms. Anne DERRICK, has established a reputation as one of Nova Scotia's leading barristers.

The first meeting to organize a Jewish Historical Society in Halifax took place on 2 September 1964 at the request of Noa Heinish, national vice president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The purpose of the society was to research and record material relating to the history of the Jewish community in Halifax and other areas of the Maritimes. The formation of the society was prompted by the re-activation of the historical society of the Canadian Jewish Congress and its request to Jewish communities across Canada to participate in its program. The early activities of the Halifax society included conducting surveys and oral histories of Jewish citizens, and engaging in research at local archives. The society was formally organized on 18 April 1972 and incorporated under the Nova Scotia Societies Act on 9 May 1973. The main function of the society remained to "discover and collect any material which may help to establish or illustrate" the history of the Jews in Atlantic Canada. However, its mandate was broadened to provide for the preservation of archival material, artifacts, monuments, and historic buildings, and to disseminate information and promote public awareness of Jewish heritage through publications, meetings, addresses, lectures, and papers. The society disbanded in 1976 and was re-established when the Canadian Jewish Historical Society met in Halifax in June 1981.