Lloyd Roseville Crouse was born on 19 November 1918 in Lunenburg, N.S., and educated at Lunenburg County Academy. On 7 October 1942 he married Marion Cavell Fraser of Bridgewater and they had two children. In 1948 he established Crouse Fisheries Ltd., and later, Viking Fisheries Ltd. and Atlas Fisheries Ltd. in Lunenburg. He served as manager and secretary-treasurer of all three companies until their closure in the mid-1960s. Crouse was first elected to the House of Commons in the general election of 1957 as MP for Queens-Lunenburg (re-named South Shore in 1968). After serving as chairman and member of several committees, he was appointed a member of the PC "shadow cabinet" in 1983, responsible for fisheries policies. From 1985-1988 he was chairman of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and a member of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association. He became a member of the Privy Council on 10 June 1985. In 1988 he retired from politics, and on 20 February 1989 was sworn in as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, a position he held until 20 February 1994. In 2007, he died at the age of 88 in his hometown of Lunenburg.
Crouse Fisheries Ltd. of Lunenburg, N.S., was founded in 1945 by Lloyd R. Crouse, who became its secretary-treasurer. The company was incorporated under the Nova Scotia Companies' Act on 17 October 1945, with nominal capital of $30,000. The company's first share-holders were: Lunenburg marine engineers Clayton H. Allen and Freeman W. Allen; fishermen Freeman M. Crouse and Allen Crouse; George Leonard, a Sydney executive; Dr. D.L. Cooper of the Fishermen's Loan Board; Lloyd Crouse; and Walter Crouse, captain. On 28 April 1947 the company's new 98-foot dragger, the Marion Crouse, was registered at the shipping office. After initial success in the 1950s, and the establishment of two other fisheries by Lloyd R. Crouse, Crouse Fisheries was dissolved ca. 1966 due to the depletion of fish stocks.
Maurice Crosby was born on 10 July 1926 in Miami, Fla. Upon the death of his father and remarriage of his mother, his family moved first to Newfoundland and then to Nova Scotia, in 1930. Crosby left school in 1942 to join the United States Merchant Marine and during the next several years he participated in the Sicilian campaign and the Murmansk run, and served in the Pacific. He began his career as a photographer by snapping pictures of a convoy in which he was taking part. In 1943 he took the only known photograph available of Winston Churchill during the latter's stopover in Halifax while on the way to the Quebec Conference. The Halifax Herald bought the picture and it was subsequently published in many other newspapers. From 1950-1952 Crosby worked in Halifax as a photographer with Donald Morrison, and from 1952-1957 was a press photographer for the Halifax Herald and the Sydney Post-Record, as well as a commercial photographer in Ottawa. In 1957 he became a free-lance photographer and cameraman with the CBC in Halifax. In 1959 he established his own commercial photography studio as Maurice Crosby Photography Ltd, renamed the Village Photo Shop in 1976. Early in his career one of Crosby's associates had been noted pictorialist photographer Wallace MacAskill. After the latter's death in 1956, Crosby purchased his extensive body of negatives and later organized and selected some of the prints for a catalogue of MacAskill's work. He also sold as souvenirs reprints of the MacAskill's work. In the 1960s he was selected by the Department of Trade & Industry in Ottawa as Nova Scotia's representative to a Boston Gift Show to exhibit his photographs as examples of Nova Scotia's creative output. In the early 1980s Crosby left the studio and became a photographer for the provincial government, retiring in the 1990s. He died in Halifax on 9 October 2017.
Jean Hazel (Nickerson) Crook (1920-2011) was born 14 August 1920 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She studied piano and organ at Maritime Academy of Music in Halifax from 1935 to 1941 and began teaching piano at age 16. She was a founding member of the Dartmouth Chapter of the NS Registered Music Teachers Association, was a member of staff at the Academy of Music 1943-1944, organist and choir director for St. Albans Anglican Church in Dartmouth, NS during the 1940s, then for Emmanuel Anglican Church from the 1970s until retirement. She married George W. Crook on 4 September 1948 and had 3 children. She continued to teach piano lessons in her home until the 1990s. She died 21 June 2011, in Dartmouth, NS.
Lela Gurnee Crist was born in 1894, the daughter of Edward Crist and Adelaide (Cleveland) of Sheet Harbour, N.S. She was trained in bookkeeping through the Nova Scotia Department of Technical Education, 1913-1916. In 1923 she graduated with a diploma from the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax. She studied under Elizabeth S. Nutt, Henry Rosenberg, and Stanley Royle, and was a member of the Nova Scotia Society of Artists. She taught painting in watercolours and oils for several years and then specialized in painting miniatures. She died in 1982.
Thomas Colton Creighton was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 18 July 1825, the son of George Brinley Creighton and Isabel Ann (Grassie). He married Ann Albro, fifth daughter of Samuel Albro, on 7 June 1849 in Halifax, and they had four children. Creighton, a master mariner, captained a number of vessels for his uncles, James G.A. Creighton and Thomas Ritchie Grassie, partners in the firm Creighton and Grassie. In 1843 he undertook a voyage on board the barque Rose to the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of hunting sperm whales. The Rose, 421 ton barque, was one of three vessels previously owned by the Halifax Whaling Company, and being operated independently by Samuel Cunard. During the voyage, which lasted until 1846, Creighton kept a daily journal in which he recorded his experiences. He died at sea in February 1862.
Norman Charles Creighton (1909–1995) was born to Charles Jolly and Harriett (nee Hendry) Creighton in Bedford, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Maritime Business College in Halifax in 1929, where he took classes in correspondence, typing, and shorthand. He worked as private secretary until he was struck down by pulmonary tuberculosis in his early twenties. After his recovery three years later, Creighton settled in Hantsport, where he established a plant nursery and began beekeeping. He spent the majority of his adult life in Hantsport with his older sister Laleah; neither sibling married.
Creighton's writing career did not begin until 1941, when he was in his early 30s. That year he created "The Gillans," a dramatic serial about a farming family for CBC radio's Maritime version of the Farm Broadcast. The serial was highly successful, but very demanding of Creighton, who was required to write five scripts a week. He resigned in 1949 but continued to do freelance work for CBC Radio as a writer for the short-lived weekly serial "Three of a Kind," and as a writer and broadcaster of radio talks. These short talks were among Creighton's most popular works, and he created them on a regular basis for over three decades.
In the early 1950s, Creighton began writing for print. His short stories were routinely rejected from magazines, but his non-fiction articles were more successful, appearing in the Atlantic Advocate and Maclean's. Although he had several published articles, Creighton's career as a magazine writer never became anything more than flirtatious; his attentions were directed at radio and the new medium of television. In 1955, Creighton moved to New York City to take a course on television writing at Columbia University. He spent five years in New York City, but his career as a writer for the new medium never took off, and he was forced into menial office work to pay the bills.
After leaving New York City, Creighton returned to Hantsport and resumed his career as a freelance writer and broadcaster. During the 1960s he worked on special projects for CBC Radio and CBC International, which included interview shows on the town of Lunenburg and the V. E. Day riots in Halifax, and a short series of comedy shows called "The Rum Runners." In addition to his regular radio talks, Creighton also wrote radio plays, acted in several CBC Radio dramas, and penned the occasional magazine article. Creighton took on fewer projects as the 1970s progressed, but he researched and recorded radio talks until his retirement in the 1980s. Creighton was a member of the Radio Writers' Guild, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and a founding member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS).
Creighton was a prolific writer, but little of it has been published. In 2001, Creighton's neighbour Hilary Sircom edited Talk about the Maritimes, a compilation of Creighton's essays accompanied by paintings and poems created by his older brother Alan Creighton.
Helen Creighton was an author and pioneer in the field of folklore, both nationally and internationally. Born Mary Helen Creighton on 5 September 1899 in Dartmouth, N.S., she was the daughter of Charles and Alice (nee Terry) Creighton. She graduated from Halifax Ladies College in 1916, was a driver with the Royal Flying Corps in Toronto, 1918 and an ambulance driver for the Red Cross Caravan in Nova Scotia, 1920. She trained in social work at the University of Toronto until 1923, when she traveled to Mexico and taught school in Guadalajara. Her broadcasting career began in 1926 as 'Aunt Helen' on CHNS Radio. She began collecting folklore in 1928. Her first publication based on her findings was Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (1932). In all, she authored 13 books of folk songs, ballads, and stories. She served as Dean of Women at King's College, 1939 to 1941, and attended the Institute of Folklore at the University of Indiana, 1942. She compiled Maritime folklore and folk music for the National Museum of Canada, 1947-1965. Her final publication was Fleur de Rosier (1989). Her works have been the source for symphonies, operas, musical theatre productions, films, a ballet, and many recordings by professional artists. She received numerous awards for her achievements, including Distinguished Folklorist of 1981, six honorary doctorates, Fellow of the American Folklore Society, Honorary Life President of the Canadian Authors' Association, Order of Canada, and the Queen's Medal. She died in Dartmouth in 1989.
Charles Jacob (Jake) Creighton, was born in Dartmouth (1904), the son of Paul Henry and Leda (nee Johnson) Creighton. He was the owner of the family business Creightons Ltd., retiring in 1991 and had been president of the National Food Brokers Association. Creighton served as secretary to the trustees of the Brightwood Golf and Country Club.
Herbert Clifford Creed was born 23 September 1843 in Halifax, the sixth son of George John and Susan (Wellner) Creed. He was educated in Halifax and at Acadia University, Wolfville, obtaining a BA with honours in Greek and Latin and an MA. He taught school in Halifax and moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to become head of the English department at Fredericton High School in 1872. In 1873, shortly after the Provincial Normal School was formed, Creed became the primary intructor in the English language and literature section, retiring in 1909 after thirty-six years. Creed married Jessie Masters on 4 November 1867 and they had four children. In 1902 he received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Acadia University. He died in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 31 August 1910.
George John Creed was born 7 December 1803, in Faversham, Kent, England, the eldest son of Richard and Sarah (Dean) Creed. Creed came to Halifax, N.S., in 1822 and was clerk of the works for the Royal Engineers for over thirty-five years. In 1826 he married Susan Wellner, daughter of John Andrew Wellner, and they had nine children. Creed was involved in the Baptist Church and Mechanics Institute in Halifax. He retired to South Rawdon, N.S., ca. 1861, and died 18 September 1877.
A. William Cox was born on 13 May 1921 at Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Arthur Earle and Anna Beatrice (McGinley) Cox. He attended public schools in Saint John and graduated from Acadia University with a BA in 1942. While at university he served as an officer in the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), and upon graduation was posted to Great Britain. After discharge he studied law at New College, Oxford, before returning to Nova Scotia and entering Dalhousie Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in 1949. He continued to serve in the Canadian Militia, retiring as a Lt.-Colonel. He became a well known trial lawyer and senior partner with Cox Downie from 1963 to 1991. He was a past-president of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society (1971-1972), Federation of Law Societies of Canada (1975-1976) and Canadian Barristers' Association (1980-1981). He also served as the President of the Saraguay Club, Treasurer of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, and Vice-President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He chaired the Nova Scotia Committee on Implementation of Legal Aid (1971) that led to the introduction of Provincial Legal Aid in Nova Scotia. He also served as a columnist with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald beginning in 1997. He was married to Margaret Macpherson and they had four daughters. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 8 October 2008.
Frank Manning Covert was born on 13 January 1908, the son of Dr. Archibald M. and Minnie Alma (Clarke) Covert in Canning, Nova Scotia. He attended schools in Canning and graduated from the Kings County Academy in Kentville. Subsequently, he entered Dalhousie and there received his Arts and Law degrees. In 1929 he joined the firm of Stewart McKeen and became a partner by 1936. In 1934 he married his cousin Mary L. ("Mollie") Covert, daughter of former Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor, Walter Harold Covert. Between 1940 and 1942 he worked for C.D. Howe at the Department of Munitions and Services in Ottawa. He enlisted in the RCAF and flew bombing missions over Europe, which earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to the practice of law after the war and served on over 50 corporate boards. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1982 and died on 1 November 1987.
The Council of Nova Scotia Archives (CNSA) was incorporated on 29 June 1983 under the Societies’ Act. It was established by a core group of twenty-five institutions and individuals as a professional organization for archives and archivists in the province of Nova Scotia. The aims of the CNSA are to promote archival standards and practices, provide members with a forum for discussion, establish and maintain a network for archival co-operation and promote the importance of archives to the general public. The activities of the CNSA have included annual meetings, a variety of training and outreach advisory services, workshops which offer a grounding in the basics of archival education and from time to time offer advanced workshops on more specific archival topics, and publications such as the CNSA Newsletter. The CNSA also makes available to its members funding support for archival projects through a variety of granting agencies, as well as annual awards for archival excellence. The CNSA maintains various on-line tools, including the on-line database of descriptions of holdings in Nova Scotian archives, “ArchWay”. Today there are over 100 members, representing community archives and museums, university and religious archives, the provincial archives, heritage associations, and corporations.
Francene Cosman was born on 14 January 1941, in Windsor, Ont., the daughter of McCarthy and Dorothy Machel. She obtained her RN in 1962 from Saint John General Hospital, then undertook post-graduate work in teaching and administration in New Jersey in 1963. She married twice (1) David Killam Cosman, an engineer, in 1964; they had two daughters; and (2) Aza Avramovitch, an architect, in 1998. The latter died in 1999. In the early 1970s Cosman was active in community affairs in the Bedford area, particularly in regard to municipal planning and development. She was a Halifax County councillor, 1976-1979; and the first mayor of the town of Bedford, 1979-1982. From 1982-1986 she was president of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women; subsequently she chaired the Liberal Task Force on the Concerns of Women and wrote its major report in 1987. She was executive director of the Nova Scotia Liberal Association, 1989-1993. She was first elected as Liberal MLA for Bedford-Fall River in the general election of 1993, and was re-elected in 1997. She was appointed to cabinet in 1997 as minister of community services, also responsible for the Advisory Council on the Status of Women and the Disabled Persons' Commission Act, and chair of the Senior Citizen's Secretariat. In 1998 she was given the additional portfolio of human resources. She served as party whip and deputy speaker of the House. In the general election of July 1999 she chose not to run and retired from the legislature.
Arthur Edward Cornwell was born on 11 February 1868 in Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, the youngest of three children born to Edmund and Matilda (Burns) Cornwell. When he was young his family moved to Deep Brook, Annapolis County, where his father died intestate in 1890. Arthur then had to take care of his family; his father's estate was divided between him and his mother by 1902. The documents from this time make a clear reference to the fact that he had a dark room under the stairs. On 3 November 1897 he married Esther Cordelia Currell of Centrelea, Annapolis County. He changed his name from Cornwell to Cornwall between the 1901 census and the birth of his daughter, Anne Ruth, in 1905. He and his wife had two other children: Freda May (1899-1908) and Arthur Basil (1912-1998). He was a noted photographer in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. In 1911 Arthur Cornwall went west to try homesteading in Alberta, but returned to Nova Scotia by Christmas of that year. He returned to Alberta in 1915 to do further work but by 1920 had lost his holdings. He spent the remainder of his life in Hantsport, moving to his daughter's home in 1957. He died on 6 March 1958 in Centreville, New Brunswick and was buried in Hantsport, Nova Scotia.
Annie Louise McNab was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 16 November 1879, the daughter of Peter McNab (1834-1884) and Annie Storey (Coleman) McNab (1835-1920). She was descended from Peter McNab (ca. 1762-4 February 1823), who was one of the original settlers to be granted land on McNab's Island, and Jean (Jane) Fraser (ca. 1763-February 1833). She married Frederick S. Coombs, a building and supply merchant, on 7 August 1912. She was an avid sportswoman and took home trophies from Brightwood Golf and Country Club as well as St. George's Tennis Club. She celebrated her 100th birthday on 16 November 1979 and is believed to have died in the 1980s.
Arthur “Art” Joseph Arsenault (1906-1994), hotel waiter and wine steward, was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick to Joseph Arsenault (from Montreal) and Lucy (Withers) Arsenault. He worked at the Nova Scotian Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1941 until retirement in 1972. He married Margaret Louise MacDonald (1911-1991) of Antigonish, daughter of Sherwood MacDonald and Mary Ann (MacMaster) MacDonald, on 9 August 1930. Margaret also worked in the service industry. They lived at 11 Dresden Row in Halifax and raised 5 children: John, André, Patricia, Simone, and Joan Marie. Their daughter Patricia “Pat Sea” Lillian Arsenault (1932-2016) married George Earl Coolen (1925-1987) of Prospect, NS in 1954. Pat Sea ran a canteen, then a general store and post office from their home while George earned money fishing, then eventually became the custodian for Atlantic Memorial School in Shad Bay, NS. They had 6 children: Susan M. (b.1955), Mark A., Michael A., Denise G., Christopher C. and Kelly L. After George’s death in 1987, Pat Sea continued living in Prospect, became a folk artist making hooked rugs, paintings and displays of objects in and around her home. She died in 2016.
William Harold Conrad (1872-1938), Canadian war veteran, and skilled tradesman (machinist), was born June 12, 1872 in Halifax, Nova Scotia to William J. and Sarah Conrad. William H. volunteered with the 66th Regiment “Princess Louise Fusiliers” of the Active Militia of Canada from 1889 to 1915. He served in the South African War (Boer War) from Oct 1899 to Nov 1900 as a private with the 2nd Special Service Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, awarded the Queen’s medal with 3 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. He married Henrietta Currie in 1902 and bought a house at 35 Livingston Street, Halifax, NS in 1910. When the Halifax Explosion occurred on December 6, 1917, William H. was in England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Henrietta and the children all survived but the house was severely damaged. William H. died September 13, 1938 at the age of 66.
Henrietta “Etty” Currie Conrad (b.1879), housewife and mother, was born January 10, 1879 in Milford, Nova Scotia to George C. and May Currie. She married William H. Conrad on September 15, 1902 in Halifax, and managed their household at 35 Livingston Street. She had 5 children: Arnold (b.ca.1903), Harold Lester (b.1907), Helen Irene (1909-1927), Muriel Erma (1911-1937), and Earl Robert (b.1914). The family survived the Halifax Explosion but their home was severely damaged. With her husband away, Henrietta had to manage the repairs on her own. The family lived there until 1950. Henrietta’s date of death is unknown.
Thomas J. Connors of Halifax, N.S., was one of six children of William P. and Mary Ann (Guildford) Connors (O'Connors). He attended the Christian Brothers school in Halifax until the age of fourteen when he went to work at sea. By 1903 he was working as a stevedore and in the following year, he was employed as a freight handler with the Intercolonial Railway. He remained at ICR, later Canadian National Railway, until his retirement. Connors was also an amateur sports enthusiast, known to sportsmen in Canada and the United States as "Old Sport". As a youth, he participated in tug-of-war contests and rowing and later he became a trainer in rowing and boxing. He died, unmarried, at the age of 87 on 4 April 1949 at Halifax.
Vivian Alma Martel was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 2 September 1907, the daughter of Albert and Sophie (LeBlanc) Martel who were originally from Arichat, Nova Scotia. She was educated in Boston and graduated in nursing from the Boston Civic Hospital. She married Harold Joseph Connolly, the son of Richard J. and Ann (Duffield) Connolly, at Beachmont, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1935. She raised a family of six children. She died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 7 December 1980 and was buried beside her husband in Holy Cross Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Harold Joseph Connolly was born at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on 8 September 1901, the son of Richard J. and Ann (Duffield) Connolly. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Halifax and became a newspaper writer, working for the Halifax Chronicle before serving as the editor of the Daily Star. He married Catherine Burns in 1928; she died on 3 May 1930. He married Vivian Alma Martel, daughter of Albert and Sophie (LeBlanc) Martel, at Beachmont, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1935. In a 1936 by-election he was elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature as a Liberal MLA from Halifax. He was first appointed as a cabinet minister in 1941 when he took on the portfolio of Minister of Trade and Industry. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on 25 January 1943 and served until he was discharged on 19 February 1949 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He served as the Minister of Health from 1950 until 13 April 1954, when he was sworn in as premier after the death of Premier Angus L. Macdonald. He resigned from the Legislature in September of 1954. He was called to the Canadian Senate on 28 July 1955 by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent and served there until 14 May 1979. He died on 18 May 1980 and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax.
Harris Sinclair Congdon was born at Union Square, Nova Scotia. He moved to Dartmouth in 1885 where he became principal of Dartmouth High School. He was also a journalist and editor of the Atlantic Weekly for many years. In 1923, in semi-retirement at the age of sixty-seven, Congdon became a leading figure and publicist for the Maritime Rights movement. He served as president of the Maritime Club of Halifax and as editor of the club's publication, Maritime Rights. Congdon died 15 February 1932.
Mildred Coneen of Windsor, Nova Scotia was a genealogist who researched the West family of Nova Scotia.