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Cape Breton's Magazine
Corporate body · 1972-

Founded in 1972, Cape Breton's Magazine is "devoted to the history, natural history, and future of Cape Breton Island". Its founder, publisher, and editor, Ronald Caplan, moved to Wreck Cove, Cape Breton from the United States in 1971. Inspired by Eliot Wigginston's Foxfire books in which American school children collected stories from older people, Caplan began to record stories told to him by Cape Bretoners and published them largely unedited and uncensored. The magazine soon became an ongoing publishing project, based primarily on oral history compiled from taped interviews. Since the magazine's founding there have been, in addition to the regular issues, five books of compilations, two full-length plays, and five short radio plays based on the interviews. It has been used widely in classrooms, and has been the impetus for several other Canadian regional magazines and popular books. Over the years, the magazine has received numerous awards for its contribution to the cultural and heritage education and oral history of Cape Breton.

Person · 1819-1903

Businessman, militia officer, and politician James William Carmichael was born at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on 16 December 1819, the son of James Carmichael and Christian (McKenzie) Carmichael. He attended Pictou Academy and then worked as a clerk in his father's store. By the early 1850s he had taken over his father's mercantile and shipping interests. By 1854, the firm was known as J.W. Carmichael and Company. His first vessel, Helen Stairs, was registered in 1851, and from 1857 to 1869 he built fourteen more ships. Carmichael also held agency for the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1866 to 1886 and took part in lumber export, establishing the first steam sawmill in Pictou County in 1874. Between 1883 and 1892, he operated the New Glasgow Tannery Company in partnership with James McGregor. He also financed and supported various local industrialists. Carmichael entered politics in 1867 when he was elected a Member of Parliament for Pictou, as a liberal and opponent of Confederation. He lost his seat in 1872, was re-elected in 1874, and was defeated in 1878, 1881, 1882, and 1896. In 1898, he was appointed to the Senate and resigned just prior to his death in 1903. Carmichael was active in the community life of New Glasgow; he was lieutenant-colonel of the 5th Regiment of the Pictou militia and a member of several civic, charitable, and religious organizations. He died 1 May 1903 at New Glasgow. He and his wife, Maria Jane (McColl), whom he married 5 June 1851, had six children.

Carroll Burton Feindel
Person · 1914 - 1984

Carroll Burton Feindel, airman and amateur film maker, was born in Nictaux Falls, Nova Scotia in 1914. Raised and educated in Bridgewater NS, he worked for his father, Archibald Feindel, at the Lunenburg Mill Company after leaving high school. At the start of the Second World War (1939-1945) he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and served at Nova Scotia Coastal Command bases in Glace Bay, Sydney, Dartmouth, and Yarmouth NS, first as an armourer, then as a "supply man". In 1940, he married Verna Veineaux, of Lunenburg, NS. Between 1948 and 1950, Feindel was posted to the RCAF base in Goose Bay, Labrador and following a year in Aylmer, Ontario, he was posted to the RCAF Greenwood, NS base from 1951 to 1956. After this came postings to bases in Ontario, Alberta, and New Brunswick until his retirement from the military in 1966. He settled in Downsview, Ontario and worked for York University's Postal Service for many years. Throughout this period the Feindel family continued to spend summer vacations in Nova Scotia. In the last year of his life Feindel and his wife moved to New Brunswick to be near their children, Wayne and Cheryl, who were living in the Dorchester NB area. He pursued photography and cinematography as a personal hobby throughout his life and "rescued" films by others from being disposed of or destroyed. Carroll Burton Feindel passed away in September 1984, in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Cassidy, Elsie Ruth, 1916-
Person · 1916-

Elsie Ruth Miller was born in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, on 12 April 1916, the daughter of James B. and Blanche Estelle (Thompson) Miller. She grew up in Elmsdale. She was first married to James Boyd of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and after his death married Stan Cassidy of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Cautley, Richard W.
album-of-photographs-illustrating-report-to-commissioner-of-national-parks · Person · 1873-1953

Richard W. Cautley was born at Ipswich England in 1873. He came to Canada at the age of 17, and was employed by a surveying firm in British Columbia. Later, he went north into the Klondike at the time of the gold rush and was engaged in the recording and inspection of mineral claim surveys. After the Klondike Gold Rush, Cautley moved to Edmonton, AB, where he formed the land surveying firm of Cautley and Cote. Later, he went into partnership with his brother Reginald Hutton Cautley. Between 1913 and 1924, Mr. Cautley was engaged as one of the commissioners of the survey of the Alberta-British Columbia boundary. He then moved to Ottawa to work for the former Department of the Interior. He was responsible for the survey work of many of the national park sites in the Maritime provinces. He died in Victoria, British Columbia on September 13, 1953.

Person

Guy Chaldecott was born circa 1905 in Essex, England, the son of James H. and Annie (Shepherd) Chaldecott. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Army Ordnance Corps. He succeeded James W. Sutherland as quarry operator at Quarry Island, Pictou County, Nova Scotia after Sutherland's death in 1939. Chaldecott also managed the operation of MicMac Quarry for the MicMac Grindstone Company of Woodburn, N.S., from 1940 to 1941. Subsequently, he worked as a janitor at East Pictou Rural High School in Sutherland's River, Nova Scotia. He married Maude Elizabeth Sutherland on 18 October 1928. He died on 21 April 1988 in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Chambers, Bob, 1905-1996
Person · 1905-1996

Robert William Chambers, cartoonist and illustrator, was born in 1905 in Wolfville, N.S., the son of John Darby Chambers and Frances Mary (Woodman). After attending public school in Wolfville and later Horton Academy, he moved to New York where he briefly studied at the Grand Central School of Art and worked as an illustrator. In 1932 he returned to Nova Scotia and worked at the Halifax Chronicle as cartoonist, press photographer, advertising artist, and general illustrator. From 1937 until his retirement in 1976, Chambers was the political cartoonist for the Halifax Herald. He was the recipient of several awards and honours including three honourary doctorates, induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame, and the Order of Canada in 1977. He died in Halifax on 27 March 1996.

Corporate body

The Charitable Irish Society was founded in Halifax by a number of "natives of the Kingdom of Ireland" on 17 January 1786 to provide for "the relief of such of their poor and indigent Countrymen and their Descendents as may hereafter be found worthy of their countenance and protection." A revision of the constitution in 1795 widened its provision of aid to all poor within the city of Halifax and opened membership to non-Irish so long as they did not belong to another national society in the province. The Society was incorporated in May 1864 (N.S. Statutes 1864 c.49). Early on, aid was distributed primarily as food or money, but later was given as educational scholarships and donations to community agencies. The Society now makes grants to a number of institutions and groups and has contributed generously towards the D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies and the development of an Irish research collection at Saint Mary's University. Funds are raised through membership dues and bequests.

Charles H. Clark
Person · 1951-

Charles H. (Chuck) Clark, Halifax-based filmmaker, was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, on 26 December 1951. After a year at the University of New Brunswick, he settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1970 to study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). In 1974 Clark received his Fine Arts Diploma from NSCAD and in 1975 he began working as a camera assistant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After several years with the CBC, Clark began free-lancing as a technical assistant in film and video production, and worked on numerous productions in the Halifax area. He also worked on a variety of government and commercial productions, including training films for the Canadian Armed Forces. He has been active with the Atlantic Filmmaker's Cooperative since that organization was founded in the early 1980s, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax). In 1980 he commenced work on two independent film projects of his own. One, “8 Frames per Second,” a film about Clark's neighbours in North End Halifax, was first screened in the 1986 Atlantic Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention. It was shown at several film festivals and workshops across Canada and was included in a European tour of Canadian independent films. His second independent project was to be a documentary about Richard Hatfield, but this project received a serious setback when much of the footage was destroyed in a fire at the Halifax branch of the National Film Board. He continued his free-lance film work and has worked on a number of independent film projects in recent years.

Chesley (family)
Family

Samuel Chesley (ca. 1734-1818) was born at Durham, N.C. ca. 1734. He joined the colonial forces and arrived in Nova Scotia in 1758, shortly after the siege of Louisbourg. He spent the winter of 1758-1759 in Halifax and was sent in the spring with Josiah Dodge to survey the lots for New England settlers at Granville. There he acquired land and in 1761, married Eleanor (d. 1822), daughter of Samuel Moore. His brother Benjamin Chesley (1736-1823) settled in nearby Middleton in 1759. Samuel and Eleanor had eight children: Samuel Moore (1762-1835); Molly (b. 1764); Betty (1766); Susannah (b. 1769); Benjamin (1772-1904); Hepzibah (1773); Nancy (1776-1806); and James (b. 1779). Samuel and his eldest son Samuel served as justices of the peace for Annapolis County and in the Annapolis regiment of the militia.

Chipman (family)
Family

Handley Chipman (1714-1799) and his son, William Allen Chipman (1757-1845), were New England planters who moved with their families from Rhode Island to Cornwallis Township, N.S., ca. 1764. They built a sizeable fortune as merchants, farmers and landowners and held several appointments and elected positions in Kings County. William Henry (1807-1870), merchant, farmer, and politician, married Sophia A. Cogswell (1807-1878) and they had nine children. Their son, John Ross Chipman (1834?-1927) was a farmer and exporter, and married Sarah Eliza (Starr).

Corporate body · 1925-

The radio broadcasting station CHNS was founded in 1925 by Major William C. Borrett and fellow members of the Halifax Radio Listeners' Club, Cecil Landry, Lionel Shatford and John Redmond. The group launched its first broadcast from the Carleton Hotel on 12 May 1926, with technical support from the Northern Electric Co. In the same year, the station came under the ownership of Halifax Herald Ltd.; in 1936 ownership was transferred to the Maritime Broadcasting Co. Borrett served as CHNS managing director from 1926 until his retirement in 1951. The station produced news, education, and entertainment programs. Popular among its early programs were "Uncle Mel" a children's comedy show by broadcaster Hugh Mills, "Atlantic Nocturne", a program featuring readings to organ accompaniment by J. Frank Willis, and "Tales Told Under the Old Town Clock", Borrett's own program on Nova Scotia history. CHNS also acted as the outlet for CBC programs to the network until the CBC established its own station in Halifax in 1940. In November of the same year, CHNS moved its studios from the Lord Nelson Hotel to its own building, Broadcasting House on Tobin Street. In 1947, CHNS launched CHNS-FM to simulcast the programming of CHNS-AM.

Chris Zimmer
Person

Chris Zimmer, a native of up-state New York, studied film at universities in New York and San Francisco. He has also worked in California as an editor, cameraman and producer of television commercials before emigrating to Nova Scotia in 1972. "Midday Sun" is Zimmer's second feature as a producer, the first being "Mindshadows" which he co-produced with Fimproductiemij De Nieuwe.

Christie Macdonald
Person · 1875-1962

Christie Macdonald, singer and actress, was born in Pictou, N.S., on February 28, 1875, the daughter of an Irish immigrant boat-builder. She began receiving vocal training at an early age from Madame Flora Wilson, a professional singer who had retired to Pictou. In 1883, Madame Wilson persuaded a former colleague to let Christie appear in a Saint Patrick's Day pageant in Halifax. Christie's performance was heard by a visiting American, Letitia McCormick, a veteran singer and actress who was in Halifax with her Boston company. McCormick dubbed Christie, "the girl with the voice of gold", and persuaded Christie's parents to move to Boston, where they were soon joined by Madame Wilson. Christie began her career on the Boston stage when she was only ten years old. In 1889, she was invited to appear at the inaugural ball of President Benjamin Harrison. Her New York debut came in 1892 with an appearance in the musical show "Erminie". Pauline Hall, a veteran performer, became Christie's mentor, although Madame Wilson accompanied Christie to New York as a chaperone and vocal coach. She first received feature billing in the Broadway operetta "Princess Chic" in 1900, after which she enjoyed successes in a number of Broadway shows. Christie reached new heights of fame in 1910, when she played the role of the Princess Bozema in "The Spring Maid". In 1913, Victor Herbert wrote the operetta "Sweethearts" especially for her. It was wildly successful, and Christie became the darling of New York society, showered with gifts from wealthy admirers, including a necklace of blue diamonds from the Maharajah of Indore and a gold coach from William Randolph Hearst.-- Christie was first married in 1901to a wealthy playboy, but this quickly ended in divorce. In 1910 she married a successful contractor, Henry Gillespie, a marriage which lasted until his death in 1930. Although Gillespie encouraged Christie in her career, she retired in 1915 when she became pregnant with her daughter, Christine, in 1915, and the family settled in Westport, Connecticut, accompanied by Madame Wilson. Christie's last professional appearance was in 1920, in a revival of the operetta "Floradora". However, her fame endured and she granted her last interview, to The New York Times, in 1950. and sang for the last time in public in 1951, at Madame Wilson's funeral.-- Christie Macdonald died in Westport in 1962, and it was then discovered that she had anonymously donated over $4 million to various artistic and cultural projects and causes. One of her last wishes was to return to Pictou, and a portion of her ashes was scattered on the shore there.

Clairtone Sound Corporation
Corporate body · 1958-1979

Clairtone Sound Corporation was incorporated under the statutes of Ontario on 2 July 1958. Based in Toronto, the company began manufacturing high-quality sound electronics and accessories. In 1960 it established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Clairtone Sales Limited, and opened its first international sales office in New York City. In the following year Clairtone purchased Strathroy Industries Limited and the company's subsidiary, The Middlesex Furniture Company Limited, thereby establishing its own cabinet manufacturing facilities. In the early 1960s the company established an international reputation for stereo and cabinetry design. In 1964 profits decreased and the company entered into an agreement with Industrial Estates Limited to erect a modern plant in Stellarton, N.S. and move its operations to Nova Scotia. The new plant was in full operation in August 1966, producing cabinets with built-in stereo, hi-fi, and colour television sets, and employing a workforce of nearly one thousand. In subsequent years mounting financial losses led Industrial Estates Limited to approve the sale of Clairtone to the Province of Nova Scotia. The company sustained losses totalling $19 million by 1970 and in 1971, it ceased operations when the government closed all manufacturing facilities. All buildings, inventories, and assets were sold but the company was not officiallly dissolved until 1979.

Person · 1911-1975

Andrew Hill Clark was a geographer who contributed significantly to the development of historical geography in North America. Born 29 April 1911 in Fairford, Manitoba and raised in Brandon, Clark studied mathematics and physics at McMaster University where he received a BA in 1930. After a year of studying stastistics at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Clark took a four-year job as a statistician for a life insurance company in Toronto. In 1935 he began graduate studies in economic history at the University of Toronto and joined the university's recently established Department of Geography as instructor. He obtained his MA in 1938 and then pursued his doctoral degree at Berkeley, during which time he took a two-year teaching post at Canterbury University in New Zealand. After returning to California where he met his wife, Louisa, the couple volunteered with the American Red Cross in Australia during the Second World War. From 1942 to 1946 Clark was a lecturer for various United States Department of Defense agencies. He was appointed professor and first chair of the Department of Geography at Rutgers University in 1946. He resigned in 1951 and took a position with the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a professor until his death in 1975. During this time, he continued his early research on the Maritimes. His last major work was Acadia: The Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760 (Madison, 1968). At the time of his death, Clark was working on a second volume on Nova Scotia covering the time period from 1760 to 1867. He died on 21 May 1975 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Person · 1935-2005

William Lloyd Clarke was born on 20 May 1935 in Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia, the son of Norris Joseph and Nettie Jean (White) Clarke. He was the grandson of William Andrew White and Isabella Waller of Virginia. He was twice married. His first wife was Geraldine Elizabeth Johnson, with whom he had three children: George Elliott, Bryant Clarke, and Bill Clarke. His second wife was Patricia Sandra Bushey (1937-2001), with whom he had one child, Tracey Lee Clarke. In his early career he was an employee with CN, and later drove a taxi for the City of Halifax. He died in 2005.

Clarkson, John, 1764-1828
Person · 1764-1828

John Clarkson was a naval officer, abolitionist and banker. He was born in 1764, the son of Rev. John and Anne (Ward) Clarkson and brother of slave trade abolitionist, Thomas Clarkson. In 1786-1787, he was appointed to a committee to investigate mortality in slave ships in Sierra Leone and was chosen a member of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In 1792, Clarkson assembled 1196 freed Blacks at Halifax, N.S., and commanded the flotilla which brought them to the new African colony of Sierra Leone. In 1793, he settled in East Anglia and became a banker. He died in 1828.

Clinch, Sarah, 1835-ca. 1900
Person

Sarah Apthorp Cunningham Clinch, one of six children of Griselda Eastwick Cunningham and Reverend Joseph Hart Clinch, was born on 22 March 1835 at Windsor, N.S. and raised in Boston, Mass. In November 1853, she traveled from Boston to Halifax, accompanied by her cousin Elizabeth (Bella) Bullock, for a year-long visit at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mary (Clinch) and Reverend William Bullock. She returned to Boston in August 1854 where she later married Richard Fitfield Bond on 25 November 1858; they had three children: William Cranch, Edith Griselda, and Mary Wentworth. Sarah died ca. 1900 at Boston.

Coates, Robert C., 1928-
Person · 1928-

Robert C. Coates, BA, LLB, QC, LLD, was born at Amherst, N.S. on 10 March 1928, the son of Fred Carman Coates and Rita Bridget (O'Brien). He was educated at Mount Allison University and Dalhousie University Law School. On 27 December 1954 he married Mary Blanche Wade of New Brunswick, and had two children, David Wade and Amy Marijo. A barrister by occupation, he was called the Nova Scotia Bar in 1955 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980. He was first elected as MP for Cumberland-Colchester in the general election of 10 June 1957, and was subsequently re-elected between 1958 and 1984. He was appointed minister of national defence and sworn to the Privy Council on 17 September 1984, but resigned from the office on 12 February 1985. He did not re-offer in the 1988 general election and subseqently retired from politics. Among his many affiliations were the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, NATO Parliamentary Association, the John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Foundation, and the Fundy Tidal Power Committee. The author of numerous articles and books on Candian politics, he published his best known work, The Night of the Knives, in 1969.

Cogswell, A.R.
accession 1992-414 · Person · 1860-ca. 1936

Alfred Robie Cogswell was born 1 February 1860 at Halifax, N.S., the eldest son of Alfred C. Cogswell, D.D.S. and Sarah (Parker). He was a mechanical engineer and resided in Lidell, Napa County, Calif. in the mid-1880s before returning to Halifax where he was listed as an electrician and superintendent at Halifax Illuminating and Motor Company, ca. 1890-1895. In 1895 he opened a professional photography studio and supply store at 253 Pleasant Street, Halifax, under the name A.R. Cogswell. In 1902 he was listed with Maritime Photo Supply. By the following year, Cogwell's business was called A.R. Cogswell and Co., "The Electric Studio", and was located at 103 Granville Street. In 1919 Cogswell sold his studio to E.L. Lydiard and C.F. Ring. He and his wife, Huldah Sarah Oland (1853-ca. 1936), daughter of John James Dunn Oland and Susannah Oland of England, were married 20 September 1886 at Dartmouth, N.S. After the sale of Cogswells studio, the couple moved to Daytona Beach and died there ca. 1936.

Colin Campbell and Company
Corporate body · 1856-1918

Colin Campbell and Company was dissolved and renamed G.D. Campbell & Sons

Collins, Enos
Person · 1774-1871

Enos Collins was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, on 5 September 1774, the son of Hallet Collins, a merchant trader, and Rhoda (Peek). He received little formal education and went to sea at an early age. Before the age of 20 he was captain of the schooner Adamant, sailing to Bermuda. He eventually moved to Halifax where, by 1811, he was established as a merchant and shipper. He made his initial fortune in privateering during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During the latter war he was partner in a firm which bought captured American vessels from the Court of Vice-Admiralty and sold their cargoes at a profit. During the next decade he was successful in currency speculation, backed many trading ventures, and entered lumbering and whaling businesses. By 1822 he was made part of the principal governing body of the colony, the Council of Twelve. In 1825, denied a bank charter by the Legislative Assembly, Collins and seven other prominent Halifax businessmen organized the Halifax Banking Company, the first such private company in Nova Scotia. During the 1830s Collins continued to expand his business activities and to participate in governing the colony, continuing on as a member of the new Executive Council of Nova Scotia. He left the Council in 1840. During the turbulent 1840s and 1850s he refrained from active politics but was a financial backer of the Conservatives. He spent the last 30 years of his life in partial retirement, keeping a close eye on his investments. When he died in Halifax on 18 November 1871, he was said by many to have been the wealthiest man in British North America.

Colwell Brothers (firm)
Corporate body · 1891-2008

Colwell Brothers began operation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 16 March 1891. It was founded by Henry Stubs Colwell, a native of Carleton, Saint John, New Brunswick and his brother, J. Frank Colwell. The business originally opened as a small store on Hollis Street just north of Sackville Street. Within three years the store had moved to the Hesslein Building on Hollis Street. In 1900 the firm opened a branch store at 91-93 Barrington Street in a building which housed two stores; in 1901 they purchased the building and combined the two stores into one. In 1905 the business was registered as a joint stock company. A branch store was opened around 1921 in the north end Hydrostone development but closed during the Great Depression. Originally, the business offered only men's furnishings and raincoats, with occasional orders for suits. In 1925 the firm opened a men's clothing department at their Barrington Street location. Upon the death of H.S. Colwell in 1948, the business was taken over by his three sons who were already involved in the business: Garnet J. Colwell, Cyril H. Colwell, and Ray J. Colwell. During the 1950s the company supplied apparel for the gift shop at White Point Beach Lodge. In 1973 the business opened a store in the new Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; it remained in operation until the winter of 2008. In 1980 the company moved their principal location to Barrington Place. The Colwell Building on Barrington Street was sold in April 2008.

Comeau, Benoit, 1916-1995
Person · 1916-1995

Benoit Comeau was born 23 July 1916 at Comeauville, N.S., son of Sen. J. Willie and Zoe (Doucet) Comeau. He married Marie Antoinette, daughter of Willis Doucet of Concession, N.S. and had six children: Carmel, Julien, Jeanne, Lucille, Gérald, and Russel. A graduate of Collège Sainte-Anne in 1935, Comeau was a mink rancher as well as president of St. Mary's Bay Industries Ltd., B&M Comeau Construction Co., and C.M.B. Realty Co. He served overseas in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Comeau was first elected to the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1967 and served as member for Clare until 1978. He was minister of lands and forests, 1970-1972; minister in charge of Emergency Measures Act, 1970-1971; minister of fisheries, 1972-1973; minister of public works, 1972-1978; and minister in charge of Liquor Control Act, 1976-1978. He died 9 December 1995.