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Lorne White family
Famille · 1874-

Ronald Lorne White (b.1928-d.2008), teacher, administrator, and professional singer, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1928 the 12th child of Rev. Captain William Andrew White (b.1874-d.1936) and Izie Dora (White) White Sealy Johnston (b.1890-d.1972). Lorne earned a Bachelor of Education degree in 1952 from Acadia University, then a Master of Physical Education in 1955 and Master of School Administration in 1975 from Dalhousie University. He taught school in Halifax 1952 to 1973 then was Vice Principal of Bloomfield Elementary and Junior High School 1973 until retirement in 1986. He was also Principal Performer on CBC television show “Singalong Jubilee” 1960-1972 and acted in several television and theatre shows 1981-2007. In November 1955 he married fellow Acadia graduate Ann Mary (Hennigar) White (b.1933-d.2018) and had 3 daughters: Holly M., Shelly A. and Rosalie “Lee” J. White. Together with Lorne’s younger sister Yvonne White (b.1930), they performed religious concerts as the White Family Singers, 1980-1991. Lorne’s older sister Portia White (b.1911-d.1968) became internationally famous as a classical singer (opera) in the 1940s and 1950s, overcoming racism towards people of colour. Lorne’s father served overseas in the First World War as chaplain to the No. 2 Construction Battalion, a racially segregated Canadian military unit for people of colour. After the war Rev. Captain William A. White served as pastor of the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax (known as New Horizons Baptist Church starting in 2018). Lorne White died in Halifax on 14 April 2008 and Mary died 19 November 2018.

Starr (family)
Famille · 1728-

Samuel Starr (1728-1799) of Norwich, Conn. came to Nova Scotia in 1759 with a small group of New England settlers who became known as the Planters, and was joined by his brother David three years later. Starr began a farm and orchard on a plot of land between the Canard and Cornwallis Rivers which became known as Starrs Point. He also served in various positions in the local militia and government, including first major for the Kings County militia (appointed 1781). Starr had four children with his first wife Abigail Leffingwell (1725-1768), whom he married at Norwich in 1749: Abigail (b. 1751), m. Timothy McCartney; Hannah (b. 1752), m. Benjamin Fox; John (b. 1754); and Joseph (1757-1840), m. Joanna Starr (1758-1847). Joseph and Joanna had eight children: Charles (1788-ca. 1850); Lavinia (1789-1811), m. David Starr at Halifax in 1811; Samuel (b. 1790), m. Susanna Cox in 1822; Sarah (b. 1793), m. Samuel Sharp; Abigail (b. 1795), m. Rev. Arthur McNutt; Christopher (1797-1870), m. 1835 Susanna Harrington (d. 1870); Richard Starr (1799-1885), m. Tamar Troop in 1829. Richard and Tamar's son Charles Richard Henry (d. 1933) was the father of Richard Sydney Starr. Richard Sydney Starr married May Rosina Prat on 11 June 1904 and they had two children, Charlotte Evelina (Sally) and Charles Harry (Harry).

Prat (family)
Famille · 1829-

Samuel Prat (ca. 1829-1892) came to Nova Scotia from England in 1846 and was a station master for the Dominion Atlantic Railway. In 1857 he married Elizabeth Duport Morse (1835-1913) and they had five children who survived to adulthood: Annie Louisa (1861-1960), Rupert (b. 1863), Charlotte Elizabeth (b. 1865), Minnie Sophia (1868-1901), and May Rosina (1872-1965). Annie was an artist, poet, and the first dean of women at Kings College from 1917 to 1920. Following her graduation from the Art Institute of Chicago, Annie moved to New York City to open a studio with her sisters Minnie and May, who had apprenticed there as bookbinders. From 1899 to ca. 1903 the sisters operated Primrose Bindery in New York. Minnie won international recognition for her binding and was awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She died of typhoid fever the following year at Wolfville, N.S. Annie and May subsequently returned to Nova Scotia. May married Richard Sydney Starr in 1904 and they operated the family farm and orchard, "Willow Bank", at Starrs Point. The couple had two children: Charles ("Harry") (1905-1990) and Charlotte ("Sally") (d. 1983).

Ross (family)
Famille · 1816-

Captain William Ross arrived at Sherbrooke (now New Ross), Nova Scotia, on 7 August 1816. He was appointed deputy surveyor of lands in 1817 and in 1819 was granted a section of the Sherbrooke grant, which became known as New Ross. He held various offices and acted as chief administrative officer of the New Ross settlement until his death in 1822. He married Mary Williams and they had five children: Mary (born 30 September 1806 in Cork, Ireland), William Henry (born 12 December 1810 at Fort Amsterdam, South Armenia), Edward Irlam (born 3 January 1813 in Sunderland, England), George Lockhart (born 9 September 1815 at Fort Coteau de Lock, Canada), and Charles Henry Lawson (born 2 February 1818 in Sherbrooke). The family home in New Ross was known as "Rosebank". Edward Ross assisted his brother George with the family farm and operated a small store. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1838. He died in New Ross in 1894.

Elwood Family (fl. 1977-2016)
Famille · fl. 1977-2016

Maureen and Richard “Rick” Elwood raised their two children, Melissa (b. 1975) and Luke (b. 1977) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. Maureen was heavily involved in inclusion and integration efforts for people with disabilities and a regular attendee of meetings and conferences through the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL); Rick worked as a firefighter. Both Melissa and Luke attended an integrated pre-school before the family’s fight for Luke’s inclusion at elementary school arose. It was during Luke’s Grade Three year that the fight reached Case status between Elwoods and the Halifax County-Bedford District School Board (HCBDSB). After an injunction ordered the School Board to allow Luke to stay in his mainstream classroom at Atlantic View School, the Case was eventually settled before trial. By June 1987, Luke would be able to stay with his peers all throughout his schooling years. The Elwood Family’s case set a precedent across Canada for the right to education for all students with disabilities and is a milestone in Nova Scotia’s disability rights history.

Piercey family
Famille · 1877-

The Piercey’s were a prominent Halifax family, known for establishing and running Piercey Supplies Ltd. for close to a century. The founder of the company, William Drysdale Piercey, was born on June 9, 1877, to Charles E. Piercey and Eleanor Jane Drysdale. W.D. Piercey left school early to work on the family farm until the age of 14, when he went to work at a local shovel factory. From age 18 to 34, Piercey worked at Rhodes Curry and Company in Halifax. In 1915, he founded Piercey Supplies Ltd. which expanded and included many of his family members.

An active community member, Piercey was a MP of the Nova Scotia Legislature for one term. He was also Vice-President and a Director of the General Trust and Executor Corporation, President of the Yarmouth Building and Loan Society, and a Director of the Nova Scotia Trust Company. He was a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and a Justice of the Peace. He served as a Director of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children and on the Board of Pine Hill Divinity College. For many years he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Armdale School Section.

W.D. Piercey married Anne Margaret Forbes on September 16, 1903, in Halifax. The couple had four children; Reginald Matheson (October 1, 1904), William Douglas (May 27, 1909), Joyce (Jones) (1917) and George Charles (February 22, 1919). Annie passed away on June 5, 1960, and Piercey remarried Elsie May Pert. Piercey passed away at home on January 21, 1964.

The eldest son, Reginald Piercey married Lillian Marguerite MacKinnon on September 7, 1932, and they had two daughters Shelia Kathleen Piercey (November 18, 1933-May 20, 2019) and Barbara (October 9, 1938-June 27, 2013). Piercey Investors was incorporated in 1933 and continues to be run by the Piercey family.

Nichols family, 1790-
Famille · 1790-

George and Susanna Nichols of Waterbury, Connecticut had three children: Ann, Mary, and George Kimberley. Ann Nichols married Rev. James Scovil of Kingston, New Brunswick. Mary Nichols married Judge Peleg Wiswall in 1803 and had one child, Mary Wiswall, who married Charles Budd, a Digby merchant, registrar of probate, and MLA. George Kimberley Nichols resided in Digby where he was a merchant dealing in general goods and hardware. He married Mary Budd, daughter of Loyalist Elisha Budd and sister of Charles Budd. George and Mary Nichols had three children: Charles, Edward Elisha Budd (1820-1893) and Mary Susannah.

Edward Elisha Budd (E.E.B.) Nichols was ordained as a minister in 1845 and served as rector of the Trinity Anglican Church, Liverpool for many years. He married his first wife, Amelia Caroline Sterns in 1861. In 1874 he married Caroline Seely Agney with whom he had two children: Mary Edith Letitia (m. Thomas Lynch of Liverpool in 1903) and George Everard Edgehill (m. Grace E. Robertson).

Nehemiah Porter family, 1720-
Famille · 1720-

Reverend Nehemiah Porter, son of weaver Nehemiah Porter and Hannah (Smith) was born 22 or 27 March 1720 at Ipswich, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1745 and was ordained in 1750. On 14 February 1749 he married Rebecca Chipman at Beverly, Massachusetts; they had the following children: Rebekah, Hannah, Nehemiah (b. 1753), John C., Sarah, Samuel, Ebenezer, Joseph, and Elisabeth. Dismissed from his first church in Ipswich in 1766 and his wife having died a few years earlier, Rev. Porter moved to Cape Forchu, Nova Scotia where he served as minister of the Congregational Church, 1767-1771. He returned to Massachusetts in 1771, leaving his eldest son Nehemiah Porter Jr. to keep his farm at Yarmouth. Rev. Porter settled at Ashfield, Massachusetts in 1774 and was chaplain in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Raymond in 1778 and continued to preach until his death at Ashfield on 29 February 1820, a few days short of his 100th birthday. Nehemiah Porter Jr. bought his father's farm in Yarmouth ca. 1784. He and his wife Mary (Tardy), married 18 July 1776, had fourteen children: Rebecca (b. 1777), Mary (b. 1778), Hannah (b. 1780), Ruth (b. 1782), Sarah (b. 1784), Nehemiah (b. 1786), John Tardy (b. 1788), Ebenezer (b. 1791), Elizabeth (b. 1793), Joseph (b. 1795), Samuel Chipman (b. 1797), Jonathan (b. 1801), George Rowland (b. 1804), and Eunice (b. 1806).

Miller family, 1742-
Famille · 1742-

Jacob Miller (1742-1825) arrived in New York from Germany circa 1770 and emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1780s as a Loyalist. Jacob and his wife, Elizabeth Bentley (1747-1817) had six children: son Garret (1770-1840) and five daughters, Abigail (d. 1834), Ann (1771-1859), Elizabeth (1774-1857), Margaret (1779-1864), and Mary (d. 1833). All of the daughters were unmarried and resided at the family's home in Halifax. Garret was a merchant and worked at his father's exporting business, Jacob Miller and Son, later becoming a member of provincial parliament for Lunenburg County, 1837 to 1841. He married Catherine Pernette, daughter of Colonel Joseph Pernette of LaHave, and had seven children who survived to adulthood. They were: Augusta (1804-1883), m. Jason Mack, Mill Village, and had three children; Garret Trafalgar Nelson (1805-1897), m. artist Maria Morris of Halifax and had five children; Frances (1807-1885), unmarried; Elizabeth (d. 1881), m. Daniel Owen, New Dublin, in 1837 and had six children; Joseph Pernette (1808-1881), merchant, MPP and justice of the peace in Bridgewater, m. Margaret C. Allan of Scotland and had four children including daughter Jennie, m. William D. Hall, miner and prospector; Jacob Pernette (1803-1893), m. Miss Daniels and held several government offices, including superintendent of quarantine and customs officer; and John (1811-1898), unmarried.