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Roome family
Family · 1895-1985

Helen Lorna Jones was born in Ithaca, New York on April 16, 1895 and was the first child of Howard Parker Jones and Elizabeth Isabel (Ridd) Jones. In 1907, Helen moved to Halifax with her family when her father was appointed chair of Modern Languages at Dalhousie University. On June 26, 1917 she enlisted as a nursing sister in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Prior to this, she served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), providing nursing services in the Gifford House Hospital and Leicester Base Hospital. On February 4, 1920 she married Richard Edward Graham Roome, a jeweller, in Dartmouth.
R.E.G. Roome was born on May 1, 1892 in Woodside and was the son of George Nathaniel Roome and Florence August (Graham) Roome. In 1915, at the age of 23, he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. During World War I, he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery and the British Royal Field Artillery. He was also a member of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. After the war, Roome returned to Halifax and co-founded Harris and Roome Ltd. He was also involved in forming the 87th Field Battery in Dartmouth in 1921. Reg Roome also served in World War II and, in 1942, was promoted to brigadier. In 1943 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant General in Ottawa. Reg and Lorna had two children, Howard born in 1924 and Lorna born in 1927. R.E.G. Roome died in August, 1985 at age 93.

Ross (family)
Family · 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.

Ryan, James W. (family)
Family

James W. Ryan was a Kentville, N.S. merchant who operated a dry goods store known as 'White Hall.' He was born at Canard, Kings County, N.S. on 30 August 1846. He also served as a town councillor and later mayor of Kentville; 1894-1895 and 1913-1914. James was a lieutenant-colonel and commander of the Kings Canadian Hussars. He married Mary Josephine Rafuse and they had four sons, Walter, Robert, Garnet and Winfield and one daughter, Eva Josephine. James died on 21 December 1922 and Mary died on 4 July 1915.

Their son Robert Holden Ryan was also given the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Militia. At the outbreak of the South African War he served as a non-commissioned officer with the Kings Canadian Hussars. He served overseas with the Canadian Mounted Rifles. During the Russo-Japanese War he served in Japan as a British attaché. During the First World War he commanded the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Robert drowned near his home in Schenectady, N.Y. on 19 September 1934.

Eva Ryan married James Balch of Kentville.

Walter D'Arcy Ryan was born on 17 April 1870. He was educated at Kentville Academy, Progessor Currey's School, St. Mary's College, Memramcook College and the Royal School of Calvary. As a young man he was closely involved with the local militia. He became a commercial engineer and specialized in illumination and light distribution. His work was based at the Illuminating Engineering Laboratory, of which he was director, of the General Electric Company. He also lectured at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He married Katherine (Haskins) and their children were Robert, Virginia, Caroline and Marion. Walter died at Schenectady, N.Y. on 14 March 1934.

Sinclair (family)
Family

Alexander MacLean Sinclair (1840-1924) and his son D.M. Sinclair (1899-1988), both clergymen for the Presbyterian church in Nova Scotia and P.E.I., were also recognized Gaelic scholars and authors of numerous books and articles on Gaelic studies and theology. A. MacLean Sinclair was the son of John Sinclair and Christy MacLean, and grandson of the Gaelic poet John MacLean of Barneys River and Glen Bard, N.S.

Slade family
Family

Ronald Mitchell Brown Slade was born on January 10, 1904. His parents were Alexander Crawford Slade and Hattie (Harriet) F. (Gaetz) Slade. He lived in Musquodoboit Harbour and worked as a labourer. He married Annie May Murley on December 15, 1936 and together they had three children: Diane Glenda, Norma Marie, and Ronald Alexander. He lived in Musquodoboit Harbour all his life and worked as a carpenter and a truck driver for the Department of Highways and Public Works. Ronald passed away circa 1986.

Alexander Crawford Slade was born on August 23, 1869. He was the brother of Charles Duncan Slade, who was born on September 10, 1867. Their parents were Charles Slade and Mary Jane (Crawford) Brown (1827-1909). Mary Jane Crawford had married James D. Brown on Christmas Day, 1845 and together they had eight children. James Brown was killed in a mining accident in Tangier on December 11, 1862. She was remarried to Charles Slade, a thirty year old bachelor, on December 23, 1886 at Musquodoboit Harbour and they had two sons together.

Alexander Crawford Slade married Harriet ‘Hattie’ Florence Gaetz on September 21, 1897. They lived in Musquodoboit Harbour and he was employed as a labourer. Together, he and Hattie had four children: Elliott, Gertrude, Charles, and Ronald. Gertrude married James W. Myers. Alexander died on March 8, 1956 and Hattie died in September, 1959.

Charles ‘Duncan’ Slade, brother of Alexander, married Sarah Agnes Day on Christmas Day, 1891. He lived in Musquodoboit Harbour and was employed as a lumberman and a farmer. Together they had four children: Charles Edward, Sadie Jane, Henry Mott, and James Duncan. Duncan Slade died of tuberculosis on April 17, 1921. Sarah died on September 17, 1911.

Smith Family
Family · 1848-

Rufus William Smith was born November 3, 1848. He was a Master Mariner for most of his adult life and commanded several sailing vessels. Most notably he commanded the N.B Morris. At the age of 31, he married Mary Kirkpatrick, who was 23 at the time, in 1880, Cumberland County N.S. Captain Smith taught his wife how to navigate. Mary sailed as first mate with her husband on the N.B Morris. Mary and Rufus had a son named Ray R. Smith. Mary Kirkpatrick Smith died on April 20th 1909 in Parrsboro, Cumberland County N.S at the age of 52. Retired from sailing Captain Smith died at the age of 86 in 1934 at Musquodoboit Harbour, Hallifax County, N.S. Mary and Rufus's grandson Clyde David Smith was born in 1935 and passed away in 2019.

Smith, George R. (family)
George R. Smith Family · Family · [1858 - 1977]

George R. Smith was born in 1858, the son of Sydney Holmes and Agnes (Ray) Smith. He was a trader and store-owner in the Londonderry and later in the Sydney area of Nova Scotia. In 1882 he married Emma G. McNutt, and the couple had six children: Aubrey (b. 1884), Cyril B. (b. 1887), Minnie Florine (b. 1889), Lloyd K. (b. 1891), Raymond (b. 1895), and Ernest G. (b. 1898). The three youngest sons served in World War I. Ernest married Christina Agnes, and they lived in Elmsdale, Hants County, where Ernest ran a store. Raymond lived in Halifax and worked for the Great West Life Assurance Co. and married Josephine M. Gass. The couple had three sons. Florine never married and lived much of her life with her brother Lloyd, who operated a garage in Truro, N.S. She died in 1977. Cyril married and lived in Halifax. He died in 1976.

Spicer (family)
Family

Jacob Spicer (1821-1896), descendant of Loyalist Lt. Robert Spicer and Priscilla (Chomondelay) Spicer, inherited the family land at Spencers Island, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia and married Mary Reid of Advocate Harbour in 1846. They had the following children: George D. (1846-1937, m. Emily Jane Morris and had five children: Minnie, Lawrence, Emily, George W., and Stanley W.), Almira (b.1849, m. Charles Hatfield 1866), Johnson (1850-1922), Antoinette (b.1853, m. Jacob Samuel Williams in 1871), Dewis (1857-1936, m. Emma Baker Parsons in 1879 and had six children: Wylie, Philip, May L., Wilena Jean, E. Carlyle and Gertrude), Maria, Edmund (1862-1926), Ellen (b.1864), Kempton (b.1866), and Blanche (1869-1956, m. Captain Levi Atkins of Greenborough in 1889 and had four children). Jacob and Mary Spicer's four sons, George, Johnson, Dewis and Edmund, were all master mariners and became known throughout the area as the "Big Four".

Stainer family
Family

Sir John Stainer was born in London, England on 13 June 1840, the son of William and Ann (Collier) Stainer. He was a knight, Chevalier de la legion d'honneur, organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and later Professor of Music at Oxford where as a young man he had been the organist of Magdalen College. He married Eliza Cecil Randall at Oxford on 27 December 1865 and died at Verona, Italy on 31 March 1901. His eldest son, John Frederick Randall Stainer, was born at Oxford, England on 2 October 1866. On 29 December 1906 he married Ruth Alice, the daughter of Dr. Henry Parry Mallam at Holywell Church at Oxford, England. He died at Henbury, Bristol on 5 June 1939. He was a legal advisor and chief examiner at the Passport Office in London. John F.R. Stainer's son, John Stainer, was born at Epsom, Surrey on 23 November 1915 and immigrated to Canada in 1938, where he was ordained as an Anglican minister in British Columbia. He married Margaret Constance Julia Knight at St. Mary's Parish Church in Luton, Bedfordshire, on 20 September 1939.

Stairs (family)
Family

William Machin Stairs (1789-1865) and his descendants were prominent in the mercantile, banking, and political life of Halifax, N.S. William, founder of the hardware firm Wm. Stairs Son and Morrow and co-founder of the Union Bank, married Margaret Wiseman (b. 1793) in 1814. They had nine children: Catherine Mary (b. 1816); Joanna Stayner (1818-1845); William James (W.J.) (1819-1906), m. Susan Morrow (1822-1906) and had thirteen children; John George (b. 1821); John (1823-1888); Margaret Wiseman (1825-1875) m. Alfred Gilpin Jones; Helen Sophia (1827-1894) m. Robert Morrow (1827-1885); Frances Mary (1830-1831) and Anna Marshall (1832-1866) m. John Duffus. W.J. Stairs succeeded his father William as president of Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow and president of Union Bank after William's death in 1865. He also served as alderman on the Halifax City Council and was briefly a member of the Legislative Council. His son, Edward (1854-1913, m. Isabella Scott and had seven children), succeeded him as president of the Stairs firm in 1906. In 1926, Cyril W. Stairs (1891-1953), son of Edward and Isabella, succeeded his uncle, Gavin L. Stairs (1861-1927), as president of the firm. Cyril also held numerous corporate directorships including the Royal Bank of Canada, and was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. His son, Arthur D. Stairs (1919-1973, m. Norma Brant), entered the firm in 1935 and served overseas with the Royal Canadian Navy before becoming the fifth generation Stairs to serve as president in 1953. He then became chairman when the firm was restructured in 1972.