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Thomas, George
Person

George Thomas was a blacksmith in North Middleborough, Cumberland County, N.S.

Person · 1910-1999

Ralph Moyle Thomas was born at Indian Point in Lunenburg County in 1910. The son of Herbert and Flora (Langille) Thomas, he first went to sea at the age of nine, working on a Grand Banks fishing schooner during the summer months as a cabin boy and fish cutter. When he was 18, he skippered a 48-foot private yacht to New York. Remaining for a time in the United States, he worked in Connecticut with the Bullard Machine Company, where he eventually received his Journeyman’s Certificate. With the onset of the Depression, he moved to Montreal, working for the Imperial Oil Company on various oil tankers. In 1932, he received his Chief Mate's certificate. He was next employed at the Imperial Oil Company in Dartmouth. In 1936 he married Rita Alice Barnes. The following year, he moved to Talara, Peru, working with the International Petroleum Company, based out of New York. His family joined him in Peru eight months later. In 1943 he returned to Canada and joined the merchant marine. During the Second World War he served in the North Atlantic convoys. After the war, he received a Panamanian certificate and continued to sail until the late 1940s, when he accepted a shore position with Imperial Oil in Dartmouth, eventually attaining the position of day foreman. After retiring from Imperial Oil in 1966, he served as a chief officer on CN ferries running from Cape Tormentine to Borden, P.E.I. After his final retirement, he became active in several bridge clubs, obtaining his junior masters at the age of 71. He died at Lunenburg in 1999.

Thompson, Fred
Person · 1900 - 1987

Fred Thompson was an organizer and central figure for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and an editor, historian and publisher.

Thompson, Marie
Person

Marie Thompson is the daughter of Charles and Jean Thompson of Perth, Ontario. She has worked as a reporter for the CBC for many years, covering a wide and varied number of topics which ranged from cloning sheep in Ontario to the Halifax Explosion. She has received her MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from St. Mary's University in Halifax, doing a research paper in 1999, taking a leave of absence from her job in 2002, culminating in her finished thesis in 2003.

Person

Ottie Thompson was an Oxford, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia area resident where he operated a general store.

Thompson, Robert R.
Person · 1869-1876

Robert R. Thompson was Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserve Militia in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia in the mid- to late-19th century.

Thomson, George Kerr
Person · 1870-1935

George Kerr Thomson helped to establish the Maritime Dental College and was Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Dentistry in 1924. He was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, on 26 March 1870. After moving to Annapolis, Nova Scotia, where he wrote the pharmacy examination, he attended Philadelphia Dental College, returning to Annapolis in 1892 to set up a practice. In 1897 he relocated to Halifax, where he taught dentistry from 1908 and maintained a private dental practice until 1935. Dr. Thomson was president of the Nova Scotia Dental Society (1897-1898), served in the Canadian Army Dental Corps (1915-1918), was chairman of the Oral Hygiene Education Committee (1921-1926), and was elected Nova Scotia representative for the Dominion Dental Council (1922-1935). He was also a fellow of the American College of Dentists (1925) and president of the Canadian Dental Association (1925-1926). He died in 1935.

Person

James Thomson was a Halifax lawyer ca. 1838. In 1853 he collected and edited the records and papers of the Supreme Court covering the period 1834 to 1841.

Thomson, Pauline
Person

Pauline Thomson was the president of the Iona Connection Heritage Co-op Ltd and was a participant in the Nova Scotia Volunteer Round table discussions in 2005. She studied under Professor Don MacGillivary while researching Female Pipe Bands.