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Quinlan, Clara
Person · 1895-1988

Clara Grace Quinlan was born in 1895 at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia to Grace and John Quinlan. She attended school in Mahone Bay until 1913 when she was sent to Mount St. Vincent Academy in Bedford, N.S. for grade twelve. The following year she attended the Provincial Normal College in Truro where she trained to be a teacher. Following her graduation she taught in several Nova Scotian schools as a teacher, and later vice-principal (1919-1922) before moving to the United States to work. In 1930 she accepted a position at Hawthorne Street School in Dartmouth and worked there until 1950 when her uncle, Percy Inglis, died. She then returned to Mahone Bay to care for her aging mother and to run the family store previously managed by her uncle. Clara also continued her uncle's tradition of showing visitors around the family home to view his china collection. One of her favorite pastimes was collecting correspondence from celebrities all around the world. Clara operated the store until 1985 when she moved to Shoreham Village, Chester, where she died in 1988.

Quinlan, Grace
Person · 1870-1960

Grace Quinlan was born Clara Grace Inglis in 1870, the daughter of Charles and Cassandra Inglis. She was born and raised in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and her family were active members of St. James Anglican Church. In 1886 Grace was sent to Girton House, a boarding school located in Halifax, N.S, however the school closed the following year and Grace returned to Mahone Bay where she became a teacher. She married circa 1894 John Quinlan, the son of Robert and Almira (Hemeon) Quinlan of Shelburne. John was also a teacher and the couple resided in the Inglis family home. In 1895 the couple had a daughter Clara Grace. Several years later John left Mahone Bay for suspicious reasons and was found dead in August 1920 at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Following John's death, Grace went to work in her family's store, assisting her brother Percy. Her daughter Clara became a teacher and never married. Grace died at Mahone Bay in 1960.

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Born at Hythe, Kent, on November 13, 1903, Thomas Head Raddall was the son of British Army Officer Thomas Head Raddall and Ellen (née Gifford) Raddall. At the time, the family lived in the married quarters of the School of Musketry where THR's father taught. In 1909 THR's parents enrolled him in St. Leonard's Primary School for boys in Hythe. He continued there until May 1913, when his family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in order for his father to assume a training position in the Canadian Militia. Sixteen months after the family's move, THR's father joined the war effort. Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Raddall, D. S. O., of the Winnipeg Rifles, was killed in action in August 1918 at Amiens.

In Halifax, THR attended Chebucto School. His final year there (Grade 9) was interrupted in December 1917, when the school was turned into a temporary morgue following the devastating Halifax Explosion. The Raddall family survived the explosion, an event which Raddall writes about in his memoirs, In My Time, and also in his history Halifax, Warden of the North.

At the age of fifteen, Raddall trained at the Canadian School of Telegraphy in Halifax and shortly thereafter (having given his age as eighteen) obtained work as a marine telegraph operator for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. In 1919 he was assigned to Partridge Island, New Brunswick; between then and 1922 he worked at various locations in Nova Scotia (Pictou, Sable Island, and Camperdown) as well as on ships—including the War Karma, the Prince George, the Watuka, and the Mackay-Bennett—in the North Atlantic. This period also saw the publication of his first short story, " The Singing Frenchman" ( Sunday Leader, December 1921).

From September 1922 to the spring of 1923, THR undertook accountancy training at the Maritime Business College in Halifax and by April had been hired as a bookkeeper by Macleod Pulp and Paper Company in Milton, Queen's County, Nova Scotia. It was there that he met Edith Margaret Freeman, a music teacher, in 1924; they became engaged in the spring of 1926 and were married on June 9, 1927, in Milton's Baptist Church. A slump in the pulp and paper industry, the subsequent reduction in his salary, as well as a new mortgage prompted THR to look for employment elsewhere. He worked briefly as a clerk in the construction industry before being hired (February 1929) by the Mersey Paper Company in Liverpool, where he resided until his death in 1994.

Still looking for extra income, THR sent Maclean's a short story, " The Three Wise Men," for which he received $60. From this point on, THR made a serious commitment to writing. His new boss at the Mersey Paper Mill encouraged his writing, and over the next few years, THR published Saga of the Rover (1931) and The Markland Sagas (1934). By 1938 THR was earning enough from his writing to support his growing family—his son Tom was born in 1934 and daughter Frances in 1936—that he quit his job at the Mersey Paper Company and took to writing full-time.

Over the next forty years THR published twenty-five books, dozens of articles on a wide variety of subjects, more than seventy short stories, and an autobiography; made radio and television appearances; became increasingly called upon as a guest speaker by various historical and literary societies; and was asked to become Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1968), an offer he declined. His first national recognition came in 1944 when The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek and Other Stories received the Governor General's Award for Fiction. He subsequently won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction in 1948 for Halifax, Warden of the North (1948) and again in 1957 for The Path of Destiny (1957). Some of his best-known works include His Majesty's Yankees (1942), Roger Sudden (1944), The Nymph and the Lamp (1950), The Wings of Night (1956) and The Governor's Lady (1960).

THR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1953 and two years later received the Society's Lorne Pierce Medal "for distinguished service to Canadian literature." Also for his commitment and contribution to Canadian literature, THR was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1971). He received honorary doctorates from Dalhousie (1949), Saint Mary's (1969), University of King's College (Halifax; 1972), and Saint Francis Xavier (1973).

After his death on April 1, 1994, his son donated money to the Queen's County Museum for the purposes of creating a Thomas Raddall Research Centre, and the furnishings of THR's study were moved to the museum to create a replica of his work area. Dalhousie University's Archives and Special Collections are the official repositories of his papers and his library, respectively.

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Wynn Karl Rafuse was born in Parkdale, Lunenburg County, circa 1928, the son of Stewart A. and Dorothy (Wentzell) Rafuse. He was a member of the Agricultural Society of Nova Scotia and the IOOF Lodge. He died on 31 May 1993 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

Ralston, Helen 1929-2006
Person · 1929-2006

Dr. Helen Ralston (Sister R.S.C.J.) was born in Newcastle, New South Wales Australia in 1929. She emigrated to Canada in 1956 and became a Canadian citizen in 1974. She received a Diploma in Social Studies in 1952 and Certificate in Medical Social Work in 1953 (University of Sydney) and a M.S.W. in 1956 (McGill University). She received a teaching certificate from Kenwood Normal Training School, New York, a B.A. in Sociology from Newton College in 1965 and an M.A. in Sociology from Boston College in 1969, a Ph.D. in Sociology from Carleton University in 1973, and a Nova Scotia Teacher’s Certificate in 1973.

Dr. Ralston joined the religious congregation the International Society of the Sacred Heart in Montreal and resided at the Convent on Spring Garden Road while living in Halifax. She taught in Sacred Heart Schools in Montreal and Halifax for 8 years and began her teaching career at St. Mary’s University in 1968. She began as a Lecturer in Sociology from 1968-1971 before becoming Assistant Professor, Sociology in 1972-1973 and 1974-1982, followed by Associate Professor Sociology in 1982-1989. She served as a full Professor of Sociology from 1989-1994, and finally upon her retirement in 1994, she was appointed Professor Emerita a post she held until her death on December 25, 2006.

Major areas of research include race, ethnic and minority relations and religious movements. Dr. Ralston travelled extensively during the course of her research and presented her findings at conferences around the world.

She also served on a number of committees during her lifetime: Committee on Atlantic Canada Studies (1983-1994), Committee on International Development Studies (1985-1997), Committee on Asian Studies (1987-1997), and the Committee on Women's Studies (1990-1994).

Ramsay, James
Person · 1940-

James Ramsay was a Tatamagouche, Colchester County, Nova Scotia blacksmith. His shop was located on Main Street and following his death it was taken over by James Perrin. Ramsay performed general work for local residents, shipbuilders, millers and worked on several of the major rail and road bridges in the area. In 1908 he was appointed Customs Collector for Tatamagouche. Ramsay died in 1940.

Rand, Silas Tertius
Person · 1810-1889

Silas Tertius Rand was born 18 May 1810 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of Silas Rand and his second wife, Deborah Tupper. Although neither of his parents had much formal education, they wanted their children to be educated. Initially, Silas’ father taught him to read, but then sent him to school. In all, he had four winters at school, completing his schooling at the age of eleven years. But Rand continued to read on his own, after his daily work as a bricklayer. At the age of nineteen he was introduced to English grammar. This he mastered and he began to teach it himself at the age of 21. In 1833, when he was 23 years old, Rand attended Horton Academy in Wolfville, N.S. in order to study Latin. He only stayed one month and left after mastering Latin grammar. Thereafter, Rand continued to study Latin on his own, while making a living at bricklaying. Rand’s path to religion was a long one, with many diversions along the way. However, in 1833 he underwent a conversion experience and decided to devote his life to God. In 1834 he was ordained as a Baptist minister at the First Cornwallis Baptist Church, Upper Canard, Kings County, NS. Edward Manning, a founding father of the Baptist denomination in the Maritimes, conducted the service. His first pastorate was at the Parrsboro (NS) Baptist Church. Then he went to Liverpool, NS where he met Jane Elizabeth McNutt and they married on 10 May 1838. They had 12 children. Rand next became the Pastor of the Baptist church in Windsor N.S. After being there for several years he went to the Baptist Church in Charlottetown, PEI. Rand had a passion for missionary work. Although asked in 1846 by the Board of Foreign and Domestic Missions of the Nova Scotia Baptist Association to go to Burma, his fascination with the Mi’kmaq language and culture led him to remain in the Maritime colonies to work as a missionary to the Native peoples. With the object of establishing a full-time Mi’kmaq mission he enlisted the support of the Protestant evangelicals of Halifax and they founded the Micmac Missionary Society on 12 November 1849. For much of his life, Rand kept a diary in which he recorded the details of his life, including his visits to scattered Mi’kmaq bands and his supervision of the Mission community that the Society had established at Hantsport, N.S. where he lived permanently from 1853. Initially Rand practiced colportage, or begging, to provide the funds necessary for the subsistence of the Mission, but in 1864 he adopted a plan called ‘living in faith’ by which he put his trust in the Lord that the necessary funds would be forthcoming, unsolicited. His refusal to ask for donations to support the mission resulted in his expulsion from the Society and its dissolution in 1870. In 1869 Rand attended a religious revival in Halifax, led by a visitor from the Plymouth Brethren. He joined the ‘Plyms’ and his public denunciation of the Baptists in 1872 caused the Hantsport Baptist Church to exclude him. He remained a member of the Plymouth Brethren until they too expelled him in 1885; he then returned to the Baptist church. Rand was especially talented at languages and over the years mastered not only Mi’kmaq, but also Malecite, and Mohawk, as well as French, Italian, German, Spanish and modern Greek. He studied the customs, folklore and language of the Mi’kmaq and held the Native peoples of the Maritimes in high esteem. He produced scriptural translations in Mi’kmaq and Malecite, compiled a Mi’kmaq dictionary, and collected scores of legends, including the tales of Glooscap. Rand’s work with the Mi’kmaq was recognized by three universities: Queen’s University presented him with an honorary L.L.D. degree (1886), Acadia College with an honorary D.D degree (1886), and Kings College with an honorary D.C.L. degree. Silas Tertius Rand died at Hantsport, Nova Scotia on 4 October 1889.

Dulcie E. E. Randall · Person · 1915 - 1997

Dulcie Evelyn Everard Randall was born in Birmingham, England on 26 June 1915 to Kathleen Everard. She was adopted within a year of her birth by Dr. Elisha Ambrose Randall and Nina Randall of Truro, NS. She died on 2 August 1997 in Ottawa, ON.

Rankin, Elaine
Person

Elaine Rankin is a native to Judique, Cape Breton, she practiced many years as a nurse at St. Martha's Hospital in Antogonish and continues to work there. Elaine has always had a great love of Cape Breton music.