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Jonathan Sewell was a lawyer, musician, office holder, politician, author, and judge. He was born ca. 1766 in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a prominent Loyalist family but spent his later childhood in London and Bristol. After briefly attending Brasenose College, Oxford, he moved to New Brunswick in 1785 to study law with Solicitor General Ward Chipman.

In 1789 Sewell moved to Quebec, where he rose quickly in the legal and political ranks. In 1790 he was appointed temporary Attorney General of the province of Quebec and in 1795 he received the permanent appointments of Attorney General and Advocate General. He was named judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court in June 1796, and in 1808 was appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada, becoming the most powerful official in the colony after the governor.

Sewell married Henrietta (Harriet) Smith in 1797, with whom he had sixteen children. He and his family were at the centre of social life at Quebec: he was a member of the Barons’ Club, an active shareholder in the Union Company of Quebec, and sat on the board of the Royal Institution. Sewell was also the patron of a literary society, promoted the theatre, and founded and played in a quartet.

Sewell passed away in 1839, one year after resigning as Chief Justice.

Corporate body · 1890-

The S.F & W.E Roop Sash and Door Company was established in 1890 at Middleton, Nova Scotia by Samuel Roop and his son Warren. It was the first woodworking factory at Middleton and employed twenty men to saw logs, kiln-dry lumber, and manufacture windows and doors. By 1897, the focus of the company had changed to the manufacturing of mouldings, boxes and cases, and was renamed Middleton Box Factory. In 1898, the factory burned down, and the Roop's formed a new company with G.E Hutchinson named Roop & Hutchinson. It was later renamed Middleton Woodworking Company Ltd. The company built a large factory with a boiler house and saw mill. However, upon its completion, the factory was immediately sold to A.W Amos of Yarmouth who established his own woodworking company.

Shambhala Training Program
Corporate body · 1976-

Shambhala Training was originated by the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Boulder, Colorado. After teaching Buddhism in the West for over fifteen years Trungpa Rinpoche began in 1976 to present the Shambhala teachings in a non-sectarian program of study and meditation practice. In the autumn of 1976 the first public programs offering this training, called Weekend Intensive Meditation Programs, were held. However, its acronym WIMP, was considered inappropriate and was renamed Shambhala Intensive Training (SIT). Shortly thereafter it adopted its present name Shambhala Training Program. Trungpa Rinpoche designated his chief student and spiritual successor Osel Tendzin as co-founder of the program which was established on 22 February 1977. Management of the program was placed under the direction of Karl Springer, a member of the board of directors of Nalanda Foundation. In 1978 Trungpa Rinpoche and Osel Tendzin, began to train teachers for the Shambhala Training Program. In March of that same year Trungpa Rinpoche presented the teachings of Shambhala Training for the first time at a public talk at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Also in 1979, a course of advanced training for program directors called Shambhala Education was created. Later some of the material in this program was incorporated into a series of graduate level programs which followed the completion of the first five levels of training. Shambhala training currently offers a three-part program of study and practice. Each program offers meditation instruction and practice talks on the Shambhala teachings group discussions and individual interviews. In 1983 the Shambhala Training Program moved from Boulder, Colorado to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After Trungpa Rinpoche's death in 1987, the program was carried on under the direction of Osel Tendzin until his death in 1990. It is presently under the direction of Trungpa Rinpoche's eldest son the Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Shand, A.P.
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A.P. Shand was a businessman from Windsor, Nova Scotia. He invested in sailing vessels and other Nova Scotia businesses. In 1871, he founded the Windsor Furniture Company with Mark Curry.