The Vincent A. White was a tern schooner built in Alma, New Brunswick, in 1918 and registered in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. She was launched on 7 August 1918 and assigned flag call TNLC. By the 1920s she was well known as a rum runner. Her name was changed to Estonia in 1926 and her port of registry to Lunenburg. In 1935 the Estonia sailed from Turk’s Island, West Indies, and encountered a heavy storm, losing her sails and rudder, and was abandoned in a sinking condition.
The Vincent A. White was a tern schooner built in Alma, New Brunswick in 1918 and registered in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. She was launched on August 7, 1918 and assigned flag call TNLC. By the 1920s she was well known as a rum runner. Her name was changed to Estonia in 1926 and her port of registry to Lunenburg. In 1935 the Estonia sailed from Turk’s Island, West Indies and encountered a heavy storm, losing her sails and rudder, and was abandoned in a sinking condition.
Mary Vingoe was born in Halifax NS and attended Dalhousie University where she graduated with honours and received The University Medal in Theatre in 1976. She completed her MA in Drama at the University of Toronto in 1977. She lived in Toronto for 13 years before returning to Nova Scotia. She is married to composer and saxophonist Paul Cram and they have two daughters. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa, a co-founder and past Artistic Director of Toronto’s feminist Nightwood Theatre, a co-founder and past co-Artistic Director of Ship’s Co. Theatre in Parrsboro and co-founder and past Artistic Director of The Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax. She has directed for major theatres across the country and has acted and written for stage, radio, TV and film. She has been closely associated with the work of many Canadian playwrights, in particular Wendy Lill, for whom she has directed five world premieres four of which were nominated for The Governor General’s Award for Drama. Mary has received many awards including the Mayor’s Award for Achievement in Theatre (2007); the Portia White Prize The, Nova Scotia's highest award for artistic excellence (2009) Robert E. Merritt Award for Achievement in Theatre, and she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011. She was recently Crake Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.
V.S. Sweeny Ltd. was founded by Jacob Sweeny in 1860 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Sweeny was a carpenter and cabinet-maker by trade, and worked for J.G. Allen, a furniture dealer and undertaker. Sweeny bought his business in 1860. Sweeny’s son, Vernon S. Sweeny, took over operations in 1918 and sold the furniture-dealing division to the Rogers Company in 1919. The undertaking business remained in the Sweeny family until 1973, when Layton Goodwin purchased it and added a crematorium in 2011.
Ellen Louise O'Brien, daughter of James and Janet (McHeffey) O'Brien, was born at Windsor, N.S. ca. 1897 where she attended the Edgehill School for Girls. She was the general secretary of the Edgehill Guild for many years. During the Second World War she was treasurer of the Princess Louise Fusiliers' Women's Auxiliary while her husband, Evan Wainwright, was an officer in the Princess Louise Fusiliers. She was also organist at St. John's United Church, Windsor, and a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax. Ellen Wainwright died at Halifax on 17 September 1976.
Hastings Burnaby Wainwright, Anglican clergyman, was born in 1909, son of Charles Evan and Susan Kennedy (Lough) Wainwright. He graduated from the University of King's College (BA L.Th. 1939, DD 1978) and was ordained as deacon in 1937 and priest in 1939. He served at the parishes of Falkland, 1933-1935, 1937-1940, and Granville Ferry, 1941 before entering the Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps, 1941-1946. He then served at Granville Ferry parish, 1946-1949, Bedford 1949-1953, St. George's, Sydney, 1953-1958, Windsor, 1958-1963, St. Phillip's, Halifax, 1963-1971, and was the Falkland and Camp Hill chaplain, 1971-1977. Wainwright was also chaplain for the militia, 1949-1958, canon of All Saints Cathedral, 1968, and archdeacon of Halifax and Eastern Shore, 1970. He retired from the ministry in June 1977. Ven. Dr. Wainwright was also an active member of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society and its executive, and the author of several articles on Nova Scotia history and church history. Married to Elizabeth Eleanor Hood on 8 January 1941, they had five children: John, Anne, Charles, Esther, and Emily. He died 29 November 1986.