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Wiles, Don R.
Person · 1924-2022

Donald Roy Wiles (1924-2022), amateur linguist and chemistry professor, was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada in August 1924 to Neil Douglas Wiles (1899-1983) and Hilda M. (Vaughan) Wiles (1896-1986). Educated in Amherst, then Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick he earned a Bachelor of Science degree 1946, and Bachelor of Education degree 1947. Before his career in chemistry took him to Norway, the United States, and Western Canada, he spent the summer of 1946 visiting his mother’s family in Martin’s Point, Lunenburg County. Both sides of the family could trace their roots back to the “Foreign Protestants” who first settled Lunenburg. While there he recorded the German language spoken by the elders of that community and wrote down some of the German customs persisting there. After earning his Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States in 1953, he worked at the University of British Columbia 1955-1959, then joined the Chemistry Department faculty at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario from 1959 until his retirement in September 1990. He continued teaching occasional courses in chemistry until just before his death on July 13, 2022 in Almonte, Ontario.

Walter H. Boutilier
Person · 1889 - 1942

Walter Herbert Boutilier, prominent Halifax business man and amateur film maker, was born in Halifax, NS, Canada on January 27, 1889. Following graduation from the Maritime Business College, Boutilier was employed in various capacities by the Halifax Cold Storage Company, which became the National Fish Co., Ltd. following a takeover by North Atlantic Fisheries. Boutilier was appointed director of National Fish in 1920, and operations manager in 1929. In 1937, he became vice president of National Fish, a position he held until his death. In 1913, Walter Boutilier married Lilla Beatrice Roberts, also of Halifax. In 1938 Boutilier had a schooner built in Lunenburg for the "Lilla B. Ltd.", named "Lilla B. Boutilier". The couple had no children. An avid golfer, Boutilier was a member of the Ashburn, Gorsebrook, and Brightwood golf clubs. He was a Mason, a member of the Philae temple, the Lodge of Saint Mark, and St. Andrew's Chapter, as well as a member of the Commercial Club and the Halifax Club. Walter H. Boutilier died in Halifax NS on April 21, 1942 after a brief illness.

Thomas Mower Martin
Person · 1838-1934

Thomas Mower Martin (1838-1934), artist, writer, and educator, was born in 1838 in London, England to Edward H. Martin and Susan Abernethy. He and his wife Emma Nichols (1842-1911) immigrated to Canada in 1862 and eventually settled in Toronto, Ontario where he earned a living as a full-time painter in oils and watercolors. He travelled across Canada from the east to the west coasts and in the United States. He was a founding member of several art schools in Canada and was a member of the Railway Painters. In 1907 he produced a major book, Canada, with text by Wilfred Campbell. He also illustrated J. T. Bealby's book Canada published in 1909. Thomas Mower Martin continued to paint until a few months before his death in 1934 in Toronto, at the age of 95.

Sarah Donaldson Naugle
Canada · Person · 1885-1963

Sarah Ann Donaldson was born in July of 1885 to Captain John Henry and Elizabeth Ellen (Hirtle) Donaldson. Captain Donaldson was posted at Life Saving Station 3 on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, where the family lived in the late 1890s and early 1900s. John and Elizabeth Donaldson had several other children, including Robert, George, Mabel and Helen (Polly), at least some of whom were born on Sable.

It was on Sable Island that Sarah met her husband Reuben Alexander Naugle (sometimes Alexander Reuben Naugle, b. September 1878). After being a labourer there for several years, he was appointed Keeper of Sable Island’s #2 Station in June of 1904. They married in October 1904 and started their family, later moving on to Sable Island’s Life Saving Station #3.

The 1921 Census of Sable Island showed Sarah and Reuben still on the Island, now with a family of six children: Reuben (b. 1906), Ernest (b. 1908), Lawrence Robert (b. 1910), Dorothy Mabel May (b. May 4th 1913), Willard (b. ca. 1918), and Clyde (b. ca. 1920). When they left Sable Island (around 1924), the family settled in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

Reuben Alexander Naugle died in 1961, and Sarah Ann Naugle in 1963.

Rosemary MacAulay
Person · 1935-

Rosemary MacAulay, visual artist, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1935. She was educated at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1956 and a Bachelor of Science in 1958. In 1982 she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), all in Halifax. Subsequently, she worked as an instructor in the Continuing Education Department at NSCAD 1986-1993 and at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 1990. She served on the executive of Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) Maritimes 1985-1990, co-chaired the NS Printmakers Association in 1990 and the NS Women Artists’ Network 1990-1992. She is a member of Visual Arts NS and facilitator for Tantramar Seniors’ College in 2012. She mounted solo exhibitions of her work from 1997 to 2017, and participated in group exhibitions/visual screenings from 1975 to 2011.

Roger Belanger
Person · 1935 -

Roger Belanger, photographer and film maker, was born in Nouvelle, Quebec, Canada in 1935. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as a photographer and was posted in Europe until 1960, when he was transferred to R.C.A.F. base Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1965 Belanger retired from the R.C.A.F. to join the Photographic Division of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax NS. During his time at the Bedford Institute Belanger did some film work, in addition to his work as a photographer. He worked on several documentary productions, including "Hudson '70" (co-production with the National Film Board of Canada) and a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary about a hydrographic survey expedition to the Canadian Arctic. Belanger became involved with the Nova Iceboat Club, founded by Richard Vine, one of Belanger's friends during his time in Halifax NS. Roger Belanger retired from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in 1991. His death date is unknown.

Richardson, Rob
Person · fl.1917

Rob Richardson, Halifax Explosion survivor, was reportedly attending university in Halifax when the Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of December 6, 1917. His family lived in Chipman, New Brunswick.

Pullen, Hugh F.
Person · 1905-1983

Hugh Francis Pullen was born 9 July 1905 at Oakville, Ontario and entered the Royal Naval College at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1920. He spent two years at sea with the Canadian Pacific Steamships and rejoined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1924. In 1944 he received the Order of the British Empire for his services while commanding a convoy escort group. He retired from the navy in 1960, his last appointment as flag officer Atlantic Coast, Maritime commander Atlantic, and commander Atlantic Sub-Area (NATO), 1957-1960. Rear Admiral Pullen held executive positions in several voluntary organizations such as the United Appeal, The Royal Commonwealth Society, The Royal Life-Saving Society of Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Society, and the Anglican Church of Canada. In 1960 he was chairman for the World Refugee Campaign in Nova Scotia, and also served as a member of the National Council of the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards, 1963-1969. He was also co-founder of the Maritime Museum of Canada (now Maritime Museum of the Atlantic) and the Halifax Grammar School, and first commodore of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association. He was the author of several books and articles on Maritime history. Among his best known works are Atlantic Schooners (1967), The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1970), and The Pullen Expedition (1979), for which he won the John Lyman Book Award in 1980 from the North American Society for Oceanic History. Hugh F. Pullen died 4 May 1983 in England. He was married to Helen (MacKean); they had seven children.

Pentelow, Howard
Person · 1901-1963

Howard Mitchener Stevenson Pentelow (1901-1963), Halifax Explosion survivor, was born March 18, 1901 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada to William (b.1861) and Maud (Stevenson) Pentelow (b.1871). Howard was a cadet attending the Royal Canadian Naval College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in December 1917. On December 6, 1917 Cadet Pentelow was in the College’s gunroom when the Explosion occurred. He was cut by window glass and blown through a closed door, received wounds to his face and one hand. In 1919 he became a midshipman with the Canadian Navy, then left the military, became an electrical engineer in Chicago, Illinois, United States employed with the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. He married Naomi Frances Evadne Small (b.1902) in July 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, became a United States citizen in 1933. He died on 26 November 1963 in Rensselaer, Jasper, Indiana, USA.

Parker, Mike
Person · 1952-

Mike Parker was born 9 October 1952 and grew up in Bear River, Digby County. His father owned the local general store, the Bear River Trading Company. During the summer and fall, his father was a hunting and fishing guide; and during the winter, he occasionally worked in the lumber woods. Mike grew up hearing stories and tales associated with the guiding and lumbering occupations. When Parker's father died suddenly in his mid-sixties, Mike realized that changing technology and the aging population conspired against the endurance of this lifestyle. Parker therefore began recording the personal experience narratives of guides and lumbermen in the Digby and Annapolis County areas. Parker graduated from Acadia University in 1975 (B.A.) and 1977 with a recreation degree. He has been teaching at the School for the Blind in Halifax since 1977. he has published two books using his oral history research and is working on a third about the merchant navy during World War II. Parker currently lives in Dartmouth with his wife and two children.