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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.

Corporate body · 1985-1987

The Nova Scotia House of Assembly's Select Committee on Tourism was established by Resolution #486 passed in the Legislature on 16 May 1985. The Select Committee was made up of 11 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) plus the Minister for Tourism with Dr. R. Colin D. Stewart, MLA for Colchester-South, appointed chair. A smaller, 5-member Steering Committee was formed from this group, supported by Joan Kelly from the Office of the Speaker, as Secretary (Administrative Professional). Its mandate was to study the tourism industry in Nova Scotia and make recommendations on its development and promotion. They listened to 20 presentations from tourism stakeholders, examined the work of the earlier Select Committee on Tourism (chaired by Brian Young, 1982-1984) and submitted an interim report in May 1986. The final report was tabled in the House of Assembly on 22 April 1987 and the Select Committee disbanded.

Corporate body · 1982-1983

The Nova Scotia Minister’s Task Force on Day Care was established by Hon. Edmund L. Morris, Minister of Department of Social Services, in December 1982. Its mandate was to study daycare issues and make recommendations on priorities for public funding of daycare in Nova Scotia. The Task Force was comprised of a provincial coordinating committee and five regional committees. The regional committees were responsible for organizing the public meetings and compiling submissions from the public. The provincial coordinating committee was responsible for overall management and direction. Elizabeth McNaughton, Senior Research and Planning Officer with the Department of Social Services, was appointed chair. The Task Force included representatives from registered daycare centres, private day nurseries, the Department of Social Services, and parents. Public hearings were held in March 1983 in 14 locations across the province. They received 102 written or oral presentations and 5 letters. The Task Force presented its final report to the Minister on July 14, 1983 and then disbanded.

Corporate body · 1939

The Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Queen Hotel Fire, Hollis Street, Halifax was created by Order-in-Council dated March 8, 1939. Justice Maynard B. Archibald, judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, was appointed commissioner. Its mandate was to investigate the cause of a fatal fire at the Queen Hotel on Hollis Street in Halifax on March 2, 1939, determine what fire prevention or suppression measures were in place, to review the practice of building inspections, and to recommend improvements for buildings in the City of Halifax and the Province of Nova Scotia to better protect human life in case of fire. The Royal Commission held hearings at Halifax from March 20 to May 12, 1939. Justice Archibald submitted his final report to His Honour Robert Irwin, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, on November 25, 1939 and then disbanded.

Corporate body · 1935

The national Royal Commission on Financial Arrangements Between the Dominion and the Maritime Provinces was created by the Committee of the Privy Council’s Order in Council (P.C. 2231) on September 14, 1934. Sir Thomas White, lawyer of Toronto, was appointed chairperson of the Commission, with Justice John Alexander Mathieson, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, and Edward Walter Nesbitt of Woodstock, Ontario as co-commissioners. It was set up at the request of the three Maritime Premiers of the day: L.P.D. Tilley of New Brunswick, Angus L. Macdonald of Nova Scotia, and W.J.F. MacMillan of Prince Edward Island. Its mandate was to deal with the recommendation of the national Royal Commission on Maritime Claims of 1926 (also called the Duncan Commission), to change the financial arrangements under which the Maritime Provinces joined Confederation. The aim was for a more equitable sharing of revenues between the Maritimes and the rest of Canada. Sir White submitted their report to the Rt.Hon. R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, on February 9, 1935. A dissenting opinion was submitted by Commissioner John A. Mathieson on February 16, 1935, and the Royal Commission disbanded.

Corporate body · 1964-1965

The national Commission to Inquire into the Problems of Marketing Salted and Cured Fish Produced in the Atlantic Provinces, also referred to as the Atlantic Salt Fish Commission, was created by Privy Council Order-in-Council (PC#1964-1672) dated October 29, 1964. Dr. D.B. Finn, former Deputy Minister of Fisheries for Canada, was appointed sole Commissioner. His mandate was to inquire into and report upon the export marketing problems of the salt fish industry in the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec, and the advisability of establishing a marketing board to control exports of cured fish. Commissioner Finn made a detailed study of existing reports, especially the Newfoundland Salt Fish Marketing Report 1963. He held public hearings in St. John’s NF, Halifax NS, Fredericton NB, and Quebec PQ from February 1 to 15, 1965. He submitted his final report to the Governor General of Canada in 1965 and the Commission disbanded.

Corporate body · 1982-1983

The Nova Scotia Minister’s Advisory Committee on Canadian Regional Publishing was established by Hon. Terry Donahoe, Minister of Education, in the spring 1982. The Advisory Committee’s mandate was to review the extent, level of awareness, and use of Canadian publications in Nova Scotia’s schools and libraries, especially those produced in the Atlantic region. The Department was also interested in how local publishers might respond to provincial needs. The Advisory Committee was composed of 8 members with William McCurdy, former printer, publisher, and President of Canadian Periodical Publishers Association, appointed as chairperson. Kathie Swenson, Senior Educational Advisor for the Department, acted as Secretary. They reviewed the Department of Education’s resource lists, textbook selection criteria and budgets, the operation of the School Book Bureau, and department publications; they gathered information from other provinces and territories for a comparative view; they invited written submissions (briefs) from stakeholders; and they listened to presentations from experts. The final report with 52 recommendations was published by the Department in 1983 and the Committee disbanded.

Corporate body · 1982-1984

The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Oil and Gas Board’s Socio-Economic Review Panel (SERP) was created on December 8, 1982 under Section 7 of the Canada-Nova Scotia Agreement on Offshore Oil and Gas Resources Management and Revenue Sharing. A two-person panel was set up with Mr. Hector Hortie, retired federal official, appointed by the Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Mr. Walter Miller, retired president of Scott Maritimes Ltd., appointed by the Nova Scotia Executive Council. The Review was initiated by Mobil Oil Canada Ltd.’s proposed development of the Venture oil well just east of Sable Island. The Review Panel’s mandate was to examine the socio-economic implications of production system options related to this development, in particular the economic aspects, labour and employment requirements, social services such as health care and education, infrastructure requirements such as transportation and municipal services, and socio-cultural impacts. The Review Panel worked jointly with the Sable Island Environmental Assessment Panel. Together, they held public information sessions in 11 towns in NS from Apr 30 to May 14, 1983, held public meetings in Guysborough, Port Hawkesbury, Sydney, New Glasgow, Dartmouth, and Halifax from September 25 to October 14, 1983, and accepted written submissions (briefs) from all stakeholders and interested citizens. The Panels’ main focus was the Socio-Economic Impact Statement (SEIS), part of the larger Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), written by Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. The Panel submitted its final report to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Oil and Gas Board in January 1984 and then disbanded.

Jones Clayton family
Family · ca1923-2021

The Jones and Clayton families, both prominent in the African Nova Scotian United Baptist Church community, were united by marriage when Rev. Dr. Willard Parker Clayton (1921-2007) married Annie Jean Jones (1932- ) on June 24, 1954 in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. Willard was born in 1921 in Liverpool NS to Licentiate Samuel James Clayton (1886-1967) and Idella Mae (Croxen) Clayton (1888-1978) and raised in Upper Hammonds Plains NS. He left school to work with his father in the family cooperage business (making wooden barrels to transport foodstuffs), then joined the Canadian Army in 1942. Willard P. Clayton served overseas during the Second World War (1939-1945) in the Royal Highland Regiment, Black Watch of Canada, Canadian Army European Theatre (Infantry). He saw Front Line action in France, Holland, Germany, and Belgium before being honorably discharged in 1946. He was ordained as a Christian minister in The African United Baptist Association on September 25, 1952. Clayton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952, a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1955 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1963, all from Acadia University. He went on to earn a Doctor of Religion degree in 1980 in the United States. In addition to ministering, Rev. Dr. Willard P. Clayton was employed full time, first with the Federal Public Service (1952-1962) then the Digby County and Halifax County Bedford District School Boards as classroom teacher (1963-1974) and Vice-Principal (1974-1986). Within the Church, Willard served as Executive Member of The African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia from 1954 to 1996. Together with his wife Jean they worked in church ministry to the Black community in Nova Scotia for 50 years. Clayton was also a writer, with 4 books published between 1982 and 2005. Rev. Dr. Clayton died on April 17, 2007 in Halifax NS.
Annie Jean (Jones) Clayton was born in 1932 in Tracadie NS to Deacon Sydney Morgan Jones (1899-1993) and Amelia Jean (Desmond) Jones (1900-1952). Sydney M. Jones was one of 16 Blacks to enlist in the 106th Battalion, Nova Scotia Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was wounded at Passchendaele, Belgium during the Third Battle of Ypres while serving as a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the First World War (1914-1918). After the war, he served as Deacon for the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church and lived in north end Halifax, where his daughter Jean grew up. She graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1951 with Grade 12. After her marriage to Willard Clayton in 1954, she worked as a pastor’s wife within the Church and raised their three daughters: Joyce, Shelley, and Heather. In 1975 Jean earned a diploma as a Social Service Worker from Nova Scotia Institute of Technology and started working outside the home and church. From 1975 to 1994 Jean was employed with the Black United Front, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Halifax Metro United Way, and finally Human Rights Resources Development Canada. Jean Clayton was also a writer, especially of poetry. As of 2023, she lives in Halifax NS.

Balish, Charles
Person · 1896-1986

Charles Balish was born 15 January 1896 in Beirut, Lebanon. He emigrated to Nova Scotia, settling in Lockeport and married Eva May Knickerson (born 11 November 1900 and died 11 November 1980) of Cape Sable Island. The Balishes ran a general store which may be seen on the 1938 Lockeport Lockout film. Mr. Balish documented events which were important to the growth of his family, his community and his province. Charles Balish died in February 1986.