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Webster, C.A., 1864-1941
Person · 1864-1941

Charles Ashton Webster was born at Yarmouth, N.S. on 1 June 1864, son of John L.R. Webster (1835-1885), MD and Helen Ogilvie (Geddes) Webster. He received his early education in Yarmouth and attended the Halifax Medical College. In 1886 he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. As an intern, he spent eighteen months on Randalls Island, N.Y. at the Infants' and Randalls Island Hospitals. Dr. Webster settled in Yarmouth in October 1887 where he resumed his late father's general practice and also performed a large share of surgical work in Yarmouth County. He was appointed medical officer for the federal Department of Marine and Fisheries in 1899 and health officer by the Town of Yarmouth in February 1909, coinciding with a small pox outbreak. He was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1917 and was active in the Canadian Medical Association and several other professional, civic, and charitable organizations. Webster also took an active interest in horse breeding, and was largely connected with the introduction of the Hackney and Clydesdale horses into Yarmouth County. He and his wife, Mary Page, daughter of Alexander S. and Ellen C. (Page) Murray of Pugwash, N.S., married 1 February 1912 and had six children: Mary Elizabeth, John Alexander, Ellen Page, Geddes Murray, Robert McNaught,and David Richan.

Webster, John Alexander
Person · 1914 - 2005

John Alexander Webster was a Dalhousie Medical School graduate and general surgeon in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was born in Yarmouth in 1914 and earned his BSc at Dalhousie in 1936 and his MD,CM in 1938. After residency in Cleveland, IL, he served as a surgeon with the Royal Canadian Airforce from 1942-1945. He obtained his FRCS(C) in 1946 and his FACS in 1947. In 1950 he returned to Yarmouth as a general surgeon—the fourth generation of his family to practise surgery in Yarmouth, and the fifth generation in Nova Scotia. He retired in 1992, when his youngest son, David McGowen Webster, took over his Yarmouth practice.

Webster, K.G.T.
Person · 1871 - 1942

Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster was a scholar of medieval literature who devoted his academic career to the study of medieval romances, castles and the art of war. He was born on 10 June 1871 to Dr. John R.L. Webster and Helen (Geddes) Webster, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and was the fifth of six children (Helen, Charles, James, Isabella and Conrad). Webster graduated from Milton School before taking his BA Honours in English literature at Dalhousie University in 1892. He went on to study at Harvard University, where he earned a BA, MA and PhD in medieval literature, followed by a professorial appointment.

Webster wrote at least four monographs and a number of articles on medieval literature. He amassed a collection of postcards of castles, and built a considerable library to support his research on early European castles, a collection he bequeathed to Dalhousie University. He also had a passion for architectural restoration, and in 1913 bought the Barnard Capen House in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he had moved to Milton, Massachusetts, where he restored it. In 1932 he purchased and restored the eighteenth-century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which later became a provincial museum.

Webster was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University in 1930. He died in 1942.

Person

Donald Weeren was born in London, England. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Montreal in 1957, and began teaching English, Latin and Speech at Loyola High in Montreal, P.Q. In 1960, Weeren received his Master of Science in Education from Fordham University at New York City, New York and the following year he worked as an instructor in education at Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York. Weeren was hired as a lecturer in Education at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1962 to 1965, at which time he was promoted to the position of Associate Professor of Education. From 1964 to 1968 and again in 1992 to 1993, he was the Acting Dean of Education, and was Dean of Education from 1971 to 1976. In addition, Weeren sat on the Academic Senate from 1964 to 1969 and 1973 to 1975. He served on various committees, such as the Senate Quality of Teaching committee, and the Senate Scholarship committee. In 1995 Weeren was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Education, a position which he held until his retirement in 1996.

Weil, Robert
Person

Dr. Robert Weil, MD, LMCC, FRCP, FAPA, FACP, was born on 16 November 1909 in Vimperk (Winterberg), in what is now Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the German University of Prague's Medical Faculty in 1929 and served as a medical officer in the Czechslovakian Army until 1935, when he went into general practice. He and his wife, Stella, who was also a doctor, left their home in Graupen for Prague, then for Great Britain and finally for Canada in 1939. He practised general medicine in northern Saskatchewan until 1942, when he began working with the Saskatchewan Mental Health Services. His work with other pioneers helped move towards the provision of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, of which he was a founding member in 1950 and President in 1968. He interned in neurosurgery at the Saskatoon City Hospital from 1944-1945, worked at the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, from 1949-1950, and was a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at Warne State University in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950.

Weil came to the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University in 1950, an appointment from which he retired in 1975 as Associate Professor. He continued in private practice, including work with veterans at Camp Hill Hospital. He was involved with numerous psychiatric associations, and participated in national and international conferences. His research and published writing covered a wide variety of subjects. He was involved with the commission studying the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, interviewing survivors and analyzing the incident's impact on the community.

He died on 6 May 2002 at the age of 92, survived by his wife, but predeceased by his only child, Sonja Weil.

Weir, Harold, 1902-1978
Person · 1902-1978

Harold Alexander Weir was born in Truro in 1902, the son of James and Isabella (Johnston) Weir. He began his professional career in Pugwash where he taught school from 1924 to 1927 after completing graduate work at King's and Dalhousie Universities. He joined the staff of Halifax Academy, where in 1935 he won a Carnegie Fellowship in education. This enabled him to continue his studies at the University of London. In 1938 he was appointed inspector of schools for the County of Colchester and in 1940 was asked to assume the position of inspector for the County of Halifax. His leadership in setting up a municipal school board in his own inspectorate was recognized by the department of education and his services were then made available to all counties in the province. He later became chief inspector and, eventually, Director of Educational Services. In 1967 he was appointed to the position of Director of School Planning and Conveyance in which he served until his retirement. He was twice married, first to Ethel Smith of Pugwash who predeceased him and later to Grace Kirby of Porters Lake. He had two children. He died on 20 November 1978 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Welch family
Family · 1854-

Joshua Welch was born on September 7 1854 in Port Greville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. He was married to Emilne Welch (1862 – 1938) of Fraserville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Emilne gave birth to their daughter Lottie Bell on 17 December 1892 in Wards Brook, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Their daughter, Lottie Bell, married Stewart Ayer and had one child Jessie Fraulen (Welch) McCully. Census records indicate that Joshua lived in Parrsboro in 1881, Port Greville in 1891, 1901 and 1921.Joshua passed away on 28 July 1927 in Port Greville, NS.

Weld, Charles Beecher
Person · 1899-1991

Charles Beecher Weld was physician, researcher and faculty member at Dalhousie University. He was born in Vancouver in 1899 and educated at the University of British Columbia (BA, MA) and the University of Toronto (MD). He served overseas with the Canadian Armed Forces during World War One and in 1936 he joined Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine as a professor of physiology, a position he held until 1965. He continued to teach in other capacities at Dalhousie until 1969 and was awarded an honorary degree in 1970. Dr. Weld published over ninety-five papers, was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was active in community organizations and professional associations. He died in 1991.