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Creelman Family
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Annie MacKay (1876-1944) married Thomas Wilson Creelman (1879-1933) in 1915. Annie was the eldest daughter of Roderick MacKay (1849-1936) and Margaret (Maggie) Gray Murray (1852-1942) of Pictou County. The MacKays settled in Pictou County and called their homestead "Dunrobin." They had nine children: Annie (Feb. 20, 1876- September 24, 1944), Alexander (Nov. 24, 1877 – 1899), Murdoch Arthur (June 1881-Dec. 1971), Isabella Bertha (Nov. 25, 1883-Dec17, 1963), Katherine Mary (June 22, 1891-January 1963), Ina Ethel (February 3, 1894-June 4, 1986), Allister Murray (August 1900-February 12, 1922), Murdoch David (1880), Angus Herdman (1888). Alexander MacKay drowned while attending Dalhousie. Allister died of tuburculosis. Murdoch David and Angus died in infancy.

Annie MacKay and Thomas Creelman met in Halifax, where Thomas worked for The Imperial Oil Company, as an accountant and Annie worked as a part-time teacher. They married in 1915 and moved to Ontario where Thomas was transferred. He was employed with The Imperial Oil Company until he passed away in 1933. While he was employed with the oil company he was transferred to various places. He was in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Sarnia, Ontario, Winnipeg, Manitoba and he spent 5 years in South America. Annie and Thomas had one son, William MacKay Creelman.

William MacKay (Mack) Creelman, (1918-1985) was born in Sarnia, Ontario. After his Father died in 1933 he moved with his mother to Halifax. He completed his high school at the Halifax Academy in 1936 and came to Dalhousie to study math and physics. He received his BSc and 1940 and his MSc in 1942. We was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada. After graduating from Dalhousie University in 1942 with a M.Sc. in Physics, Mack Creelman joined the Halifax Naval Group of the National Research Council which became the Naval Research Establishment (NRE) in the spring of 1943. He also joined the Navy. He continued with NRE until 1945 when he was appointed to the staff of the Commodore Superintendent HMC Dockyard as Supervising Inspector, Electrical Anti-Mining (Maritimes) responsible for all electrical mine countermeasures in the Atlantic Command. He retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant (L) RCN (R) in the fall of 1946 and joined the staff of the Manager, Electrical Engineering HMC Dockyard with the same duties as a naval officer.

Through his work at the Naval Research Establishment in Halifax, Mack met his wife H.G. (Nancy) Littlejohns (1923-1963). They married in June 1954, they had three children, June, David and William. Nancy passed away with cancer in July 1963.

In 1955, Creelman transferred to Naval Headquarters to head the degaussing section of the Electrical Engineer-in-Chief in Ottawa. Four years later, he was named head of the Passive Protection Section, Director Maritime Facilities and Resources at NDHQ. He retired in 1983 after 40 years’ service.

Please see also “Memoirs of WMC” MS-2-775, Box 8, Folder 13.

Creighton Family
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The Creighton family of Halifax consisted of parents Graham and Catherine (Murray) Creighton and their children Edith, Anna, Lois, Frieda, Howard, and Wilfred. The family is known to have resided in Halifax on Roome Street, Gottingen Street, Oakland Road, and eventually 14 LeMarchant Street (later renumbered to 1234 LeMarchant Street). They also resided in Middle Musquodoboit for a time around 1908.

Culp Family
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The Culps of Lunenburg are descended from Johan Jacob Kolb, who arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents in 1750 on the Ann. After surrenduring to the British in Louisbourg they were sent to Lunenburg in 1758. Kolb was married to Anna Maria Magdalena Schloer, with whom he had 12 children.

Stoddard, Laura F. (family)
Famille · 1898-[1970]

Laura Fisher Stoddard was born on November 2, 1898 in Clam Harbour. Her parents were Walter Edward Stoddard and Hannah Amelia Palmer. On November 16, 1932, Laura married Roy Young Sanford who was born November 11, 1898 in Avondale, Hants County.

Walter Edward Stoddard was born February 1, 1852 in Clam Harbour and was the son of Thomas Stoddard (1817-1858) and Elizabeth Eisan. He married Hannah Palmer on January 22, 1878. Hannah was the daughter of Captain William Palmer and Susanna Margaret Marks. Together Walter and Hannah had eleven children: Seldon C. (1878), Beatrice L. (1881), Ada B. (1882), Gertrude (1884), Lola E. (1886), Ernest E. (1889), William P. (1890), Frank C. (1892), Florence E. (1894), Amy V. (1896), and Laura F. (1898).

Walter worked as a fisherman, farmer, and was also the postmaster in Clam Harbour. He and his wife owned and operated a popular fifteen room hotel called the Stoddard House on the road to Clam Harbour beach. W. E. Stoddard was still running the hotel in 1930 and the rates were two dollars a day or twelve dollars per week. The hotel featured a veranda, electricity, tennis and croquet grounds, boating, surf bathing and swimming and was close to fishing and shore bird shooting areas as well as beautiful beaches.

Laura and her husband Roy lived at the home of her parents and helped run the hotel and post office. Walter died February 4, 1945 and Hannah died suddenly on August 7, 1937. They are both buried in the Clam Harbour United Church cemetery. In 1946 the hotel was being operated by Mrs. R. Y. Sanford and featured eight bedrooms, a veranda, fresh vegetables, a nearby beach and sport fishing, electric lights, and indoor plumbing. Rates per day with board were two dollars and fifty cents or twelve dollars per week, and single rooms were one dollar per night. The hotel appears to have continued to operate until 1950, when the last entry was made in the hotel register (register has remained with the current owners of the building).Laura (Stoddard) Sanford passed away c. 1970 and Roy died in 1988.

Ferguson family
Famille · 1878- [ca.1960]

Arthur Ferguson was born December 29, 1878. He was the son of farmer and fisherman, Joseph John A. Ferguson of Lower East Chezzetcook and his second wife Jane Margaret Conrod. Arthur also worked as a fisherman and was listed as living in East Chezzetcook with his mother in the 1911 census.

Burgoyne family
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The son of James Albert Burgoyne and Emma Jane Shupe, Frederick Stannage Burgoyne was born at Oakland, Lunenburg County in 1880. In 1907, Burgoyne married Josephine Elizabeth Mader. The couple had two children, Robert De Wolf, born in 1908, and Enola Thelma, born in 1911. Frederick S. “Freddie” Burgoyne worked as a ship’s carpenter, later becoming a foreman at the J. Ernst & Sons shipyard in Mahone Bay. He eventually opened his own yard, which he operated until his death in 1928. Josephine Elizabeth (Mader) Burgoyne died in 1951. After graduating from the Mahone Bay School in 1930, Enola “Nollie” Burgoyne studied at the Halifax Shorthand School and pursued a career as a stenographer. In 1936, she married Roscoe Earlen MacLeod. She died at Oakland in 2003. She was predeceased by her brother De Wolf, who died in 1978.

McLatchy (family)
Famille · 1833-1969

Edward McLatchy (1833-1911) was a farmer and business owner in Grand Pre, N.S. In 1865, he married Sophia Amelia Borden (1844-1921) of Grand Pre. According to the 1881 census, Edward and Sophia had eight children: Charlotte Agnes (1866-1946), Rupert Edward (1868-1948) , Arthur Cecil (1868-1946), Reginald Laird (1872-1947) , Katherine Osborne (1874-1969), Harry O. (1876-1944), Walter Francis (1880-1944), and Francis Cecelia (1880-1973). Their Grand Pre home was located next to the Covenanters Church. Edward and Sophie McLatchy are buried next to the Covenanters Church in Grand Pre, along with some of their children. Charlotte “Lottie” A. McLatchy (1866-1946) was born in Grand Pre, died in Toronto. In 1893, Lottie married Harry Rand, son of Leander Rand (M.P.P. for Nova Scotia) and Olivia Ann (nee Borden); they had four children. Arthur Cecil MacLatchy (1869-1946) was a railway station agent in Grand Pre and later worked with the railway mail service in Halifax. In 1926, he married Winnifred MacLean (1883-1934). Arthur retired to the homestead and died in Grand Pre. Katherine “Kate” Osborne MacLatchy (1874-1969) was a Matron of the McGill University hospital unit. According to the Library and Archives Canada WW1 soldiers’ database, she served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps at the 3rd Canadian General Hospital and was matron of the unit at Boulogne for three years. Matron MacLatchy received the Royal Red cross of the first Class in 1917. She later served at Cogswell Street Military Hospital in Halifax before retiring to Grand Pre in 1930.

Gormley (family)
Famille · fl. 1884–1915

Henry Gormley (d.1915), originally of Windsor Forks, married Agnes (nee Benedict, 1846-1827), also of Windsor Forks, in 1867. They moved from Windsor Forks to Upper Falmouth in 1873, having bought the "Bacon property". Henry and Agnes had seven children: Amos (who moved to Maine), Mark (who lived at home), Mary, Henrietta, Archibald (who lived at home), Bessie, and Nora. Archibald "Arch" Gormley, son of Henry and Agnes Gormley, was born in May of 1884. He lived and worked on his parents' farm in Upper Falmouth and likely inherited the family farm, possibly with his brother Mark, in 1915. In the 1911 census, Arch is listed as a single farmer of Irish-Canadian decent and Anglican.

Jane Shaw Law and C. Anthony Law
Famille · 1916-2010

Jane Shaw Law (nee Jane Brumm Shaw) was born in 1917, and was a painter who was best known for her watercolours. Originally from Maine, she grew up in a very artistic environment. She studied in Quebec City at l’École des Beaux Arts under Elliot O’Hara, and married C. Anthony Law in 1942. The couple travelled extensively and settled in the Halifax area, Nova Scotia. Jane taught throughout her life, including at the Nova Scotia Ladies College, and was very involved in the Nova Scotian arts community. She was named a Nova Scotia artist and her works were included in many exhibitions. She died aged 92 in March 2010.

C. Anthony (Tony) Law was born in England in 1916, and raised in Quebec. He grew up in a wealthy family with a history of both military and artistic involvement. Tony was an artist who painted in a style reminiscent of the Group of Seven, as well as a decorated officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. During his service in World War II, Tony was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross. He was also appointed as an official War Artist and documented many events in oil paintings and sketches. After the war, much of Tony’s service took place in the Arctic, which features heavily in his paintings and photographs. After his retirement from the RCN, Tony became very involved in the Saint Mary’s community, where he was an instructor in the Department of Continuing Education as well as being the Artist-in-Residence. Tony eventually fully retired but continued to paint and be extremely active along with Jane in the Halifax and Nova Scotia arts community. Tony exhibited his works in many different venues.

The couple never had children, but were surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends and family. They were well-known for their warmth and hospitality, particularly at their beautiful residence they designed and built at 8 Halls Road, Boulderwood. Tony passed away on his 80th birthday in 1996, and upon Jane’s death their home and many belongings were left to Saint Mary’s University.