Dr Willard S. Boyle was born on August 19, 1924 in Wallace, and he died on May 7, 2011. He was a physicist, and invented the CCD (Charged Coupled Device) related to the digital eye. He won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2009.
Dougald Robert Boyle was born 10 September 1847 at Glenora Falls, Nova Scotia, the son of Scottish immigrants. He took his first teaching position at Port Hood ca. 1868 and later taught at West Arichat. Boyle married Mary Anne Tyrrell in 1872 and the couple had eleven children. Following teaching, Boyle was appointed Fishery Officer and Stipendiary Magistrate for Richmond County. He held these positions until 1911. Boyle was also active in community affairs, such a pressing for the Lennox Passage Bridge, improvements at Petit de Grat and for a rail line running between MacIntyre's Lake and Arichat. Boyle died in 1914.
Dara Garfield Bowser was born in 1956 to Josephine Slater and Garfield Bowser. He is a descendant of the Cannings, Slater and Hatfield families of the Parrsboro Shore, N.S.
Matilda Bown was born in 1827 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Bown taught art and painting in North Sydney. She spent a considerable amount of time on Sable Island and she became very interested in its natural history. Bown died 12 October 1910 at North Sydney.
John Bower was born at Shelburne, N.S., the son of John Bower of Lower Ohio, N.S., in 1831. He had three brothers: Robert, Edward, and James, and two sisters: Emily and another whose name is unknown. He married Joanna McGill and they had six children: Eliza McGill, Mary Evelyn, Bessie Aileen, Hattie Helen, John Wilmot, and Richard McGill. John initially apprenticed as a painter, and eventually moved into the mercantile business. Bower established his "Up to Date" store in 1865. He also built ships with Freemau Pentz, including a vessel named Shelburne. In 1882, Bower won a medal from the Academie Parisienne des Inventius Industries et Exposants for his plans and models for an improved fishway. He patented the fish pass in 1890, but his design was not used until 1913. Bower's wife Joanna passed away in 1902, and he died three years later on 11 July 1905. Bower's son Richard took over the merchantile business in 1905 and remained there for almost 40 years.
John Oates Bower was born in Shelburne, N.S. in 1901. He was the son of Richard McGill Bower and Mary Cordelia Oates, and the grandson of John Bower. He worked for the Texas Company (later renamed Texaco) as a geologist drilling for oil in Bogota, Columbia. Bower eventually became the division manager of the Texas Petroleum Company in Bogata in 1947. By 1960, he was named president of the Colombian Petroleum Company. From 1966-1968, Bower represented the riding of Shelburne-Yarmouth-Clare in Parliament. He married Keithen Fenn in 1933, and had three children: John Richard Fenn (1933), Mary Patricia (1937), and Edmond Jeremy (1943).
John George Bourinot was born 24 October 1836 in Sydney, N.S., and attended Trinity College in Toronto. He was the co-founder and editor of the Evening Reporter in Halifax and reporter on the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly, 1860-1867. In Ottawa, he served as shorthand writer to the Senate, 1868-1873; assistant clerk of the House of Commons, 1873-1880; and chief clerk of the House of Commons, 1880-1902. Bourinot also held various positions in the Royal Society of Canada, 1882-1902, and was the author of several books and articles on Canadian history and the government and history of Nova Scotia. His best-known works include Parliamentary Procedure and Practice in the Dominion of Canada (1884), and A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada... (1894). He was awarded a CMG in 1890, a KCMG in 1898, and honourary degrees from almost all Canadian universities. He died in 1902.
Delores is an singer/song writer from Arichat. Her distinctive voice combines with a dynamic stage presence to create a performance not to be missed. She has a unique blend of English, French Acadian and country bluegrass.
William Coates Borrett, author, historian and broadcaster, was born in Dartmouth, N.S. in 1894. He was educated at royal military schools in Canada and Cowbridge Grammer School in Wales. He served with the Canadian Armed Forces in both World Wars. Early in his career he was a pioneer in radio broadcasting, establishing the first commercial station in Nova Scotia in 1926 (CHNS). He was managing director until 1956 when he became vice-president of the Maritime Broadcasting Company. As an author and historian he was known for several books based on "Tales Told Under the Town Clock," a series of talks on CHNS Radio, Halifax, in the 1940s and 1950s. He was also an amateur painter of historic landmarks such as the Old Town Clock. After his retirement from broadcasting he became commandant of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires (Nova Scotia Division) and was also appointed by the Canadian government to oversee the restoration of Citadel Hill. He was honorary superintendent of the National Historic Park until 1962, supervising the early reconstruction and encouraging the opening of the Army and Navy Museums in the casemates and a branch of the Nova Scotia Museum in the Cavalier Barracks. In 1969 the Canadian government presented him with a certificate of recognition for his contribution to the work of the national historic sites programme. He died in 1983.