John Regan was a historian, journalist and author from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He worked for the Halifax Herald, City News, World, and Industrial Advocate Publications, and was the Maritime Provinces representative for the Associated Press.
Leila Roberts, née White, was the wife of Lloyd Roberts, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts' son. She married Lloyd in 1914 and divorced him some time before 1943.
Norma E. Smith was the Registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Art.
Syd Thomas was a Canadian Press staff writer in the 1940s.
Angus MacAskill was a strongman from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, born in Scotland in 1825. He was reported to be 7'9" tall, and toured with P. T. Barnum before returning to Nova Scotia and passing away in 1863.
The King's Student Union is the governing student organization of the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and acts as the students' representative in improving academic and campus life experiences. It functions as a body of students elected to represent the interests of fellow students.
The King's Students' Union ("KSU") includes all students attending the University of King's College. Its purpose is to provide services for its members and represent them politically. The KSU has members on the Board of Governors and on University committees, and works with the University administration to improve the quality of education and student life at College.
The services provided by the KSU include a health insurance plan, Orientation Week, the Student Handbook, the yearbook, and graduation week activities. The KSU also funds many different societies and committees and King's athletics. The KSU operates HMCS King's Wardroom, the campus lounge. The KSU is governed by its members at general meetings, open forums where each member has an equal vote and right to participate in direct democracy. Between the two general meetings each year, Student Council acts as the governing body of the KSU. Council meetings are open to all KSU members, but the only people who may vote are the 17 elected-representatives.
Students have operated on a collective basis from the early years of the University of King's College, which was founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789. In 1806, students presented a memorial to the Board of Governors soliciting assistance in meeting their living expenses, obliged, as they then were, to provide their own servants. This was one of many petitions drawn up over the years. Other student organizations that were formed for the furtherance of particular objectives have a long history at King's, as well: the Quintilian, a debating society, was founded in 1845, and the Haliburton literary society was founded in 1884. Both continue today with financial support from the KSU.
Almost four decades after female students were admitted to King's College in 1893, the Co-Ed Council was formed in 1932 to represent the interests of female students. (The Co-Ed Council should not be confused with the Co-Ed Club, also called the Co-Ed Association, that was active from 1913-1967.) In 1965, the Co-Ed Council merged with the Men's Students' Council, the modem KSU was formed, and the students elected their first President.
In 1949, the architectural firm of Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Limited founded in Halifax, N.S. Since then, the partnership has become one of the major architectural firms in the Atlantic Region, with completed projects that span the spectrum of institutional, commercial, industrial and residential fields. It has executed a variety of important commissions, including the Nova Scotia Museum (1970), Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children (1970), Historic Properties (1974), and the Library at the University of King's College (1991), all in Halifax; Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1958, 1968, 1977); Alderney Gate Civic Centre (1990) in Dartmouth, N.S.; and the Valley Regional Hospital (1992) in Kentville, N.S.
Its projects have received a number of design awards, including an Award of Excellence for Historic Properties from the Canadian Architect Yearbook in 1972 and the first City of Halifax Design Award for the King's College Library in 1992. The firm's directors have always been active in their professional associations. Founder Allan Ferguson Duffus (b. 16 June 1915) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1956 and served as dean of the College of Fellows 1969-1972 and president 1973-1974. Director Roy W. Willwerth was elected a Fellow of the College in 1992 and to the presidency of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1992-1993.
Andrew Cobb was a notable architect from Nova Scotia, Canada. Born in 1876 in Brooklyn, New York, he moved to Nova Scotia with his mother, a Nova Scotian, and sister when he was 14-years-old. The family lived in Kings County, and Cobb attended Horton Academy and Acadia University. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture, and then the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, during which time he travelled around Italy. In 1909, he started an architectural practice in Halifax with Sydney Dumaresq. Notably, they designed the Memorial Tower in Sir Sanford Fleming Park, also known as the Dingle, in 1911. By 1912, the two men parted ways and began their own firms, though they remained friends. Cobb went on to design many important residential, institutional, and commercial buildings in Halifax and Wolfville, Nova Scotia; and in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland and Labrador. These included buildings at Dalhousie University, such as the Science Building, the MacDonald Memorial Library, and the Law School (now the Faculty Club); buildings at the University of King's College; Victoria General Hospital on Tower Road in Halifax; buildings for Acadia University, including Emmerson Hall and Horton House; and staff houses for Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Company. He was elected fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1940. He was killed in a bus accident in 1943 in Halifax, at the age of 68.
Keith Graham was an architect from Fox River, Nova Scotia. He designed multiple buildings in the Halifax Regional Municipality, including the Halifax North End Library, the Nova Scotia Archives, and the Halifax Police Department Headquarters.