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The original, historic library building is the Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library; it opened in 1928 with a collection of 240,000 volumes.The building was designed by Jens Fredrick Larson, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and funded by a gift to Dartmouth College by George Fisher Baker in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker, Dartmouth class of 1859.
A descendent of Black Loyalists, Tynes was born on 30 June 1949 and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She contracted polio at age 4, which left her right leg paralyzed. [1] Unable to attend school for several years due to her illness, Tynes was taught to read and write by her mother Ada Maxwell Tynes, a homemaker. [2]
Amanda Peters is a Canadian writer from Falmouth, Nova Scotia, [1] whose debut novel The Berry Pickers was the winner of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, [2] 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, [3] 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, [4] and 2024 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
She was first elected alderman for the Town of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1985 and held the position until 1992. [1] Serving as Deputy Mayor on the council from 1991 to 1992. [2] McCluskey was elected the 34th and final mayor of the pre-merger Town of Dartmouth, serving from 1992 to the amalgamation in 1996. [3]
Baker Library may refer to: Baker Library/Bloomberg Center (George F. Baker Library), the library of the Harvard Business School, at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, US Baker-Berry Library (Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library), the main library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, US
Alderney Landing is a convention centre, art gallery, market, events plaza and theatre facility in Downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.It was opened in May 1999. The theatre hosts many concerts, conventions and other events, and is the home of Halifax Theatre for Young People, San Family Productions, Coastal Dance, Maritime Marionettes.
Kevin Scott Murphy (born 1970 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia [1]) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election.A member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, he represented the electoral district of Eastern Shore from 2013 to 2021. [2]
On June 17, 2002, Olive was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Natural Resources and Minister responsible for the Emergency Measures Act. [7] Olive was defeated by New Democrat Marilyn More when he ran for re-election in 2003, losing by more than 1,000 votes in the new riding of Dartmouth South-Portland Valley.