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Baird, Constance

  • Person
  • 1908-2003

Marion Constance McGrath Baird was a student of Mount Saint Vincent College in the late 1920's. She went on to teach at St. Patrick's Boys' School in 1930 and had a long career as an educator in the Halifax region. In 1985, Connie was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters during the Fall 1985 convocation ceremony at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Burke, Mary

  • AR-025
  • Person
  • 1919-1935

Mary Burke was born in 1919, the daughter of Oswald S. Burke of Kentville, Nova Scotia. She was to have graduated from Mount Saint Vincent Academy in 1935, but died on December 4th of that year. She was a member of the Academy Sodality.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

  • Corporate body
  • 1936-Present

CNR's radio network was the predecessor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation it operated as a radio network for passenger. CRBC -- the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission took over the CNR radio facilities and started to broadcast in English and French. In 1936 A new Canadian Broadcasting Act created the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which was established as a crown corporation. Until 1958 the CBC acted not only as broadcaster but also as the regulator of Canadian broadcasting. The CBC began broadcasting television in addition to their radio services in 1952.

Canadian Society for the Study of Religion

  • AR-035
  • Corporate body
  • 1974-2004

The Canadian Society for the Study of Religion was founded in 1966. Its objectives are as follows: the society provides a meeting place for all who are involved in the academic study of religion, for example, anthropologists, historians, phenomenologists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, theologians; the Society fosters an interdisciplinary discourse in order to arrive at a better, integrated understanding of religious phenomena; the Society encourages research in the development of the study of religion with particular reference to the Canadian scene and the Society promotes a critical examination of the goals, methods, and styles of teaching demanded by
the discipline. (Constitution adopted 1977) The business of the Society is transacted by an Executive Committee, composed of the following members: a) a President who shall be elected for a two-year term at the Annual General Meeting of the Society; b) a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Membership Secretary, each of whom shall be elected for a three-year term at the Annual General Meeting of the Society; c) a Past-President whose term shall be for two years; d) three members-at-large elected to a three-year term of office at the Annual General Meeting of the Society. Election of members-at-large will follow a pattern in which one member will be elected each year and one will retire.

Presidents of the Society have included: 2003-2004 Dr. Andre Couture (Universite Laval); 2000-2002 Randi R. Warne (Mount St. Vincent University); 1998-2000 Paul Bowlby (St. Mary' s University) ; 1996- 1998; William Closson James (Queen's); 1994- 1996 Morny Joy (University of Calgary); 1992-1994 Jacques Goulet (Mount St. Vincent University); 1990-1992 Martin
Rumscheidt (Atlantic School of Theology); 1988-1990 Monique Dumais (Universite de Quebec -Rimouski); 1986-1988 Bruce Alton (University of Toronto); 1984- 1986 Roger Lapointe (St. Paul’s University); 1982- 1984 Harold Coward (University of Calgary); 1980- 1 982 Jacques Langlais (Champlain College); 1978-1980 Peter Slater (Carleton); 1976- 1978 Louis Rousseau (UQAM); 1974- 1976 Cathleen Going (Thomas More Institute); 1971-1974 Charles Davis (Concordia); 1969-1971 Fr. Simon Davis (Laurentian); 1967- 1969 Eugene Combs (McMaster); 1966- 1967 M. Giroux (University of Ottawa).
(UQAM); 1974- 1976 Cathleen Going (Thomas More Institute); 1971-1974 Charles Davis (Concordia); 1969-1971 Fr. Simon Davis (Laurentian); 1967- 1969 Eugene Combs (McMaster); 1966- 1967 M. Giroux (University of Ottawa).

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