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- 1975-[199-]
International Association of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth was founded in 1975 by David and Lee Stewart. They were inspired to found the organization after being unable to find help for their own home birth, and after over a decade of work in Missouri advocating for alternatives to hospital based births. At its peak the organization had 8,000 members and was focused on lobbying for alternatives to hospital births including midwifery, home births, and natural births.
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- 1921-2011
National Association of Friendship Centres
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- 1972-
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National British Women's Temperance Association
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- 1876-present
The British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), now called the White Ribbon Association (WRA), is a temperance organization that was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876 with the goal of education the public about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They became an affiliate member of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1885, and in 1893 a schism split the group into the Women's Total Abstinence Union and the National British Women's Temperance Association who campaigned also for suffrage. in 2004 the organization changed its name to the White Ribbon Association and today it offers free resources focusing on health education relating to alcohol, drugs and gambling.
National Council of Women of Canada
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- 1893-
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National Liberal Federation of Canada
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National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
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- 1919-1928
The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship was the successor of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Eleanor Rathbone was the first president of the society and members included Irene Hancock, Elizabeth Macadam, Eva Marian Hubback, and Corbett Ashby. The society disbanded in 1928 after women received equal suffrage.
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- 1893-1986
Ira George Needles was an industrial executive and university administrator who served as chancellor at the University of Waterloo from 1966 to 1975. Needles was born September 1, 1893 in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa to Elson Reed Needles and Anna Edna Hunter. He and his wife Marian had three children, Lauranna Jones, William and Myron (Bud). After school, Needles began working at B. F. Goodrich (now known as Goodrich Corporation) in 1916 in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1925 after Goodrich purchased the Ames-Holden Rubber Company, and worked at its office as an assistant sales manager, and was eventually promoted to several positions including general manager of the tire division (1930), vice-president of sales, and chairman of the board (1958). After 26 years, he eventually rose to the position of president of B.F. Goodrich Canada, in 1951. He resigned from B.F. Goodrich in 1960.
In the summer of 1956, Needles gave a speech at the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Waterloo entitled WANTED: 150,000 Engineers – The Waterloo Plan. In this presentation, Needles offered a different approach to education that would include both studies in the classroom and training in industry that would eventually become the basis of the cooperative education program at the University of Waterloo. Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) planned to open a science faculty that would become known as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties in 1957. Needles—along with his B.F. Goodrich colleague, then-president of Waterloo College, and first president of the University of Waterloo, Gerald Hagey—founded the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, which later became the University of Waterloo, with Needles' vision of a cooperative education program that involved industry. After founding the university, Needles served as chairman of its board of governors from 1956 to 1966 and then became chancellor from 1966 to 1975.
Ira Needles died on January 6, 1986.
During World War II, Needles served as a technical advisor for the Government of Canada to help ration rubber, which was a strategic material during the war. After the war, he founded the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where his son, William, became an actor.
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- 1887-1976
Mabel Edena Neiley was born in Greenwood, Nova Scotia on September 27, 1887 (although some census records indicate 1889 as her birth year). She lived in Greenwood, Kingston, and Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) before migrating to the United States of America on December 11, 1913.
Neiley trained as a nurse and was called into active service on July 1, 1918. Since then and until April 15, 1920, Neiley worked as a U.S. Army nurse living in New York, Washington D.C., Georgia, and Ohio being part of the nursing U.S. staff during part of the First World War and the 1918 Influenza pandemic. During that time, she served in at least three hospitals: Walter Reeds in Washington D.C., Camp Gordon in Georgia, and the Columbus Barracks in Ohio.
In March 1925, Neiley moved to Los Angeles County and lived in Palo Alto, Pasadena, and Ventura. While in California, Neiley worked at the Pasadena Preventorium (Pasadena, California) as a nurse and superintendent.
Mabel E. Neiley died in Ventura (California) on March 14, 1976, at 88 and is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles.
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- 1868-1942
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New British Broadcasting Service
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- 1940-1945
NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.
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- 1936-2017
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- 1889-1966
Frank Stanley Newman was born in Merrickville, Ontario on April 9, 1889 to John Jarvis Newman and Emma Chester. He studied forestry at the University of Toronto and from 1919 until 1954 was the superintendent of the St. Williams Forestry Station. He died in 1966.
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Gabriel Niccoli is a professor emeritus with the Department of Italian & French Studies at the St. Jerome's University where he served as chair for seventeen years.
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- [18--?]-[19--?]
Howard B. Nicholson was a librarian with the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
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- 1874-1935
Norman Nicholson was born November 10, 1874 to Donald Nicholson and Ellen Chisholm. He was in the book and paper trade in Kitchener and Hamilton, Ontario. He died in Hamilton on August 19, 1934.
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- 1870-1958
Arthur Forbes Nicol was born on December 10, 1870 in Scotland to James Nicol and Margaret Agnes Wyllie. He prospered in business, a traveler and adventurer in London, England, India and the Yukon. In 1903 he married Florence Helen Kempt, daughter of Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson of Glasgow. In 1928 he purchased property near Oban, Argyll, that included the Kilninver Estate, where he lived until his death in 1958.
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- 1876-1962
Florence Helen Kempt was born April 24, 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson. In 1903 she married Arthur Forbes Nicol. In 1930 she moved with him to Kilninver Estate near Oban, Argyll. Florence Helen Nicol died May 24, 1962.
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- 1822-
Nicolas Wines was established in Paris in 1822 with a shop at 53 rue Sainte-Anne. They were the first French company to sell wine in bottles directly to the consumer and now have over 490 stores in France alone.
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- 1820-1910
Florence Nightingale was a social reformer who established modern nursing practice after her time working as a nurse during the Crimean War. In 1860 she founded the world's first secular nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, England. Her social reform work related to women's rights and included improvements to healthcare, the abolishment of prostitution laws, and fighting for greater opportunities for women in the workforce.
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Nisga’a, formerly spelled Nishga or Niska, are an Indigenous people in Canada based in British Columbia.
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- 1924-1945?
In November 1932, the company’s name was changed to Norddeutsche Rundfunk GmbH.
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- 1929-2004
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- 1826-1891
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Notre Dame College was the women’s residence section of St. Jerome’s University, a public Roman Catholic university federated with the University of Waterloo. The college was operated by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.[1]
The original Notre Dame College Women’s Residence was built in 1962. The building was intended to house women on the University of Waterloo campus with private rooms for students and Sisters’ quarter. The residence accommodated 50 individuals and was constructed with funding provided by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.[2]
An addition to the residence building was completed around 1970 or 1971. The new wing enabled the residence to house approximately 125 students. The addition cost approximately $500,000 to complete and the funding was provided by the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
An extension to the residence building was completed in 1970, allowing the facility to accommodate approximately 125 students. The construction of the new wing was funded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame and cost approximately $500,000. The architects of the new addition were Horton and Hall of Kitchener. The contractor was Monteith-McGrath Ltd.[3]
Nova Scotia Communications & Information Centre
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- 1929-2009
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- 1948-2012
Richard Nutbrown was a professor in the Political Science at the University of Waterloo where he was known for excellence in teaching. He completed a B.A. at Bishop's University and obtained a Ph.D. (1985) from Carleton University where his dissertation focus was on Hegel and the Limits of Interpretation in Political Theory. Nutbrown joined Waterloo in 1982 where he served as associate chair (undergraduate) from 2000 to 2005 and as Chair, Political Science from 2005 to 2011. While at Waterloo, Nutbrown helped found the M.A. and Ph.D. program in Global Governance and was the founding Director of the Masters of Public Service program. He was awarded Waterloo's Outstanding Performance Award in 2010. Nutbrown died July 12, 2012.
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- 1930-2005
Ekwele Lobe Nwalipenja was a Cameroonian teacher and government official. Nwalipenja was November 26, 1930 at Lobe Batanga in the Ndian division of what is now Cameroon. He attended elementary school in Kurumeh and Kumba, going on to study at the Government Teachers Training College, Kumba, in 1950 and then to Bambili where he studied rural science in 1958. He worked as a school manager from 1961 to 1964. In 1964 he was awarded a scholarship from the Presbyterian Church in Canada, where he travelled at the age of 35 to study at St. Paul's University College in Waterloo, Ontario, leaving a wife and four children in Cameroon. He graduated from St. Paul's with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science in 1966, returning to Cameroon where he went on to spend the remainder of his career in various government roles. He served as Secretary for all council schools of what was then West Cameroon in 1967, and a year later was appointed Education Officer in the North West Province. In 1972 he was appointed Secretary of State of the economic division of the Prime Minister's office and went on to serve as Member of Parliament for Ndian Division, among other roles, including Minister Plenipotentiary.
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- 1872-[after 1948]
Henry Nyberg, Swedish engineer and car manufacturer, was born on September 11, 1872 in Helvi, Gotland, Sweden and left Sweden for the United States, arriving in Chicago, Illinois in January, 1896. He was first president of the Swedish Engineers' Society of Chicago, founded in 1908. In 1913, he went to Kitchener, Ontario to run a factory for the Regal Motor Car Company, and there he started the Dominion Truck Equipment Company. In 1919, he moved to England, where he started the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company. He retired to Sweden in 1932.
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- 1908-1967
Padraig O Broin was born in Clontarf, Ireland in 1908. He emigrated with his family to Toronto, Ontario as a child. O Broin was the founding editor of Teangadoir. As a writer and poet he published numerous works including the collections Than any Star (1962) and No Casual Trespass (1967). He was also the editor and publisher of the Gaelic literary magazine Teangadoir worked contributed "Feargus Rua Cecinit" to a historical anthology of Gaelic lyrics.
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- 1925-
Dr. Warren Ober is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Ober came to Waterloo in 1965 from Northern Illinois University when he accepted the position of Chair of English, and retired in 1994. He has written, or collaborated on, works about Keats, Wordsworth, Alice Munro, Thomas Crofton Croker, William Blake, and Pearl Harbor.
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- 1841-1912
Melinda Carolina Cook was born January 12, 1841 in Beverly Township, Wentworth County, Ontario to James and Elizabeth Cook. She married Aaron B. Oberholtzer (1836-1910) on September 7, 1858. Melinda Carolina Oberholtzer died December 12, 1912.
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Helmut Oberlander was born on February 15, 1924 in Halbstadt, a Russian Mennonite settlement in what is now Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
During the Second World War, he served in the Waffen-SS and acted as an interpreter for the Einsatzkommando 10a. He was also a member of the Sicherheitsdienst and Sicherheitspolizei. The Einsatzkommando was a mobile killing squad in Nazis Germany responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the war. Oberlander maintains he was forcibly conscripted into military service and that his duties only included translating Russian radio transmissions, acting as an interpreter, and guarding military supplies.
Oberlander immigrated to Canada in 1954 and settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. He opened a construction business and became a Canadian citizen in 1960.
The Government of Canada initiated a denaturalization and deportation process against Oberlander in 1995 for not disclosing his wartime record during his immigration interview in 1953. Between 1995 and 2018, numerous court orders were filed to strip Oberlander of his citizenship. Oberlander consistently appealed these orders.
In 2000, Judge Andrew Mackay concluded that while Oberlander may not have disclosed his wartime record there was no evidence proving he was involved in committing any war crimes or crimes against humanity.
In 2017 the Government of Canada stripped Oberlander of his citizenship for a fourth time through an Order in Council. In 2018, the Federal Court ruled that this revocation was lawful. Oberlander's appeal was dismissed in the Federal Court of Appeal in April 2019. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to grant Oberlander's leave to appeal the Federal Court decision December 2019. In 2020, Oberlander also lost his appeal to the Immigration and Refugee Board.