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Guzzwell, Mary Green
Person · 1909-1994

Mary (Green) Guzzwell (1909-1994), Newfoundland nurse, was born in 1909 in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. She received her nurse's training at Highland View Hospital, Amherst, Nova Scotia, graduating in 1932. From 1932 to 1939, Green was a district nurse in St. John's and in various outports. During the summers of 1936 and 1938, she was a nurse on the S.S. Kyle on its annual Labrador runs. Green was the first nurse to hold this position, which was more often held by American medical students. These experiences are chronicled in an article, "SS Kyle Nurse," in Them Days (v. 13, 1987).

In 1939, Nurse Green arrived in Bonne Bay as the first nurse in the new hospital. From 1943 to 1947, she held the position of Director of Public Health Nursing Service under the Newfoundland Commission of Government (1934-1949). Her annual reports, some illustrated with her own photographs, chronicle the experiences of rural and urban public health nurses. As a result of her services at this time, Green was made a M.B.E. on 5 November 1947.

Green was married in 1947 to Harold Guzzwell, a Newfoundland Ranger originally from St. John's. The couple had no children.

Nurse (Green) Guzzwell's record of registration with the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador (ARNN) indicates that she remained active in the nursing profession after 1947. While details of her career are sketchy, family members have indicated that she worked with the cottage hospital in Brookfield, Bonavista Bay, and in the Bowater's clinic in Deer Lake. From 1968 to 1974, she was the assistant evening supervisor at the Hoyles Home in St. John's. She retired in 1974 but maintained her ARNN registration until 1985. She died in St. John's on 20 March 1994.

Hall, Thomas Andrew
Person · 1867-1944

Thomas Andrew Hall (1867-1944), engineer and civil servant, was born at Portadown, Ireland in 1867, son of William Hall. He married Harriet Robinson in 1907 and had one daughter, Doreen. Hall died at St. John's on 21 June 1944.

He was educated at Queen's College, Galway, and earned a B.A. and B. Eng. (honours) from the Royal University of Ireland. Following his graduation, Hall was employed as engineer on a variety of railway projects in England and Ireland from 1888-1906. Hall was a member of the Church of England.

In 1906, Hall was hired as Newfoundland's Government Engineer. During his career, Hall held a variety of positions in the Newfoundland civil service, including member of the Royal Commission on Newfoundland's High Cost of Living (1917), secretary to the Colony's Minister of Shipping (1917-1929), Government Railway Commissioner (1920), Chief Commissioner of Newfoundland's Highroad Commission (1925), Chief Engineer for the construction of the Newfoundland Airport at Gander (1935). Hall retired from public service in 1941.

Hall was awarded a C.B.E. in 1919.

Halpert, Herbert
Person · [19-]

Folklorist Herbert Halpert began teaching at Memorial University in 1962, before the establishment of the Folklore Department. For four years he taught undergraduate students introductory elements of folklore in the course, English 200, a full-year required course for undergraduate students. While he was teaching, Halpert encouraged students to interview their relatives and friends and to submit samples of various "folklore items". He encouraged his colleagues, with some success, to involve their students in this collecting. Halpert was instrumental in establishing the Folklore Department in 1968.

Hanley, Michael
Person · 1841-1899

Michael Hanley (1841-1899), Catholic priest, was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1841. He studied for the priesthood at Waterford Seminary College, Waterford, and was ordained a priest (ca. 1872) for ministry in the Archdiocese of Dublin. After hearing of the shortage of priests in the Diocese of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, he volunteered to work in that diocese, arriving in Harbour Grace in late 1872.

Shortly after Rev. Hanley's arrival, Bishop Enrico Carfagnini appointed him a curate of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Parish, Harbour Grace. In 1873, he was appointed parish priest to St. Peter and St. Paul Parish, King's Cove, Bonavista Bay, succeeding the late Rev. James Cummins. He ministered there until 1875. He was appointed the parish priest of Corpus Christi Parish, Northern Bay (1875-91) and parish priest of Holy Cross Parish, Holyrood, Conception Bay (1891), succeeding Father Gregory Battcock. He remained at Holy Cross Parish until 1898. Suffering rapidly declining health, he returned to Ireland, where he died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Knockalmy, County Limerick on 14 November 1899.

Two of Hanley's brothers, Patrick and William, also became priests and ministered in the Archdiocese of Dublin.

Hansen, C.A.
Person · fl.1948-1953

C. A. Hansen (fl. 1948-53), mariner, was captain of the SS Bonde, a newsprint carrier which operated between Botwood, Newfoundland, and United States ports during the years 1947-1960. He served as captain of the SS Bonde in 1947-1948 and 1953. Hansen was also Marine Superintendent of Henriksen Shipowners, owners of the vessel.

Harriet Martin
Person

Sarah Harriet Martin (1916-1998) was born in Bill's Island, Labrador, to Tom and Elizabeth Pardy. At the age of 2 she lost both her parents to the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918. After being raised by her aunt and uncle, she went to work at the Lockwood dormitory and with the Royal Newfoundland Rangers. In July of 1939, Harriet married Donald Martin and had 6 children: Rose, Doris, Lorenia, Tom, Barbara and Betty.