office	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Huron & Huron—Bruce
predecessor	Paul Klopp
successor	Carol Mitchell
term start	June 8, 1995
term end	September 2, 2003
party	Progressive Conservative
cabinet	Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation (1999-2001)Associate Minister of Health and Long Term Care (2001-2002)Interim Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (2003)Minister of Agriculture and Food (2002-2003)
portfolio	Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health (1995-1997)Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy (1997-1998)Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy, Science and Technology (1998-1999)
religion	}}

Helen Johns (born April 24, 1953) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was born in Toronto, Ontario She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.

Johns has a Bachelor of Arts degree from York University, a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Windsor and an M.B.A. from Simon Fraser University. She worked as a controller of small and medium-sized businesses for fifteen years before entering public life, and was also the Director and Treasurer of the Huron United Way.

Johns was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal John Jewitt and incumbent New Democrat Paul Klopp in the riding of Huron. For the next four years, she served as a backbench government member.

In the 1999 provincial campaign, Johns defeated fellow Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Barb Fisher for the Tory nomination in the redistributed riding of Huron—Bruce, and narrowly defeated Liberal candidate Ross Lamont in the general election. On June 17, 1999, she was named Citizenship, Culture and Recreation. Following a cabinet shuffle on February 8, 2001, she was named Associate Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, under Tony Clement.

When Ernie Eves replaced Harris as Premier on April 15, 2002, he named Johns his Minister of Agriculture and Food. She held this position until the 2003 election, and also served as interim Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in early 2003.

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Parliamentary History

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Helen may refer to:

Helen of Troy, from Greek mythology

Helen (given name)

''Helen'' (play), a play by Euripides

Helen (''Inheritance''), a fictional supporting character in Christopher Paolini's ''Inheritance'' trilogy

''Helen'' (film), a 2009 drama starring Ashley Judd and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck

''Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet'', a webcomic

Helen (unit), a humorous unit of measuring beauty

''Helen'' (album), a Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes

Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city

Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place

Helen Falls, a waterfall in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Temagami, Ontario, Canada

Helen Jairag Richardson, known as ''Helen'', a Bollywood actress and dancer

See also

Elena (name)

Eleni (disambiguation)

Helena (disambiguation)

Helene (disambiguation)

Hélène (disambiguation)

Ellen (disambiguation)

Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the ancestor of the Greeks

Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy

Saint Helena (disambiguation), people and places called Saint Helena

Julia (daughter of Drusus the Younger), nicknamed "Helen" in Robert Graves' Claudius novels

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name	Christine Collister
background	solo_singer
born	December 28, 1961Isle of Man
instrument	Vocals
genre	folk, blues, jazz
occupation	Musician, songwriter, record producer
years active	1990–present
label	Topic Records, Fledgling Records
associated acts	Richard Thompson Band, Clive Gregson, Daphne’s Flight
website	Christine Collister.com
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Christine Collister (born 28 December 1961) is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil''.

Prior to this, in 1985 she became a permanent member of the Richard Thompson Band, and, over a period of four years, took in several world tours with Thompson, after which came seven years working and romantic involvement with singer, songwriter and guitar player, Clive Gregson. During this period, the couple released five albums. Gregson is currently trying to re-release these on CD, starting with their first and most successful album, ''Home and Away''.

Collister has released several solo albums since 1994, including ''Live'', ''Blue Aconite'', ''Dark Gift of Time'' and the compilation cd ''Songbird'' all for Fledgling Records, and ''An Equal Love'' and ''Into The Light'' for Topic Records. She has worked with the Isle of Man based Stereo Scout Records, part of the Running Media Management Group with whom she recorded a live album entitled ''Home'' in 2004, and her 20th Anniversary DVD entitled ''XX'' in 2005. In between these highly acclaimed projects, Collister also produced a vinyl cut for award winning hi-fi manufacturer REGA, entitled ''Love''. The project was a collection of mainly cover songs, including tracks by Jim Croce, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell, as well as her own interpretation of the classic Leonard Cohen song, "Hallelujah".

Collister has toured and recorded with the all-female group Daphne’s Flight, the vocal ensemble Hell Bent Heaven Bound and Dave Kelly with the "Travelling Gentlemen", with live recordings of all these collaborations still available. In 2008 apart from further touring in the UK with Kelly and "the TG's", Collister also spent time writing and recording songs for her next album which was due for release in 2009.

Collister recently moved from the UK, back to the island of her birth. She continues to write her own material and in 2011 is touring with Dave Kelly and Peter Filleul (ex Climax Blues Band) on piano and 3rd harmony.

References

External links

Christine Collister's homepage

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thumb|300px|right|Jacqui McShee performing with Pentangle at the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk AwardsJacqueline 'Jacqui' McShee (born 25 December 1943, Catford, South London) is an English singer. Since 1966 she has performed with Pentangle, a jazz influenced folk rock band.

Biography

McShee's musical career began as a soloist in British folk clubs in the mid 1960s. After working with guitarist John Renbourn, she co-founded Pentangle.

Pentangle rapidly established itself as one of the earliest exponents of the British folk rock movement. However, in addition to attracting fans of traditional British Folk, they also drew audiences from the rock, pop and psychedelic folk worlds. The original band played a mixture of ballads, blues, and jazz, often blending these genres in the same piece.

In 1994, McShee formed a new band named Jacqui McShee's Pentangle which, with a few personnel changes, is still performing today.

In 1995 McShee performed as a session singer, along with her husband, drummer Gerry Conway, on the album ''Active in The Parish'' by the singer-songwriter David Hughes. It was voted the ''Q'' magazine's 'Album of the Year'. In 1998 McShee teamed up with Ulrich Maske to record ''The Frog and the Mouse'' and ''The Cat and the Fiddle''. These two books were designed to help German children to learn to speak English.

References

External links

Tour dates

Jacqui McShee's agency

History

Jacqui McShee's website

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:''This article is about the Quaker philanthropist. For the institutions named after him, see Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.''

name	Johns Hopkins
birth date	May 19, 1795
birth place	Anne Arundel County, Maryland, US
death date	December 24, 1873
death place	Baltimore, Maryland, US
occupation	Entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, abolitionist
religion	Society of Friends (Quakerism)
net worth	USD $10 million at the time of his death (approximately 1/944th of US GNP) }}

Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular the schools of nursing, medicine and public health. A biography entitled ''Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette'' written by his cousin, Helen Hopkins Thom, was published in 1929 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Early life

On May 19, 1795, Johns Hopkins was born on Whitehall, a 500-acre (two km²) tobacco plantation with approximately 500 slaves located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. His first name, Johns (not John), was a family name. His great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, married Gerard Hopkins, and they named their son Johns Hopkins, a not-uncommon naming convention at the time; his name was then passed on to his grandson. His parents were Samuel Hopkins (1759–1814), of Anne Arundel County, and Hannah Janney (1774–1864), of Loudoun County, Virginia.

In 1807, the Hopkins family, who were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), emancipated their slaves, which meant that the formal education of Johns, then 12, had to be interrupted in order to help out on the plantation. Moreover, his help was needed because he was the second oldest of eleven children and, as their local Friends society had decreed, the family freed only the able-bodied slaves, and had to provide for the less able-bodied slaves, who would remain at the plantation and provide labor as they could. In 1812, at the age of 17, Hopkins left the plantation and went to Baltimore to work in the wholesale grocery business of his uncle, Gerard Hopkins. While living with his uncle's family, Johns and his cousin, Elizabeth, fell in love, but the taboo against the marriage of first cousins was especially strong among Quakers. Neither Johns nor Elizabeth ever married. Still, just as he would continue to provide for his extended family throughout his life and posthumously through his will, Hopkins bequeathed a home for Elizabeth, where she lived until her death in 1889.

Whitehall Plantation is now located in the Walden Community of Crofton, Maryland. The house, since restored and modified, is located on Johns Hopkins Road, adjacent to Reidel Road. The heavily landscaped house is surrounded by Walden Golf Course, and contains a historic marker. From 1806 to 1809, he likely attended The Free School of Anne Arrundell County which was located in what is now known as Davidsonville, Maryland.

Philanthropy

Living his entire adult life in Baltimore, Hopkins made many friends among the city's social elite, many of them Quakers. One of these friends was George Peabody, who was also born in 1795, and who in 1857 founded the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Other examples of public giving were evident in the city, as public buildings housing free libraries, schools and foundations sprang up along the city's widening streets. On the advice of Peabody, some believe, Hopkins determined to use his great wealth for the public good.

The Civil War had taken its toll on Baltimore, however, as did the yellow fever and cholera epidemics that repeatedly ravaged the nation's cities, killing 853 in Baltimore in the summer of 1832 alone. Hopkins was keenly aware of the city's need for medical facilities, particularly in light of the medical advances made during the war, and in 1870 he made a will setting aside seven million dollars - mostly in B&O; stock - for the incorporation of a free hospital and affiliated medical and nurse's training colleges, as well as an orphanage for colored children and a university. Many board members were on both boards. The hospital and orphan asylum would each be overseen by the 12-member hospital board of trustees, and the university by the 12-member university board of trustees. Johns Hopkins' bequest was used to found posthumously the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum first as he requested, in 1875; the Johns Hopkins University in 1876; the Johns Hopkins Press, the longest continuously operating academic press in America, in 1878; the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889; the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1893; and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916.

Johns Hopkins' views on his bequests, and on the duties and responsibilities of the two board of trustees, especially the hospital board of trustees led by his friend and fellow Quaker Francis King, were formally stated primarily in four documents, the incorporation papers filed in 1867, his instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted from extensively in his ''Baltimore Sun'' obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and the other dated 1873.

In these documents, Hopkins also made provisions for scholarships to be provided for poor youths in the states where Johns Hopkins had made his wealth, as well as assistance to orphanages other than the one for African American children, to members of his family, to those he employed, black and white, his cousin Elizabeth, and, again, to other institutions for the care and education of youths regardless of color and the care of the elderly, and the ill, including the mentally ill, and convalescents.

John Rudolph Niernsee, one of most famous architects of the time, designed the orphan asylum and helped to design the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The original site for the Johns Hopkins University had been chosen personally by Hopkins. According to his will, it was to be located at his summer estate, ''Clifton''. However, a decision was made not to found the university there. The property, now owned by the city of Baltimore, is the site of a golf course and a park named Clifton Park. While the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum was founded by the hospital trustees, the other institutions that carry the name of "Johns Hopkins" were founded under the administration of the first president of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Daniel Coit Gilman and his successors.

Colored Children Orphan Asylum

As per Johns Hopkins' instruction letter, the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum (JHCCOA) was founded first, in 1875, a year before Gilman's inauguration, now the founding date of the university. The construction of the asylum, including its educational and living facilities, was praised by ''The Nation'' and the ''Baltimore American'', the latter stating that the orphan asylum was a place where "nothing was wanting that could benefit science and humanity". As was done for other Johns Hopkins Institutions, it was planned after visits and correspondence with similar institutions in Europe and America.

The Johns Hopkins Orphan Asylum opened with 24 boys and girls. Under Gilman and his successors, this orphanage was later changed to serve as an orphanage and training school for black female orphans principally as domestic workers, and next as an "orthopedic convalescent" home and school for "colored crippled" children and orphans. The asylum was eventually closed in 1924 nearly fifty years after it opened, and was never reopened.

Hospital, University, Press, and Schools of Nursing and Medicine

As per Hopkins' March 1873 Instruction Letter, the School of Nursing was founded alongside the Hospital in 1889 by the hospital board of trustees in consultation with Florence Nightingale. Both the nursing school and the hospital were founded over a decade after the founding of the orphan asylum in 1875 and the university in 1876. Hopkins' instruction letter explicitly stated his vision for the hospital; first, to provide assistance to the poor of "all races", no matter the indigent patient's "age, sex or color"; second, that wealthier patients would pay for services and thereby subsidize the care provided to the indigent; third, that the hospital would be the administrative unit for the orphan asylum for African American children which was to receive $25,000 in annual support out of the hospital's half of the endowment; and fourth, that the hospital and orphan asylum should serve 400 patients and 400 children respectively, fifth, that the hospital should be part of the university, and, sixth, that religion but not sectarianism should be an influence in the hospital.

By the end of Gilman's presidency, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Press, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum had been founded, the latter by the trustees, and the others in the order listed under the Gilman administration. "Sex" and "color" were major issues in the early history of the Johns Hopkins Institutions. The founding of the School of Nursing is usually linked to Johns Hopkins' statements in his March 1873 instruction letter to the trustees that "I desire you to establish, in connection with the hospital, a training school for female nurses. This provision will secure the services of women competent to care for those sick in the hospital wards, and will enable you to benefit the whole community by supplying it with a class of trained and experienced nurses".

Women's most well known success after the founding of the nursing school was their requirement that they be allowed to attend Johns Hopkins medical institutions after they provided funds that made possible the opening of the School of Medicine in 1893. Five African American women were among the first women enrolled in the Johns Hopkins University's undergraduate school in 1970. Furthermore Kelly Miller and Frederick Scott were the first persons of African descent to attend the Johns Hopkins University's graduate and undergraduate schools, respectively. Frederick Scott was the first graduate of African descent from Johns Hopkins University, and he, Robert Gamble, and Kenyan-born James Nabwangu were the first graduates of African descent from Johns Hopkins University's undergraduate school, and Johns Hopkins' medical schools respectively. Those employees holding jobs in the service sector are those of African descent who have the longest and most continuous history at the Johns Hopkins Institutions.

Legacy

Following Hopkins' death, the ''Baltimore Sun'' wrote a lengthy obituary which closed thus: "In the death of Johns Hopkins a career has been closed which affords a rare example of successful energy in individual accumulations, and of practical beneficence in devoting the gains thus acquired to the public." His contribution to the university that has become his greatest legacy was, by all accounts, the largest philanthropic bequest ever made to an American educational institution.

Johns Hopkins' Quaker faith and his early life experiences, in particular the 1807 emancipation, had a lasting influence throughout his life and his posthumous legacy as a businessman, railroad man, banker, investor, ship owner, philanthropist and a founder of several Institutions. From very early on, Johns Hopkins had looked upon his wealth as a trust to benefit future generations. He is said to have told his gardener that, "like the man in the parable, I have had many talents given to me and I feel they are in trust. I shall not bury them but give them to the lads who long for a wider education"; his philosophy quietly anticipated Andrew Carnegie's much publicized ''Gospel of Wealth'' by more than 25 years.

His philanthropy, banking and other business practices were founded neither on slavery nor on the separate but unequal racism of the post Civil War years of his life. In this vein, integral parts of his legacy, as an emancipator, a founder of an orphan asylum for African-American youths, a staunch advocate of abolitionism and of quality care not just for those physically ill, but also for the elderly, the poor, no matter their age, gender, or skin color, and the mentally ill, have by and large been overlooked, even in the institutions that carry his name.

In 1973 Johns Hopkins was cited prominently in the Pulitzer Prize winning book ''The Americans: The Democratic Experience'' by Daniel Boorstin, former head of the Library of Congress. From November 14, 1975 to September 6, 1976 Hopkins portrait was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibit on the democratization of America based on Boorstin's book. In 1989, the United States Postal Service issued a $1 postage stamp in Johns Hopkins' honor, as part of the Great Americans series.

References

External links

Genealogical Records on Marylanders

Thom and Jacob discuss his love for his cousin and Quaker traditions

In his 1887 memoir, Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War, George William Brown city Johns Hopkins as a wealthy Union man in Baltimore, a city with strong Confederate and Southern leanings

In The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town" and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time published in 1874, John Thomas Scharf cited the 1873 instruction letter to the hospital trustees and a city council resolution thanking Johns Hopkins for his philanthropy. Thom's biography and New York and Maryland newspapers were sources that published parts or all of this letter

The Institutional Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Colored Orphan Asylum

Abstract Johns Hopkins Dream for a Model of its Kind: The JHH Colored Orphans Asylum", 2000 Conference International Society for the History of Medicine BY Dr. P. Reynolds

Grave site of Johns Hopkins

Graveside ceremony for Johns Hopkins

Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War, the memoir of George William Brown then the mayor of Baltimore city, later a member of the university board of trustees of the Johns Hopkins University

The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town" and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time published in 1874 by John Thomas Scharf

"If He Could See Us Now: Mr. Johns Hopkins' Legacy Strong University, Hospital Benefactor Turned 200 on May 19, 1995", Mike Field, the author, contradicts this statement

Chronology, Nursing school

The Institutional Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Colored Orphan

Abstract Johns Hopkins Dream for a Model of its Kind: The JHH Colored Orphans Asylum" By Dr. P. Reynolds

"If He Could See Us Now: Mr. Johns Hopkins' Legacy Strong University, Hospital Benefactor Turned 200 on May 19, 1995" by Mike Field a writer for the Johns Hopkins Gazette. Field, Thom, and Jacob called Johns Hopkins an abolitionist. See also The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 25, Autumn, 1999, pp. 42-43/ JSTOR

Johns Hopkins, Maryland State Archives

"The History of African Americans @ Johns Hopkins University" See in particular the chronology and the paper by Danton Rodriguez.

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