Dan Conlin is a maritime historian and museum curator in

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. Born in

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, he received a Bachelor of Journalism degree with a concentration in History from

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, Ontario in 1986. Conlin worked at the

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, mainly in Radio with CBC Ottawa but also at CBC Television in Halifax and

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in Toronto. He also did two volunteer postings overseas as a teacher in

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in 1989 and an archaeological field worker in

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in 1993. He returned home to Nova Scotia in 1994 and earned a master's degree in history at Saint Mary's University in Halifax in 1996 with a thesis entitled "A Private War in the Caribbean Nova Scotia Privateering, 1793-1805". Conlin became Curator of Marine History at the

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in 1997. He curated and wrote the museum's permanent ''Titanic'' exhibit and temporary exhibits such as ''St. Louis: Ship of Fate''. Conlin at one time also taught one credit course in the Atlantic Canada Studies department at Saint Mary's University. He is a contributor to the ''Oxford Companion to Canadian History'' and is most recently author of the 96-page monograph ''Pirates of the Atlantic: Robbery, murder and mayhem off the Canadian East Coast ''. In 2013 he became the curator at the

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in Halifax and in 2014 published his second, 134-page monograph ''War Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit 1941-1945'', an illustrated history of the

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, based on oral history interviews he conducted at the journalism department of

References

Dorothy Grant, "Curator Exhibits Adventurous Spirit", ‘ ‘Halifax Sunday Herald’ ’ June 24, 2001, p. B8

External links

‘ ‘SMARTS’ ’, Saint Mary’s University Arts, 2005, p. 5
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