Nancy Lima Dent - Sudbury & Garson, Recreation Department, Mine Mill Union

Added 18th Mar 2022 by Amy Bowring / Last update 18th Mar 2022

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Nancy Lima Dent - Sudbury & Garson, Recreation Department, Mine Mill Union

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Dent's documents from her work with Sudbury and Garson and the Ontario Recreation Department, Mine Mills Union Part I. Attendance journal, handwritten notes, house programs, newspaper clippings.

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Nancy Lima Dent 39 (caption from virtual exhibit)
Some of Nancy’s younger charges at the 1956 Garson recital.
Photo: James Linney

Nancy Lima Dent 40 (caption from virtual exhibit)
This photo of Sudbury students in 1956 illustrates the mixture of modern, folk and ballet Nancy taught in her schools.

Nancy Lima Dent 41 (caption from virtual exhibit)
At the Sudbury recital of 1957, Nancy’s Advanced students presented a work titled “The Sorcerer”. Standing at the back as the Sorcerer is Tini Pel. Pel would continue Nancy’s work founding the Sudbury Arts Guild and the Nickel Belt Ballet Company.

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Adult students (including Tini Pel at far left), Sudbury, 1955/56

Nancy Lima Dent 107a, b, c
From Sudbury Daily Star, 25 May 1956, p. 17

Nancy Lima Dent 108a, b was folded in half and wrapped around items 109 to 114

Nancy Lima Dent 115a, b
The front of the clipping is in English but the back is in a Slavic language so both were copied in case the back text gives clues to the paper’s origin, dated 1956 in pen on the front

Nancy Lima Dent 121a, b, c
The front and back of this 8.5x14 sheet were clearly a house program but the inside had no program information and Nancy had used it to type up notes about classes.

Nancy Lima Dent 122a-e
Item e was folded in half and inserted into the program

Nancy Lima Dent 129a-b
The reverse side (b) appears to be a part of a report though the rest of the report is not in her files

132 – 204
These are all in a subfolder marked “Teaching Notes, Sudbury and Garson, 1955-1957”. Some of them were written or typed on the backs of recycled paper but if the information on the back was career related, I scanned both sides. That’s why you will see numbers with a and b on them and yet the scans will seem unrelated.
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UCH 12 300 Albinson st . , apt.4 , JIAN su IM Sudbury , May 8th : / 1956 , JJAHIN USU Dear Betty on the nite of Monday , April23rd , one christened Nancy discovered on the stage of Mine Mill Auditorium a very COLOURFUL AND UNUSUAL SKIRT with a Bahamas label , which I presumed and was then informedwas a gift from a very thoughtful lass , namely Betty M. Well you could have knocked me for a loop . How in the world in the midst of that gorgeous tropical land and people on a vacation you could man age to think of someone up here in Sudbury .... all I can say is that I think that you are a very sentimental and warm hearted lassie . My son looked at it the next day and went ga - ga . The dancing people got him . It is so unusual that I might use it for a costume in addition to wearing it . ( I am giv ing an Evening of Dance next fall - when I have såmmered down a bit ) . This is a habit of mine with any unusual item in my wardrobe .. it used to drive my mother wild . Betty .. it's beautiful . The choice of pattern shows that you were thinking of the recipient rather than the donor a most rare trait in people . Again , thank you from the bottom of my heart . I trust that the belatedness of my thankyou will be understood . I am standing on my head trying to get Garson and Sudbury on its Recital feet . We have a