Lot #12: "Nova Scotia" Oil Painting On Board Artist Signed Daphne E Overhill 1957 {Nee Hicks}

Excellent shape 28.5" X 22.5" Daphne Caroline Overhill (née Hicks) was a Canadian local historian, author, and teacher. She is most widely recognized for her contributions to preserving local music history, notably writing the book Sound the Trumpet: The Story of the Bands of Perth, 1852–2002. The book details the extensive history of the Perth Citizens' Band in Ontario—acknowledged as Canada’s oldest continuously operating town band—and earned her the Ontario Heritage Trust Award in 2006. At just 17 years old, she began her career teaching seven different grades simultaneously in a traditional one-room schoolhouse in the Laurentian mountains near Shawbridge, Québec. Alongside her husband, a tall ski-mad engineer named Doug Overhill, she co-managed a consulting company that took their family across the globe, including stays in France, Brazil, India, Japan, Hawaii, and Newfoundland. Demonstrating a lifelong commitment to learning, she went back to university after retirement, graduating with an honors Bachelor of Arts in Music from Carleton University in Ottawa. She passed away in May 2016. Her late daughter, Heidi Ellis Overhill, was a highly regarded senior designer at the National Gallery of Canada and a professor at OCAD and Sheridan Colleges. Dimensions: 28.5" x 22.5" Pickup category timeslot {A}