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Neil Munro, actor, director, playwright (b at Musselburgh, Scotland 1 Jan 1947, d at London, Ont 13 July 2009). Neil Munro emigrated to Canada with his parents when he was 9 years old and enrolled in the NATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL in Montréal in 1964.
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Neil (James Sinclair) Swainson. Bassist, composer, b Victoria, BC, 15 Nov 1955. He studied briefly with Robert Meyer in Victoria but is largely self-taught.
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Neil V. (Vandraegen) Rosenberg. Folklorist, teacher, b Seattle, Wash, 21 Mar 1939; BA history (Oberlin College) 1961, MA folklore (Indiana) 1964, PH D folklore and history (Indiana) 1970.
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Neil (Percival) Young. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, harmonica player, b Toronto 12 Nov 1945; honorary D MUS (Lakehead) 1992.
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Nell (née Helen Barham) Shipman, screenwriter, actor, director, producer, author (born in Victoria, British Columbia on 25 Oct 1892; died in Cabazon, California on 23 Jan 1970). Nell Shipman's first starring role in a major film was in the silent movie God's Country and the Woman (1916), which was an overnight success. Starring roles in 10 other films, mostly for Vitagraph, were followed by a seven-year contract offer from Samuel Goldwyn in 1917.
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Nellie Smith. Contralto, b Skipton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, 1906, d Toronto 12 Jun 1958; LRAM. She began her career in England, singing in concert and on radio before moving to Canada in 1930.
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Nelly Arcan, née Isabelle Fortier (born 5 March 1973 in Lac-Mégantic, QC; died 24 September 2009 in Montréal, QC) was a Québec novelist who specialized in autobiographical fiction.
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Nelson Frederick Symonds, jazz guitarist, composer (born 24 September 1933 in Upper Hammonds Plains, NS; died 11 October 2008.
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Neve Adrianne Campbell, actor, producer (born 3 October 1973 in Guelph, ON). Neve Campbell grew up in Toronto and attended the Earl Haig Secondary School in that city.
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This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 18, 1999. Partner content is not updated. As the clock wound down on a Good Morning America broadcast last week, co-host Kevin Newman was promoting highlights for the ABC network show the next day. One was an interview with a former host of the program who now anchors occasional specials for ABC.
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Nicholas Campbell starred in The Company Theatre's production of Through the Leaves in 2010 (photo by Guntar Kravis, courtesy The Company Theatre).Nicholas Campbell won a Gemini Award for his portrayal of Shorty McAdoo in The Englishman's Boy in 2008 (courtesy of Minds Eye Entertainment).Actor Nicholas Campbell became familiar to television viewers across Canada when he starred in the series Da Vinci's Inquest(courtesy Noble Caplan Abrams).PreviousNextNicholas Campbell Nicholas Campbell, actor, director (born at Toronto 24 Mar...
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This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 2, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
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Nicholas Fiore. Flutist, b Port Coquitlam, near Vancouver, 14 Feb 1918, d London, Ont, 18 Mar 1979. He studied first with his father, Pasquale Fiore, an amateur musician who also taught violin and piano.
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Nicholas Goldschmidt's administrative talents have made him the country's leading festival organizer. Nicholas Goldschmidt Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor, administrator (b at Tavikovice, Moravia, now Czech Republic, 6 Dec 1908, naturalized Canadian 1951, d at Toronto, 8 Feb 2004). After studies in piano, voice and composition at the Vienna Academy of Music, followed by conducting positions in Czechoslovakia and Belgium, Goldschmidt emigrated to the United States in 1937, where, by 1942, he was director of the opera...
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Nicholas Goldschmidt's administrative talents have made him the country's leading festival organizer.Goldschmidt, Nicholas Nicholas Goldschmidt. Conductor, administrator, teacher, baritone, pianist, b Tavikovice, Moravia (Czechoslovakia) 6 Dec 1908, naturalized Canadian 1951, d Toronto 8 Feb 2004; honorary FRHCM 1978; honorary D MUS (Guelph) 1984; honorary ARCT 1987; honorary D MUS (Toronto) 1989, honorary LL D (York) 1999. A grand-nephew of the Austrian composer Adalbert von Goldschmidt, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music with Josef...
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