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Of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, Hoolboom used his father's Super 8 camera to shoot much of his early work, in which he is fascinated with dismantling the mechanics of meaning: how language and narrative work, how physicality determines perception, how film itself conveys ideas.

Louise Forestier. Singer, songwriter, actress, b Shawinigan, Que, 10 Aug 1943.

Harry Freedman (b Henryk Frydmann). Composer, english hornist, educator, b Lodz, Poland, 5 Apr 1922, naturalized Canadian 1932, d Toronto 16 Sep 2005.

Russell Maurice Saunders, stuntman, acrobat (born at Winnipeg 21 May 1919; died at Los Angeles 29 May 2001). Russell Saunders was known as the king of Hollywood stuntmen.

Francis Conroy Sullivan, architect (b at Kingston, Ont 2 July 1882; d at Phoenix, Ariz 4 Apr 1929).

He led a cosmopolitan existence between 1891 and 1912, travelling constantly between Canada, the US and Europe.

Louis-Amable Quévillon, woodworker, sculptor, architect (b at St-Vincent-de-Paul [Laval, Qué] 14 Oct 1749; d there 11 Mar 1823). He began his career as a woodworker in St-Vincent-de-Paul in the early 1770s.

Valérie (1969), the first of a group of erotic films now known as "maple-syrup porno," launched the career of director Denis HÉROUX.

Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, research physicist, professor (born 24 January 1913 in Croydon, England; died 24 July 2003). Following a BA at Cambridge and a PhD (1937) at Princeton, he lectured in mathematics at Cambridge for 2 years and served a year as reader in theoretical physics in Liverpool.

Pratt began publishing poetry in 1914, but made no notable impression until Newfoundland Verse (1923).

Peter Randazzo, dancer, choreographer (b at Brooklyn, NY 2 Jan 1943). He joined the Martha Graham company in 1962 and went on to create roles in several of her works. In 1968 he left to co-found TORONTO DANCE THEATRE with

Marya Fiamengo, poet, critic and educator (b at Vancouver 24 Oct 1926).

Vermandere, Joseph (Émile) (Brother Placide). Composer, organist, critic, b Heule, Belgium, 18 Jan 1901, d Montreal 23 Apr 1971; B MUS (Montreal) 1932, L MUS (Montreal) 1935, D MUS (Montreal) 1945. He and his family emigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal in 1908.

Valerie Weeks. Harpsichordist, b Toronto 6 Dec 1954; ARCT 1974, B MUS (Toronto) 1978.

Conrad Bernier. Pianist, organist, composer, teacher, b Quebec City 9 May 1904, d Washington, DC, 7 Nov 1988; honorary D MUS (St Francis, Loretto, Pa) 1962. His father, Joseph-Arthur, was his first teacher of solfège, organ, and piano. He continued piano study with Berthe Roy.

André Prévost (Joseph Gaston Charles), composer, teacher (born 30 July 1934 in Hawkesbury, ON; died 27 January 2001 in Montréal, QC).

Paul Berkowitz. Pianist, teacher, b Montreal 16 Oct 1948; L MUS (McGill) 1968, B MUS (McGill) 1968, Diploma (Curtis) 1972, honorary FGSM 1988. He studied piano with Dorothy Morton, at first privately 1960-5, then at McGill University 1965-8.

Lotte (b Charlotte) Brott (b Goetzel). Cellist, administrator, b Mannheim, Germany, 8 Feb 1922, naturalized Canadian 1943, d Montreal 6 Jan 1998. Her parents were entrepreneurs who encouraged her to begin studying the cello at eight.

David Wren. Guitar builder, b Toronto 9 Jul 1952. After apprenticing 1973-7 with Jean Larrivée, he opened his own shop in Toronto.

Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Singer-songwriter, b Grande Prairie, Alta, 30 Apr 1971. Johnson spent her early childhood on a farm in Deadwood, Alta. When she was five years old, her mother enrolled her in piano lessons.