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    Frances Itani

    Frances Itani, novelist, short story writer, poet (b at Belleville, Ont 25 Aug 1942). After studying, practising and teaching nursing for a number of years, Frances Itani took a creative writing course with W. O. MITCHELL and decided to take up writing full time.

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    Frances James

    (Mary) Frances James. Soprano, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 3 Feb 1903, d Victoria, BC, 22 Aug 1988. She spent her childhood in Halifax and Montreal and took her main formative studies on a four-year scholarship at the McGill Cons with Walter Clapperton.

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    Frances Macdonnell

    Frances (Buchan) Macdonnell. Organist, choir conductor, composer, b Ottawa 30 Apr 1947, BA (Queens) 1969, FRCO 1973. After studying in Ottawa with Godfrey Hewitt, Macdonnell studied in England 1970-2 with Ralph Downes and Douglas Hawkridge.

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    Frances Marr Adaskin

    Frances (Alice) Adaskin (b Marr). Pianist, b Ridgetown, Ont, 23 Aug 1900, d Vancouver 8 Mar 2001. Frances Marr was a pupil of Paul Wells at the TCM and, in the summers of 1930 and 1931, of Céline Chailley-Richez in Paris.

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    Frances Loring

    Frances Norma Loring, sculptor (born 14 October 1887 in Wardner, Idaho; died 5 February 1968 in Newmarket, ON). A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, founding member of the Sculptors Society of Canada, and one of Canada’s representatives at the 1960 Venice Biennale, Frances Loring was one of Canada’s most prominent sculptors. She was responsible for works such as the lion on the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument (1939) — originally located at the Toronto entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Way and now in the Sir Casimir Gzowski Park in Toronto — and the statue of Robert Borden (1957) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

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    Frances Stewart

    Frances Stewart, née Browne, diarist, letter writer (b at Dublin, Ire 24 May 1794; d near Peterborough, Ont 24 Feb 1872).

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    Francesco D'Auria

    Francesco (Mariano) D'Auria. Conductor, composer, teacher, b Naples 1841, d after 1913. D'Auria was the conductor for the US tour 1881-2 of the soprano Adelina Patti, and worked in New York and Cincinnati before joining the TCM in 1887 as a voice teacher. W.H. Hewlett, Edith Miller, and J.D.A.

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    Francess Georgina Halpenny

    Francess Georgina Halpenny, editor (b at Ottawa 27 May 1919). After studies in English at the University of Toronto, she began in 1941 her long association with U of T Press, interrupted only by service in the RCAF 1942-45.

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    Francine Noël

    Francine Noël, novelist and playwright (b at Montréal, 1945).

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    Francine Ouellette

    Francine Ouellette (born 11 March 1947 in Montréal, Québec).

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    Francis Chaplin

    Francis (Eugene) Chaplin. Violinist, teacher, b Newcastle, NB, 30 Dec 1927, d Brandon, Man, 3 Dec 1993; Artist Diploma (Juilliard) 1950, Graduate Diploma (Juilliard) 1951, honorary D MUS (Mt Allison) 1974.

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    Francis Coleman

    Francis Arthur Coleman, television producer, administrator, conductor, writer (born 12 January 1924 in Montréal, QC; died 10 April 2008 in London, England).

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    Francis Conroy Sullivan

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

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    Francis Dhomont

    Francis Dhomont, composer, teacher (born 2 November 1926 in Paris, France; died 28 December 2023 in Avignon, France).

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    Francis Edward Sparshott

    Francis Edward Sparshott, professor of philosophy, poet (b at Chatham, Eng 19 May 1926). Sparshott is Canada's leading philosopher of the arts (aesthetics) with an international reputation among scholars.

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