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    Nelly Furtado

    Nelly Furtado. Singer, songwriter, b Victoria, BC, 2 Dec 1978. Furtado grew up in a working-class Portuguese household, and the sounds of her ethnic heritage had a strong influence on her even when she was listening to hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B, rock, Brazilian and Indian music.

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    Fusion 5

    Fusion 5. Chamber ensemble formed in the summer of 1980 by participants in the Advanced Studies in Music Winter Cycle program at the Banff SFA. Common interests in the performance of contemporary music led composer and pianist Robert J.

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    G. Herald Keefer

    G. Herald Keefer. Organist, organ builder, composer, b Vancouver 12 Apr 1919; honorary PH D (Somerset, England) 1985. He received his early choir training in Vancouver under Frederick Robinson.

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    G. Roy Fenwick

    G. (George) Roy Fenwick. Educator, writer, adjudicator, broadcaster, b Hamilton, Ont, 11 May 1889, d Ottawa 8 Jul 1970; LTCM 1911, B MUS (Toronto) 1927, D MUS (Montreal) 1950. His mother was Maggie Barr, a Scottish soprano.

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    G. Welton Marquis

    G. (George) Welton Marquis. Musicologist, administrator, b Walla Walla, Wash, 4 Mar 1916, d Ashland, Ore, 22 Feb 1985; MA (Whitman) 1942, PH D (Southern California) 1950.

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    Gabor Szilasi

    Gabor Szilasi, photographer, teacher (born 3 February 1928 in Budapest, Hungary; died 10 April 2026).

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    Gabriel Arcand

    Gabriel Arcand, actor (b at Montréal 4 Jun 1949). His family, originally from the village of Deschambault (Portneuf County), settled in Montréal in 1952.

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    Gabriel Cusson

    Gabriel Cusson. Composer, teacher, b Roxton Pond, near Granby, Que, 2 Apr 1903, d Montreal 18 Apr 1972; B MUS (Montreal) 1924.

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    Gabriel Kney

    Gabriel M. Kney, pipe organ builder (born 21 November 1929 in Speyer, Germany; died 8 November 2024 in London, ON).

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    Gabrielle Bernier

    Gabrielle Bernier. Pianist, b Quebec City, November 1906. She studied piano with her father, Joseph-Arthur, and she continued her instrumental studies at Laval University. She gave a performance of a Mozart concerto with the Cercle philharmonique de Québec 25 Nov 1938.

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    Gaby Haas

    Gaby (Gabriel) Haas. Accordionist, composer, b Frantiskovy Lázne, Czechoslovakia, 7 Nov 1920, naturalized Canadian 1943, d Edmonton 22 Nov 1987. He moved to Saskatoon at 18 and began playing accordion at local dances and on CFQC radio.

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    Gaelyne Gabora

    Gaelyne Gabora (b Craig). Soprano, teacher, b Regina 1931, d White Rock, BC, 1 Feb 2001. She studied at Notre Dame Academy in Charlottetown, at the GSM, England, 1953-6, and graduated with honours from the Vienna Academy 1956-9.

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    Gaétan Laperrière

    Gaétan Laperrière. Baritone, b Montreal 14 Dec 1952. Laperrière was first employed as a schoolteacher, and came to music comparatively late in life when he began to study voice with his uncle Robert Savoie.

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    Gaétan Soucy

    Gaétan Soucy, novelist (born 21 October 1958 in Montréal; died 9 July 2013 in Montréal). Gaétan Soucy was born into a large family in the working-class district of Hochelaga.

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    Gail Anderson-Dargatz

    Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz, née Anderson, novelist, short-story writer (b at Kamloops, BC 14 Nov 1963). Raised in rural BC, Gail Anderson-Dargatz began submitting fiction to little magazines and contests while working as a reporter, photographer, and cartoonist for the Salmon Arm Observer.

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