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    Gloria Saarinen

    Gloria Saarinen (b Manson). Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Dunedin, New Zealand 21 Sep 1934, naturalized Canadian 1964; LRSM, B MUS (Otago, New Zealand) 1956, honorary ARAM (London) 1999.

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    Gloria Sawai

    Gloria Ruth Sawai (née Ostrem), writer, teacher (b at Minnesota, US 20 Dec 1932; d at Edmonton, 20 Jul 2011). Sawai moved to Canada as an infant and grew up in Admiral, Sask, Preeceville, Sask, and Ryley, Alta, where her father was a Lutheran pastor.

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    Glyn Evans

    (David) Glyn Evans. Tenor, b Brampton, Ont, 17 Feb 1941; Artist Diploma opera (Toronto) 1973. Evans made his professional debut in 1965 in a performance of Messiah with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir before attending the University of Toronto Opera School as a pupil of Ernesto Vinci.

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    Godfrey Hewitt

    (John Lemuel) Godfrey Hewitt. Organist, choirmaster, composer, teacher, b Cudworth, Yorkshire, England, 4 Jul 1909, d Ottawa 30 Aug 2002; FRCO 1930, honorary ARSCM 1969, D MUS (Cantuar) 1973. After lessons in Leeds with A.C.

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    Godfrey Ridout

    Godfrey Ridout, composer, teacher, writer, conductor (b at Toronto 6 May 1918; d there 24 Nov 1984). A student of Ettore Mazzoleni, Weldon Kilburn and J. Healey WILLAN, Ridout began teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of Music

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    Godfrey Ridout

    Ridout began teaching at the TCM in 1940 and at the University of Toronto in 1948; he retired from the latter in 1982as professor emeritus.

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    Goodridge Roberts

    Goodridge Roberts, OC, painter (born 24 September 1904 in Barbados, British West Indies; died 28 January 1974 in Montréal, QC). Goodridge Roberts was a member of an extended family of poets and writers in Fredericton, New Brunswick. This included his father Theodore, his uncle Sir C.G.D. Roberts and his cousin Bliss Carman.

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    Goodwin's Latest Show

    Signs of Life is a powerful collection of 33 mixed-media works, drawings, sculptures and a major installation by Goodwin who, at 72, is one of Canada's most outstanding artists.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 4, 1995

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    Gordana Lazarevich

    Gordana Lazarevich. Musicologist, pianist, administrator, b Belgrade 28 Feb 1939, naturalized Canadian 1957; Artist and Licentiate Diploma (Toronto) 1960, B SC (Juilliard) 1962, post-graduate diploma (Juilliard) 1962, M SC (Juilliard) 1964, PH D (Columbia) 1970.

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    Gordie Brandt

    Gordie (Gordon Edward) Brandt. Guitarist, b Regina 20 Jun 1924, d Saskatoon 31 Jul 1983. Raised in Saskatoon, Brandt began playing guitar at 12.

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    Gordon Allan Sinclair

    Gordon Allan Sinclair, journalist, author, radio commentator, television panelist (b at Toronto 3 June 1900; d there 17 May 1984). He began a long and often controversial career when he joined the Toronto Star in 1922 after a modest education and various dead-end jobs.

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    Gordon A. Smith

    Gordon Appelbe Smith, CM, OBC, painter, printmaker, teacher, philanthropist (born 18 June 1919 in East Brighton, England; died 18 January 2020 in West Vancouver, BC). Gordon Smith was a key figure in Vancouver’s art scene during the latter half of the 20th century. He was best known for his monumental, modernist abstractions of the West Coast landscape, and for his long and influential career as a teacher and philanthropist. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada for making “a major contribution to the development of the fine arts in Canada.” He also received the Order of British Columbia, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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    Gordon Day

    Gordon (Hugh) Day. Flutist, b Toronto 16 Oct 1914, d near Millbrook, Ont, 19 Jun 1962. After playing clarinet and saxophone with a country music band, Billy Hole and the Livewires, in Toronto, he led his own dance band, the Rhythm Knights, and in 1935 joined Horace Lapp's orchestra.

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    Gordon Delamont

    Gordon Arthur Delamont, teacher, author, composer, trumpeter (born 27 October 1918 in Moose Jaw, SK; died 16 January 1981 in Toronto, ON). Gordon Delamont was a leading music educator and theorist, and a guiding figure in Canada in the third-stream movement — a synthesis of classical music and jazz. 

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    Gordon Fleming

    Gordon (Charles James) Fleming. Organist, pianist, composer, arranger, b Goderich, Ont, 27 May 1903, d Windsor, Ont, 30 Apr 1959. Much of his early life was spent in Galt (renamed Cambridge), Ont.

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