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    Graham Townsend

    Graham (Craig) Townsend. Fiddler, mandolinist, pianist, composer, b Toronto 16 Jun 1942, d Barrie, Ont, 3 Dec 1998. His father, Fred (1900-1981) was Don Messer's square dance caller for many years.

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    Graham Townsend Jr

    Graham Jr (Gray) Townsend. Singer-songwriter, pianist, b 2 May 1975. Gray Townsend was a member of the Graham Townsend Show, and accompanied his father at the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship in 1998. He has also done solo work.

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    Grand Chantre

    Grand Chantre (Precentor). In the 15th century this term was used to refer to a church dignitary in charge of the singing of the choir in cathedrals and collegiate churches. On special holidays he donned the cope and bore the cantor's rod as symbols of his authority.

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    Grant Allen

    Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, writer, historian, scientist (born 24 February 1848 in Alwington, ON; died 25 Oct 1899 in London, England). Grant Allen spent most of his youth in Canada, and completed his formal education in France and England, where he graduated from Merton College, Oxford, in 1871.

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    Grant Munro

    Grant Munro, animator, director, producer, actor (b at Winnipeg 25 Apr 1923). Grant Munro attended the Musgrove School of Art and the Winnipeg School of Art.

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    Grant Strate

    Grant Strate, OC, dancer, choreographer, educator (born 7 December 1927 in Cardston, AB; died 9 February 2015 in Vancouver, BC ).

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    Gratien Gélinas

    Tit-Coq, created in 1948, grew out of Fridolin. The drama of the bastard who did not want to leave bastards behind him, the unemployed conscript, the soldier sent to England who never really came home, contrasted in the play with vivid, moving tableaux of traditional family life.

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    Graziella Dumaine

    Graziella Dumaine. Soprano, b Shawinigan, Que, ca 1890, fl ca 1920. She studied singing in Montreal with Salvator Issaurel, then with Béatrice La Palme, obtaining the Prix d'Europe in 1916.

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    Great Big Sea

    Great Big Sea. Leading Canadian folk/pop group.

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    Greg Clark

    Gregory Clark, newspaperman, soldier, outdoorsman, humorist (b at Toronto 25 Sept 1892; d there 3 Feb 1977). Greg Clark attended Harbord Collegiate, followed by a year at the University of Toronto, after which he began his career with the Toronto Star. He worked for the Star from 1911 to 1947.

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    Greg Keelor

    ​James Gregory Keelor (né Francis McIntyre), OC, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer (born 29 August 1954 in Inverness, NS). 

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    Greg Malone

    In 1973 while in Toronto performing at various theatres Malone helped start the CODCO comedy troupe, whose first production, Cod on a Stick: Another Fun Food Show, was performed at Toronto's legendary THEATRE PASSE MURAILLE East. The show took them back to St.

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    Greg Payce

    He draws on history, ancient ceramics, film and photography to animate his expertly thrown pots. Active in ceramics for over 40 years, Payce has participated in over 150 group and solo exhibitions and numerous artist residencies around the world.

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    Gregori Garbovitsky

    Gregori Garbovitsky. Violinist, conductor, teacher, b Kreavri, near Dniepropetrovsk, Russia, 1892, d New York October 1954. He studied violin at the St Petersburg Cons with Leopold Auer (at the same time as Kathleen Parlow and Jascha Heifetz) and composition with Alexander Glazunov.

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    Gregory Levin

    Levin, Gregory (John). Composer, teacher, pianist, conductor, b Washington, DC, 8 Mar 1943, naturalized Canadian 1989; BA (Harvard) 1967, MFA (Brandeis) 1969, PH D (Brandeis) 1975.

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