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    Gwenlynn Little

    Gwenlynn (Lois) Little. Soprano, b Grand Valley, near Orangeville, Ont, 14 Apr 1937; ARCT piano 1957, ARCT voice 1957. Her teachers at the RCMT were Margaret Miller Brown (piano) and George Lambert (voice).

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    György Terebesi

    Terebesi, György. Violinist, teacher, b Budapest 23 Jul 1932, naturalized German 1970, naturalized Canadian 1986. He studied violin and chamber music in Budapest, at the Conservatory (1948-50) and at the Franz Liszt Academy (1950-4).

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  • Macleans

    Gzowski Bids Morningside Farewell

    On May 30 - after 3,000 hours of thought-provoking programming - Morningside with Peter Gzowski will broadcast its farewell to CBC-Radio listeners who have followed the show since its debut on Sept. 6, 1982.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 2, 1997

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    H. Allen Brooks

    H. Allen Brooks, architectural historian, author, teacher (b at New Haven, Conn 6 Nov 1925; d at Hanover, NH 8 Aug 2010). After military service as an engineer in the Philipine Islands (1946-47), H.

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    H. Bruce Lobaugh

    H. (Harold) Bruce Lobaugh. Teacher, administrator, clarinetist, musicologist, b Toledo, O, 19 Feb 1930; B SC education (Muskingum, O) 1952, M MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1960, PH D (ESM, Rochester) 1968.

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    H. Frank Lewis

    H. Frank Lewis, broadcaster, lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward Island (born in York, Prince Edward Island). Frank Lewis is Prince Edward Island's 41st lieutenant-governor.

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    Hagood Hardy

    Hugh Hagood Hardy, CM, composer, arranger, vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist (born 26 February 1937 in Angola, Indiana; died 1 January 1997 in Hamilton, Ontario).

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  • Editorial

    Editorial: The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Slick

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born on 17 December 1796 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of a judge and grandson of a lawyer. An upper crust Tory, he was also a successful lawyer and businessman and was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He held office in England after his retirement from the bench. He was wealthy, respected and influential. But, despite his accomplishments, he was deeply frustrated.

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    Hank Snow

    Clarence Eugene Snow, "Hank," singer, songwriter, guitarist (b at Brooklyn, NS 9 May 1914; d at Nashville, Tenn 20 Dec 1999), one of the fathers of Canadian COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC. His singing style, with its clear enunciation, influenced scores of artists in Canada and the US.

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    Hank Snow

    Hank (b Clarence Eugene) Snow. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, b Brooklyn, Queens County, NS, 9 May 1914, naturalized US 1958, d Nashville, Tenn, 20 Dec 1999; honorary D LITT (St. Mary's) 1994. He began playing guitar as a child.

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    Hannah Maynard

    Hannah Maynard, née Hatherly, photographer (b at Bude, Eng 17 Jan 1834; d at Victoria 15 May 1918); Maynard, Richard James, photographer (b at Stratton, Eng 22 Feb 1832; d at Victoria 10 Jan 1907). The Maynards immigrated

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    Hannah Moscovitch

    Hannah Moscovitch, playwright (born 5 June 1978 in Ottawa, ON). Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada’s most produced and prominent contemporary playwrights. Her plays tackle complex and often politically charged issues and have won multiple Dora Awards. Moscovitch has also been nominated for the Carol Bolt Award, the Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, and the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is the first playwright to win a Trillium Book Award and the first Canadian woman to win a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, a $150,000 award from Yale University. She also won a 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for her drama Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes.

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    Haralds Berino

    Haralds (Peter Albinus) Berino. Composer, organist, pianist, teacher, b Riga, Latvia, 12 Mar 1906, d Truro, NS, 18 Aug 1982. His training was at the Latvian Cons, where he studied composition with Joseph Wihtol and piano with Gomanes-Dombrovska.

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    Harold Town

    Harold Barling Town, OC, artist (born 13 June 1924 in Toronto, ON; died 27 December 1990 near Peterborough, ON).

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    Harold Brown

    Harold Douglas Brown, pianist, coach (born 28 October 1917 in Wynyard, SK; died 4 January 2011 in Burnaby, BC).

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