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    Harvey Robb

    Harvey (Alexander) Robb. Pianist, organist, teacher, b Chesley, Ont, 18 Apr 1888, d London, Ont, 30 May 1957, DDS (Toronto) ca 1910. Robb practised dentistry briefly before devoting himself to music. He studied piano with W.O.

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    Christos Hatzis

    Hatzis began doctoral studies in composition at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977. Lejaren Hiller was his supervisor; he also studied with Morton Feldman and Wlodimierz Kotonski. The Law of One was his doctoral thesis composition.

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    Haviah Mighty

    Haviah Mighty, rapper, musician, songwriter, producer (born 18 December 1992 in Toronto, ON). Haviah Mighty is one of Canada’s best young rappers. She is known for the intensity of her performances, her politically charged lyrics and for addressing issues of systemic injustice. Her first studio album 13th Floor (2019) won the Polaris Music Prize, making Mighty the first Black woman and first rapper to win the prize. She also became the first woman to win the Juno Award for Rap Album of the Year when her mixtape Stock Exchange (2021) won in 2022.

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    Hawksley Workman

    Workman's music has been described as "glam-rock" and "cabaret-pop." His tracks feature soaring melodies and poignant lyrics, and can range from upbeat pop productions to tender folk- and country-influenced ballads.

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    Elizabeth Hay

    Elizabeth Hay's first collection of SHORT FICTION, Crossing the Snow Line, was published in 1989. A second collection, Small Change (1997), received high praise and was short-listed for many major awards, including the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD for Fiction.

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    Hayden Christensen

    Hayden Christensen, actor, producer (born 19 April 1981 in Vancouver, BC). Hayden Christensen is best known for playing Anakin Skywalker — young Darth Vader — in several Star Wars movies and TV series. He won the breakthrough male performance of the year award from the National Board of Review in 2001 and was named Male Star of Tomorrow at the ShoWest Convention in 2005.

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    Hayunga Carman

    (Bertram) Hayunga Carman. Pianist, teacher, b Morrisburg, near Cornwall, Ont, 22 Feb 1875, d Toronto 6 Jun 1965. His teachers were J.D.A.

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    Haywire

    Haywire. Hard rock band, formed in Charlottetown in 1982 by singer Paul MacAusland, guitarist Marvin Birt, keyboard player David Rashad, and bassist Ron Switzer. Sean Kilbride was the last in a succession of drummers.

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    H.C. Hamilton

    Hamilton, H.C. (Henry Cooke). Composer, writer, organist-choirmaster, b England 24 Jan 1881, d Sudbury, Ont, 23 Mar 1975. Raised in Ireland and in the USA, Hamilton was taken to Mimico (Toronto) as a youth and later studied at the TCM with A.S. Vogt and J.D.A. Tripp.

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    Headpins

    Headpins. Vancouver rock band. The Headpins began in 1980 as a part-time project of the multi-instrumentalist (guitar, keyboards, drums) and songwriter Brian 'Too Loud' MacLeod and the bassist Ab Bryant from Chilliwack, with the vocalist Denice McCann and the drummer Matt Frenette.

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    Healey Willan

    James Healey Willan, composer, organist, choir director, educator (b at Balham [London], Eng 12 Oct 1880; d at Toronto 16 Feb 1968). 

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    Healey Willan

    Willan went on to private organ study with William Stevenson Hoyte, organist of All Saints Church in London.

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    Heath Lamberts

    Heath Lamberts Heath Lamberts, actor (b James Langcaster at Toronto 15 Dec 1941; d at Pittsburgh, Pa 22 Feb 2005). At school, Heath Lamberts won contests as a boy soprano and sang with the Opera Festival Association of Toronto, a precursor of the CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY. However, his true vocation lay in comic acting. He stated in a 1976 interview that after an unhappy childhood, he re-christened himself by climbing into a trunk and emerging...

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    Heather Bishop

    Heather Bishop. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Regina 25 Apr 1949; BA (Regina) 1969. She studied piano as a child, began playing the guitar in her teens, and later took voice lessons in Winnipeg with Alicja Seaborn.

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    Heather Spears

    Heather Spears, poet, novelist, artist (b at Vancouver, BC 1934). Educated at the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia, Heather Spears has lived in Denmark since 1962, where she owns the Upper Canada Gallery. She returns to Canada annually for reading and lecture tours.

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