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    Jim Vallance

    Jim (James Douglas) Vallance. Songwriter, drummer, record producer, b Chilliwack, BC, 31 May 1952. Jim Vallance studied piano as a boy and 1970-1 with Frances Marr Adaskin at the University of British Columbia, and cello 1974-6 with Hans Siegrist.

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    Jimmie Shields

    Jimmie (James Knox) Shields. Tenor, b Vineland, near St Catharines, Ont, 19 Aug 1912, d Toronto 9 May 1982.

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    Jimmy Dale

    James Edwin Dale, arranger, conductor, composer, pianist, organist (born 23 October 1935 in London, England; died 20 May 2017 in Naples, Florida). 

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    Jimmy Davidson

    Jimmy (James Douglas) Davidson, "Trump" after ca 1936. Cornetist, singer, arranger, b Sudbury, Ont, 26 Nov 1908, d there 2 May 1978.

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    Jimmy Namaro

    Jimmy (James) Namaro. Vibraphonist, marimbist, percussionist, composer, painter, b La Rosita, Mexico or Columbus, Michigan, 14 Apr 1913, naturalized Canadian ca 1945, d Richmond, BC, 25 Apr 1998. His family moved in 1921 to Hamilton, Ont, where he studied piano with Sid Walling and Eric Lewis.

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    Joan Clark

    Joan Clark's early work consisted primarily of literature for children and young adults, such as Girl of the Rockies (1968), The Hand of Robin Squires (1977), and The Moons of Madeleine (1987).

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    Joan Fairfax

    Joan Fairfax (b Pickup). Singer, accordionist, arranger, b Blackburn, Lancashire, England, 24 Jun 1926, naturalized US. She was taken at two to Oakville, Ont, but returned to England for a year at seven and there began piano study. She later studied accordion in Toronto with Dixie Dean.

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    Joan Louise Barfoot

    Joan Louise Barfoot, journalist, novelist (b at Owen Sound, Ont, 17 May 1946). Growing up in Owen Sound, Barfoot moved to London, Ontario to attend the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, where she completed her BA in English (1969).

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    Joan MacLeod

    MacLeod's first produced work was the libretto for a chamber opera, The Secret Garden, presented by Comus Theatre in Toronto in 1985; it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new musical in 1986.

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    Joan Maxwell

    Joan Maxwell (m Rempel). Mezzo-soprano, b Winnipeg 17 Nov 1930, d Toronto 17 Dec 2000. A pupil of Mrs P.J. Fowler in Winnipeg, she continued studies on scholarship at the British Columbia Institute of Music and Drama in 1948 and the Senior School, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto in 1950.

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    Joan Patenaude-Yarnell

    Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. Soprano, b Ottawa 12 Sep 1941. She began her studies in Ottawa and was a winner at the Ottawa Music Festival in 1957. She then studied voice in Montreal with Raoul Jobin and Bernard Diamant and coached with Charles Reiner.

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    Joan Peebles

    Joan (Angusta Brownie) Peebles. Contralto, teacher, b New Westminster, BC, 5 Jan 1899, d there 11 Oct 1991. After five years as a school teacher, she won the Hudson's Bay Company medal in 1923 in the first British Columbia Music Festival and thereafter studied with teachers in Vancouver (Mrs.

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    Joane Cardinal-Schubert

    Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA, artist (born 1942 in Red Deer, AB; died 16 September 2009 in Calgary, AB). Award-winning Kainaiwa (Blood) artist Joane Cardinal-Schubert was also a successful and influential curator, lecturer, poet and director of video and Indigenous theatre. Her artworks and writing often addressed contemporary political issues such as Indigenous sovereignty, cultural appropriation and environmental concerns. She supported other Indigenous artists as a curator and activist, while also questioning methods of displaying historical and contemporary Indigenous artworks. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the Commemorative Medal of Canada and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award in Art.

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    Joanna Glass

    Joanna McClelland Glass, playwright, novelist (born at Saskatoon 7 Oct 1936). Glass has contributed significantly to the formation of a distinctive Canadian theatre, from the early 1970s to the present.

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    Joanna Ruth Nichols

    Joanna Ruth Nichols, children's writer (b at Toronto 4 Mar 1948). In A Walk Out of the World (1969) and The Marrow of the World (1972), Nichols portrays the adventures of troubled children transported to alternate universes. The latter was Canadian Children's Book of the Year.

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