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    John W.F. Harrison

    John W.F. Harrison. Organist, conductor, b Bristol 1847, d Toronto 29 May 1935. He began his training in piano, organ, and voice under George Riseley, the organist of Bristol Cathedral, then studied organ in London and singing in Naples.

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    John William Beatty

    Beatty was a member of the Arts and Letters Club (seeARTISTS' ORGANIZATIONS), where Toronto artists and patrons met to discuss aesthetic and cultural concerns.

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    John Wilmer Long

    John Wilmer Long, "Jack," architect, community activist (b at Johnstown, Pennsylvania 12 Dec 1925; d at Vancouver 8 Feb 2001), was educated at Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.Arch in 1950.

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    John Wilson Bengough

    Bengough is also of secondary interest as a 19th-century social radical, to whom communalism, vegetarianism, feminism, antivivisectionism and prohibition combined in one vast utopian ideal.

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    John Wycliffe Lowes Forster

    John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait and landscape painter, writer (b at Norval, Canada W 31 Dec 1850; d at Toronto 24 Apr 1938). In 1869 he began studying portraiture in Toronto. He travelled to England and Europe in 1875 and 1879 and studied painting in Paris.

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    John Wyre

    John (Harvey) Wyre. Percussionist, composer, teacher, b Philadelphia 17 May 1941, naturalized Canadian 1972; B MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1963. He studied percussion 1956-9 with Fred Hinger of the Philadelphia Orchestra and 1959-64 with William Street at the ESM, Rochester, NY.

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    Johnny Burke

    Johnny Burke, poet, playwright, songwriter (b at St John's 1851; d there Aug 1930). While working at a variety of jobs, Burke moonlighted as a poet, writing hundreds of broadsheet ballads about events in St John's, printing them on his own press and selling them for 2 to 5 cents a copy.

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    Johnny Burt

    Johnny (John Edward) Burt. Arranger, composer, pianist, b London 31 Mar 1914, d Toronto 21 Sep 1980. Taken to Toronto as an infant, he studied piano as a child and composition, briefly, later with John Weinzweig.

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    Johnny Cowell

    John Marwood “Johnny” Cowell, trumpeter, composer, arranger (born 11 January 1926 in Tillsonburg (near London), ON; died 22 January 2018).

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    Johnny Holmes

    Johnny (John Joseph Harold) Holmes. Trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer, b Montreal 8 Jun 1916, d there 11 Jun 1989. He began playing cornet at 10 and studied briefly with C. Van Camp. After playing trumpet 1940-1 in a co-operative band, the Escorts, he took over its leadership 1941-50.

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    Johnny Lombardi

    John Barba-Linardo (Johnny) Lombardi, pioneer broadcaster, impresario, musician, entrepreneur (b at Toronto 4 Dec 1915; d at Toronto 18 Mar 2002).

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    Johnson, Audrey St Denys

    Audrey St Denys Johnson (born Wood). Music and drama critic and columnist, poet, director, born Toronto 21 Dec 1915, died Victoria 12 Aug 1993; piano teachers' LRSM 1932. Her family moved to Victoria, BC, in 1920, and there she studied piano (with Stanley Shale), singing, and violin.

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    JoJo Savard (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 4, 1995. Partner content is not updated. Ever since she burst onto the late, late-night airwaves in May, 1994, a startling apparition in a flurry of blond ponytails and purple ruffles, the Quebec astrologer has become a celebrity of a distinctly 1990s variety.

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    Jon Ballantyne

    Jon (William) Ballantyne. Pianist, composer, b Prince Albert, Sask, 8 Oct 1963.

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    Jon Kimura Parker

    John David Kimura Parker, OC, pianist, composer, teacher, broadcaster (born 25 December 1959 in Burnaby, BC). 

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