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    Ladies' Morning Musical Club

    Montreal musical institution, one of the oldest in Canada, founded in 1892 by Mary Bell, who brought together her friends for serious study and appreciation of the classics of the vocal and instrumental repertoire.

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    Lally Cadeau

    In 1974 Cadeau's professional acting career began at Vancouver's THE ARTS CLUB THEATRE, where she played Helene in a translation of Tremblay's En pieces detachees (Broken Pieces).

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    Jeanne Lamon

    She studied modern violin with Robert Koff in the USA and Hermann Krebbers in the Netherlands. In 1972 she began to specialize in baroque violin, studying 1972-3 in Amsterdam with Sigiswald Kuijken.

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    Lance Harrison

    Lance (Easton) Harrison, saxophonist, clarinetist, banjoist, singer, entertainer (born 23 June 1915 in Vancouver, BC; died 26 November 2000 in Langley, BC).

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    Lansing MacDowell

    (John) Lansing MacDowell. Educator, organist-choirmaster, b Brockville, Ont, 30 Oct 1918, d London, Ont, 6 Nov 1987; BA (Toronto) 1942. A pupil of Charles Peaker in Toronto, he taught music and modern languages in high schools there and in Simcoe, Ont, until 1956.

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    Lara Fabian

    Lara Fabian (b Crokaert). Singer, songwriter, b Etterbeek, Belgium, 9 Jan 1970, naturalized Canadian 1995. The daughter of a Belgian father (who sang back-up vocals for Petula Clark) and a Sicilian mother, Lara Fabian enrolled at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music at age eight.

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    Lara St. John

    St. John was grand national champion in the Canadian Music Competitions (1980) and a national first-place winner five times 1978-84.

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    LaRena Clark

    LaRena (b LeBarr) Clark. Folksinger, b LeBarr Landing, near Lake Simcoe, Ont, of French and English-Irish parents, 21 Nov 1904, d Orilla, Ont, 3 May 1991.

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    Larry Dubin

    Larry (Lawrence Jacob) Dubin. Drummer, b New York 4 Feb 1931, d Toronto 25 Apr 1978. His father, Maurice, played violin briefly in Eugène Chartier's Montreal Philharmonic after moving from Russia to Canada in 1924 and was a member 1958-78 of the Kingston Symphony.

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    Larry Lake

    Larry Ellsworth Lake, composer, trumpeter, broadcaster, producer (born 2 Jul 1943 in Greenville, Pennsylvania; died 17 September 2013 in Toronto, ON). Larry Lake was perhaps best known as the long-time host of CBC Radio Two’s flagship new music program, Two New Hours (1978–2007). A founding member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, he also performed widely as a soloist and was an accomplished composer. He was a member of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre. He received awards from the Canadian Music Council (1982, 1984, 1987) and three Juno Award nominations, as well as the Friends of Canadian Music Award in 2002.

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    Larry Towell

    ​Larry Towell, photographer (born 1953 in Chatham-Kent, ON). Winner of the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation Award for photography and the first and only Canadian member of Magnum Photos.

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    Larry Tremblay

    Larry Tremblay, playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, stage director, actor, teacher (b at Chicoutimi, Qué 17 April 1954). Larry Tremblay received a masters degree in drama in 1983 from the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he later began to teach acting.

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    Lars Jonson Haukaness

    Lars Jonson Haukaness, painter, art educator (b at Folkedal, Norway 1862; d at Lake Louise, Alta 4 Sept 1929). Haukaness studied in Kristiania [Oslo] at the Royal Academy of Art (1882-85).

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    Laszlo Gati

    Laszlo Gati. Conductor, violinist, violist, b Timisoara, Rumania, 25 Sep 1925. He studied first in Rumania but moved in 1946 to Budapest, where he attended the Academy of Music and the National Cons and played in the Hungarian State Orchestra.

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    Laura Lemon

    Laura (Gertrude) Lemon. Composer, pianist, b Guelph, Ont, 15 Oct 1866, d Redhill, Surrey, England, 18 Aug 1924. Laura Lemon was of United Empire Loyalist stock and was raised in Guelph and Winnipeg. In 1890 she went to study at

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