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    Leslie Holmes

    Leslie Holmes. Baritone, teacher, b Lesser Slave Lake, Alta, 30 Apr 1901. His father was the bishop of Moosonee. Holmes studied singing in Toronto with Albert Ham at the Canadian Academy of Music and in London with Harry Plunkett Greene at the RCM. He also studied in France and Germany.

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    Leslie James Yeo

    Leslie James Yeo, actor, producer, writer, director (b at Swindon, Wiltshire, UK 29 May 1915, d at Toronto 15 Sept 2006). Leslie Yeo left school early to work in advertising.

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    Leslie Mann

    Mann, Leslie (Douglas). Composer, clarinetist, b Edmonton 13 Aug 1923, d Balmoral, Man, 7 Dec 1977. Though he took lessons in clarinet at 13 and in composition at 15, he was largely self-taught.

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    Leslie Nielsen

    Leslie Nielsen, actor, author (b at Regina 11 Feb 1926, d at Fort Lauderdale, Fla 28 Nov 2010). Leslie Nielsen was a veteran of more than 100 motion pictures and 1500 television appearances.

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    Leslie Raymond Fairn

    Leslie Raymond Fairn, architect (b at Waterville, NS 26 June 1875; d at Halifax 13 Aug 1971). Fairn attended Acadia University, studied architecture in Boston, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with Edward Elliot, architect of the Halifax City Hall. In 1904 he began a career that lasted 65 years.

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    Leslie Richard Bell

    Leslie Richard Bell, choir conductor, arranger (b at Toronto 5 May 1906; d there 19 Jan 1962). 

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    Conrad Letendre

    Conrad Letendre. Organist, teacher, theorist, composer, b St-Zéphirin-de-Courval, near Trois-Rivières, Que, 9 Jan 1904, d Montreal 20 Nov 1977.

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    Claude Létourneau (violinist)

    ​Claude Létourneau, violinist and educator (born 11 November 1924 in Québec City, QC; died 7 October 2012 in Québec City).

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    Levasseur Family

    The British removal of this French coat of arms from the the porte Saint Louis at Québec was symbolic of the change in authority after the Conquest. This shield, hand carved in pine in the baroque style of the period, is attributed to Noel Levasseur, the foremost sculptor of New France (courtesy Library and Archives Canada). L'Ange à la trompette, by Noel Levasseur, in the historical chapel of the Ursulines of Québec, beginning of the...

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    Lewis Furey

    Lewis Furey (b Greenblatt). Composer, singer, pianist, violinist, actor, b Montreal, of French-US parents, 7 Jun 1949.

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    L.F. Addison

    L.F. (Laidlaw Fletcher) Addison or "Puff." Bandmaster, bassist, composer, b Hamilton, Ont, 4 Jul 1878, d Toronto 19 Aug 1949. He studied violin with his father (euphonium soloist of Hamilton's 13th Royal Regiment for 46 years) and with W. Anderson, and theory with Arthur W.

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    Daniel Libeskind (Profile)

    DURING A RECENT lecture at Toronto's ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM, Daniel Libeskind took the podium and ran away with it.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 26, 2003

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    Lida Baday

    Lida Baday, fashion designer (b at Hamilton, Ont 31 July 1957). Cited by the Globe and Mail as Canada's premier womenswear designer, Baday graduated from the fashion program at RYERSON POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY in 1979.

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    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse. Toronto rock orchestra, formed in 1968 by the drummer-singer Skip (Ronn) Prokop and the keyboardist-vibraphonist Paul Hoffert.

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    Ligue canadienne de compositeurs / Canadian League of Composers

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