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    Lloyd Powell

    Lloyd (Ioan) Powell. Pianist, teacher, b Bridgenorth, Shropshire, of Welsh parents, 22 Aug 1888, d Vancouver 25 Mar 1975. At 10 he entered the RCM and later he studied in Berlin and (with Busoni) in Basel.

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    Lloyd Robertson

    Lloyd Robertson, OC, television and radio news anchor, journalist (born 19 January 1934 in Stratford, ON; died 4 August 2026). Lloyd Robertson was one of Canada's most recognized and respected television news anchors. He began his broadcasting career in 1952 at CJCS Radio in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. From 1970 to 1976, Robertson anchored CBC's The National before joining CTV in 1976. In 1983, Robertson was appointed chief news anchor and senior news editor. He was voted Canada's most trusted news anchor by TV Guide readers 11 years in a row. He received numerous awards, including three Gemini Awards for best anchor/interviewer (1992, 1994, 1997) and the Central Canadian Broadcasters Association’s Broadcaster of the Year Award (1992). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998. In 2007, he became the first journalist to be inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.

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    Lloyd Wolfe Bochner

    Lloyd Wolfe Bochner, actor (b at Toronto 29 July 1924; d at Santa Monica, Ca 29 Oct 2005). Lloyd Bochner worked both sides of the Canada/US border, performing on local radio since the age of 10.

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    Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming

    Lois Isobel Birkenshaw-Fleming (née Sutherland), educator, author (born 8 October 1928 in Toronto, ON; died 11 March 2015 in Toronto). ARCT 1948, BA (Toronto) 1951.

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    Lois Choksy

    Lois (b Dowell) Choksy. Teacher, administrator, b Baltimore, Md, 30 Jun 1928, naturalized Canadian 1983; B SC music education (Peabody Cons) 1958, M SC music education (Wisconsin) 1962, Kodály certificate (Liszt Academy, Budapest) 1971, certificate in aesthetics (Massachusetts) 1972.

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    Lois Marshall

    During her late teenage years as a stenographer at the T. Eaton Company, Marshall made an unofficial debut as Princess Ida in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta mounted by that firm's opera society.

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    Lois Marshall

    Marshall won the coveted Naumburg Award in 1952 and made her New York debut 2 December at Town Hall. As a result of this recital Arturo Toscanini chose her to appear 28 Mar 1953 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis and in the subsequent recording.

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    Lois Smith

    Lois Smith married dancer David ADAMS in 1950 and both were invited by Celia Franca to join the newly founded NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA in 1951 as principal dancers.

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    Lola MacLaughlin

    Lola Elizabeth Harris MacLaughlin, choreographer, dancer (b at Oliver, BC 1 Mar 1952, d at Vancouver 6 March 2009). Founder and artistic director of Lola Dance, a Vancouver-based company that supports the production and distribution of her work, Lola MacLaughlin made dances that were meticulously constructed, balancing compelling stage images with closely detailed movement phrases.

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    Lola Lemire Tostevin

    Lola Lemire Tostevin, poet, novelist, essayist (b at Timmins, Ont 15 Jun 1937). The author of one novel and 5 books of poetry, she investigates in her work the relationship between language and female subjectivity. Tostevin is a bilingual writer whose first language is French.

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    Lola MacQuarrie

    Lola (Frances Lane) MacQuarrie (b Smith). Educator, writer, b Winnipeg 30 Dec 1909, d there 24 Jan 1966; B SC (Manitoba) 1931. She was steadily involved in Winnipeg musical life after 1920, notably in the 1940s as choir director at Daniel McIntyre High School.

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    Lolita Davidovich

    Lolita Davidovich, actor (born at London, Ont 15 July 1961). Lolita Davidovich, whose parents were immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, moved to Chicago where she attended acting workshops at Steppenwolf and Victory Garden Theatres.

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    Long John Baldry

    "Long" John (William) Baldry. Singer, guitarist, songwriter, b East Haddon, Eng., 12 Jan 1941, naturalized Canadian 1980, d Vancouver 21 Jul 2005.

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  • Editorial

    A Place to Happen

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.It has been said that Canadians don’t tell our own stories or celebrate our own myths. Our history is full of epics considered “too small to be tragic,” as The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie once sang.

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    Diane Loomer

    Diane (Mary) Loomer (b Kolander). Choral conductor, arranger, teacher, born St Paul, Minn, 23 Apr 1940, died Vancouver, 10 Dec 2012; BA (Gustavus Adolphus College) 1962, B MUS (British Columbia) 1982.

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