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    Salomon Mazurette

    Salomon (or Solomon) Mazurette. Pianist, composer, organist, teacher, baritone, b Montreal 26 Jun 1847, d Detroit 19 Sep 1910. As a child he sang for five years as a soloist in Notre-Dame Church.

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    Salvator Issaurel

    Salvator (Guillaume) Issaurel. Tenor, teacher, b Marseilles 23 Jan 1871, d Montreal 4 Dec 1944. He studied voice in his hometown and later, until 1898, with Masson at the Paris Cons.

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    Sam Bejan Tata

    Sam Bejan Tata, photojournalist, portrait photographer (b at Shanghai, China 30 Sept 1911; d at Sooke, B.C. 3 July 2005). He immigrated to Canada in 1956. An unobtrusive but lively personality permitted him to witness discreetly

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    Sam Roberts

    Sam Roberts. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, violinist, b Montreal, 2 Oct 1974; BA (English) (McGill) 1998. Sam Roberts' parents hailed from South Africa and immigrated to Montreal before the eldest of their four sons, Sam, was born.

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    Samantha Bee

    Samantha Bee, comedian, actor, writer, producer (born 25 October 1969 in Toronto, ON). A whip smart and scrappy comedian with an acerbic and aggressive edge, Samantha Bee is perhaps best known as the longest-serving correspondent (2003–15) on the satirical comedy news program The Daily Show. A winner of three Canadian Comedy Awards, she has also acted in numerous films and television series. Her own late-night comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, debuted in February 2016.

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    Samuel Dolin

    Samuel (Joseph) Dolin. Composer, teacher, administrator, b Montreal 22 Aug 1917, d Midland, Ont, 13 Jan 2002; B MUS (Toronto) 1942, D MUS (Toronto) 1958. He began his musical studies in Montreal under Tania and Vladmir Elgart, Stanley Gardner and Vladimir Emenitov (piano and theory).

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    Samuel Gesser

    (photo by Lois Siegel)Samuel (Sam) Gesser. Impresario, producer, record distributor, b Montreal 7 Jan 1930, d Montreal 1 Apr 2008. He worked 1949-59 as a commercial graphic artist. During those years he also wrote more than 200 scripts of various kinds for CBC radio and CFCF-TV (now CTV Montreal). In the 1950s, as the first Canadian representative of the US Folkways label, Sam Gesser produced more than 100 albums, recording many Canadian artists including Hélène...

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    Samuel Hersenhoren

    Samuel (David) Hersenhoren. Conductor, violinist, b Toronto 2 Jul 1908, d there 18 Aug 1982. After studies in Toronto with Samuel Barshtz and with Mrs S.R. McCully at the Hambourg Conservatory, he made his debut at Massey Hall at 11.

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    Samuel Levitan

    Samuel Levitan. Pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, b Buckingham, near Hull, Que, 24 Sep 1919, d Toronto 28 Mar 1984.

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    Samuel Maclure

    Noted mainly for his Tudor Revival house designs with their open plans and two-storey central halls, Maclure's buildings use native materials and local construction techniques.

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    Samuel McLaughlin

    Samuel McLaughlin, photographer, publisher, watchmaker (b in Ire 28 Jan 1826; d at Los Angeles, Calif 26 Aug 1914). McLaughlin issued Canada's first publication of photographs - The Photographic Portfolio (1858-60), a series of his views in and around Québec City.

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    Samuel Nathan Cohen

    Samuel Nathan Cohen, theatre critic, radio and TV broadcaster (b at Sydney, NS 16 Apr 1923; d at Toronto 26 Mar 1971).

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    Samuel Nordheimer

    Samuel Nordheimer. Music dealer, publisher, financier, b Memmelsdorf, Bavaria, 6 Feb 1824, d Toronto 29 Jun 1912. He was a partner with his brother Abraham in the formation of A. & S. Nordheimer music store and publishing firm. 

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    Samuel Prowse Warren

    Samuel Prowse Warren. Organist, choirmaster, editor, composer, teacher, b Montreal 18 Feb 1841, d New York 7 Oct 1915. The oldest son of Samuel Russell Warren, he began studying the organ at 11 and gave his first recital at St Stephen's Chapel in Montreal.

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    Samuel Russell Warren

    Samuel Russell Warren. Organ builder, b Tiverton, RI, 29 Mar 1809, d Montreal 30 Jul 1882. Warren was the outstanding figure in Canadian organ building during the 19th century. After emigrating from the USA, he established himself as an organ builder in Montreal in 1836.

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