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    Bill Lishman

    William Lishman, environmental activist, sculptor, inventor, filmmaker (born 12 February 1939 in Toronto, ON; died 30 December 2017 in Scugog, ON). Lishman is best known as the first person to conduct an aircraft-led migration of birds. In 1993, piloting an ultralight airplane, he guided 18 geese on a migration from Ontario to Virginia. This event inspired the development of similar techniques to establish safe migratory routes for endangered species of waterfowl around the world. In addition to his work with birds, Lishman was a renowned sculptor, inventor and filmmaker. His life was the inspiration for the 1996 Hollywood movie Fly Away Home. Lishman received the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal in 2000.

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  • Macleans

    Bill Lishman (Profile)

    On a brisk spring morning, Bill Lishman is preparing cappuccino in the bright, spacious kitchen of his $400,000 underground home. As he pours a cup of the rich coffee, the 57-year-old sculptor, who lives in the village of Blackstock, Ont.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 27, 1996

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    Bill Phillips

    William Phillips, trumpeter, conductor, composer (born 19 September 1937 in Guelph, Ontario; died 17 February 2023 in Plattsburgh, NY). ARCT 1958, BA (Toronto) 1958. His teachers were Joseph Umbrico in Toronto and Maurice André in 1970 at the Paris Conservatory. He served as principal trumpet 1961-2 with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Festival Orchestra, Stratford, 1963-4 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, and 1965-6 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. He was assistant conductor 1964-5 of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.

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    Bill Richards

    Bill (William Francis Caven) Richards. Violinist, composer, arranger, editor, b Ottawa 28 Mar 1923, d Scarborough, Ont, 28 Feb 1995.

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    Bill Smith

    Bill (William Ernest) Smith. Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, editor, photographer, record producer, b Bristol, England, 12 May 1938. He studied aeronautical design at the North Staffordshire Technical Institute in Alsager, England, before moving in 1963 to Toronto.

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    Billy Newton-Davis

    Billy Newton-Davis, singer, songwriter (born 26 April 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio).

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    Billy O'Connor

    Billy (William) O'Connor. Singer, pianist, songwriter, agent, b Kingston, Ont, 9 Jan 1914, d Toronto 18 Nov 2001.

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    Bing Thom

    Bing Wing Thom, CM, architect (born 8 December 1940 in Hong Kong; died 4 October 2016 in Hong Kong). A Member of the Order of Canada and a winner of the Governor General’s Award, Bing Thom’s strong design values and holistic approach in practice made him one of Canada’s top architects.

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    Bishop Strachan School Chapel Choir

    Bishop Strachan School Chapel Choir Toronto girls' school choir known in 1990 as The Choir of the Bishop Strachan School. Variable in size, it numbered 55 members in 1990. A school choir existed at the time of World War I under J.W.

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    Black Theatre Workshop

    The TTA set up a dramatic committee that organized public readings of plays by Earl Lovelace, Errol John and Derek Walcott (Nobel laureate 1993).

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  • Editorial

    Editorial: Black Women in the Arts

    The following article is part of an exhibit. Past exhibits are not updated. Driven to overcome histories of prejudice and marginalization, as women and as people of African descent, Black women are among Canada’s most innovative artists. With their fingers on the pulse of this multi-tasking, multi-disciplinary, 21st-century culture, the 15 dynamic artists featured in this exhibit — a mix of poets, playwrights, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists — refuse to be limited to one medium or style. Award-winning poet Dionne Brand is also a novelist, filmmaker and influential professor, while Lillian Allen thrives as a dub poet, declaiming her verses to reggae accompaniment. trey anthony is a comedian as well as a ground-breaking playwright and screenwriter. All of these women and the many others below are also, in one way or another, passionate activists and committed advocates who are deeply involved in their communities. 

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    Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

    Blackie & The Rodeo Kings was initially conceived in 1996 as a tribute act to singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett. By renewing interest in Bennett and other Canadian songwriters, Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson believed they would also gain a wider audience for their solo careers.

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    Blake Randolph Debassige

    Blake Randolph Debassige, artist (born at West Bay, Ontario 22 June 1956). 

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    Blakeman Welch

    Peter Michael Blakeman Welch, composer, journalist, therapist, teacher (born 27 February 1935 in Birmingham, England; died 26 January 2010 in Winnipeg, MB). BA (Durham) 1957, certificate in education (London) 1960, B ED (Manitoba) 1974.

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    Bliss Carman

    Carman conducted a syndicated newspaper column, essays from which were reprinted in 3 volumes, notably The Kinship of Nature (1903). With Mary Perry King, he collaborated on The Making of Personality (1908) and in that year moved to New Canaan.

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