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Claire Harris
Claire Harris, poet (born 13 June 1937 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; died 5 February 2018). Claire Harris wrote numerous collections of poetry, beginning with Fables from the Women’s Quarters (1984). Her work garnered national and international acclaim. She won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region (1985), the Writers' Guild of Alberta Award for poetry (1987), the Alberta Culture poetry prize (1988) and the Alberta Culture Special Award (1990). Harris’s poetry often voices the psychological struggles experienced by racialized women who face oppression and violence.
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Claire Martin
Claire Martin, pseudonym of Claire Montreuil (b at Québec C 18 Apr 1914). She studied with the Ursulines (in Québec City) and the Dames de la Congrégation (in BEAUPORT). She won the Prix du Cercle du livre de France (1958) for her first book, a collection of short stories called Avec ou sans amour.
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Clara Carey
Clara (Mable) (m Allan) Carey. Contralto, b Millgrove 8 Aug 1879, d Hamilton 26 Dec 1974. She taught singing privately and was a soloist at Centenary United Church in the early 1900s.
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Clara Dennis
Clarissa Archibald Dennis, travel writer, photographer, motorist (born 24 November 1881 in Truro, NS; died 16 February 1958 in Halifax, NS). Beginning around 1930, Clara Dennis spent a decade travelling across Nova Scotia by car. She was one of the first travel writers from Nova Scotia to write about the province. Her books and photographs documented the people and places in the far corners of the area.
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Clara Lichtenstein
Clara Lichtenstein. Pianist, teacher, b Budapest, ca 1860, d Dorset, England, 3 May 1946. Born into a musical family, she studied at the Charlotte Square Institute in Edinburgh, founded by her uncle, George Lichtenstein. Her first public performance was in piano duets with Sir Charles Hallé in 1880.
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Clara McCandless Thomas
Clara McCandless Thomas, teacher, critic (b at Strathroy, 22 May 1919).
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Clara Morris
Clara Morris, stage name of Clara Morrison, née La Montagne, actress, author (b at Toronto 17 Mar c 1848; d at New Canaan, Conn 20 Nov 1925), dubbed "the Queen of Melodrama" for her ability to move an audience to tears.
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Clarence Gagnon
Clarence Gagnon, engraver, painter (born 8 November 1881 in Montreal, QC; died 5 January 1942 in Montreal). Clarence Gagnon is best known for his landscape paintings of rural Quebec.
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Clarence Horatio Miller
Clarence Horatio Miller, "Big," jazz musician, blues singer, trombonist, educator (born 18 December 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa; died 9 June 1992 in Edmonton, AB). By 1960 Big Miller had sung with the Jay McShann and Duke Ellington orchestras and recorded with Bob Brookmeyer, Rex Stewart and Jon Hendricks.
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Clarence Lucas
Clarence Lucas, composer, writer, conductor (b at Six Nations Reserve near Brantford 19 Oct 1866; d at Sèvres, near Paris 1 Jul 1947).
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Clarence Lucas
Lucas, Clarence (Reynolds). Composer, conductor, writer, b at Six Nations Reserve, near Brantford, Ont, 19 Oct 1866, d Sèvres, near Paris, 1 Jul 1947; B MUS (Toronto) 1893. The eldest child of Rev D.V.
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Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b at New Brighton, Eng 28 July 1909; d at Ripe, Eng 27 June 1957). Although he was not born in Canada, the years he spent in Dollarton, BC, (1940-54) were the happiest and most productive years of his chaotic life. Much of his later fiction is set in BC.
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Clarice Carson
Clarice Carson (née Katz), soprano (born 23 December 1929 in Montréal, QC; died 2 May 2015 in Toronto, ON).
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Clark Blaise
Clark Blaise, novelist, short-story writer (b at Fargo, N Dak 10 Apr 1940). Clark Blaise spent his childhood moving around the United States, where his Canadian parents were living and working.
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Clary Croft
Clary Croft. Folksinger, folklorist, b Sherbrooke, NS, 12 Nov 1950. Croft took folklore, heritage and costume studies at St Mary's U, University of New Brunswick, and Dalhousie University.
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