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Macleans
David Suzuki (Interview)
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 4, 2004. Partner content is not updated. David Suzuki was there to explain to Canadians the grand ambitions of the early space program and our Anik satellites.
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David Suzuki (Profile)
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 5, 2007. Partner content is not updated. On the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 9, emergency crews raced to the provincial cabinet offices on the Vancouver waterfront after a receptionist's hands were left tingling from a suspicious powder in a piece of mail.
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David Thomson
Thomson, David. Educator, choir conductor, b Portree, Isle of Skye, 27 Sep 1895, d Saint John, NB, 23 Feb 1979. His family settled in Saint John, NB, in 1914.
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David Wiffen
David Wiffen, singer, songwriter, guitarist (born 11 March 1942 in England; died 5 April 2026 in Ottawa, ON). He moved to Canada in 1958 and began his career as a blues and folk singer in Yorkville (Toronto) coffeehouses in the early 1960s. He built a reputation as one of Canada's finest songwriters in contemporary folk music.
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David Wilcox
David (Karl William) Wilcox. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, b Montreal 13 Jul 1949. Raised in Toronto, he began his career there in the early 1970s with Ian and Sylvia Tyson's Great Speckled Bird, then toured and recorded with the US singer Maria Muldaur.
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David McFadden
David William McFadden, poet, novelist (born 11 October 1940 in Hamilton, ON; died 6 June 2018 in Toronto, ON). Winner of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, David McFadden wrote more than 20 books of poetry, three novels and several travel books.
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David Wren
David Wren. Guitar builder, b Toronto 9 Jul 1952. After apprenticing 1973-7 with Jean Larrivée, he opened his own shop in Toronto.
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David Young
David (Anthony) Young. Bassist, composer, b Winnipeg 29 Jan 1940; BA economics (Manitoba) 1964, B COMM (Manitoba) 1966. A pupil in 1962 of William Curtis at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, and 1967-9 of Thomas Monohan at the RCMT, Young has pursued a dual career in classical music and jazz.
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David Zafer
David Anthony Zafer, teacher, violinist, conductor (born 2 April 1934 in London, England; died 20 April 2019 in Toronto, ON); naturalized Canadian 1973.
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Davidee Mannumi
Davidee Mannumi, also known as Manumi "B", sculptor, (b Cape Dorset region, SW Baffin Island 9 Sept 1919; d there 1979). Mannumi immigrated to Iqaluit [Frobisher Bay] in the Dew Line construction period of the mid-1950s but later returned to Cape Dorset.
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Davis Joachim
Davis Joachim. Guitarist, teacher, editor, administrator, b Shanghai 20 Jul 1949, naturalized Canadian 1955; B MUS (UQAM) 1974, arts administration diploma (Concordia) 1991. He began his guitar studies with Antonin Bartos at the École normale in Montreal.
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Dawson Woodburn
Dawson (Edgar) Woodburn. Educator, conductor, b Corbett (near Grand Bend), Ont, 1906, d there 11 Feb 1981; BA English (Western Ont), MA music (City, New York).
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d'bi.young anitafrika
d'bi.young anitafrika (born Debbie Young), dub poet, playwright, actor (born 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica). A Dora Award–winning actress and playwright, d’bi.young anitafrika is best known for a trilogy of plays: the sankofa trilogy: bloodclaat: one oomaan story; benu; and word!sound!powah!. anitafrika is also the founder of the Watah Theatre Institute.
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de Rimanoczy Quartet
de Rimanoczy Quartet. First major Vancouver string quartet, founded in 1947 by Jean de Rimanoczy (first violin), with John Chlumecky (second violin), Smyth Humphreys (viola), and Audrey Piggott (cello). Piggott was succeeded in 1955 by Malcolm Tait.
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