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Dolores Claman
Dolores Olga Claman, composer, pianist (born 6 Jul 1927 in Vancouver, BC; died 17 July 2021 in Spain). Dolores Claman and her husband, the writer Richard Morris, wrote the scores for various musicals. They were also one of Canada’s most successful jingle-writing teams. They completed some 3,000 jingles and won more than 40 awards. Claman’s best-known works are “The Hockey Theme,” the theme song for CBC TV’s Hockey Night in Canada; and the title song for the film A Place to Stand (known popularly as “Ontar-i-ar-i-ar-i-o”). “The Hockey Theme” has been considered Canada’s second national anthem. It was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Domenic Troiano
Domenic (Michaele Antonio) Troiano. Guitarist, composer, singer, b Modugno, Italy, 17 Jan 1946, d 25 May 2005 at Toronto. Troiano became a naturalized Canadian in 1955 and was raised in Toronto.
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Dominic Champagne
Dominic Champagne, playwright, scriptwriter, director, and show designer (born 1963 in Sorel, Québec). Dominic Champagne has been active on the Québec performing arts scene for over 25 years.
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Dominik Zuchowicz
Dominik Zuchowicz in 1993 with one of his period violas (courtesy Malak)Dominik Zuchowicz in 1972 in the shop of James Croft and Son in Winnipeg (photo by Tony Eston).PreviousNext Dominik Zuchowicz Dominik (James) Zuchowicz. Luthier, born Winnipeg 26 Mar 1949, died Ottawa 8 Feb 2011. Zuchowicz, of Polish heritage, was one of a small group of luthiers who were part of Canada's emerging early music movement that began in the 1960s and grew significantly in...
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Dominique Ducharme
Dominique Ducharme, soldier, fur trader, office holder (b François Dominique Ducharme at Lachine, Que 15 May 1765; d at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes, Que 3 Aug 1853).
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Dominique Ducharme
Dominique Ducharme. Teacher, pianist, organist, b Lachine, near Montreal, 14 May 1840, d Montreal 28 Dec 1899. He studied piano as a child with a teacher called Andrews, an organist in Lachine, and continued in Montreal with Paul Letondal and then for a year with Charles W. Sabatier.
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Dominique Michel
Dominique Michel, born Michel-Aimée Sylvestre, actor and singer (b at Sorel, Qué 24 Dec 1932).
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Don Cowan
Donovan Frankland Cowan, educator, composer (born 22 June 1919 in Outlook, Saskatchewan; died 12 January 2013 in Victoria, BC). B MUS (Saskatchewan) 1948, MA (Minnesota) 1962, ED D (Northern Colorado) 1971.
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Don Domanski
Don Domanski, poet and artist (born 1950 in Sydney, NS; died 7 September 2020). Don Domanski was an acclaimed Maritime poet who published nine books of poetry. He received the Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. He also served as the 2005 Ralph Gustafson Chair of Poetry at Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University).
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Don Druick
Don Druick. Composer, flutist, b Montreal 23 Jul 1945; B SC mathematics (McGill) 1966. In Montreal he studied flute with Hervé Baillargeon, Jean C. Morin, Harriet Crossland-Edwards, and Gail Grimstead. He later took up baroque flute.
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Don Ense
Donald Orion Henry Ense, artist, illustrator, poet (b at Mindemoya, Manitoulin I, Ont 17 May 1953). An early member of the Manitoulin group of native painters, he found his theme in the teachings of the Anishabec (Ojibwa) and genre paintings of reserve life.
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Don Ferguson
Don Ferguson created many memorable characters in the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Among these are the Confused Philosopher and the famous Colonel Stacy, who fires his chicken cannon at irritating public figures.
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Don Garrard
Don (Donald) Garrard. Bass, born Vancouver 31 Jul 1929; died Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 Sept 2011.
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Don Harron
Donald Hugh Harron, OC, OOnt, actor, writer, broadcaster (born 19 September 1924 in Toronto, ON; died 17 January 2015 in Toronto).
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Don Jamieson
Donald Campbell Jamieson, broadcaster, politician, diplomat (b at St John's 30 Apr 1921; d at Swift Current, Nfld 19 Nov 1986).
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