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    Diana Krall

    Diana (Jean) Krall. Jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, b Nanaimo, BC, 16 Nov 1964. Originally a pianist who sang only occasionally, Diana Krall's sultry delivery of classic love songs from the American songbook helped revitalize the role of the female singer in jazz and spurred record companies to sign other singers who might be able to emulate Krall's worldwide popularity. 

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    Diana Krall (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 26, 2004. Partner content is not updated.

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    Diana McIntosh

    Diana McIntosh (b Lowes). Pianist, composer, performance artist, b Calgary 4 Mar 1937; ARCT 1957, LMM 1961, B MUS (Manitoba) 1972.

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    Diana, Princess of Wales: 1961-1997

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 8, 1997. Partner content is not updated. They kept trying to take her picture even after the car stopped careening off the concrete wall, even as she lay dying in the back of its tortured chassis. She was their prey.

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    Diana's Legacy

    He has her look, the one that gave her so vulnerable an air, that slow, shy upturned glance from a downturned head. He has her eyes, too, blue as an English summer sky. The blond hair is the same, as is the quiet smile, the fluid walk, the long, lean figure.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 31, 1998

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    Diane Clement

    Diane Elaine Clement (née Matheson), OC, track and field sprinter (born 27 September 1936 in Moncton, New Brunswick). Diane Clement held numerous Canadian sprinting records and won a bronze medal for Canada in the women’s 4x110 yard relay at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 1956, she became the first athlete born in New Brunswick to represent Canada at an Olympic Summer Games. In 1959, she became the first female coach of the University of British Columbia women’s track and field team. She was also the first female president of an athletic federation in Canada and the first woman to be the honorary vice-president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation Congress. Clement has been inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and is a Member of the Order of Canada.

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    Diane Dufresne

    Diane Dufresne, CQ, CM, singer, actress, writer, painter (born 30 September 1944 in Montreal, QC). The first female “rocker” of the francophone world, Diane Dufresne is a popular singer whose dramatic manner and highly distinctive, provocative vocal style have been strongly identified with Quebec. Often compared to Édith Piaf for her sensitive and powerful performances, Dufresne was one of the most popular performers in France in the 1980s. Nicknamed "La Diva" and "La Dufresne," her performances in Quebec are synonymous with sold-out houses. She has won the Governor General's Performing Arts Award and several Félix Awards and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. A Member of the Order of Canada, she is also a Chevalière of the Ordre national du Québec and France’s Ordre des arts et des lettres and Legion of Honour.

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    Diane Jones Konihowski

    Diane Helen Jones Konihowski, OC, pentathlete, administrator (born 7 March 1951 in Vancouver, BC). Diane Jones Konihowski won gold medals for Canada in women’s pentathlon at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games and at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. She was considered the gold-medal favourite for the 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, which Canada boycotted. She also served as director of the Canadian Olympic Committee and as Canada’s chef de mission at the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney. A winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s top female athlete and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Jones Konihowski has been inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Diane Juster

    Diane Juster (b Rivet). Singer-songwriter, pianist, b Montreal 15 Mar 1946; BA (Montreal) 1966. She studied piano with Marie-Thérèse Paquin and Mme Legoff; encouraged by Stéphane Venne, she began composing in 1971.

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    Diane Loranger

    Diana “Diane” Mary (May) Lally Loranger, FGS, geologist, micropaleontologist (born 1920 in Edmonton, AB; died 9 October 2004 in Calgary, AB). After earning a Bachelor of Science in geology, Diane Loranger began her career in the male-dominated field of petroleum geology as a field worker for Imperial Oil. She was one of the first women in Canada to conduct geological fieldwork alongside male colleagues in the 1940s. One of the first women in the country to work in micropaleontology, her work studying microfossils was instrumental in locating oil fields in Canada.

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    Diane Oxner

    Diane Oxner. Soprano, teacher, b Lunenburg, NS, 10 Nov 1928; B MUS (Curtis) 1954. Her mother, Pearl Young Oxner (1899-1968), was active locally for 50 years as a contralto, a teacher, and the conductor of the Lunenburg Male Choir, which performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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    Diane Schoemperlen

    Diane Schoemperlen, short-story writer, novelist, teacher, editor (b at Thunder Bay, Ont 9 July 1954). Diane Schoemperlen grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont, and attended Lakehead University. After graduating in 1976, she spent a summer studying at the Banff Centre, under such writers as W.O.

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    Diane Tell

    Diane Tell (née Fortin), singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress (born 24 December 1959 in Quebec City, QC). Diane Tell is a pioneering Québécoise singer songwriter. She wrote her first song at the age of 12, released her first album in 1977 while still a teenager and won seven Félix Awards before she was 25. She has released 14 albums of original material, with a 15th set for release in 2026. Tell’s music marked a transition from folk music’s traditional aesthetics and political messages into a more polished, commercial and cosmopolitan sound. Tell owns the rights to her entire music catalogue, finances and produces her own albums and owns her own music publishing company. She has also served on the board of SOCAN. She was named a Chevalière of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2023 and was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024. Her signature song, “Si j’étais un homme” (If I Was a Man), was inducted in 2017.

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    Dianne Warren

    Dianne Warren, fiction writer, playwright (b at Ottawa 28 Aug 1950). Dianne Warren grew up in Saskatchewan and attended the UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, where she did coursework with writers such as Joan Givner and Ken MITCHELL, and graduated in 1976 with a BFA in visual arts.

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    Dick Armin

    Richard ('Dick') Armin. Cellist, b Winkler, Man, 13 Aug 1944 (Paul's twin); performance certificate (Indiana) 1963. He studied cello 1957-61 with Thaddeus Markevitch in Detroit, in 1961 with Luigi Silva in New York, and 1962-4 with János Starker at Indiana University.

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