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    Flora MacDonald Denison

    Flora MacDonald Denison (née Merrill), feminist, journalist, businesswoman (born 20 February 1867 in Hastings County, ON; died 23 May 1921 in Toronto, ON). Denison was an advocate for women’s suffrage and served as president of the Canadian Suffrage Association from 1911 to 1914. She is also known for establishing a retreat, which was inspired by the ideals of the poet Walt Whitman.

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    Flordeliz Osler

    Flordeliz (a.k.a. Gigi) Osler (née Sharma), FRCSC, senator, physician and educator (born 1968 in Winnipeg, MB). Dr. Osler is an Otolaryngology – Head and Neck surgeon (ENT) surgeon and has practiced in Winnipeg since 1998. She was the past president of the Canadian Medical Association, making her the first female surgeon and the first woman of colour to assume the role. Osler was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 2022, making her the second senator of Filipino descent and the first woman of Filipino heritage to sit in the Senate.

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    Florence Bird

    Florence Bayard Bird (née Rhein, pseudonym Anne Francis), CC, senator, journalist, broadcaster and author (born 15 January 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 18 July 1998 in Ottawa, Ontario). Chair of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada from 1967 to 1970, Florence Bird made her name as a broadcast journalist for CBC/Radio-Canada, reporting news and producing documentaries on women’s working conditions and on conditions for women in Canada’s prisons.

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    Florence Brimson

    Florence (Anne) Brimson. Soprano, b Newmarket, near Toronto, 2 Oct 1873, d Santa Barbara, Cal, 4 Oct 1953. After initial study with W. Elliott Haslam at the Toronto College of Music she spent four years with Mathilde Marchesi in Paris.

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    Florence Davidson

    Florence Edenshaw Davidson, Haida Elder, artist (born 15 September 1896 in Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC; died 13 December 1993 in Masset). Elder Florence Davidson was a renowned weaver and she made Haida baskets and button blankets (see also Northwest Coast Indigenous Art).

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    Florence Easton

    Florence (Gertrude) Easton. Soprano, b Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, Eng, 25 Oct 1882, d New York 13 Aug 1955, buried in Montreal. The Easton family moved to Toronto ca 1888, and the young Florence sang in the choir of Parkdale Methodist Church, where her father was choirmaster and her mother organist.

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  • Macleans

    Florence Griffith Joyner (Obituary)

    She was fast and flashy, a babe, a blur, exactly what the world of track and field needed. After years of androgynous-looking East Germans, the Heikes and the Heidis, American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner brought a dash of glamor to a sport that was fast losing fans.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 5, 1998

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    Florence Lawrence

    Florence Lawrence neé Florence Annie Bridgewood, actor (b at Hamilton, Ont 2 Jan 1886; d at Beverley Hills, Ca 28 Dec 1938). Florence Lawrence, on stage and touring with her mother since the age of 3, joined the Vitagraph Company at 21 years old when the touring company disbanded in 1907.

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    Florence Wyle

    Florence Wyle, sculptor (born 24 November 1881 in Trenton, Illinois; died 14 January 1968 in Newmarket, ON).

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    Floyd Roland

    Floyd Roland, mechanic, politician, premier of Northwest Territories 2007 to 2011, mayor of Inuvik 2012 to 2015 (born 23 November 1961 in Inuvik, NWT). Roland sat in the Northwest Territories legislature for 12 years before becoming premier on 18 October 2007. His premiership was marred by a scandal over an affair between Roland and a clerk of the legislature.

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    Floyd Sherman Chalmers

    Floyd Sherman Chalmers, CC, OOnt, journalist, editor, publisher, administrator, philanthropist (born 14 September 1898 in Chicago, IL; died 26 April 1993 in Toronto, ON).

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    FM

    FM. Toronto rock band. Experimental by nature and pioneering in its use of synthesizers, it was formed in 1976 as a duo by the performance artist 'Nash the Slash' (electric violin and mandolin) and the keyboard player Cameron Hawkins and made its debut at the Toronto gallery A Space.

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    F.M. McLeod

    F.M. (Francis Murray) or Ray McLeod. Bandmaster, b Grand Forks, near Nelson, BC, 27 Nov 1918. After training as a trumpeter with 'Tug' Wilson in Vancouver and playing in dance and radio orchestras, he joined the Canadian armed forces in 1941 and became a bandsman.

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    FONKi

    FONKi, artist, graffiti artist, gallery curator, documentary film producer, and event producer (born 12 February 1990 in Paris, France). FONKi, who works under a pseudonym, is a graffiti art pioneer in Québec. His documentary The Roots Remain (2014), which depicts his return to Cambodia, has won several awards. Since 2020, he has been the owner and curator of the FT Gallery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He founded the Murals for Cambodia festival in 2022. Over the course of his career, he has sought to bring the "street art" culture to the forefront and to promote the contemporary Cambodian art scene. (See also Cambodian or Khmer Canadians.)

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  • Macleans

    Fontaine Elected New Grand Chief

    Phil Fontaine had every reason to look haggard and humble as he donned his ornate feathered headdress last week to become the new national chief of the ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 11, 1997

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