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    Gabrielle Bernier

    Gabrielle Bernier. Pianist, b Quebec City, November 1906. She studied piano with her father, Joseph-Arthur, and she continued her instrumental studies at Laval University. She gave a performance of a Mozart concerto with the Cercle philharmonique de Québec 25 Nov 1938.

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    Gabrielle Lavigne

    Gabrielle Lavigne, mezzo-soprano (born 16 March 1940 in Montreal, QC; died 1 October 2018 in Montreal).

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    Gabrielle Roy

    Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC, author, teacher, journalist (born 22 March 1909 in Saint Boniface, MB; died 13 July 1983 in Quebec City, QC). One of the most prominent figures in French Canadian literature, Gabrielle Roy was one of the great contemporary writers on the human condition. Her landmark novel Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute, 1945) introduced urban realism to Canadian literature and was a huge commercial success. Roy received Canada’s most prestigious literary awards, including the Governor General’s Award (1947, 1957, 1978), the Prix Ludger-Duvernay (1956), the Prix David (1971) and the Canada Council Prize (1979). She was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967. Her childhood home in St. Boniface, Manitoba, was named a Historic Site of Manitoba in 1987. It began operating as the Gabrielle Roy House Museum in 2003. Roy was declared a National Historic Person in 2009 and a Manitoba Woman Trailblazer in 2021.

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    Gaby Haas

    Gaby (Gabriel) Haas. Accordionist, composer, b Frantiskovy Lázne, Czechoslovakia, 7 Nov 1920, naturalized Canadian 1943, d Edmonton 22 Nov 1987. He moved to Saskatoon at 18 and began playing accordion at local dances and on CFQC radio.

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    Gaelyne Gabora

    Gaelyne Gabora (b Craig). Soprano, teacher, b Regina 1931, d White Rock, BC, 1 Feb 2001. She studied at Notre Dame Academy in Charlottetown, at the GSM, England, 1953-6, and graduated with honours from the Vienna Academy 1956-9.

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    Gaétan Boucher

    In 1977 he was world indoor speed-skating champion and in 1978, 1980 and 1982 he finished second at the more prestigious World Sprint Speed-skating Championships.

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    Gaétan Laperrière

    Gaétan Laperrière. Baritone, b Montreal 14 Dec 1952. Laperrière was first employed as a schoolteacher, and came to music comparatively late in life when he began to study voice with his uncle Robert Savoie.

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    Gaétan Soucy

    Gaétan Soucy, novelist (born 21 October 1958 in Montréal; died 9 July 2013 in Montréal). Gaétan Soucy was born into a large family in the working-class district of Hochelaga.

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    Gail Anderson-Dargatz

    Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz, née Anderson, novelist, short-story writer (b at Kamloops, BC 14 Nov 1963). Raised in rural BC, Gail Anderson-Dargatz began submitting fiction to little magazines and contests while working as a reporter, photographer, and cartoonist for the Salmon Arm Observer.

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    Gail Bowen

    Gail Bowen (SOM), novelist (born 22 September 1942 in Toronto, ON; died 25 June 2026 in Regina, SK). Gail Bowen grew up in Toronto, where she claims she learned to read from the tombstones in Prospect Cemetery. This early fascination with death perhaps foretold her vocation as the author of the best-selling Joanne Kilbourn mystery series. Bowen also worked as an arts columnist on CBC Radio in Regina and taught for many years at the First Nations University of Canada. She is also a prolific playwright. She was named Canada's Best Mystery Novelist by Reader’s Digest in 2008 and received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada in 2009. She received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2018.

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    Gail Fox

    Gail Fox, poet (b at Willimantic, Conn 5 Feb 1942).

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    Gail Greenough

    Gail Greenough, equestrian (b at Edmonton, Alta 7 Mar 1960). On 13 July 1986 at Aachen, W Germany, she became the first Canadian and first woman to win the world show jumping championship.

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    Gale Zoë Garnett

    Galina Zoë Garnett, actor, singer, songwriter, writer (born 17 July 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand). The multitalented Gale Garnett is perhaps best known for her 1964 folk music classic, “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine.” The Grammy Award-winning No. 1 hit sold more than three million copies and was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015. Garnett’s acting career, which has spanned stage, television and film from the early 1960s to the 2000s, includes roles in popular TV series and movies, and her novels and essays have established her as a respected writer.

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    Galt MacDermot

    MacDermot, (Arthur Terence) Galt. Composer, pianist, b Montreal 18 Dec 1928; BA English and history (Bishop's) 1950, B MUS (Cape Town) 1953? He was raised in several Canadian cities, including Toronto (where he attended Upper Canada College, of which his father, T.W.L.

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    Gar Smith

    Gar Smith, artist, photographer (born 1946 in Toronto, ON). Gar Smith’s career as an artist occurred within a colourful and prolific 20-year period between 1968 and 1988. For those two decades, he made searching and stridently virtuoso art that included groundbreaking photography (Noon, 1968; Notes on Light, 1969–70; Avenir, 1973), camera-less photography (Earth Stars, Future Markets, 1978), and sculptures of bells (I Give Bliss, I Give Warning, 1985). His final bell work was made for the Canadian embassy building in Tokyo in 1988. Then, rather curiously, Smith ceased making any more art.

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