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    Gaston Arel

    Gaston Arel. Organist, teacher, b Trois-Rivières, Que, 10 Sep 1928; lauréat in organ (AMQ) 1948.

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    Gaston Brisson

    Gaston Brisson, pianist, composer, arranger, actor (born 5 December 1940 in Pointe-au-Père, QC; died 17 February 2019 in Rimouski, QC). BA (Bathurst) 1962, B MUS (Montreal) 1964, M MUS (Montreal) 1966.

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    Gaston Germain

    Gaston Germain, bass, teacher, administrator (born 1 March 1933 in Québec City, QC; died 26 July 2015 in Montréal, QC). Lauréat (AMQ) 1960, premier prix voice (CMQ) 1961. An accountant 1951-7, he studied voice 1957-61 at the CMQ with Ria Lenssens and Raoul Jobin.

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    Gaston Lepage

    Gaston Lepage, actor (born 24 February 1949 in St-Félicien, Québec). Lepage gained his first acting experience as a college student in the theatre program at Cégep Édouard Montpetit in the Montréal suburb of Longueuil, Québec, from 1970 to 1971. He went on to study at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Montréal, graduating in 1974. After a 20-year career in theatre, he left the stage in 1993 to concentrate on acting for film and television and hosting television shows.

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    Gaston Miron

    Gaston Miron, poet, publisher (born 8 January 1928 at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, QC; died 14 December 1996 in Montréal, QC). An Officer of the National Order of Québec and a Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest honours. 

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    Gathie Falk

    Gathie Falk, CM, OBC, artist (born 31 January 1928 in in Alexander (west of Brandon), Manitoba; died 22 December 2025 in Vancouver, BC). A multimedia artist with a strong national reputation, Gathie Falk’s work has been recognized, rewarded and celebrated for more than 50 years. She won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1990), the Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts (2003), and the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2013). Falk was named to the Order of Canada in 1997 and the Order of British Columbia in 2002.

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    Gatien Lapointe

    Gatien Lapointe, poet, professor, publisher (b at Sainte-Justine-de-Dorchester, Qué 18 Dec 1931; d at Trois-Rivières, Qué 15 Sept 1983). He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, the École des arts graphiques in Montréal, Université de Montréal (MA), the Collège de France and the Sorbonne.

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    Gauthier, Guité, Roy, Architectes

    Architecture firm created in 1966 by Jean-Marie Roy (born 8 May 1925 in St-Léon-de-Standon, QC; died 3 November 2011 in Quebec City, QC), Paul Gauthier, CM (born 1935 in Gaspé, QC; died 20 May 2013 in Quebec City, QC) and Gilles Guité (born 1935 in Bonaventure, QC; died in 2025).

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    Gayle Young

    Young, Gayle. Composer, writer, editor, designer of musical instruments, performer, b St Catharines, Ont, 22 Mar 1950; BFA (York) 1977.

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    Gaylord Powless

    Gaylord Powless, lacrosse player (born 1 December 1946 in Six Nations of the Grand River, ON; died 28 July 2001 in Ohsweken, ON). Gaylord Powless was a Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) box lacrosse player who transcended the game to become one of Canada’s most famous athletes. Powless lived most of his life in Six Nations of the Grand River, near Brantford, Ontario. He became the signature player on the Oshawa Green Gaels’ junior lacrosse dynasty of the 1960s and shattered the Ontario junior league scoring record in his sophomore year with the team. The Gaels won the Minto Cup, Canada’s national junior lacrosse championship, in all four years that he played at the junior level. Powless also won the 1971 Mann Cup, which is emblematic of the Canadian senior lacrosse champions, and was a marquee player in three different professional leagues. Powless and his father, Ross, are both members of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame. In 2017, Powless was elected to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. In 2024, Powless was inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame.

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    Gédéon Ouimet

    Gédéon Ouimet, premier of Québec (b at Ste-Rose, Qué, 2 June 1823; d at Saint-Hilaire-de- Dorset, Qué 23 Apr 1905). Conservative premier for 19 months (February 1873 to September 1874), he was forced to resign by financial scandals.

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    Gena Branscombe

    Gena Branscombe, composer, conductor (b at Picton, Ont 4 Nov 1881; d at New York City, NY 26 July 1977). 

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    Gena Branscombe

    Gena Branscombe. Composer, choir conductor, teacher, pianist, b Picton, near Kingston, Ont, 4 Nov 1881, d New York 26 Jul 1977; BA (Chicago) 1900, honorary MA (Whitman) 1932.

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    Gender Identity

    The term “gender identity” refers to an individual’s sense of their own gender, or the gender they feel is most in keeping with how they see themselves.

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    Gene Dinovi

    Gene (Eugene Salvatore Patrick) Dinovi. Pianist, composer, singer, b Brooklyn, 26 May 1928.

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