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George Agnew Reid

George Agnew Reid, painter (b at Wingham, Canada W 25 Jul 1860; d at Toronto 23 Aug 1947). Reid brought Parisian Academy precision to emotional genre paintings of his own Ontario country people. Trained at the Central Ontario
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George Albertus Cox

George Albertus Cox, financier, senator, philanthropist (b at Colborne, Upper Canada 7 May 1840; d at Toronto 16 Jan 1914).
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George Alexander Drew

In 1948 he entered national politics as party leader, but he failed in 2 elections to mount an effective challenge to the Liberal administration. He resigned as leader 1956 and was appointed Canadian high commissioner to London, England, in 1957 - the last distinction in a noteworthy public career.
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George Alexander Elliott

George Alexander Elliott, FRSC, economist, professor, civil servant (born 22 July 1901 in Napier, ON; died 21 November 1988 in Kingston, ON). A man whose imagination, exactitude and humanity inspired his students, Elliott made important contributions to economic theory by publishing articles in academic journals while professor at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto. (See also Economics in Canada.)
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George Alfred Grant-Schaefer

George Alfred Grant-Schaefer. Composer, organist, teacher, b Williamstown, near Cornwall, Ont, 4 Jul 1872, d Chicago 11 May 1939. He studied with Dominique Ducharme (piano) and Guillaume Couture (voice) in Montreal and with Victor Garwood (piano) and Adolf Weidig (theory) in Chicago. C.A.E.
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George Anderson Wells

George Anderson Wells, bishop, scholar, lecturer (b at Clarke's Beach, Nfld 18 Nov 1877; d at Toronto 10 Apr 1964). Wells was a fisherman, sealer, labourer, and a trooper in the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR before continuing his education at various American institutions.
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George Anthony Barber

George Anthony Barber, cricketer and educator (born 1802 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England; died 20 October 1874 in Toronto, ON).
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George Anthony Walkem

Associated with Amor DE COSMOS in the Confederation League before BC joined CONFEDERATION, George Walkem became attorney general in De Cosmos's Cabinet and succeeded him as premier on 11 Feb 1874.
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George Arluk

George Arluk, artist (b in the Keewatin region, NWT 5 May 1949). An Inuit sculptor now living in Arviat, Nunavut, Arluk began to teach himself how to carve soapstone at age nine.
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George Armstrong

George Edward Armstrong, hockey player, coach, scout (born 6 July 1930 in Bowland’s Bay, ON; died 24 January 2021 in Toronto, ON). George Armstrong spent his entire 21-season long National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was team captain for 12 seasons, the longest reign in the club’s history. He led the Maple Leafs to four Stanley Cup championships. His empty-net goal to clinch the 1967 Stanley Cup was the final goal scored in the Original Six era. Armstrong, who was Algonquin, was one of the most prominent Indigenous athletes of his era. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
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George Athans Jr

George Athans, Jr, water-skier (b at Kelowna, BC 6 July 1952). Athans began competitive waterskiing at age 12, and at 15 won his first Canadian slalom title. Before his career was ended in 1975 by a knee injury, he was 10 times Canadian champion 1965-74 and set 5 Canadian records.
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George B. Sippi

George B. (Buckley) Sippi. Organist, choirmaster, teacher, b Bombay 10 Mar 1847, d London, Ont, 18 Sep 1915. His family returned in 1854 to Ireland from India, where his Italian grandfather had settled. He attended Queen's College in Cork and studied piano and organ with his uncle, John A.
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George Bain

George Charles Stewart Bain, OC, journalist, author, educator (born 29 January 1920 in Toronto, ON; died 14 May 2006 in Halifax, NS). George Bain won the 1966 Stephen Leacock Medal and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000.
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George Baird

George Baird, CM, architect, critic, educator, author (born 25 August 1939 in Toronto, ON; died 17 October 2023 in Toronto). Baird was professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Toronto's John H. Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. As an architect, scholar, and educator, Baird has been recognized as one of the most broadly influential figures in his generation of Canadian architects (see Architecture).
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George Benson Johnston

George Benson Johnston, poet, translator (b at Hamilton, Ont 7 Oct 1913; d at Hinchinbrook, Que, August 2004). Johnston is best known for lyric poetry that delineates with good-humoured wisdom the pleasures and pains of suburban family life.
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