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    Gordon Day

    Gordon (Hugh) Day. Flutist, b Toronto 16 Oct 1914, d near Millbrook, Ont, 19 Jun 1962. After playing clarinet and saxophone with a country music band, Billy Hole and the Livewires, in Toronto, he led his own dance band, the Rhythm Knights, and in 1935 joined Horace Lapp's orchestra.

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    Gordon Delamont

    Gordon Arthur Delamont, teacher, author, composer, trumpeter (born 27 October 1918 in Moose Jaw, SK; died 16 January 1981 in Toronto, ON). Gordon Delamont was a leading music educator and theorist, and a guiding figure in Canada in the third-stream movement — a synthesis of classical music and jazz. 

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    Gordon F. Henderson

    Gordon Fripp Henderson, CC, QC, lawyer, administrator, philanthropist, entrepreneur (born 17 April 1912, in Ottawa, ON; died 17 August 1993 in Ottawa). Gordon F. Henderson was one of Canada’s best-known and most accomplished lawyers. He appeared in more than 400 cases, including 90 before the Supreme Court of Canada. An expert and leader in intellectual property, Henderson founded the Canadian Patent Reports and later held many influential roles in the music industry. He was vice-president and then president of Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI; later PROCAN). He was also involved in the creation of SOCAN in 1990. A successful businessman, Henderson co-founded Ottawa Cablevision and co-owned the CFL’s Ottawa Rough Riders. He served as chancellor of the University of Ottawa and was a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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    Gordon Fleming

    Gordon (Charles James) Fleming. Organist, pianist, composer, arranger, b Goderich, Ont, 27 May 1903, d Windsor, Ont, 30 Apr 1959. Much of his early life was spent in Galt (renamed Cambridge), Ont.

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    Gordon Flowerdew, VC

    Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, VC, farmer, rancher, soldier, (born 2 January 1885 in Billingford, Norfolk, England; died 31 March 1918 near Moreuil, France). During the First World War, Lieutenant Flowerdew led one of the last great cavalry charges in history and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for bravery among troops of the British Empire.

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    Gordon G. Thiessen

    Gordon G. Thiessen, economist, banker (b at South Porcupine, Ont 14 Aug 1938). Raised and educated in Saskatchewan, Thiessen joined the BANK OF CANADA in 1963 as a research economist specializing in monetary analysis.

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    Gordon Giffin (Profile)

    Those who have done business or politics with Gordon Giffin over the years use roughly the same set of adjectives to describe the 49-year-old Atlanta lawyer who is now the United States' ambassador to Canada. Serious. Analytical. Discreet. Extremely hardworking.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 22, 1999

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    Gordon Greene

    Gordon (Kay) Greene, musicologist, teacher (born 27 December 1927 in Cardston, Alberta; died 23 September 2018 in Kitchener, ON).

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    Gordon Hallett

    Gordon (Arnold) Hallett. Pianist, teacher, b Nanton, near Calgary, 28 Nov 1905, d Toronto, 10 Feb 1993; LTCM 1925. He took lessons as a child in Nanton with Leola Alexander, a former Paul Wells pupil, and at age 16 won the Alberta Piano Competition.

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    Gordon Hancock

    Gordon Hancock. Administrator, pianist, organist-choirmaster, teacher, b Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, 20 Mar 1912, d Regina 22 Jan 1978; ATCM 1930, LTCL 1947, FTCL 1947. His family moved to Canada in 1913.

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    Gordon Hilker

    John Gordon Hilker, impresario, producer, administrator (born 19 September 1913 in Vancouver, BC; died 4 April 1991) 

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    Gordon Jeffery

    Gordon (Dumaresq) Jeffery. Lawyer, organist, conductor, b London, Ont, 15 Jul 1919, d there 4 Aug 1986; ATCM organ 1942, FRCO 1957, FTCL 1957, honorary FRCCO 1973. While studying law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Jeffery took lessons from Charles Peaker and Healey Willan.

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    Gordon Korman

    Gordon Korman, writer (born at Montréal, 23 Oct 1963). Raised in Montréal until 1970 when his family moved to Thornhill, Ont, Gordon Korman moved to the United States to attend New York University and received a BA in Dramatic and Visual Writing with a minor in Motion Picture and Television in 1985.

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    Gordon Kushner

    Gordon Kushner (b George Gershon Kushnir). Pianist, conductor, teacher, b Winnipeg 25 May 1916; d Toronto 8 Sep 2007; LRSM 1938, hon fellowship (RCM) 1991.

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    Gordon Lee Atkins

    Gordon Lee Atkins, architect (b at Calgary, Alberta 5 March 1937), was raised in Cardston, Alberta. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1955-60), graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1960, and won the Faculty Medal for Excellence in Design.

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