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Hutterites in Canada
Hutterites are one of three major Christian Anabaptist sectarian groups (the others are the Mennonites and the Amish) surviving today. They are the only group to strongly insist on the communal form of existence. The 2016 census recorded 370 Hutterite colonies in Canada. The total population living in Hutterite colonies was 35,010 people, with the majority located in Alberta (16, 935), Manitoba (11, 275), and Saskatchewan (6250).
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Huu-ay-aht
The Huu-ay-aht First Nation, located along the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, numbers 730 registered members, as of February 2026. The Huu-ay-aht are a Nuu-chah-nulth nation and are self-governing under the Maa-nulth Treaty.
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Hyman Bress
Bress, Hyman. Violinist, b Cape Town, South Africa, 30 Jun 1931, naturalized Canadian 1952, d Montreal 30 Oct 1995. He took his first lessons with his father, making his debut with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra at nine and performing extensively in South Africa afterwards.
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Hyman Goodman
Hyman Goodman. Violinist, teacher, b Toronto 28 Jan 1913, d Encino, California, 27 Mar 1994. He began his violin studies in 1920 with Broadus Farmer in Toronto and continued 1926-9 with Vladimir Graffman in New York.
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I Couldn't Forget: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation
Author Lee Maracle reflects on the presentation of the summary of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Justice Murray Sinclair on 2 June 2015.
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Iain Baxter&
Iain Baxter& was arguably the first, and most broadly influential, conceptual artist in Canada. He has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. He also had a distinguished teaching career and was central to inspiring Vancouver School artists like Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Stan Douglas.
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Ian Alistair Mackenzie
Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician (b at Assynt, Scot 27 July 1890; d at Banff, Alta 2 Sept 1949). After sitting in the BC Assembly 1920-30, the gregarious Mackenzie entered Parliament in Ottawa. He was minister of national defence, 1935-39, overseeing the rearmament of Canada's armed forces.
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Ian and Sylvia
They soon became full time professionals and, with their first recording (1961), among the leaders of the folk-music boom in North America.
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Ian and Sylvia
Ian and Sylvia performed throughout North America, soon making the transition from clubs to colleges and festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and 1965. They appeared in 1966 in England on BBC TV and performed 30 Apr 1967 in New York at Carnegie Hall.
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Ian Carr-Harris
First shown at the Carmen Lamana Gallery in Toronto in the early 1970s, his early sculpture took the influences of Minimalism and Conceptualism in a new direction for Canadian art.
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Ian Docherty
Ian (Donald) Docherty. Baritone, writer, b Winnipeg 25 Feb 1914, d Vancouver 26 Jan 2001. His teacher of voice, piano, and theory in Edmonton 1936-9 was Alexander Nizoff, who gave him a particular awareness of the 19th-century Russian tradition.
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Ian E. Wilson
Ian E. Wilson, archivist, Librarian and Archivist of Canada from 2004 to 2009 (b at Montréal, Qué, Apr 1943).
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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, philosopher (b at Vancouver BC 18 February 1936). Ian Hacking grew up in Vancouver and completed his first degree, a BA in mathematics and physics, at the University of British Columbia. He then went on to Cambridge University, where he earned a BA, MA, and Ph.D.
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Ian Hampton
Ian (Chalmers) Hampton. Cellist, b London, 13 Mar 1935, naturalized Canadian 1974. Educated at Bedales School (Hampshire), he studied cello with Joan Dickson in Edinburgh 1952-4, with William Pleeth at the GSM 1954-7, and with Paul Tortelier in Paris in 1958.
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Ian Hugh Wallace
Ian Hugh Wallace, artist (born at Shoreham, England 25 Aug 1943). He moved to Canada in 1944 and is an influential Vancouver artist and teacher known for his conceptual art, painting, photographic murals and critical writings.
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