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James Vincent Fusco

James Vincent Fusco. Composer, conductor, b Niagara Falls, Ont,11 Aug 1954, B MUS (Toronto) 1976. He studied with Oskar Morawetz (composition) and Robert Rosevear (conducting). He was associate composer 1979-80 for the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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James White

James White, geographer (b at Ingersoll, Ont 3 Feb 1863; d at Ottawa 26 Feb 1928). He was educated at RMC and in 1884 he was employed as an assistant topographer in the GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, where he carried out numerous surveys in Ontario, Québec and the Rocky Mts.
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James William Carmichael

James William Carmichael, shipbuilder-owner, merchant, politician (b at New Glasgow, NS 16 Dec 1819; d there 1 May 1903). Carmichael, son of New Glasgow's founder, James Carmichael, became its most prominent merchant, shipbuilder and shipowner.
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James William Johnston

James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, judge (b in Jamaica 29 Aug 1792; d at Cheltenham, Eng 21 Nov 1873). The son of a prominent Loyalist, Johnston migrated to Nova Scotia, where he became a lawyer and married into Halifax's social establishment.
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James Williams Tyrrell

James Williams Tyrrell, explorer, mine promoter (b at Weston, Canada W 10 May 1863; d at Bartonville, Ont 16 Jan 1945), brother of Joseph Burr TYRRELL. James was educated in civil engineering.
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Jock Macdonald

With roots in landscape painting as practiced by both members of the Group of Seven and Emily Carr, by the end of his career Jock Macdonald had become one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Canada.
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James Wilson Morrice

James Wilson Morrice, painter (b at Montréal 10 Aug 1865; d at Tunis, Tunisia 23 Jan 1924). Morrice was one of the earliest Canadian modernist painters and the first Canadian to achieve widespread acceptance abroad.
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James Wilson Robertson

James Wilson Robertson, dairyman, educator (b at Dunlop, Scot 2 Nov 1857; d at Ottawa 20 Mar 1930). Robertson farmed in Ontario from 1875 to 1886, when he became professor of dairying at the Ontario Agricultural Coll.
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James Wolfe

James Wolfe, British army officer (born 2 January 1727 in Westerham, Kent, England; died 13 September 1759 near Quebec City). Wolfe fought in the War of the Austrian Succession, the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion and the Seven Years’ War. He is best known for his role in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Both Wolfe and his opponent, Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, died from wounds sustained during the battle. The British victory was a turning point in the Seven Years’ War, leading to the capture of Montreal in 1760 and the acquisition of Canada by Britain in 1763.
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James Yeo

James Yeo, shipbuilder and owner, entrepreneur (b at Kilkhampton, Eng 1789; d at Port Hill, PEI 25 Aug 1868). Beginning as an agent for a Devonshire merchant, he established his own transatlantic commercial enterprise between PEI and N Devon, Eng.
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James Young Murdoch

James Young Murdoch, lawyer, mining executive (b at Toronto 29 July 1890; d there 18 Apr 1962). A graduate of Osgoode Hall, Murdoch practised mining law in the Toronto firm Holden and Murdoch 1913-62; he was created King's Counsel in 1929.
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Jamie Kennedy

Henry James (Jamie) Kennedy, CM, chef, restaurateur, local food advocate (born 1960 in Don Mills, ON). Canada’s first “celebrity chef,” Jamie Kennedy has popularized eating and cooking with local, sustainable and seasonal ingredients.
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Jamie Lee Hamilton

Jamie Lee Hamilton, community activist, politician (born 20 September 1955 in Vancouver, BC; died 23 December 2019 in Vancouver, BC). Hamilton spent much of her career working as an advocate for sex workers, the transgender community, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. She holds the distinction of being the first transgender person in Canada to run for political office. (See also Queer Culture.)
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Jamie Parker

Jamie (James Edward Kimura) Parker. Pianist, teacher, b Burnaby, BC, 31 May 1963; performance certificate (Vancouver Academy) 1981, B MUS (British Columbia) 1985, M MUS (Juilliard) 1987, DMA (Juilliard).
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Jamie Portman

Jamie (James Bickle) Portman. Journalist, critic, b North Battleford, Sask, 6 Oct 1935; BA (St John's, Manitoba) 1957. During his youth he studied piano and organ. He was a reporter 1954-6 for the Winnipeg Free Press and moved to the Calgary Herald in 1957.
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