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    John Matthews

    John Matthews, army officer, farmer, politician (b probably in Eng c 1763; d probably in Eng 20 Aug 1832).

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    John McCaul

    John McCaul. Educator, theologian, impresario, b Dublin 7 Mar 1807, d Toronto 16 Apr 1886; BA (Dublin) 1824, MA (Dublin) 1828, LL D (Dublin) 1835. A specialist in classical languages, McCaul moved to Toronto in 1839 as principal of Upper Canada College.

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    John McDermott

    John (Charles) McDermott. Tenor, popular singer, b Glasgow, Scotland, 25 March 1955. John McDermott emigrated from Glasgow to Canada with his family in 1965.

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    John McIntosh

    John McIntosh, farmer, apple breeder (born in the Mohawk River valley, NY 1777; died at Dundela, Canada West 1845).

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    John McIntosh

    John Stuart McIntosh, organist, teacher (born 14 June 1932 in Simcoe, Ontario; died 13 April 2016). ARCT 1954, B MUS (Toronto) 1956, M MUS (ESM) 1961, AAGO (Associate American Guild of Organists) 1967, DMA (ESM) 1973.

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    John McIntyre

    John McIntyre, pianist, teacher (born 23 June 1938 in Sarnia, ON). John McIntyre is an award-winning pianist and professor of piano. He has performed with such distinguished conductors as Walter Susskind and Sir Ernest MacMillan. McIntyre has taught at the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory since 1975.

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    John McKay

    John (Robert) McKay. Pianist, teacher, b Montreal 11 Nov 1938, naturalized US 1985; B MUS (McGill) 1961, DMA (ESM, Rochester) 1978.

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    John McLean

    John McLean, fur trader, explorer (b at Dervaig, Scot 24 July 1798; d at Victoria 8 Mar 1890). In charge of Hudson's Bay Co trade at Fort Chimo [Qué] 1837-43, he searched relentlessly for an overland route to Fort Smith [North West River], on Hamilton Inlet.

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    John McLoughlin

    Jean-Baptiste “John” McLoughlin, Hudson’s Bay Company chief factor, superintendent of the Columbia District, fur trader, physician, merchant (born 19 October 1784 near Rivière-du-Loup, QC; died 3 September 1857 in Oregon City, Oregon). John McLoughlin has long been known as "the Father of Oregon."

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    John McTaggart

    McTaggart, John. Composer, teacher, organist, conductor, b Liverpool, of Scottish parents, ca 1873, d Selkirk, Man, 15 Jul 1953; ARCM, LRAM, LTCL. His teachers included Sir Charles Stanford (composition) and Alberto Visetti (voice) in London.

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    John Meares

    John Meares, sea captain, entrepreneur, fur trader (born 1756; died 1809). He entered the Royal Navy in 1771 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1778. After leaving the navy in 1783, Meares formed a company that traded furs on the Northwest Coast.

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    John Medley

    John Medley, bishop (b at Chelsea, Eng 19 Dec 1804; d at Fredericton 9 Sept 1892). As the first Anglican bishop of Fredericton, Medley spent 47 years building up the church physically and spiritually. Educated at Wadham College,

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    John Medley

    John Medley. Clergyman, choirmaster, composer, b London 19 Dec 1804, d Fredericton 9 Sep 1892. Medley, the Oxford-educated first Anglican bishop (1845) of Fredericton, had studied the writings of the 19th-century musical theorist Adolf Bernhard Marx.

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    John Meisel

    John Meisel, CC, educator, public servant (born 23 October 1923 in Vienna, Austria; died 30 March 2025 in Kingston, ON). John Meisel was known to academics as a leading expert on Canadian politics. He was perhaps best known to the public as the chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) from 1979 to 1983. He was also a professor of political science at Queen's University for five decades. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999.

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    John Melnyk

    John Melnyk, teacher, pianist, composer (born 17 June 1915 in Winnipeg, MB; died 11 April 2009 in Winnipeg). Pianist John Melnyk performed regularly in Winnipeg in the 1930s and toured as an accompanist to Frederick Grinke, Lorne Munroe and John Waterhouse. Melnyk began teaching privately in 1938. His pupils included Gilbert and Sheila Munroe, Arnold Spohr and Kenneth Winters. Melnyk also composed for piano and was posthumously accepted as an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 2021. His son, John S.N. Melnyk, was also a concert pianist and an arts administrator.

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