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    John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen)

    John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen), Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Chief, Indian Department interpreter, school master (born 16 December 1770 at Dunfermline, Scotland; died c.1831). John Norton was the son of a Cherokee father and Scottish mother (surname Anderson). Norton later claimed to be the son of a Cherokee war chief, but his father had been taken as a boy by British soldiers after they had destroyed the Cherokee village of Kuwoki (also Keowee) in South Carolina.

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    John O'Donnell

    John (Clark) O'Donnell. Educator, choir conductor, pianist, b Portland, Me, 8 Jun 1935, naturalized Canadian 1975; BA (St Francis Xavier) 1958, M ED (Gonzaga U, Spokane, Wash) 1962, M MUS (King's College, London) 1970.

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    John Oliver

    John Oliver, politician, premier of BC 1918-27 (b at Hartington, Eng 31 July 1856; d at Victoria 17 Aug 1927). Coming to Ontario with his family in 1870, he moved to BC in 1877 and took up a farm in Delta.

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    John Oliver

    (Edward) John (Clavering) Oliver. Composer, guitarist, conductor, b Vancouver 21 Sep 1959; B MUS (British Columbia) 1982, M MUS (McGill) 1984, DMA (McGill) 1992.

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    John Ostell

    Ostell's architectural training remains unclear, but soon after he arrived in Montréal in 1834 he received his "brevet de cléricature," having apprenticed to André Trudeau, arpenteur, in order to learn land surveying in Québec (which was different from the British practice).

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    John Oswald

    John (Anthony) Oswald. Composer, saxophonist, record producer, dancer, writer, b Kitchener, Ont, 30 May 1953. His teachers included R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University and David Rosenboom, Casey Sokol, Richard Teitelbaum, and James Tenney at York University.

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    John Pangnark

    John Pangnark, sculptor (b at Windy Lk, NWT 1920; d at Rankin Inlet, NWT 1980). An inland Kivallirmiut (Caribou) Inuit, Pangnark was relocated in the late 1950s to Eskimo Point (now Arviat), where he spent his later years carving.

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    John Paris Bickell

    John Paris Bickell, mining executive (b at Molesworth, Ont 26 Sept 1884; d at New York City, NY 22 Aug 1951). A Toronto broker, Bickell invested in a Porcupine gold property that formed the basis of McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd, of which he was president and later chairman.

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    John Parker Boyd

    John Parker Boyd, American soldier and mercenary (b at Newburyport, Mass 21 Dec 1764; d at Boston, Mass 4 Oct 1830).

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    John Parmenter Robarts

    John Parmenter Robarts, politician, premier of Ontario 1961-71 (b at Banff, Alta 11 Jan 1917; d at Toronto 18 Oct 1982). He moved to London, Ont, in 1931 and graduated from U of Western Ontario in 1939. After naval service in

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    John Parr

    John Parr, soldier, colonial administrator (born 20 December 1725 in Dublin, Ireland; died 25 November 1791 in Halifax, Nova Scotia).

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    John Pass

    John Pass, poet, teacher (born at Sheffield, England, 1947). Born in the United Kingdom, John Pass has lived in Canada since 1953.

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    John Patrick Gallagher

    John Patrick Gallagher, "Jack," geologist, industrialist (b at Winnipeg 16 July 1916; d at Calgary 16 Dec 1998).

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    John Patrick Savage

    In the 1972 and 1979 federal elections Savage ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals. He was elected to the Dartmouth School Board in 1978 and became its chairman in 1984. A self-styled social activist, he strongly advocated social issues and became a popular board member.

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    John Patrick Tully

    John Patrick Tully, oceanographer (b at Brandon, Man 29 Nov 1906; d at Nanaimo, BC 19 May 1987).

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