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    John Richard Reppen

    John Richard Reppen, "Jack," artist, painter (b at Toronto 17 July 1933; d there 2 June 1964). Studying design at the Ontario Coll of Art in the evening, he was a free-lance cartoonist for the Toronto Star 1952-64 and art director for the Prudential Insurance Co, Toronto, 1952-62.

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    John Richardson

    John Richardson, soldier, writer (b at Queenston, Upper Canada 4 Oct 1796; d at New York 12 May 1852). Richardson's most enduring work, WACOUSTA; OR, THE PROPHECY (1832) is set at the time of PONTIAC's uprising and relates a complex story of betrayal, disguise and slaughter.

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    John Robert Cartwright

    John Robert Cartwright, CC, Supreme Court of Canada justice 1949–67, chief justice of Canada 1967–70, lawyer, soldier (born 23 March 1895 in Toronto, ON; died 24 November 1979 in Ottawa, ON). John Robert Cartwright was a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1949 to 1967, and chief justice of Canada from 1967 to 1970. Known for his conservative view of the law, Cartwright played influential roles in stopping the deportation of Japanese Canadians, prosecuting Soviet spies in the wake of the Igor Gouzenko affair, and decriminalizing homosexuality. Prior to his legal career, Cartwright served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He rose from private to captain and earned the Military Cross in 1917. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1970.

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    John Robert Colombo

    At their best, especially Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974) and Colombo's Canadian References (1976) and in Songs of the Indians (2 vols, 1983), Colombo's compilations are examples of a kind of private-sector scholarship that is as admirable as it is rare.

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    John Robert Nicholson

    John Robert Nicholson, lawyer, public servant, politician (b at Newcastle, NB 1 Dec 1901; d at Vancouver 8 Oct 1983). In 1941 Nicholson was called to Ottawa to the Department of Munitions and Supply by C.D. HOWE.

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    John Osborn, VC

    John Robert Osborn, VC, soldier, labourer (born 2 January 1899 in Foulden, Norfolk, England; died 19 December 1941 in Hong Kong). During the Second World War, Osborn’s heroic act was the first to earn a Canadian the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for bravery among troops of the British Empire.

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    John Robert Roy Drainie

    John Robert Roy Drainie, actor (b at Vancouver 1 Apr 1916; d at Toronto 30 Oct 1966). An actor of extraordinary versatility, he was the most renowned and best loved of the first truly professional community of performing artists in English Canada.

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    John Robson

    John Robson, journalist, politician, premier of BC 1889-92 (b at Perth, UC 14 or 15 Mar 1824; d at London, Eng 29 June 1892). Coming to BC in 1859, Robson established the New Westminster British Columbian in 1861. In 1869 he

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    John Rolph

    John Rolph, barrister, physician, politician, educator (b at Thornbury, Eng 4 Mar 1793; d at Mitchell, Ont 19 Oct 1870). Educated in England, he practised law and medicine in Upper Canada from 1821, operating medical schools in 1824-25 in St Thomas and from 1832 in York [Toronto].

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    John Ronan

    John (Edward) Ronan. Administrator, teacher, choirmaster, composer, b Colgan, near Orangeville, Ont, 28 Oct 1894, d Toronto 15 Oct 1962; MCG, LCSC (Rome, Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music) 1936.

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    John Ross Robertson

    John Ross Robertson, newspaper publisher, philanthropist (b at Toronto 28 Dec 1841; d there 31 May 1918). He was the son of a Scottish-born merchant. After attending Toronto's Upper Canada College, where he published a student

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    John Roth (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 2, 1999. Partner content is not updated. John Roth was not at all happy. For two months last winter, a Dallas-based advertising agency had been working on a hip new TV commercial for Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian telecommunications giant of which Roth, 56, is chief executive officer.

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    John Rowand

    John Rowand, Hudson’s Bay Company chief factor, fur trader (born circa 1787 in Montreal; died 30 May 1854 in Fort Pitt). John Rowand was a fur trader with the North West Company (NWC) and the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). He was appointed HBC chief factor of Fort Edmonton in 1826.

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    John Rudolphus Booth

    John Rudolphus Booth, lumber manufacturer, railway builder (b near Waterloo, Lower Canada 5 Apr 1827; d at Ottawa, Ont 8 Dec 1925). 

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    John Sackville Labatt

    John Sackville Labatt, brewer (b at London, Ont 10 Mar 1880; d at Port Stanley, Ont 8 July 1952). The eldest son of John LABATT, he was educated at Trinity College School and McGill. Succeeding his father, he was president of JOHN LABATT LTD 1915-50.

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