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    John Whitney Pickersgill

    John Whitney Pickersgill, public servant, politician, historian (b at Wyecombe, Ont 23 June 1905; d at Ottawa 14 Nov 1997). "Clear it with Jack" was the Ottawa watchword through the King and St. Laurent eras, a testimony to Pickersgill's extraordinary influence.

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    John William Beatty

    Beatty was a member of the Arts and Letters Club (seeARTISTS' ORGANIZATIONS), where Toronto artists and patrons met to discuss aesthetic and cultural concerns.

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    John William Crow

    John William Crow, economist and governor of the Band of Canada (b at London, Eng 22 Jan 1937). 

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    John William Keating

    John William Keating, land surveyor (born 1802 in England; died 13 August 1868 in Canada). John Keating was a land surveyor who played a key role in the surrender of Indigenous lands in Upper Canada/Canada West.

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    John William Ritchie

    John William Ritchie, lawyer, judge, politician, senator 1867–70 (born 26 March 1809 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia; died 13 December 1890 in Halifax, Nova Scotia).

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    John William Tranter Spinks

    John William Tranter Spinks, CC, chemist, educator (born 1 January 1908 in Norfolk, England; died 27 March 1997 in Saskatoon, SK). He moved to Canada in 1930 to join the staff of the University of Saskatchewan, where he earned an international reputation as a teacher and researcher.

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    John Wilmer Long

    John Wilmer Long, "Jack," architect, community activist (b at Johnstown, Pennsylvania 12 Dec 1925; d at Vancouver 8 Feb 2001), was educated at Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.Arch in 1950.

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    John Wilson Bengough

    Bengough is also of secondary interest as a 19th-century social radical, to whom communalism, vegetarianism, feminism, antivivisectionism and prohibition combined in one vast utopian ideal.

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    John Wilson McConnell

    John Wilson McConnell, publisher, businessman (b in Muskoka, Ont 1 July 1877; d at Montréal 6 Nov 1963). McConnell was the owner of the Montreal Star, the largest English-language newspaper in Québec, and as such was a force in the land. He went into business in Toronto as a young man.

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    John Wycliffe Lowes Forster

    John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait and landscape painter, writer (b at Norval, Canada W 31 Dec 1850; d at Toronto 24 Apr 1938). In 1869 he began studying portraiture in Toronto. He travelled to England and Europe in 1875 and 1879 and studied painting in Paris.

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    John Wyre

    John (Harvey) Wyre. Percussionist, composer, teacher, b Philadelphia 17 May 1941, naturalized Canadian 1972; B MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1963. He studied percussion 1956-9 with Fred Hinger of the Philadelphia Orchestra and 1959-64 with William Street at the ESM, Rochester, NY.

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    John Young

    John Young, businessman, journalist, politician (b at Falkirk, Scot 1 Sept 1773; d at Halifax 6 Oct 1837). Young had a brilliant career at Glasgow U and wished to study medicine. His father refused further support so he began a career in business.

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    Johnny Bob Smallboy

    Johnny Bob Smallboy (also Robert), or Apitchitchiw, community leader (b on Peigan Reserve, SW of Ft Macleod, Alta 7 Nov 1898, d at Smallboy Camp near Nordegg, Alta, 8 July 1984).

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    Johnny Burke

    Johnny Burke, poet, playwright, songwriter (b at St John's 1851; d there Aug 1930). While working at a variety of jobs, Burke moonlighted as a poet, writing hundreds of broadsheet ballads about events in St John's, printing them on his own press and selling them for 2 to 5 cents a copy.

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    Johnny Burt

    Johnny (John Edward) Burt. Arranger, composer, pianist, b London 31 Mar 1914, d Toronto 21 Sep 1980. Taken to Toronto as an infant, he studied piano as a child and composition, briefly, later with John Weinzweig.

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