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Kessler, Minuetta

Minuetta Kessler (born Schumiatcher). Composer, pianist, educator, born Gomel, Russia, 5 Sep 1914, naturalized Canadian 19??, naturalized US ca 1940, died Belmont, Mass 30 Nov 2002. She was brought to Canada as a child and first performed her compositions in public at five.
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Kevin Austin

Kevin Austin. Composer, teacher, b London 10 Jul 1948, naturalized Canadian 1984; B MUS composition (McGill) 1970, MMA composition (McGill) 1973. He studied composition and electroacoustics at McGill University with István Anhalt, Paul Pedersen, Alcides Lanza, and Bengt Hambraeus.
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Kevin Connolly

Kevin Connolly, poet, columnist, editor (Born at Biloxi, Mississippi, USA 20 March 1962). Raised in Maple, Ontario and primarily associated with Toronto, Kevin Connolly is a major contributor to the resurgence of surrealism in Canadian POETRY since the 1990s.
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Kevin Fitz-Gerald

Kevin Fitz-Gerald. Pianist, teacher, b Kelowna, BC, 16 Sep 1960; Artist's Diploma (RCM) 1989.
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Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin, curler (born at Killam, Alta, 31 Jul 1966). Kevin Martin took up curling early in life, playing in Edmonton, Alta, and won the Canadian Junior Championship in 1985 at the age of 19.
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Kevin McMillan

Kevin (John) McMillan. Baritone, teacher, b Listowel, north of Stratford, Ont, 17 Apr 1958; B MUS (Western) 1983, M MUS (Juilliard) 1986, honorary L MUS (Conservatory Canada) 2002.
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Kevin Parent

Kevin Parent, singer, songwriter (b at Nouvelle, Qué, 12 Dec 1972). Hailing from the Gaspé region, Parent is a raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose rootsy, folk-based songs possess a down-home edge - thanks to his twangy "gaspésien" accent.
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Kevin Spraggett

Kevin Spraggett, Canadian chess grandmaster (b at Montreal 10 Nov 1954). His chess career gained momentum with a second-place showing at the 1973 Canadian Open.
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Kevin Sullivan

Kevin Sullivan, producer, writer, director (born at Toronto 28 May 1955). Kevin Sullivan is best known for producing, writing and directing the 1985 CBC TV adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, the highest-rated television drama in Canadian history. The miniseries won nine Gemini Awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award. Sullivan produced three sequels, as well as the highly successful CBC TV series Road to Avonlea (1990–96), which won a Gemini and an Emmy Award, and Wind at My Back (1996–2001).
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Kevin Tierney

Kevin Tierney, film producer, writer (born 27 August 1950 in Montreal, QC; died 12 May 2018 in Montreal).
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Kia Nurse

Kia Augustine Nurse, basketball player (born 22 February 1996 in Hamilton, ON). Kia Nurse is a basketball player with the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Nurse won back-to-back NCAA titles with the University of Connecticut Huskies in 2015 and 2016. She also guided Team Canada to gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2015 FIBA Americas Women’s Championships, which qualified Canada for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. While playing with the New York Liberty in 2019, Nurse set the WNBA record for most points in a single season by a Canadian with 465.
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Kiawak Ashoona

Kiawak Ashoona (also known as Kiugak), OC, RCA, sculptor (born 16 September 1933 in Tariugajak, NU; died 2014). Son of renowned Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Kiawak Ashoona recounted that his own prodigious artistic career began in his childhood, while the family was still living at a camp on the land. Ashoona’s recognitions include a Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and an National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now Indspire Award). He was an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Kiefer Sutherland

In the 1980s and 1990s, Sutherland ran with the young Hollywood "brat pack," enjoying roles in ensemble pictures like Young Guns (1988) and The Three Musketeers (1993).
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Kim Campbell

Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell, PC, CC, QC, OBC, lawyer, professor, politician, Canada’s prime minister 25 June 1993 to 3 November 1993, diplomat, global advocate for education, democracy and women’s issues (born 10 March 1947 in Port Alberni, BC). Kim Campbell became Canada's first — and still only — female prime minister when she assumed the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party following Brian Mulroney's resignation. She was also Canada’s first female justice minister and attorney general; Canada’s first female minister of national defence and of veterans affairs; the first woman to represent a member country at a NATO meeting; and the first prime minister from British Columbia. She has received the Order of British Columbia and numerous honorary degrees and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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Kim Cattrall

After Universal Studios bought out Preminger's contract a year later, Cattrall appeared in numerous television programs including Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch, and the CBC drama Crossbar (1979) with Brent CARVER.
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