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    Lea Foli

    Lea Foli. Violinist, teacher, b Kelowna, BC, 8 Sep 1933. He began violin lessons at five with William Gratch, continuing with Gregori Garbovitsky, Clifford Evens, Esther Glazer, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian.

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    Léa Pool

    Léa Pool, CM, filmmaker, director, documentarian, screenwriter, producer (born 8 September 1950 in Soglio, Switzerland). Through her introspective films, Pool offers an approach to female characters that is stripped of all stereotypes. Exploring themes of love, exile and uprootedness, she attempts to draw viewers into a reflection on their own condition, through their own individuality. Often compared with the films of Marguerite Duras, Pool’s films focus on intimate emotions and attract a multigenerational audience. The recipient of many awards in Canada and abroad, Léa Pool is the first female director to win Best Film at the Gala du cinéma québécois.

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    Léa Roback

    Léa Roback, CQ, bookseller, trade union activist, feminist and pacifist (born 3 November 1903 in Montreal, Quebec; died 28 August 2000 in Montréal). Léa Roback, a woman of Jewish-Polish descent, was an ardent, vocal and tireless activist who fought social inequality in all its forms.

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    Leah Pinsent

    She appeared in Eric Till's television drama Glory Enough for All (1988) and continued her studies at the University of Toronto, the Williamstown Theatre in Williamstown, Mass., and the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City.

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    Leamington Choral Society

    Leamington Choral Society. Choir of 50-65 voices founded in 1960 in Leamington, near Windsor, Ont, by Helen (Marguerite) Law. At first composed of graduates from the Mennonite High School, it presented an abridged version of Hansel and Gretel for its debut in 1961.

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    Learned Societies

    Learned Societies, a term applied in Canada to the large group of scholarly organizations that hold conferences annually from late May to mid-June at a different university location each year.

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    Lee Aaron

    Lee (b Karen) Aaron (b Greening). Singer-songwriter, b Belleville, Ont, 21 Jul 1962. Aaron participated in musical theatre from age five to 17, and was a member of her high school's concert and jazz bands.

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    Lee Cremo

    Lee (Harvey) Cremo, fiddler, composer (born on 30 December 1938 in Barra Head (now Potlotek Mi’kmaw Nation) NS; died 10 October 1999 in Eskasoni, NS). Lee Cremo was a renowned Mi’kmaw fiddler who was recognized for his fiddling prowess. Throughout his career, he competed in and won over 80 fiddling competitions, including being named Best Bow Arm in the World at the Grand Master Fiddling Championships in Nashville, Tennessee.

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    Lee Gagnon

    Lee Gagnon. Tenor and alto saxophonist, flutist, arranger, composer, b Amqui, on the Gaspé Peninsula, south of Matane, Que, of US parents, 2 Sep 1934. His teachers at the CMM were Joseph Moretti (clarinet, 1952-6), Arthur Romano, 1954-60), and Rafael Masella (clarinet, 1956-9).

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    Lee Hepner

    Lee (Alfred) Hepner. Conductor, teacher, b Edmonton 24 Nov 1920, d Vancouver 24 Jul 1986; ARCT 1950, B MUS (Toronto) 1951, BA (Washington) 1957, MA (Columbia) 1961, honorary FRHCM 1970, PH D (New York) 1972.

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    Lee Maracle

    Lee Maracle, OC, author and critic (born 2 July 1950 in Vancouver, BC; died 11 November 2021 in Surrey, BC). Lee Maracle was a prolific First Nations writer and expert on First Nations culture and history, and an influential Indigenous voice in Canadian postcolonial criticism. 

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    Germain Lefebvre

    Germain Lefebvre (1889-1946). Lyric bass, choirmaster, teacher, b St-Henri (Montreal) 3 Jun 1889, d Montreal 12 May 1946. He studied in Montreal under Alexis Contant, Salvator Issaurel, Alphonse Lavallée-Smith, Rodolphe Mathieu, and Joseph Saucier.

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    Leif Eriksson

    Leif Eriksson (Old Norse Leifr Eiríksson, a.k.a. Leifr hinn heppni, Leif the Lucky), explorer, chieftain (born in the 970s CE in Iceland; died between 1018 and 1025 in Greenland). Leif Eriksson was the first European to explore the east coast of North America, including areas that are now part of Arctic and Atlantic Canada. Upon the death of his father, Erik the Red, Leif became paramount chieftain of the Norse colony in Greenland. The two main sources on him are The Saga of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Erik the Red. There are also references to him in The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and The Saga of St. Olaf.

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    Lela Brooks

    Lela Alene Brooks, speed skater (born 7 February 1908 in Toronto, ON; died 11 September 1990 in Owen Sound, ON). Brooks dominated women’s speed skating in the 1920s and 1930s, winning titles in all distances — from the 220-yard (200m) to the one-mile (1,600m) event. 

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    Leland Richardson

    (John) Leland Richardson. Businessman, carillonneur, b Toronto 4 Feb 1906, d Montreal 13 Sep 1969. A boyhood interest in bells led to studies 1927-9 at the Beiaardschool te Mechelen (Royal Flemish Carillon School) in Belgium with Jef Denyn.

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