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Robert Sunter
Robert (Henry Anthony) Sunter. Administrator, critic, b Liverpool, 20 Nov 1931, naturalized Canadian 1975. As a child he studied piano and sang in the choir of St Francis Xavier's College.
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Robert Sutherland
Robert Sutherland, lawyer, benefactor (born c. 1830 in Jamaica; died 2 June 1878 in Toronto, ON). Sutherland was the first university student and graduate of colour in Canada, as well as its first Black lawyer.
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Robert Tait McKenzie
Robert Tait McKenzie, educator, sculptor, orthopedic surgeon, author (b at Almonte, Canada W 26 May 1867; d at Philadelphia, Pa 28 Apr 1938). He was a student at McGill 1885-92, and became well known for rehabilitative methods he developed as a medical officer during WWI.
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Robert Talbot
Talbot, (Jean) Robert. Violinist, violist, educator, administrator, composer, b Montmagny, near Quebec City, 2 Dec 1893, d Quebec City 24 Aug 1954; diplôme supérieur (AMQ) 1917, lauréat (AMQ) 1918, D MUS and honorary D MUS (Laval) 1933.
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Robert Taschereau
Robert Taschereau, CC, chief justice of Canada 1963–67, Supreme Court of Canada justice 1940–63, lawyer, politician (born 10 September 1896 in Quebec City, QC; died 26 July 1970 in Montreal, QC). The grandson of Supreme Court justice Jean-Thomas Taschereau and the son of Quebec premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Robert Taschereau served on the Supreme Court of Canada for 27 years. He was chief justice of Canada for four years. Taschereau co-headed the Kellock-Taschereau Commission that uncovered and prosecuted Soviet spies in the wake of the Igor Gouzenko affair. He also twice served as administrator of the Government of Canada (interim governor general) after the illness and death of Georges Vanier.
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Robert Terrill Rundle
Robert Terrill Rundle, Methodist missionary and circuit clergyman (b at Mylor, Eng, 11 June 1811; d at Garstang, Eng, 4 Feb 1896). Sent as a Methodist missionary to the Saskatchewan country in 1840, he arrived at Fort Edmonton on 17 Oct 1840.
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Robert Thorburn
Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician, premier of Newfoundland 1885-89 (b at Juniper Banks, Scot 28 Mar 1836; d at St John's 12 Apr 1906). Thorburn went to Newfoundland in 1852.
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Robert Thorpe
Robert Thorpe, judge and political theorist (b at Dublin, Ire c 1764; d in London, Eng 11 May 1836). Appointed puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench, Thorpe arrived in Upper Canada in 1805.
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Robert Turner
Robert Turner (Comrie). Composer, radio producer, teacher, b Montreal 6 Jun 1920, died Winnipeg 26 Jan 2012; B MUS (McGill) 1943, M MUS (Peabody College) 1950, D MUS (McGill) 1953.
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Robert Verebes
Robert Verebes, violist, teacher (born 15 November 1934 in Budapest, Hungary; died 12 April 2016 in Montréal, QC). Robert Verebes’s performances exhibited sophisticated musicianship and impassioned playing. After earning his artist diploma at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Verebes came to Canada and became a prominent member of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra for 40 years. He was also an acclaimed soloist and a founding member of the New Chamber Music Ensemble of Ottawa, the Musica Camerata Montréal and the Classical Quartet of Montréal. He taught chamber music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal for 23 years and premiered several works commissioned for him, including Jean Coulthard’s Symphonic Ode and Lothar Klein’s Concerto Sacro.
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Robert Verrall
Robert Verrall, producer, director, animator, administrator (born at Toronto 13 Jan 1928). Robert Verrall is a veteran National Film Board of Canada (NFB) producer who was one of the first to join the NFB as an animator in 1945 under Norman McLaren.
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Robert Wakeham Pilot
Robert Wakeham Pilot, painter (b at St John's 9 Oct 1898; d at Montréal 17 Dec 1967), stepson of painter Maurice CULLEN. Pilot's best pictures are moody views of the St Lawrence River, such as Quebec from Levis, and seascapes of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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Robert Watkin-Mills
Robert Watkin-Mills. Bass-baritone, teacher, b Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, 4 Mar 1849, d Toronto 10 Dec 1930.
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Robert Weaver
Robert Weaver, literary editor, anthologist, broadcaster (b at Niagara Falls, Ont 6 Jan 1921; d at Toronto 26 Jan 2008). Robert Weaver grew up in Niagara Falls and Toronto, and before graduating from the University of Toronto worked briefly for a bank and in the RCAF and the army.
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Robert Weisz
Robert Weisz. Pianist, teacher, b Arad, Rumania, 25 Jun 1925, of Hungarian parents, naturalized Swiss 1963 and Canadian 1975; prix de virtuosité (Geneva Cons) 1949.
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