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    Rosita del Vecchio

    Rosita (Rosa) del Vecchio. Mezzo-soprano, actress, b Montreal 15 Dec 1846, d there 11 Feb 1881. A descendant of an Italian family which settled in Quebec in the late 18th century, she studied at the Sacré-Coeur Convent in Sault-au-Récollet, where she was a friend of Emma Albani.

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    Ross Huntington McMaster

    Ross Huntington McMaster, industrialist (b at Montréal 11 Oct 1880; d there 3 Jan 1962). For over 50 years, McMaster was a senior executive of the Steel Company of Canada (STELCO). He began his career with the Sherwin-Williams Paint Co.

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    Ross Munro

    Ross Munro, OBE, OC, journalist (born 6 September 1913 in Ottawa, ON; died 21 June 1990 in Toronto, ON). Munro was one of Canada’s foremost Second World War correspondents. He also reported on the Nuremburg trials and the Korean War. Munro later became editor of the Vancouver Province and publisher of the Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Winnipeg Tribune and the Canadian Magazine. He became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 and Officer of the Order of Canada in 1975.

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    Ross Pratt

    Ross (Drury) Pratt. Pianist, teacher, b Winnipeg 20 Apr 1916; honorary ARAM ca 1950, honorary FRAM 1959. He studied as a child with Esther Dyson and in his teens with Leonard Heaton, winning the Aikins Memorial Trophy at the 1931 Manitoba Music Competition Festival (Winnipeg Music Competition).

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    Ross Rebagliati

    Ross Rebagliati, snowboarder, businessman (born 14 July 1971 in Vancouver, BC). Rebagliati won the first ever Olympic gold medal in snowboarding at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano. However, soon after his victory, the International Olympic Committee announced that he had tested positive for marijuana and would be stripped of his medal. Within a week, the decision had been overturned by the Court of Arbitration in Sport and his medal reinstated. In 2013, Rebagliati founded Ross’ Gold, a medical marijuana business. The company promotes the medical and recreational use of marijuana for athletes. 

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    Ross Rebagliati (Interview)

    Canadian snowboarder Ross REBAGLIATI hit the big time at the 1998 Winter OLYMPICS in Nagano, where he won gold and then had his medal taken away after testing positive for marijuana.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 16, 2009

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    Rough Trade

    Rough Trade was a trailblazing, politically charged, punk-inspired New Wave rock band. It was formed in Toronto in 1975 by multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples and Manchester-born, Scarborough-raised vocalist Carole Pope. Notorious for the openly sexual nature of their songs and the burlesque theatricality of their live performances — which often included bondage and sexual satire — the band was one of the first mainstream musical acts to include explicitly gay and lesbian references. They enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1980s and won four Juno Awards before disbanding in 1986. They are perhaps best known for the risqué, controversial hit single “High School Confidential,” which was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in September 2020. The band was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2023.

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    Rounthwaite, Dick & Hadley Architects & Engineers

    RDH's design for the First Leaside Financial in Uxbridge, Ont, received a 2008 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence (courtesy Rounthwaite Dick and Hadley Architects).RDH's Town of Newmarket Operations Centre received a 2009 Canadian Architect National Award of Excellence (courtesy Rounthwaite Dick and Hadley Architects).The 2009 renovation for the Bloor/Gladstone branch of the Toronto Public Library received a 2010 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award and a 2010 Ontario Library Association Award for Excellence (courtesy Rounthwaite Dick...

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    Rowena Hume

    Rowena Grace Douglas Hume, doctor, birth control advocate (born 14 January 1877 in Galt, ON; died 2 October 1966 in Toronto, ON). Rowena Hume was a pioneer in women’s medicine, earning her medical degree at a time when many women were forced to study medicine separately from men. As part of her long career in medicine, Hume was a co-founder of Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and served as the institution’s first President and first Chief of Obstetrics. (See also Childbirth in Canada.) In 1932, she helped co-found Canada’s first birth control clinic in Hamilton, at a time when advertising or selling birth control was illegal. (See also History of Birth Control in Canada.) This article was created in collaboration with Museum of Toronto.

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    Rowland Bourke

    Rowland Richard Louis Joseph Bourke, VC, DSO, farmer, naval officer (born 28 November 1885 in London, England; died 29 August 1958 in Esquimalt, BC). During the First World War, Bourke joined the British navy, serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. In May 1918, Bourke commanded a motor launch during a naval attack to block the entrance to the Belgian port of Ostend. He received the Victoria Cross for rescuing several sailors under fire. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He retired from the navy in 1950.

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    Rowland Cardwell Frazee

    Rowland Cardwell Frazee, banker (born 12 May 1921 in Halifax, Nova Scotia; died 29 July 2007 in New Brunswick). From 1979 to 1986, he was chief executive officer with the ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, the largest chartered bank in the country.

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    Rowland Pack

    Rowland (Sterling) Pack. Cellist, organist, choir conductor, b London, Ont, 15 Jul 1927, d Toronto 3 Jan 1964. As a child he studied piano with his aunt, Ruby Pack, organ with Thomas C. Chattoe, and cello with Goldwin Quantz. At 15 he became organist-choirmaster of Robinson United Church, London.

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    Roxolana Roslak

    Roxolana (Audry) Roslak. Soprano, b Chortkiv, Ukraine, 11 Feb 1940, naturalized Canadian 1953; Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1964. She studied voice as a child in Edmonton with Mrs. J.B. Carmichael and later at the University of Toronto and the RCMT with Howell Glynne, Irene Jessner, and Ernesto Vinci.

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    Roy Akira Miki

    Roy Akira Miki, academic, poet, critic, editor, activist (born 10 October 1942 in Winnipeg, MB).

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    Roy Arden

    Employing such diverse media as photography, video, sculpture, and collage, Roy Arden's work has assiduously tracked the radical transformation of Vancouver over the past thirty years.

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