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    Ryder Hesjedal

    ​Ryder Hesjedal, cyclist (born 9 December 1980 in Victoria, BC). Ryder Hesjedal is a retired Canadian professional cyclist, and the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour race with his victory at the 2012 Giro d’Italia. He competed in international races between 1998 and 2016, first in mountain biking and then in road racing, and represented Canada at three Olympic Summer Games.

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    S. Drummond Wolff

    S. (Stanley) Drummond Wolff. Organist, choirmaster, teacher, composer, b London, England, 4 Feb 1916, d San Diego, California, 9 Apr 2004; B MUS, ARCM (London) 1937, FRCO (London) 1944, D MUS (Toronto) 1948.

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    S. Roy Maley

    S. (Stephen) Roy Maley. Critic, b Brockville, Ont, 10 Mar 1897, d Winnipeg, 17 Oct 1987. He studied piano with his mother, the organist at the Methodist Church in Brockville, then voice with Cyril J. Rickwood, H.

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    Saadia Muzaffar

    Saadia Muzaffar, tech entrepreneur, activist, author (born 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan). Muzaffar has promoted the advancement of women, especially Indigenous, immigrant, refugee and the 2SLGBTQ+ community, in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)-related technology fields. (See also Immigration to Canada; 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in Canada.) Muzaffar has advocated for more responsibility in technical innovation, notably with their criticism of Waterfront Toronto in its partnership with Sidewalk Labs’ proposal to create a tech-driven neighbourhood in Toronto’s Port Lands. This article was created in collaboration with Museum of Toronto.

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    Sadlermiut Inuit

    Sadlermiut were the inhabitants of three islands in Hudson Bay: Southampton (Salliq), Coats and Walrus. The original Sadlermiut were annihilated by disease in 1902-03.

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    Saga

    Saga. Rock band. It was formed in the mid-1970s in Toronto as Pockets and took the name Saga for its first LP, released under its own Maze label (ML-8001) in 1978.

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    Saidye Rosner Bronfman

    Saidye Rosner Bronfman, OBE, community leader, philanthropist (born 9 December 1896 in Plum Coulee, MB; died 6 July 1995 in Montreal, QC). Saidye Bronfman was a leader in the Jewish community who generously supported the arts and various charities. She received the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the Second World War. Saidye and her husband, Samuel Bronfman, drew from their fortune in the liquor business to create a foundation that continues to fund community groups today.

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    Saint André

    Saint André (né Alfred Bessette), faith healer, religious counsellor (born 9 August 1845 in St-Grégoire-d'Iberville, Canada East; died 6 January 1937 in Montréal, QC).

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    Saint Patrick’s Basilica

    Saint Patrick’s Basilica is a minor basilica located in Montreal. It was constructed between 1843–47 as a parish church for Montreal’s growing Irish Catholic population (see Irish Canadians; Catholicism in Canada). The church was elevated to the status of a minor basilica in 1989. In addition to playing a significant religious and cultural role for the city of Montreal’s Irish community, Saint Patrick’s Basilica is recognized as the mother church for English-speaking Catholics in the city (see Canadian English; Languages in use in Canada).

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    Saints

    The first North Americans to be canonized (29 June 1930) in the Catholic church were the five Jesuits killed by Iroquois in intertribal warfare in Huronia in the 1640s: Jean de Brébeuf, Noël Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier and Gabriel Lalemant.

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    Salem Bland

    Salem Goldworth Bland, Methodist (later United Church) minister, author (b at Lachute, Canada E 25 Aug 1859; d at Toronto 7 Feb 1950).

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    Central Coast Salish

    Central Coast Salish peoples historically occupied and continue to reside in territories around the Lower Fraser Valley and on southeast Vancouver Island in Canada. They include the Squamish, Klallum, Halkomelem and Northern Straits peoples.

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    Northern Coast Salish

    Northern Coast Salish peoples live along the northern half of the Strait of Georgia, east-central Vancouver Island and the western part of the mainland. Northern Coast Salish peoples include the Pentl'ach, K’ómoks (Comox) and Shíshálh (Sechelt). (See also Indigenous Territory.) 

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    Sally Clark

    In 1983 she directed Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman, her first one-act play, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's Rhubarb Festival. Her breakthrough came in 1984 when Clarke Rogers directed her first full-length play, Lost Souls and Missing Persons, at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.

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    Salman Rushdie (Interview)

    This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 7, 2002

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