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    Sydney Humphreys

    Sydney (Ernest) Humphreys. Violinist, teacher, born Chilliwack, near Vancouver, 26 Sep 1926; FRAM 1960, MA (Newcastle) 1969. He studied violin with Gregori Garbovitsky in Vancouver, Kathleen Parlow in Toronto, Thomas Matthews and Frederick Grinke at the RAM, London, and Georges Enesco in Paris.

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    Sydney Murray Friedman

    Sydney Murray Friedman, scientist, scholar, physician (born 17 February 1916 in Montréal, QC; died 16 February 2015 in Vancouver, BC). 

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    Sydney Newman

    Sydney Cecil Newman (né Nudelman), OC, television executive, producer, administrator, writer, director, editor (born 1 April 1917 in Toronto, ON; died 30 October 1997 in Toronto). Sydney Newman was an influential television producer and executive in Canada and Britain. He began his career at the National film Board (NFB) in 1941 and worked on more than 300 films in 11 years. In 1952, he left to work for the CBC, where he became one of the architects of Canadian television, establishing the foundation for sports broadcasts and live drama. Lured to Britain in 1958, Newman helped create iconic British TV series The Avengers and Doctor Who. He then returned to Canada and served a tumultuous term as chairman of the NFB from 1970 to 1975. A keen judge of talent, Newman nurtured such artists as Harold Pinter, Arthur Hailey, Ken Loach and Ted Kotcheff. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981.

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    Sydney River McDonald's Murders

    On 7 May 1992, three men broke into a McDonald’s restaurant in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, after closing time, intending to rob the restaurant’s safe. They killed three employees and left a fourth permanently disabled, in a massacre that shocked the small Cape Breton town, and all of Canada.

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    Sylvain Cossette

    Sylvain Cossette, singer, songwriter, musician, producer (born 8 May 1963 in Grand-Mère, QC). Sylvain Cossette is one of Quebec’s most successful singer-songwriters. He sings in both French and English and has sold more than 1 million albums, with four platinum-certified and two gold-certified albums in Canada. He has won four SOCAN Awards and seven Félix Awards (from 25 nominations) and has been nominated for three Juno Awards.

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    Sylvain Doyon

    Sylvain Doyon. Organist, pianist, teacher, b Thetford-Mines, Que, 10 Sep 1935; premier prix organ (CMQ) 1966. He first studied music with Abbé Léon Destroismaisons at the Collège de La Pocatière, then at the CMQ with Henri Gagnon and Claude Lavoie.

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    Sylvain Lelièvre

    ​Sylvain Lelièvre, singer-songwriter, author, composer, performer, poet, writer and teacher (born 7 February 1943 in Québec City, QC; died 30 April 2002 in Lévis, QC).

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    Sylvia Burka

    Sylvia Burka, speed skater, cyclist, coach (born 4 May 1954 in Winnipeg, MB). Through hard work and determination, Sylvia Burka overcame a visual handicap to become a world-class athlete in two sports. She competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and broke a world record in 1,000 m women’s indoor cycling in 1982. Sylvia Burka was inducted in the Canadian Speed Skating Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Sylvia Fair

    Sylvia Doreen Fair (née Shapiro), soprano, teacher (born 25 August 1928 in Calgary, AB; died 12 September 2024 in Victoria, BC).

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    Sylvia Hamilton

    Sylvia D. Hamilton, filmmaker, writer, educator (born in Beechville, NS). Sylvia Hamilton specializes in re-evaluating Canadian history and focusing on the perspectives of Black Canadians, particularly Black Canadian women. Her films include Black Mother Black Daughter (1989); the Gemini Award winner Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia (1993); the biographical documentary Portia White: Think On Me (2000); and The Little Black School House (2007). She has received many honours and awards, including the Nova Scotia Portia White Prize, the Pierre Berton Award from the Governor General’s History Awards for Popular Media, and the Luminary Award from the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC).

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    Sylvia Olga Fedoruk

    Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC, SOM, physicist, educator, 17th lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan (1988-94) (born 5 May 1927 in Canora, SK; died 26 September 2012 in Saskatoon). Fedoruk was a medical physicist who helped advance cancer treatment (see Physics; Contemporary Medicine).

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    Sylvia Ostry

    Sylvia Ostry (née Knelman), CC, OM, FRSC, economist, public servant (born 3 June 1927 in Winnipeg, MB; died 7 May 2020 in Toronto, ON). Sylvia Ostry was the first female chief statistician of Canada, a position that she held from 1972 to 1975 (see Statistics Canada).

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    Sylvia Saurette

    Sylvia Saurette. (m  Hubert). Soprano, born Letellier, south of Winnipeg, 27 Sep 1935, died Laval 14 Jul 2005; diploma (École Vincent-d'Indy) 1961.

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    Sylvia Stark

    Sylvia Estes Stark, pioneer (born 1839 in Clay County, Missouri, US; died 7 November 1944 in Fruitvale, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia). Born into enslavement, Sylvia Stark was one of more than 600 Black Americans who emigrated to British Columbia in 1858 at the invitation of Governor James Douglas. She was one of the original settlers on Salt Spring Island.

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    Sylvia Tyson

    In the duo's last years, Tyson began to perform on her own and was host 1974-80 for the CBC radio folk music program 'Touch the Earth.

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