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    Bobby Curtola

    Robert Allen Curtola, CM, singer, songwriter (born 17 April 1943 in Port Arthur, ON; died 4 June 2016 in Edmonton, AB). Bobby Curtola emerged as a teen idol and dominated the Canadian pop chart in the 1960s. His string of hit singles, including “Fortune Teller” (1962), dominated the Canadian singles chart from 1960 to 1967 and sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Curtola was one of the first Canadians to receive a multi-million-dollar contract to perform in Las Vegas. He also helped raise millions of dollars for charities as a host of various telethons. He was a Member of the Order of Canada, the RPM Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2019.

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    Bobby Gimby

    Bobby (Robert Stead) Gimby. Orchestra leader, trumpeter, songwriter, b Cabri, west of Moose Jaw, Sask, 25 Oct 1918, d North Bay, Ont, 20 Jun 1998.

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    Bobby Hales

    Bobby (Robert Arthur) Hales, trumpeter, conductor, arranger, composer (born 9 August 1934 in Avonlea, SK; died 15 October 2016 in Port Coquitlam, BC).

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    Bobby Hull

    Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull, OC, hockey player (born 3 January 1939 in Pointe Anne, ON; died 30 January 2023 in Wheaton, Illinois). Nicknamed the “Golden Jet” for his blond hair and blazing speed, Bobby Hull led the Chicago Blackhawks to their first Stanley Cup victory in 23 years in 1961. He tied Maurice “Rocket” Richard’s record of 50 goals in a season in 1961–62 before scoring 54 in 1965–66 and 58 in 1968–69. The highest scoring left winger in hockey history, Hull won the Art Ross Trophy three times and the Hart Trophy twice. In 1972, he accepted $1 million to jump from the NHL to the fledgling World Hockey Association. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

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    Bobby Orr

    Robert Gordon "Bobby" Orr, OC, hockey player (born 20 March 1948 in Parry Sound, ON). He was an outstanding junior player with Oshawa Generals and joined Boston Bruins in 1967 at the age of 18, winning the Calder Trophy.

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    Fredrick Bodsworth

    Fredrick Bodsworth, nature writer (born at Port Burwell, Ont 11 Oct 1918, died 15 Sep 2012).

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    Bonnie Brooks

    Bonnie Brooks, CM, retailer, department store executive (born 19 May 1953 in Windsor, ON). Brooks earned her MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University and also holds two honorary doctoral degrees. She is best known for her work modernizing retail department stores, including Hong Kong’s Lane Crawford, Canada’s Holt Renfrew and Hudson’s Bay, where she was the first woman to be appointed president and CEO. Brooks was later appointed as the first woman vice-chairman of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

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    Bonnie Burnard

    Bonnie Burnard, short story writer (born 15 January 1945 in Petrolia, ON; died 4 March 2017 in London, ON). Burnard wrote two books of short fiction and one novel.

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    Bonnie Devine

    Bonnie Devine, artist, writer, professor (born 12 April 1952 in Toronto, ON). A member of the Serpent River First Nation, Bonnie Devine is a prominent Ojibwe artist and writer. She has applied Ojibwe mythology and storytelling traditions to drawing, painting, sculpture, site-specific interventions, performance and video. She held a solo exhibition, The Tecumseh Papers, at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 2013. She was also featured with other Indigenous artists in Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and is the founding chair of the school’s Indigenous Visual Culture Program. She received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021.

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    Bonnie Dobson

    Singer, songwriter, guitarist, b Toronto 13 Nov 1940. Under the influence and at the encouragement of Pete Seeger she began singing folk songs in her early teens.

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    Bonnie Henry

    Bonnie Henry, OC, OBC, FRCPC, provincial health officer of British Columbia 2018 to present, epidemiologist, physician (born 1965 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island). Dr. Bonnie Henry is best known for leading British Columbia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also worked to eradicate polio and to contain Ebola and SARS. Henry is a family care physician and a specialist in preventative medicine. She is the first woman to serve as British Columbia’s provincial health officer. (See also Public Health in Canada.)

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    Bonnie Sherr Klein

    Bonnie Sherr Klein, director, producer, author, motivational speaker, disability rights activist (born 1 April 1941 in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Bonnie Sherr Klein is a veteran award-winning filmmaker, most renowned for her passionate National Film Board (NFB) documentary Not A Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981). In 1987, at the age of 46, Sherr Klein survived two sudden back-to-back strokes that resulted in almost four years of intense rehabilitation and shifted her film career to include activism, writing and public speaking on behalf of the disabled. Sherr Klein is the mother of internationally known author Naomi Klein, who wrote No Logo: Taking Aim on the Brand Bullies.

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  • Macleans

    Book Excerpt: John Kenneth Galbraith

    IN APRIL 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy invited GALBRAITH, who was returning to Washington on official business as U.S. ambassador to India, to join the Kennedy family for a weekend at Glen Ora, the family's rented estate in the Virginia countryside.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 31, 2005

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  • Macleans

    Book Review: Drabinsky's Life

    This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 17, 1995

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    Book Review: John Kenneth Galbraith

    IN THE FALL OF 1961, John F. Kennedy was under intense pressure to ramp up the U.S. presence in Vietnam from a few thousand military "advisers" to a full combat force of more than 200,000 troops. The proposal came from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 31, 2005

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