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    Carlton Showband

    Carlton Showband. Popular Irish-Canadian troupe, formed in 1964 in Toronto.

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    Carly Rae Jepsen

    Carly Rae Jepsen, singer, songwriter, guitarist (born 21 November 1985 in Mission, BC). Bubbly pop singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen first came to public attention in 2007 as a contestant on the hit CTV show Canadian Idol. Her debut album, Tug of War (2008), yielded two gold-certified singles and earned two Juno Award nominations. She is best known for the global pop phenomenon “Call Me Maybe,” which became the biggest-selling song in the world in 2012 and the best-selling domestic Canadian single in history. Her album Kiss (2012) included the summer hit “Good Time” and earned Jepsen three Juno Awards, including Album of the Year and Single of the Year for “Call Me Maybe.”

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    Carlyle Clare Agar

    In 1949 he airlifted construction material, equipment and personnel to the mountainside Palisade Lake Dam. In 1951 he performed a similar task for the Aluminium Co of Canada's giant smelter complex at Kitimat, BC.

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    Carlyle Smith Beals

    Carlyle Smith Beals, astronomer (b at Canso, NS 29 June 1899; d at Ottawa 2 July 1979). Astronomer and assistant director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946, Beals was Dominion Astronomer in Ottawa until his retirement in 1964.

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    Carmen Aguirre

    Carmen Aguirre, actor, director, playwright and writer (born in Chile, 1967). In 1973 Carmen Aguirre's family emigrated to Vancouver in the wake of the military coup that began Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror.

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    Carmen and Elin Corneil

    Carmen Corneil graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO department of architecture in 1957, receiving a Pilkington national scholarship, a Royal Architecture Institute of Canada medal and a Wegman travel scholarship.

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    Carmen Lombardo

    Carmen Lombardo. Saxophonist, singer, songwriter, b London, Ont, 16 Jul 1903, d Miami 17 Apr 1971. He was a brother of Guy Lombardo. He studied flute in London and played flute and C-melody saxophone in western Ontario with the Lombardo Brothers' Orchestra and Concert Company in his teens.

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    Carmine Starnino

    Carmine Starnino has published four acclaimed books of POETRY. The New World (1997) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the QSPELL Prize for Poetry, and was selected as one of QUILL & QUIRE's Best Books of 1997.

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    Caro Lamoureux

    Caro (Marie Julienne Pauline Caroline) Lamoureux. Soprano, b Montreal 3 Jan 1904, d there 11 Aug 1998. She studied voice with Céline Marier and stage technique with Jeanne Maubourg and Albert Roberval.

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    Carol Bolt

    Carol Bolt, née Johnson, playwright (b at Winnipeg, Man 25 Aug 1941; d at Toronto, 28 Nov 2000). A successful and prolific playwright, Bolt grew up in mining towns across Canada and was educated at UBC (BA 1961).

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    Carol Huynh

    Carol Huynh, wrestler, Olympic medallist (born 16 November 1980 in Hazelton, BC). Carol Huynh, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, is the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling. Her victory was also the first gold medal for Canada at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In 2012, Huynh won the bronze medal in her division at the London Olympics. A winner of 11 Canadian championships, she has also won gold at the Commonwealth and Pan-American Games, and has medalled at four world wrestling championships. 

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    Carol Marguerite Anderson

    Anderson studied ballet as a child and in 1973 became one of the first wave of graduates of the dance program at York University in Toronto. She also studied at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and in New York.

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    Carol Shields

    Carol Shields, novelist, poet, playwright, biographer (born at Oak Park, Illinois 2 Jun 1935; died at Victoria, BC 16 Jul 2003). Shields was educated at Hanover College, Indiana, the University of Exeter England, and the University of Ottawa.

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    Carol Shields (Profile)

    By the end of a sunny Monday earlier this month, Winnipeg novelist Carol SHIELDS had been put through the wringer. She had gingerly made her way through a scraggly hedge and leant against a tree to accommodate a magazine photographer.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on September 29, 1997

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    Carol Shields (Profile)

    It was a radiant day last summer when Carol SHIELDS returned home to Winnipeg, a shimmering day in early July. But by late afternoon, the heat was beginning to take its toll, and it would be some time before the city's canopied elms would work their evening magic, casting shadows down the boulevard.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 15, 2002

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