Browse "Arts & Culture"

Displaying 1786-1800 of 5643 results

  • Article

    Frederick Silvester

    Frederick (Caton) Silvester. Organist, choir conductor, administrator, composer, b Darwen, near Manchester, England, 21 Jan 1901, d Toronto 24 Jun 1966; FRCO 1931; FRCCO 1943. He studied organ with C. Spencer Heap in England and, after moving in 1921 to Canada, with Lynnwood Farnam in Saskatoon.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Frederick Silvester

  • Article

    Frederick Simpson Coburn

    Frederick Simpson Coburn, painter, illustrator (b at Upper Melbourne, Qué 18 Mar 1871; d there 25 May 1960).

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Frederick Simpson Coburn

  • Macleans

    Freeman Patterson (Profile)

    The photographer selected the 100 images in the book, culled from the 100,000 slides he keeps in his home on the family farm in Shamper's Bluff, N.B., because he feels that they are visual keys to his psyche.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 20, 1997

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/15783b4e-92ad-4d20-be6f-69a848cc1c1b.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/15783b4e-92ad-4d20-be6f-69a848cc1c1b.jpg Freeman Patterson (Profile)

  • Article

    Freeman Wilford Patterson

    Patterson developed an interest in photography while studying for a Master's of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, New York, during the early 1960s. In 1965 he gave up a position teaching religious studies in Alberta in order to devote himself to photography full time.

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/15783b4e-92ad-4d20-be6f-69a848cc1c1b.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/15783b4e-92ad-4d20-be6f-69a848cc1c1b.jpg Freeman Wilford Patterson

  • Article

    Frère Luc

    Since works of art were generally imported from France at this time, he was most influential through his paintings for local churches, both during his sojourn in the colony and after his return to France.

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/5ea75972-309a-4c62-b31d-e5bb7421f456.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/5ea75972-309a-4c62-b31d-e5bb7421f456.jpg Frère Luc

  • Article

    Frère Marie-Victorin

    Frère Marie-Victorin (born Conrad Kirouac), member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, botanist, teacher (born 3 April 1885 in Kingsey Falls, QC; died 15 July 1944 in St-Hyacinthe, QC). A self-taught botanist, Frère Marie-Victorin was the first chair of botany at Université de Montréal, founder of the Institut de Botanique and the Montréal Botanical Garden, and author of Flore laurentienne (1935). He also co-founded the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences, the Société canadienne d'histoire naturelle, and the Cercles des jeunes naturalistes, and actively promoted science in popular as well as academic publications. A French Canadian nationalist, Marie-Victorin believed that knowledge of Québec’s natural world would inspire pride in French Canadians and enable them to take possession of their land.

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/new_article_images/Marcellegauvreau/Le_frere_Marie-Victorin_en_Minganie.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/new_article_images/Marcellegauvreau/Le_frere_Marie-Victorin_en_Minganie.jpg Frère Marie-Victorin

  • Article

    Fritz Brandtner

    Fritz Brandtner, painter (b at Danzig [Gdansk, Poland], Germany 28 July 1896; d at Montréal 7 Nov 1969). Generally considered to have introduced German expressionism to Canada, Brandtner was trained in Berlin and came to Winnipeg in 1928. He worked as a house painter until L.L.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Fritz Brandtner

  • Article

    Nelly Furtado

    Nelly Furtado. Singer, songwriter, b Victoria, BC, 2 Dec 1978. Furtado grew up in a working-class Portuguese household, and the sounds of her ethnic heritage had a strong influence on her even when she was listening to hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B, rock, Brazilian and Indian music.

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9f067f95-9412-4552-9df8-76199729d772.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9f067f95-9412-4552-9df8-76199729d772.jpg Nelly Furtado

  • Article

    Fusion 5

    Fusion 5. Chamber ensemble formed in the summer of 1980 by participants in the Advanced Studies in Music Winter Cycle program at the Banff SFA. Common interests in the performance of contemporary music led composer and pianist Robert J.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Fusion 5

  • Article

    G. Herald Keefer

    G. Herald Keefer. Organist, organ builder, composer, b Vancouver 12 Apr 1919; honorary PH D (Somerset, England) 1985. He received his early choir training in Vancouver under Frederick Robinson.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 G. Herald Keefer

  • Article

    G. Roy Fenwick

    G. (George) Roy Fenwick. Educator, writer, adjudicator, broadcaster, b Hamilton, Ont, 11 May 1889, d Ottawa 8 Jul 1970; LTCM 1911, B MUS (Toronto) 1927, D MUS (Montreal) 1950. His mother was Maggie Barr, a Scottish soprano.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 G. Roy Fenwick

  • Article

    G. Welton Marquis

    G. (George) Welton Marquis. Musicologist, administrator, b Walla Walla, Wash, 4 Mar 1916, d Ashland, Ore, 22 Feb 1985; MA (Whitman) 1942, PH D (Southern California) 1950.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 G. Welton Marquis

  • Article

    Gabor Szilasi

    Gabor Szilasi, photographer, teacher (born 3 February 1928 in Budapest, Hungary; died 10 April 2026).

    "https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/0c754f49-4900-45d5-be14-b0a52b12bf3c.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/0c754f49-4900-45d5-be14-b0a52b12bf3c.jpg Gabor Szilasi

  • Article

    Gabriel Arcand

    Gabriel Arcand, actor (b at Montréal 4 Jun 1949). His family, originally from the village of Deschambault (Portneuf County), settled in Montréal in 1952.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Gabriel Arcand

  • Article

    Gabriel Cusson

    Gabriel Cusson. Composer, teacher, b Roxton Pond, near Granby, Que, 2 Apr 1903, d Montreal 18 Apr 1972; B MUS (Montreal) 1924.

    "https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Gabriel Cusson