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Jacques Hétu
Hétu's compositional output comprises over 50 works in diverse forms, making him one of the most frequently performed composers worldwide. Though not revolutionary, his musical idiom combines modality and dissonance with expressiveness and forcefulness.
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Jacques Hétu
On his return to Quebec in 1963, he taught 1963-77 at Laval University, giving classes in music literature and analysis, introducing an orchestration course, and establishing a composition class.
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Jacques Hurtubise
Jacques Hurtubise, painter (born 28 February 1939 in Montréal, QC; died 27 December 2014 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia). He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. A grant in 1960 enabled him to spend time in New York and become acquainted with the art of the abstract expressionists, and he was there for much of the 1960s.
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Jacques Israelievitch
Jacques Israelievitch, CM, violinist, violist, conductor, teacher (born 6 May 1948 in Cannes, France; died 5 September 2015 in Toronto, Ontario). Violinist Jacques Israelievitch was renowned internationally for his versatility, sensitivity and virtuosic technical ability. After studying in Paris and playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony, Israelievitch became the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s longest-serving concertmaster (1998 to 2008). A supporter of contemporary music and Canadian composers, he made more than 100 recordings and performed often with noted orchestras and in chamber ensembles worldwide. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
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Jacques Labrecque
Jacques Labrecque. Baritone, folksinger, storyteller, producer, publisher, ethnologist, ( St. Benoît, near Montreal, 8 Jun 1917 - Longueuil, QC, 18 March 1995). He developed a taste for singing while living on his parents' farm.
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Jacques Languirand
Jacques Languirand, dramatist, essayist (born 1 May 1931 in Montréal, Québec; died 26 January 2018). In the 1950s and 1960s he was Canada's most important exponent of the theatre of the absurd, having been much influenced by playwrights in vogue during his stay in Paris, 1949-53.
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Jacques LeComte
Joseph Gustave Jacques LeComte, trumpeter, teacher (born 15 May 1924 in Montreal, QC; died 25 January 1987 in Montreal). Premier prix trumpet (CMM) 1948.
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Jacques Leduc
Jacques Leduc, film director, cameraman (b at Montréal 25 Nov 1941). A writer for the magazine Objectif (1961-67), Leduc joined the National Film Board during that period. He worked as a cameraman until 1967 when he began directing.
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Jacques L'Heureux
Jacques L'Heureux, actor (b at Sillery, Qc 10 Feb 1953). Jacques L'Heureux was propelled to stardom on the small screen in his role as Passe-Montagne in the children's cult classic Passe-Partout.
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Jacques Michel
Jacques Rodrigue (a.k.a. Jacques Michel), CQ, singer-songwriter (born 27 June 1941 in Ste-Agnès-de-Bellecombe (near Rouyn), QC; died 5 March 2026). In language that can be tender or violent, Jacques Michel's songs evoke love, friendship, freedom, life, and childhood. In 2007 he was made Chevalier of the National Order of Québec (Ordre national du Québec), and in 2020 he was awarded the Sylvain-Lelièvre Award from the Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ) for lifetime achievement.
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Jacques Renaud
Jacques Renaud, novelist, poet (b at Montréal 10 Nov 1943). Associated in the 1960s with the radical journal PARTI PRIS, Renaud also worked as a journalist and television researcher for Radio-Canada.
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Jacques Savoie
Jacques Savoie, Acadian musician, author, screenwriter (born 3 February 1951 in Edmundston, NB).
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Jake Eberts
John D. Eberts (born at Montréal 1941; died there 6 Sept 2012). Jake Eberts was one of the most successful and well-respected Canadian-born film producers.
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Jamelie Hassan
Jamelie Hassan, artist (b at London, Ont 1 Sept 1948) studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, in 1967, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Beyrouth, Lebanon, in 1968, at the UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR in 1969 and the University of Mustansyria, Baghdad, Iraq, from 1978 to 1979.
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James Archibald Houston
James Archibald Houston, artist, author, filmmaker (b at Toronto 12 Jun 1921; d at New London, Conn 17 Apr 2005). Houston studied art in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art before serving in WWII.
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