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    David Young

    David (Anthony) Young. Bassist, composer, b Winnipeg 29 Jan 1940; BA economics (Manitoba) 1964, B COMM (Manitoba) 1966. A pupil in 1962 of William Curtis at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, and 1967-9 of Thomas Monohan at the RCMT, Young has pursued a dual career in classical music and jazz.

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    David Zafer

    David Anthony Zafer, teacher, violinist, conductor (born 2 April 1934 in London, England; died 20 April 2019 in Toronto, ON); naturalized Canadian 1973.

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    David Zeisberger

    David Zeisberger, Moravian clergyman (b near Ostrava, Czech 11 Apr 1721; d in Ohio 17 Nov 1808). Beginning in the 1740s he carried on Moravian missionary work among the Indians of Pennsylvania and founded a settlement in Ohio.

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    Davidee Mannumi

    Davidee Mannumi, also known as Manumi "B", sculptor, (b Cape Dorset region, SW Baffin Island 9 Sept 1919; d there 1979). Mannumi immigrated to Iqaluit [Frobisher Bay] in the Dew Line construction period of the mid-1950s but later returned to Cape Dorset.

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    Davidson Black

    Davidson Black, anatomist, anthropologist (b at Toronto, Ont 25 July 1884; d at Beijing [Peking], China 15 Mar 1934).

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    Davie Fulton

    Edmund Davie Fulton, lawyer, politician, judge (b at Kamloops, BC 10 Mar 1916). Son of an MP and grandson of a former BC premier, he distinguished himself as a Rhodes scholar, MP, Cabinet minister and judge.

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    Davis Joachim

    Davis Joachim. Guitarist, teacher, editor, administrator, b Shanghai 20 Jul 1949, naturalized Canadian 1955; B MUS (UQAM) 1974, arts administration diploma (Concordia) 1991. He began his guitar studies with Antonin Bartos at the École normale in Montreal.

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    Dawson Woodburn

    Dawson (Edgar) Woodburn. Educator, conductor, b Corbett (near Grand Bend), Ont, 1906, d there 11 Feb 1981; BA English (Western Ont), MA music (City, New York).

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  • Macleans

    Day, Manning Contest Party Leadership

    When Stockwell Day worked as an auctioneer in Kelowna, B.C., in the 1970s, he was known as a young man who could sell everything from beat-up cars to canoes. After later moving to Bentley, Alta.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 20, 2000

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    d'bi.young anitafrika

    d'bi.young anitafrika (born Debbie Young), dub poet, playwright, actor (born 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica). A Dora Award–winning actress and playwright, d’bi.young anitafrika is best known for a trilogy of plays: the sankofa trilogy: bloodclaat: one oomaan story; benu; and word!sound!powah!. anitafrika is also the founder of the Watah Theatre Institute.

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  • Editorial

    General De Gaulle and "Vive le Québec libre"

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. On 24 July 1967, during a state visit to Expo '67, General Charles de Gaulle, president of France and a hero of the 20th century, proclaimed from the balcony of Montréal's City Hall a sentence that would change the history of Canada: “Vive le Québec libre.”

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    De Meurons

     De Meurons, Swiss infantry regiment raised 1781; transferred 1795 to the British army. It served in India until October 1806, then moved to England, and was sent to Lower Canada in August 1813.

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    de Rimanoczy Quartet

    de Rimanoczy Quartet. First major Vancouver string quartet, founded in 1947 by Jean de Rimanoczy (first violin), with John Chlumecky (second violin), Smyth Humphreys (viola), and Audrey Piggott (cello). Piggott was succeeded in 1955 by Malcolm Tait.

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    Deadmau5

    ​Joel Thomas Zimmerman (a.k.a. Deadmau5), electronic and progressive house music producer, performer, composer (born 5 January 1981 in Niagara Falls, ON).

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    Deanna Bowen

    Deanna Bowen, visual artist (born 5 November 1969 in Oakland, California). 

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