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    Eugène Daignault

    Eugène Daignault. Actor, folksinger, b St Albans, Vt, 14 Sep 1895, d Montreal 27 Jan 1960. Arriving in Quebec in 1900, he was educated, and involved in theatre, at the St-Hyacinthe Seminary. In 1920 he began working for the Montreal Board of Health.

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    Eugene Forsey

    Eugene Alfred Forsey, PC, CC, FRSC, intellectual, senator (born 29 May 1904 in Grand Bank, Newfoundland; died 20 February 1991 in Victoria, British Columbia). Eugene Forsey was known across the country as a scholar, social activist, constitutional expert, senator, and inveterate writer of letters to the press. Forsey helped found the League for Social Reconstruction and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1930s. For nearly 25 years (1942–66), he was a director of research for the Canadian Congress of Labour and its successor, the Canadian Labour Congress. He also taught at McGill University, Carleton University and the University of Waterloo and was chancellor of Trent University (1973–77). Forsey was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed to the Senate (1970–79), named to the Privy Council (1985), and made a Companion of the Order of Canada (1988).

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    Eugene Hill

    (Lewis) Eugene Hill. Organist-choirmaster, composer, teacher, b Toronto 8 Apr 1909, d Oxford, O, 15 Mar 1976; LAB 1928, FCCO 1930s, B MUS (Toronto) 1937, ARCO 1938, D MUS (Toronto) 1946. After early studies in Winnipeg he enrolled at the TCM for organ lessons with Charles Peaker.

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    Eugène Husaruk

    Husaruk, Eugène. Violinist, b Warsaw of Ukrainian parents 2 Mar 1932, naturalized Canadian 1954. He immigrated to Canada in 1949 and studied 1950-3 at the McGill Cons with Alexander Brott.

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    Eugene Kash

    Eugene 'Jack' (Leon) Kash,. Violinist, conductor, teacher, b Toronto 1 May 1912, d there 6 Mar 2004.

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    Eugène Lapierre

    Eugène Lapierre. Organist, teacher, composer, writer on music, administrator, b Montreal 8 Jun 1899, d there 21 Oct 1970; D MUS (Montreal) 1930. He began his musical training under the choirmaster Lucien Perreault at Ste-Brigide Church, where he was solo soprano.

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    Eugene Levy

    Eugene Levy, actor, director, producer, writer (born at Hamilton, Ont 17 Dec 1946). Eugene Levy has made his name primarily playing supporting comedic roles on television and in film, with performances ranging from straight deadpan to camp hilarity.

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    Eugene O'Keefe

    Eugene O'Keefe, brewer, banker, philanthropist (born 10 December 1827 in Bandon, Ireland; died 1 October 1913 in Toronto, ON). 

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    Eugene Plawutsky

    Eugene Plawutsky. Pianist, conductor, teacher, b Montreal 11 Dec 1945; L MUS (McGill) 1966, B MUS (McGill) 1967, MA musicology (Toronto) 1971.

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    Eugene Rathbone Fairweather

    Eugene Rathbone Fairweather, theologian, ecumenist (b at Ottawa 2 Nov 1920). An ordained priest of the Anglican Church of Canada, Fairweather was a member of the theological faculty of Trinity College, University of Toronto, from 1944 until his retirement in 1986. He was dean of divinity 1983-85.

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    Eugene Rittich

    Eugene (Danny) Rittich. French hornist, teacher, b Calgary, of Hungarian-born parents, 15 Aug 1928; Artist Diploma (Curtis) 1951. After studies in Kelowna, BC, and with Douglas Kent in Victoria, he continued his training 1945-51 at the Curtis Institute where his teacher was Mason Jones.

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    Eugene Stickland

    Eugene Stickland, playwright (born at Regina 24 Sept 1956). Eugene Stickland grew up in Regina and attended Scott Collegiate.

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    Eugenie Bouchard

    Eugenie Bouchard, tennis player (born 25 February 1994 in Montréal, QC). At Wimbledon 2014, Bouchard became the first Canadian singles player to reach the final of a senior Grand Slam singles tennis tournament. Although she lost to Petra Kvitova, the match was watched by over a million Canadians and helped make Bouchard a media sensation. Two years earlier, Bouchard had won the Wimbledon 2012 girls’ tournament, becoming the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title at any level. A two-time winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award (2013 and 2014), she was the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Newcomer of the Year in 2013 and won a WTA title in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2014.

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    Eunice Macaulay

    Eunice Macaulay, animator, producer (born in England 1923). Eunice Macauley began her animation career when a Christmas card she created for fun landed her a job as a tracer at Gaumont British Animation in 1948.

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    Eva Aariak

    Eva Aariak, politician, second premier of Nunavut (born 10 January 1955 in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories [now Nunavut]). Eva Aariak has the distinction of being Nunavut’s first female premier, and she has been instrumental in the promotion of Inuit languages in the territory. (See also Inuktitut and Indigenous Languages in Canada.)

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