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Four the Moment

Four the Moment, was an a cappella quartet formed in 1981 in Halifax by Delvina and Kim Bernard, Jackie Barkley, and Deanna Sparks.
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Fox Battles Parkinson's Disease

The early symptoms can be minor and easy to ignore - a leg that drags when the victim is walking, an inexplicable difficulty fastening an earring or a voice that gradually weakens to a whisper. In the case of Canadian-born television and movie star Michael J.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 7, 1998
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France Daigle

France Daigle, Acadian author (born 18 November 1953 in Dieppe, a suburb of Moncton, New Brunswick), is the leading representative of postmodern Acadian literature.
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France Dion

(Marie Marguerite Aline) France Dion. Soprano, teacher, born Québec City 16 May 1929; died Boucherville 2 Jul 2011.
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Frances Anne Hopkins

Frances Anne Hopkins, artist (born 2 February 1838 in the United Kingdom; died 5 March 1919 in London, United Kingdom). Frances Anne Hopkins was an artist who sketched and painted Canadian landscapes. Her most famous paintings, including Shooting the Rapids and Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior, depict long-distance canoe voyages undertaken by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1860s.
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Frances Bay

Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman), actor (born 23 January 1919 in Manville, Alberta; died 15 September 2011 in Los Angeles, California). Frances Bay began her career as a radio actor with the CBC. She studied with Uta Hagen and worked on stage for many years before beginning a Hollywood career when she was in her 50s. Primarily known for playing sweet older women in comedic roles, she amassed nearly 180 credits and was one of the most recognizable character actors of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. She won a Gemini Award in 1997 for a guest role in Road to Avonlea and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2008.
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Frances Brooke

Here she wrote what may be described as the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769), which she enriched with descriptions of landscape and climate, current events and inhabitants of the new colony.
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Frances Gertrude McGill

Frances Gertrude McGill, teacher, bacteriologist, forensic pathologist (born 18 November 1882 in Minnedosa, MB; died 21 January 1959 in Winnipeg). McGill was Canada’s first female forensic pathologist and a pioneer in the field. She assisted police in solving numerous difficult criminal cases and unusual deaths, earning the nickname “the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan.” She is often regarded as the first female member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Her personal motto is said to have been “Think like a man, act like a lady and work like a dog.”
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Frances Ginzer

Frances (Joan) Ginzer. Soprano, b Calgary 19 Sep 1955; B MUS (Calgary) 1976, M MUS (North Texas) 1979, Artist Diploma opera (Toronto) 1981. Her first public performances took place at seven when she sang 'Santa Lucia' on two Calgary children's TV programs.
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Frances Hyland

Invited to the STRATFORD FESTIVAL by Tyrone GUTHRIE to play Isabella opposite James Mason in Measure for Measure in 1954, Hyland returned to Stratford (1955, 1957-59, 1964-57) in a variety of roles including Perdita, Desdemona, and a "definitive" Ophelia opposite Christopher PLUMMER in 1957.
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Frances Itani

Frances Itani, novelist, short story writer, poet (b at Belleville, Ont 25 Aug 1942). After studying, practising and teaching nursing for a number of years, Frances Itani took a creative writing course with W. O. MITCHELL and decided to take up writing full time.
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Frances James

(Mary) Frances James. Soprano, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 3 Feb 1903, d Victoria, BC, 22 Aug 1988. She spent her childhood in Halifax and Montreal and took her main formative studies on a four-year scholarship at the McGill Cons with Walter Clapperton.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey

Frances Oldham Kelsey, CM, pharmacologist (born 24 July 1914 in Cobble Hill, BC; died 7 August 2015 in London, ON). As an employee of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Kelsey blocked the sale of thalidomide in the United States. The drug, which had been widely prescribed in Europe and Canada, was later shown to cause severe birth defects in children whose mothers had taken the drug while pregnant. In recognition of her “exceptional judgment” and determination, Kelsey received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Kelsey and her work have been widely lauded in the United States but are less known in Canada. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada shortly before her death. (See also Thalidomide in Canada.)
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Frances Macdonnell

Frances (Buchan) Macdonnell. Organist, choir conductor, composer, b Ottawa 30 Apr 1947, BA (Queens) 1969, FRCO 1973. After studying in Ottawa with Godfrey Hewitt, Macdonnell studied in England 1970-2 with Ralph Downes and Douglas Hawkridge.
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Frances Marr Adaskin

Frances (Alice) Adaskin (b Marr). Pianist, b Ridgetown, Ont, 23 Aug 1900, d Vancouver 8 Mar 2001. Frances Marr was a pupil of Paul Wells at the TCM and, in the summers of 1930 and 1931, of Céline Chailley-Richez in Paris.
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