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    Francis Murray Patrick McMahon

    Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, industrialist (b at Moyie, BC 2 Oct 1902; d at Hamilton, Bermuda 20 May 1986). He began as a driller working for mining companies in BC, and in 1927 established a small business as a diamond-drilling contractor.

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    Francis Napier Denison

    Francis Napier Denison, weather forecaster, engineer, scientist (b at Toronto, Canada W 19 Apr 1866; d at Victoria 24 June 1946). An innovative scientist, Denison was known to thousands of Victorians as "our weatherman.

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    Francis Nicholson

    Francis Nicholson, soldier, governor of NS (b at Downholme, Eng 12 Nov 1655; d at London, Eng 5 Mar 1727/28). He led 2 unsuccessful attacks on Canada via the Hudson River and Lake CHAMPLAIN (1709 and 1711).

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    Francis Peabody Sharp

    Francis Peabody Sharp, orchardist, horticulturalist (b at Northampton, NB 1823; d at Upper Woodstock, NB 1903). When Sharp moved to Upper Woodstock in 1844, he established the first of many family orchards that developed into the major New Brunswick fruit industry.

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    Francis Pegahmagabow

    Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) chief, Indigenous rights advocate, war hero (born on 9 March 1891 on the Parry Island reserve, ON; died 5 August 1952 at Parry Island, ON). One of the most highly decorated Indigenous people in Canada during the First World War, Pegahmagabow became a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and self-determination. (See also Indigenous Peoples and the World Wars.)

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    Francis Scrimger, VC

    Francis (“Frank”) Alexander Caron Scrimger, VC, surgeon, author, professor, army officer (born 8 February 1880 in Montreal, QC; died 13 February 1937 in Montreal). After graduating as a physician in 1905, Scrimger worked in a Montreal hospital. He went overseas in 1914 and was present during the German gas attack at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. Scrimger supervised the evacuation of the wounded under fire, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). He returned to Canada after the war and continued his medical practice, becoming a respected surgeon and researcher.  

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    Francis Shanly

    Francis Shanly (Frank), engineer, railway builder (b at Stradbally, Ire 29 Oct 1820; d near Brockville, Ont 13 Sept 1882). Encouraged by H.H. KILLALY, he followed his brother Walter SHANLY into railway building. Both were employed on the Ogdensburg and Lk Champlain Railroad.

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    Francis Vogeler

    Vogeler (b Vogler), Francis(François Henri, b Franz Heinrich). Music dealer, instrument importer, teacher, b Hessen, Germany, 1746 or 1747, d Quebec City 1821. He came to Canada as an oboist in the Prince Frederick Regiment, one of the Brunswick units.

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    Francis William Schofield

    Francis William Schofield, veterinarian, teacher, researcher (b at Rugby, Eng 15 Mar 1889; d at Seoul, S Korea 12 Apr 1970). Schofield joined the faculty of the Ontario Veterinary Coll in 1910. He was a teacher and missionary in Korea 1916-19, and returned there in 1955 at retirement.

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    Franco-Americans

    Between 1840 and 1930, nearly a million francophones from Canada emigrated to the United States. (See also Canada and United States.) Most emigrants came from Quebec. There were also Acadians from the Atlantic provinces. These emigrants lived throughout the Northern US, but most settled in New England. The largest cohort worked in the textile industry. The 1880s and 1890s were the crest of several waves of emigration that ended with the Great Depression. Also known as Franco-Americans, about two million French Canadian descendants live in New England today.

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    Franco Mirabelli

    Franco Mirabelli, fashion designer (b at Toronto 21 Oct 1959). After graduating from New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology in 1982, Franco Mirabelli joined the Anne Klein organization as an in-house design assistant.

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    Francophones of Ontario (Franco-Ontarians)

    Ontario has the largest French-speaking minority community in Canada, and the largest French-speaking community of any province outside of Quebec. Ontario’s French-speaking presence was first established during the French colonial regime in the early 17th century (see New France.) It grew steadily throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly in the eastern and northeastern parts of the province in connection with the forestry, mining and railway industries. French has official language status in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly, in the courts, and in educational institutions (see French Languages Services Act (Ontario)).

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    François Archambault

    François Archambault, playwright (b at Montréal 13 Feb 1968). After completing a major in French studies at the Université de Montréal and receiving a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1993, it took little time for this talented and unique author to be noticed.

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    François Baby

    François Baby, French-Canadian fur-trader and businessman, militia officer and politician in Lower Canada (born 4 October 1733 at Montreal, Lower Canada; died 6 October 1820 at Quebec). 

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    François Barbeau

    François Barbeau, CM, costume designer, theatre director, artistic director, set designer (born 20 July 1935 in Montreal, QC; died 28 January 2016 in Montreal). François Barbeau's career in Quebec theatres rests not only on flawless knowledge of fashion, cut, and character creation, but also on the use and design of material. Barbeau, in collaboration with many artisans, was an acknowledged master in fabric restoration.

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