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  • Macleans

    Jack Layton (Tribute)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 12, 2011. Partner content is not updated. About a month after he led the NDP to its election breakthrough last May 2, Jack Layton was still at a loss to explain what had really happened on the campaign trail.

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    Jack Layton's Amazing Race

    Everything about Jack Layton's rally at Montreal's Olympia Theatre, the biggest campaign event ever staged by the NDP in Quebec, had a sort of retro air.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 9, 2011

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    Jack Leonard Shadbolt

    Jack Shadbolt studied at the Art Students' League in New York City (1948) and in London (1937) and Paris (1938). After teaching art to children in BC between 1929 and 1937, he joined the Vancouver School of Art.

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    Jack Marlowe Wise

    Wise learned the tenets of abstract expressionism as a student at Washington University (BFA, 1953) and Florida State University, obtaining a Master of Science in Art degree in 1955.

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    Jack McClelland

    John Gordon McClelland, "Jack," publisher (b at Toronto 30 July 1922; d at Toronto 14 June 2004). Educated at U of T, he joined the navy in 1941 and volunteered for duty on a motor torpedo boat; promoted captain of MTB 747 in 1944, he saw action in the English Channel.

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    Jack Nichols

    Jack Nichols, painter (b at Montréal 16 Mar 1921; d at Ottawa 22 Oct 2009). 

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    Jack Pickersgill (Obituary)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 24, 1997. Partner content is not updated. In the late 1930s, when Jack Pickersgill was a freshly minted civil servant in Ottawa, he decided to take a motorcycle trip to the United States. When he arrived at the border, a customs official asked him to prove his Canadian citizenship by naming his place of birth.

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    Jack Purcell

    Jack Purcell, badminton player (b at Guelph 24 Dec 1903; d at Toronto, Ont 10 June 1991). 

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    Jack Shadbolt (Obituary)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 7, 1998. Partner content is not updated. A few days before Jack Shadbolt came home from the hospital on Nov. 16, his wife, Doris, and some friends set up a bedroom in the centre of the artist’s studio, an enormous, skylit room attached to the Shadbolts’ mountainside house in Burnaby, B.C.

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    Jack Sirulnikoff

    Jack Sirulnikoff, composer, teacher, clarinetist, computer programmer (born 11 December 1931 in Winnipeg, MB; died 22 December 2017). Associate in music performance (McGill) 1956, B MUS composition (McGill) 1956, MA composition (Bennington) 1960, M MUS (Toronto) 1971.

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    Jack Snider

    Jack Snider (Sniderman). Teacher, composer, drummer, b Russia 1897, d Delray Beach, Fla, 10 Oct 1977. Moving to England and then to Canada, he played drums in pit bands in Toronto and, during the 1920s, at the B.F. Keith Theatre in Ottawa. In Ottawa he formed and conducted the Young Judea Orchestra.

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    Jack L. Warner

    John Eichelbaum (a.k.a. Jack Leonard Warner), studio executive, producer (born 2 August 1892 in London, ON; died 9 September 1978 in Los Angeles, California). The youngest of the four brothers behind the Warner Bros. movie studio, Jack Warner was involved in producing movies for more than half a century. As head of Warner Bros. for much of his career, he pioneered an assembly-line approach to film production. He received the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1959 and a Best Picture Oscar in 1965 for My Fair Lady. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2004.

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    Jack Webster (Obituary)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 15, 1999. Partner content is not updated. His voice bellowed like the lowest register of a Highland bagpipe, either engaging or irritating, depending on your point of view. His manner was gruff with anyone who dithered when answering his tough questions, yet gracious with ordinary people who sought his help.

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    Jack Wright

    John “Jack” Andrew Wright, tennis player, doctor, psychiatrist (born 11 November 1901 in Nelson, BC; died 21 September 1949 in Vancouver, BC). Jack Wright was named Canada’s top tennis player in the first half of the 20th century in a poll conducted by the Canadian Press. From 1920 to 1928, Wright played high-level intercollegiate tennis while attending McGill University. He won three Canadian men’s singles championships (1927, 1929, 1931) and four doubles titles (1923, 1925, 1929, 1931). He also won numerous provincial championships and doubles championships and played for Team Canada at the Davis Cup for 11 straight years (1923–33). An inaugural inductee of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, Wright was also inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame.

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    Jackie Barrett

    John Robert “Jackie” Barrett, powerlifter, swimmer (born 25 April 1974 in Halifax, NS). Jackie Barrett is Canada’s most successful Special Olympics athlete. He won 22 gold medals at the Special Olympics Canada Games (20 in powerlifting, two in swimming) and 13 gold medals at the Special Olympics World Games. In 2015, the autistic Barrett broke three Special Olympics World Summer Games records. As a result, he became the first Special Olympian to be nominated for the Lou Marsh Trophy (now the Northern Star Award) as Canada’s athlete of the year. He is also the first Special Olympian to be inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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