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    James Boyle Uniacke

    James Boyle Uniacke, lawyer, politician (b probably 1799, bap at Halifax 19 Jan 1800; d there 26 Mar 1858). As the son of Richard John UNIACKE, he enjoyed favoured status in NS politics and society.

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    James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

    James Bruce Elgin, 8th Earl of, governor general of Canada 1847-54 (born 20 July 1811 in London, England; died 20 November 1863 in Dharmsala, India ). As a student at Eton and Oxford, Elgin displayed the brilliance that sparked his later reputation as an inspired orator, cultured humanist and judicious administrator. Appointed as governor of Jamaica in 1842, Elgin was named Governor General of Canada in 1846 and arrived in Montreal on 30 January 1847. 

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    James Bryson McLachlan

    James Bryson McLachlan, labour leader (b at Ecclefechan, Scot 9 Feb 1869; d at Glace Bay, NS 3 Nov 1937).

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    James C. Watters

    James C. Watters, coal miner, trade unionist, socialist (b at Edinburgh, Scot 1869; d at Victoria 1947).

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    James Cameron

    James Francis Cameron, film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, inventor (b at Kapuskasing, Ont 16 Aug 1954). James Cameron was raised in Niagara Falls, Ont, and as a teenager conceived a desire to direct films after watching Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

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    James Campbell Clouston

    James Campbell Clouston, naval officer (born 31 August 1900 in Montréal, Québec; died 2 or 3 June 1940 at sea, in the English Channel near Gravelines, France). Born and raised in Montréal, Campbell Clouston joined the British Royal Navy in 1918 and served on ships in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. During the Second World War, Clouston acted as pier master during the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk, overseeing the evacuation of nearly 200,000 servicemen between 27 May and 2 June 1940. He died at sea after his boat was sunk by German aircraft. In September 2017, a commemorative plaque was dedicated to him in Montréal.

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    James Campbell

    James (Kenneth) Campbell. Clarinetist, teacher, b Leduc, near Edmonton, 10 Aug 1949; B MUS (Toronto) 1971. He studied at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Cal, and in Paris 1971-3 with Yona Ettlinger.

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    James Charles McGuigan

    James Charles McGuigan, cardinal, archbishop of Toronto (b at Hunter River, PEI 26 Nov 1894; d at Toronto 8 Apr 1974). The shy, anglophilic grandson of Irish Catholics who fled Ulster immediately before the Great Famine, McGuigan graduated from St Dunstan's College and Laval.

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    James Charles Philip Dumaresq

    James Charles Philip Dumaresq, architect (b at Sydney, NS 18 Dec 1840; d at Halifax 20 Dec 1906). Educated at Acadia, Dumaresq began a practice in 1870 that eventually extended throughout the Maritime provinces, Newfoundland, Ontario and Québec and from the eastern US to the W Indies.

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    James Cleland Richardson, VC

    James (“Jimmy”) Cleland Richardson, VC, electrician, piper, soldier (born 25 November 1895 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died 9 October 1916 near Courcelette, France). Richardson emigrated with his family to British Columbia shortly before the First World War. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in September 1914 and sailed with it to Britain the next month. Richardson deployed to France in early 1915 and fought in several battles before he was killed at Regina Trench in October 1916, during the Battle of Ancre Heights (see Battle of the Somme). For his courage during the battle, he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC). 

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    James Cockburn

    James Cockburn, politician, lawyer (born 13 February 1819 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England; died 14 August 1883 in Ottawa, ON).

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    James Colledge Pope

    James Colledge Pope, entrepreneur, landed proprietor, land agent, politician, premier of PEI (b at Bedeque, PEI 11 June 1826; d at Summerside, PEI 18 May 1885). Second son in a family prominent in Prince Edward Island business and politics (he was the younger brother of W.H.

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    James Cook

    James Cook, explorer (born 27 October 1728 near Marton, England; died on 14 February 1779 at Kealakekua Bay, Sandwich Islands, Hawaii). The greatest navigator of his era, Cook served as master of the Pembroke at the siege of Louisbourg (1758) during the Seven Years' War.

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    James Creighton

    James (Lesley) Creighton. Discographer, recorded-sound archivist, born at Vancouver 24 Aug 1934, died 1 Dec 1998; BA economics (British Columbia) 1956.

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    James Crerar Reaney

    James Reaney was engaged in an energetic program of "rousing the faculties" by holding up the shaping mirror of literary forms to life in Canada, particularly in southwestern Ontario.

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