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    Kevin Sullivan

    Kevin Sullivan, producer, writer, director (born at Toronto 28 May 1955). Kevin Sullivan is best known for producing, writing and directing the 1985 CBC TV adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, the highest-rated television drama in Canadian history. The miniseries won nine Gemini Awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award. Sullivan produced three sequels, as well as the highly successful CBC TV series Road to Avonlea (1990–96), which won a Gemini and an Emmy Award, and Wind at My Back (1996–2001). 

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    Kevin Tierney

    Kevin Tierney, film producer, writer (born 27 August 1950 in Montreal, QC; died 12 May 2018 in Montreal).

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    Kia Nurse

    Kia Augustine Nurse, basketball player (born 22 February 1996 in Hamilton, ON). Kia Nurse is a basketball player with the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Nurse won back-to-back NCAA titles with the University of Connecticut Huskies in 2015 and 2016. She also guided Team Canada to gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2015 FIBA Americas Women’s Championships, which qualified Canada for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. While playing with the New York Liberty in 2019, Nurse set the WNBA record for most points in a single season by a Canadian with 465.

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    Kiawak Ashoona

    Kiawak Ashoona (also known as Kiugak), OC, RCA, sculptor (born 16 September 1933 in Tariugajak, NU; died 2014). Son of renowned Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Kiawak Ashoona recounted that his own prodigious artistic career began in his childhood, while the family was still living at a camp on the land. Ashoona’s recognitions include a Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and an National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now Indspire Award). He was an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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    Kiefer Sutherland

    In the 1980s and 1990s, Sutherland ran with the young Hollywood "brat pack," enjoying roles in ensemble pictures like Young Guns (1988) and The Three Musketeers (1993).

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    Kim Campbell

    Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell, PC, CC, QC, OBC, lawyer, professor, politician, Canada’s prime minister 25 June 1993 to 3 November 1993, diplomat, global advocate for education, democracy and women’s issues (born 10 March 1947 in Port Alberni, BC). Kim Campbell became Canada's first — and still only — female prime minister when she assumed the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party following Brian Mulroney's resignation. She was also Canada’s first female justice minister and attorney general; Canada’s first female minister of national defence and of veterans affairs; the first woman to represent a member country at a NATO meeting; and the first prime minister from British Columbia. She has received the Order of British Columbia and numerous honorary degrees and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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    Kim Cattrall

    After Universal Studios bought out Preminger's contract a year later, Cattrall appeared in numerous television programs including Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch, and the CBC drama Crossbar (1979) with Brent CARVER.

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    Kim Echlin

    Kim Echlin, writer (born 1955 in Burlington, ON). Kim Echlin earned a doctorate in Ojibway storytelling from York University, after attending McGill University and the Sorbonne, Paris. Echlin has worked as a documentarian for CBC and served as fiction editor for the Ottawa Citizen. 

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    Kim Mitchell

    Joseph Kim Mitchell, guitarist, singer, songwriter, broadcaster (born 10 July 1952 in Sarnia, Ontario). A talented, imaginative rock guitarist and pop songwriter, Kim Mitchell has been a fixture on the Canadian music scene since the mid-1970s. He began as the manic front man of the quirky, progressive hard rock band Max Webster. He then gained prominence as a solo artist in the 1980s with radio-friendly rock anthems such as “Go for Soda,” “Patio Lanterns” and “Rock N Roll Duty.” He later established himself as a popular radio personality and a mainstay on the summer festival circuit. He has sold more than 1.5 million records in Canada, earned 17 Juno nominations and won three Juno Awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2021. Max Webster was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2023.

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    Kim Moritsugu

    Kim Moritsugu's first novel, Looks Perfect (1996), is an edgy romantic comedy about not being defined by appearances. Her second novel, Old Flames (1999), is a touching work that captures the presence of Broadway and the passion of realizing one's dreams.

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    Kim Nguyen

    Kim Nguyen, director, writer, producer, teacher (born 1974 in Montréal, QC). 

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    Kim Thúy

    Kim Thúy, CQ, writer (born 18 September 1968 in Saigon, Vietnam). The winner of several prestigious literary awards for her first novel, Ru, this Quebec writer of Vietnamese origin is known for her short and elegant stories. Her novels deal with the migrant experience and the challenges of adapting to a new culture. Written in French, which Thúy calls her “second mother tongue,” they have been translated into 15 languages.

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    Kimberley Newport-Mimran

    Kimberley Newport-Mimran, fashion designer (b at Niagara Falls, Ont 9 Sep 1968). Kimberley Newport-Mimran discovered her initial interest in fashion working as a retail sales associate at the age of 14 in her home town of Niagara Falls.

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    Kimberly Barber

    Kimberly Barber. Mezzo-soprano, teacher, b Guelph, Ont, 21 Dec 1959; B MUS (University of Toronto) 1983. Kimberly Barber studied voice with Patricia Kern at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, graduating in 1983, and earned a diploma from the Opera Division in 1985.

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    Edward Martin Kindle

    Edward Martin Kindle, palaeontologist, sedimentologist (b at Franklin, Ind 10 Mar 1869; d at Ottawa 29 Aug 1940).

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