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    Belinda Stronach (Profile)

    IF STEPHEN HARPER is the stiff-lipped conscience of the new Conservatives, Belinda Stronach is their resident rock star.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 18, 2005

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    Marilyn Bell

    Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio (née Bell), OOnt, swimmer (born 19 October 1937 in Toronto, ON). Marilyn Bell is a long-distance swimmer, best remembered for her 1954 swim across Lake Ontario, which brought her international fame at the age of 16. She won the 1954 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year, as well as the 1954 and 1955 Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as the country’s top female athlete. She was also named the 1954 Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year. In 1955, she became the youngest person to swim the English Channel. She also swam across the Juan de Fuca Strait in 1956. She was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and is a Member of the Order of Ontario.

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    Bella Hall Gauld

    Bella Hall Gauld, labour educator, political activist, pianist (born 31 December 1878 in Lindsay, ON; died 21 August 1961 in Montreal, QC).

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    Gilles Bellemare

    Gilles Bellemare. Composer, conductor,teacher, b Shawinigan, Que, 29 Mar 1952; premier prix harmony (Cons de Trois-Rivières) 1972, premier prix percussion (Cons de Trois-Rivières) 1974, premier prix composition (Cons de Trois-Rivières) 1978.

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    Ben Blue

    Ben Blue, born Benjamin Bernstein, actor (born 12 September 1901 in Montréal, QC; died 7 March 1975 in Hollywood, California). Ben Blue, a superb, sad-faced, rubber-limbed mime and dancer, began his 50 years in show business at 15 years old as a chorus boy in a Montréal tryout of George M. Cohan's musical comedy Irene. 

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    Ben Heppner

    In the early years, Heppner's voice was that of a lyric tenor - he won the CBC Talent Competition with Don Ottavio's aria, "Il mio tesoro," from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

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    Ben Heppner

    He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991 as the King of Crete in Idomeneo by Mozart.

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    Ben Johnson

    Ben Johnson, track and field athlete (b at Falmouth, Jamaica 30 Dec 1961). In 1976 Johnson immigrated to Canada and was attracted to competitive sprinting, initially in the 100 and 200 m.

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    Ben McPeek

    McPeek, Ben (Benjamin Dewey). Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, b Trail, BC, 28 Aug 1934, d Toronto 14 Jan 1981; ARCT 1954, B MUS (Toronto) 1956.

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    Ben Mink

    Ben (Benjamin) Mink. Producer, songwriter, violinist, mandolinist, guitarist, composer, b Detroit, of Polish parents, 22 Jan 1951, naturalized Canadian 1967. Ben Mink was raised in Cleveland and taken at age 11 to Toronto.

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    Ben Steinberg

    Benjamin Steinberg, composer, conductor, organist, teacher (born 22 January 1930 in Winnipeg , MB; died 10 February 2023 in Toronto, ON). B MUS (Toronto) 1961.

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    Benedict Arnold

    Benedict Arnold, merchant, army officer (born 14 January 1741/42 in Norwich, Connecticut; died 14 June 1801 in London, England). Benedict Arnold fought for the rebel Continental Army during the American Revolution and played a leading role in the invasion of Canada in 1775–76. He rose to the rank of major general but defected to the British in 1780. Arnold became a brigadier general in the British Army and led the American Legion, a provincial regiment. He later settled in England.

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    Benedictines

    Exterior view of the Abbey Church, designed by Dom Paul Bellot, a Benedictine monk (courtesy Dan S. Hanganu).A major landmark in Mission, BC, is the Benedictine monastic complex, Westminster Abbey (courtesy Dr Noel Hall).PreviousNext Various monastic traditions were already in existence in western Europe when Saint Benedict of Nursia founded the Abbey of Monte Cassino in Italy in 529. His rule, which quickly replaced most others in Western monasteries, is known for its moderation and...

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    Bengt Hambraeus

    Bengt Hambraeus, composer, organist, musicologist (b at Stockholm, Sweden 29 Jan 1928; d at Apple Hill, Ont 21 Sept 2000).

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    Bengt Hambraeus

    Hambraeus, Bengt. Composer, teacher, organist, musicologist, b Stockholm 29 Jan 1928, d Apple Hill, Ont, 21 Sep 2000; MA (Uppsala) 1950, PH D (Uppsala) 1956, honorary doctorate (Uppsala) 1992.

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