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    Stephen Reid

    Stephen Reid, writer, bank robber (born 13 March 1950 in Massey, ON; died 13 June 2018 in Haida Gwaii, BC). Best known for his novel, Jackrabbit Parole (1986) and his collection of essays, A Crowbar in The Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison (2012), Stephen Reid was a founding member of the infamous Stopwatch Gang.

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    Stephen Scobie

    Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, professor, publisher (b at Carnoustie, Scot 31 Dec 1943). Typical of his 20 volumes of poetry are The Birken Tree (1973), The Rooms We Are (1974), A Grand Memory for Forgetting (1981) and Expecting Rain (1984), Remains (1990) and Slowly into Autumn (1995).

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    Stephen Smith

    Stephen John Richard Smith, OOnt, financial services entrepreneur, civic leader, philanthropist (born 2 June 1951 in Ottawa, ON). Stephen Smith is a successful entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He is the chair and executive officer of Smith Financial Corporation (SFC). Through SFC, he has significant equity investments in a range of financial entities including First National Financial Corporation, Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance, Home Capital Group, Fairstone Bank of Canada, Glass, Lewis & Co. and Peloton Capital Management. Smith co-founded First National Financial Corporation in 1988, serving as CEO until 2022. He was then appointed executive chairman. He served as chair of Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company from 2010 to 2023. He is the chair of Peloton Capital Management, a mid-market North American private equity firm, Glass, Lewis & Co., a leading global proxy advisory firm based in San Francisco, and Fairstone Bank of Canada, a 240-branch bank focused on consumer lending. Smith is also involved in the leadership of cultural organizations. Since 2009, he has been chair of Historica Canada, the producer of the Heritage Minutes and the publisher of The Canadian Encyclopedia. He is a member of the board of the Rideau Hall Foundation and honorary governor of the Royal Ontario Museum. The business school and engineering faculty at his alma mater, Queen’s University, were renamed in his honour after his record-setting donations to the university in 2015 and 2023.

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    Stephen Teeple

    Stephen Teeple, architect (born 17 April 1954 in St. Thomas, ON). 

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    Stephen Van Rensselaer III

    Stephen Van Rensselaer III (b at New York, NY, 1 Nov 1764; d near Albany, NY, 26 Jan 1839). Stephen Van Rensselaer grew up in the Van Rensselaer manor in the Upper Hudson River region of New York State. He graduated from Harvard College in 1782.

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    Stephen Willis

    Stephen (Charles) Willis. Archivist, musicologist, b Collingwood, Ont, 17 Dec 1946, d Ottawa 11 Sep 1994; AWCM piano 1965, BA (Western) 1969, MA (Columbia) 1971, M PHIL (Columbia) 1974, PH D (Columbia) 1975.

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    Steppenwolf

    Steppenwolf, Los Angeles-based blues-rock band (flourished 1967-72) which had its genesis in the Toronto quintet Sparrow (flourished 1964-67), which included German-born singer John Kay (né Joachim Krauledat), drummer Jerry Edmonton (aka Mars Bonfire) and organist Goldy McJohn.

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    Steppenwolf

    Steppenwolf. Hard-rock group. It had its origins in the Toronto blues band Sparrow, which was formed in 1964 and by 1965 comprised John Kay (vocals, harmonica and guitar), Dennis Edmonton (guitar), Goldy McJohn (organ, piano), Nick St Nicholas (bass guitar), and Jerry Edmonton (drums).

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    Jana Sterbak

    Sterbak's work is difficult to classify by medium or style. Influenced initially by minimalism, she chooses her often unconventional materials deliberately, guided by her desire for a direct, expressive relationship between material and idea.

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    Sterling Beckwith

    (Robert) Sterling Beckwith. Musicologist, teacher, conductor, bass, b New York 14 Aug 1931; BA (Harvard) 1952, MA (Harvard) 1955, PH D (Cornell) 1969.

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    Steve Collins

    Steve Collins, ski jumper (b at Thunder Bay, Ont 13 Mar 1964).

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    Steve Fonyo

    Stephen “Steve” Charles Fonyo, runner, cancer research activist (born 29 June 1965 in Montreal, QC; died 18 February 2022 in Burnaby, BC). Despite losing most of his left leg to bone cancer at age 12, Fonyo ran across Canada in a “Journey for Lives” to raise money for cancer research. His remarkable 7,924 km run started in St. John’s on 31 March 1984, when he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean. It ended on 29 May 1985 with a similar dip into the Pacific Ocean in Victoria.

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    Steve Galluccio

    Steve Galluccio, playwright, screenwriter (b at Montréal, 9 Oct 1960). Steve Galluccio, whose plays are, for the most part, rooted in Italian immigrant behaviour, has written box office hits in both English and French.

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    Steve Nash

    Stephen John Nash, OC, OBC, basketball player (born 7 February 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa). Steve Nash is widely considered the greatest Canadian basketball player of all time. He is a two-time National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the first Canadian to win the award. A point guard, Nash was an eight-time NBA all-star. He ranks third on the NBA’s all-time assists leaderboard with 10,335 and second in career free-throw percentage with 90.43 per cent. He represented Canada in international competition and led the Canadian Senior Men’s National Team to the quarter-finals of the 2000 Olympic Summer Games. Nash is a three-time winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as Canada’s best male athlete. He won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top athlete in 2005. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been inducted into the Order of British Columbia, Canada’s Walk of Fame, the Phoenix Suns Ring of Honour and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was named to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame on 27 May 2020 and will be formally inducted in 2021. He was named the head coach of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets on 3 September 2020.

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  • Macleans

    Steve Nash Is Basketball's Rising Sun

    YOU NEED TO understand the way of the point guard. This isn't just a position on a BASKETBALL team, this is a calling, a tradition, a mantle of responsibility handed down like a sacred trust - Keeper of the Ball - lacking only secret handshakes and sworn oaths.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 23, 2005

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