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    Kashtin

    Kashtin is a popular Montagnais duo consisting of the singer-songwriters and guitarists Florent Vollant (born 10 August 1959 in Maliotenam, near Sept Îles, QC) and Claude McKenzie (born 11 March 1967 in Schefferville, QC). Kashtin means “tornado” in the Montagnais' Innu-aimun language. Kashtin's songs, in country or contemporary folk styles, are characterized by simple but spirited refrains sung in throaty harmony over vigorous, acoustic guitar rhythms. The duo’s debut album, Kashtin (1989), received Félix awards in 1990 as best debut and best country-folk album.

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    k.d. lang

    k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) lang. Singer, songwriter, born Edmonton 2 Nov 1961; hon LLD (Alberta) 2008.

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    k.d. lang (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 6, 1995. Partner content is not updated.

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    Laura Muntz Lyall

    Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall, artist (born 18 June 1860 in Radford Semele, Warwickshire, England; died 9 December 1930 in Toronto, Ontario). A successful Impressionist painter in the early 20th century, Laura Muntz Lyall was the first Canadian artist to receive an honourable mention at the Paris Salon and the first female Canadian Impressionist artist to have her work become part of the National Gallery of Canada’s collection in Ottawa.

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    Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

    Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Coast Salish and Okanagan (see Interior Salish) artist and activist (born in 1957 at Kamloops, British Columbia). Yuxweluptun trained at the Emily Carr College of Art (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focusing on historical European art. His paintings employ both traditional Northwest Coast imagery (see Northwest Coast Indigenous Art) and surrealist visual language to critique colonialism, racism against Indigenous peoples, capitalism, and environmental destruction, among other issues. In addition to paintings, Yuxweluptun has produced multimedia artworks, videos and performances that are political in nature. In 2013, Yuxweluptun was awarded a Fellowship at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, USA. Yuxweluptun’s art is featured in the permanent collections of many prominent galleries and museums in North America.

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    Lucy Maud Montgomery (Plain-Language Summary)

    Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE, writer (born 30 November 1874 in Clifton (now New London), PEI; died 24 April 1942 in Toronto, ON). Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps Canada’s most widely read author. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), was an instant best-seller. It has remained in print for more than 100 years. Montgomery wrote more than 500 short stories and 21 novels. She also authored two poetry collections and numerous journal and essay collections. Her body of work has sold around 50 million copies worldwide. Montgomery was named an Officer of both the Order of the British Empire and the Literary and Artistic Institute of France. She was the first Canadian woman to be made a member of the British Royal Society of Arts. She was declared a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada in 1943. This article is a plain-language summary of Lucy Maude Montgomery. If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see our full-length entry: Lucy Maude Montgomery.

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    Lynne Cohen

    Lynne Cohen, photographer, artist, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, teacher (born 3 July 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin; died 12 May 2014 in Montreal, QC). Award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen was perhaps best known for winning the inaugural $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2011. She also won the Canada Council for the Arts’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1991 and a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2005. Her work focuses on everyday interior spaces and how changes in lighting and framing alter how the viewer perceives these environments. She was also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa from 1974 to 2005.

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    Antonia David (née Nantel)

    Antonia David (née Nantel), patron, administrator (born 14 April 1886 in St-Jérôme, north of Montréal, Québec; deceased 6 December 1955 in Montréal).

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    Malak Karsh

    Armenian-Canadian photographer Malak Karsh was best known for his photographs of Canada, and of the Ottawa region in particular. His 1963 photograph of a tugboat bringing logs up the Ottawa River, with the Library of Parliament in the background, was featured on the reverse of the $1 banknote first issued in 1974. Karsh amassed perhaps the most comprehensive visual record of Canada in existence. He also founded the Ottawa Tulip Festival and was the younger brother of famed photographer Yousuf Karsh.

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    Marcel Sabourin

    Marcel Sabourin, OC, actor, writer, screenwriter, lyricist, producer, director, teacher (born 25 March 1935 in Montreal, QC). An important figure in Quebec cinema and television, Marcel Sabourin has performed in more Quebec films than any other actor. He first came to prominence as Professor Mandibule in the Radio-Canada children’s TV programs Les Croquignoles (1963–67) and La Ribouldingue (1967–71). He is perhaps best known for his role as Abel Gagné in Jean-Pierre Lefebvre’s acclaimed Abel trilogy. Sabourin received the Jutra-Hommage lifetime achievement award at the Jutra Awards (now Prix Iris) in 1999. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.

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    Margie Gillis

    Margie Gillis, CM, CQ, dancer, choreographer (born 9 July 1953 in Montreal, QC). Since bursting on the scene in 1975 with her first solo performance, Margie Gillis has been compared to Isadora Duncan for her weighty, cathartic dances that stem from her deep response to music and her political and social activism. An acclaimed international soloist, she was named a Canadian Cultural Ambassador in 1981 and a Quebec Cultural Ambassador in 1986. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier of the Ordre national due Quebec, and won a Governor General’s Award for the Performing Arts In 2011.

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    Maria Morris Miller

    Maria Frances Ann Morris Miller, botanical artist, teacher, poet (born 1813 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia; died 1875 in Halifax, Nova Scotia). Maria Morris Miller was the first Nova Scotian woman to gain recognition as a professional artist. Miller published four series of botanical lithographs from 1840 to 1867 and created some of the earliest botanical sketches in Canada. Miller’s work received international praise; Queen Victoria granted her royal patronage, after Miller gifted certain illustrations to her Majesty. A collection of Miller’s works was also displayed at the International Paris Exposition in 1867.

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    Mary Riter Hamilton

    Mary Matilda Hamilton (née Riter), artist (born 7 September c. 1867 in Teeswater, ON; died 5 April 1954 in Coquitlam, BC). Mary Riter Hamilton was a painter who exhibited her works in Europe and across Canada. Shortly after the fighting stopped, Hamilton travelled to Europe to paint First World War battlefield landscapes before they were cleared (see War Artists). She produced over 350 works in three years, which are a document of the destruction and devastation caused by the war.

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    Maud Lewis

    Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley), artist (born 7 March 1901 or 1903 in Yarmouth, NS; died 30 July 1970 in Digby, NS). Maud Lewis was a Canadian painter and folk artist. Her artistic talents were largely hidden throughout much of her life — a result of poverty, shyness and social anxiety brought on by suffering from severe birth defects. Often referred to as Canada’s Grandma Moses, Lewis came to national prominence in the mid-1960s, just a few years before her death. Her work, which has been sold at auctions and been featured on postage stamps, has become widely popular. The small house where she lived and worked is on permanent display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

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    Michael Greyeyes

    Michael Joseph Charles Greyeyes, actor, director, dancer, choreographer, educator (born 4 June 1967 in the Qu’Appelle Valley, SK). Michael Greyeyes is an award-winning Nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) actor from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. As of 2023, he has over 50 television and film acting credits to his name. In 2021, Greyeyes won a Canadian Screen Award for best performance by an actor in a leading role. Greyeyes was the founding artistic director of Signal Theatre. He is also an associate professor of theatre at York University

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