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    James Kerr-Lawson

    Kerr-Lawson's paintings of portraits and landscapes of the late 1880s and 1890s show the Realist-plein air influence of Jules Bastien-Lepage, while his decorative paintings from 1904 give evidence of his love of Venetian painting, specifically the work of Canaletto and Tiepolo.

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    James Keteltas Hackett

    James Keteltas Hackett, expatriate actor (b at Wolfe I, Ont 6 Sept 1869; d at Paris, France 8 Nov 1926). A handsome, swashbuckling, matinee idol, he made his name as the romantic hero of such 1890s' hits as The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau.

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    James Kudelka

     Kudelka began choreographing while a student at the NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL and continued while performing as an accomplished member of the National Ballet of Canada.

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    James Lee Fankhauser

    James Lee Fankhauser. Choral conductor, singer, educator, b Lyons, Kan, 26 Aug 1939; B MUS (Oberlin) 1962, MA musicology (Berkeley) 1966. Fankhauser studied at Purdue U (1957-8), Southwestern College (1958-60), Columbia U (1955-60), and Oberlin College Cons (1960-2).

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    James Little Baillie

    James Little Baillie, ornithologist, naturalist, writer (b at Toronto 4 July 1904; d there 29 May 1970). Employee of the Royal Ontario Museum for 48 years, Baillie's profession and avocation were devoted to the study and interpretation of ornithology.

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    James MacDonald

    James (Vernon) MacDonald. French hornist, b Portage la Prairie, Man, 31 Jan 1945; BA (Queen's) 1969, M MUS (Western) 1972. He learned the french horn in high school in Ottawa, then studied 1960-2 with Leslie Huggett and played in 1961 in the NYO.

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    James MacKay

    James MacKay, animator, director, producer (born at Beaverton, Ont 9 Jun 1916; died at Oakville, Ont 26 Oct 2002). Jim MacKay began drawing in high school and attended the Ontario College of Art.

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    Mavor Moore

    James Mavor Moore, OC, OBC, writer, composer, producer, director, actor, administrator, critic, educator (born 8 March 1919 in Toronto, ON; died 18 December 2006 in Victoria, BC). 

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    James McCarroll

    James McCarroll, fiction writer, journalist, poet, musician, inventor (b at Lanesboro, Ireland 3 Aug 1814; d at New York City, US 10 Apr 1892). Once one of Canada's most published and praised authors, James McCarroll has been largely forgotten since the 1870s.

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    James Milligan

    James Milligan. Baritone, b Halifax, NS, 5 Apr 1928, d Basel 28 Nov 1961. He studied 1948-55 with Emmy Heim and Leslie Holmes at the RCMT and made concert and oratorio appearances in Toronto and nearby cities during those years. He was one of two winners of the 1951 'Nos Futures Étoiles'.

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    James Montgomery

    Montgomery, James (Louis). Composer, performer, administrator, b Ravenna, O, 6 Feb 1943; B MUS (Baldwin-Wallace) 1966, M MUS (Toronto) 1972. He studied composition with D. Beswick, with Anthony Donato at Northwestern U, and with John Weinzweig and Gustav Ciamaga at the University of Toronto.

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    James Morton

    James Morton. Clarinetist, teacher, b Britton, Okla, 26 Jan 1929, naturalized Canadian 1981, d Ottawa 31 Aug 1997; B MUS (Michigan) 1950, M MUS (Michigan) 1952. He began clarinet studies at 12 in a junior high-school band, but did not have formal training until he entered university.

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    James Simpkins

    James Nathaniel Simpkins, cartoonist (born 26 November 1910 in Winnipeg, MB; died 1 February 2004 in Dundas, ON). Simpkins was the creator of "Jasper The Bear," a regular cartoon feature of Maclean's magazine for 24 years and the mascot of the national park community of the same name in Alberta. 

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    James Neil Christopher Cran

    James Neil Christopher Cran James Neil Christopher Cran, artist (b at Ocean Falls, BC 27 Dec 1949). Cran grew up in Salmon Arm, BC and studied at the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson, BC (1976). He graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary (1979), and continues to live and work in Calgary. He currently teaches painting at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has been a visiting artist at...

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    James Norcop

    James Michael Norcop, administrator, baritone (born 29 September 1930 in Oxnard, California). James Norcop came to Canada in 1965 to manage the Vancouver Opera and began a long career developing and mentoring young talent. He moved to Toronto in 1967 to work with the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras, and served as the founding executive director of Coordinated Arts Services. He stablished two awards at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music and is a founding board member of the Art Song Foundation of Canada. The Concours musical international de Montréal established the $50,000 'James Norcop' Career Development Grant in his honour.

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