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    The Rankins

    The Rankins (known as The Rankin Family until 1998) was a musical group from Mabou, NS. The Rankins grew up in a musical home and performed locally at Cape Breton ceilidhs for many years with their parents.

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    Raöul Duguay

    Raöul or Raôul Duguay, pseudonym Luoar Yaugud. Poet, singer-songwriter, b Val-d'Or, Que, 13 Feb 1939; L PH (Montreal) 1963.

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    Raoul Duquette

    Raoul Duquette. Cellist, teacher, b Montreal 1879, d there 9 May 1962. He received basic musical training from his father, Jean A. DUQUETTE, and studied cello with Gustave Labelle. He continued his cello studies 1901-4 under Édouard Jacobs at the Ghent Conservatory.

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    Raoul Jobin

    Raoul Jobin, teacher, tenor, administrator, civil servant (b Joseph Roméo Jobin at Québec City 8 Apr 1906; d there 13 Jan 1974). He was the greatest francophone tenor of his age. His studies, begun at Université Laval, were continued in Paris.

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    Raoul Jobin

    Raoul (b Joseph Roméo) Jobin. Tenor, teacher, administrator, senior civil servant, b Quebec City 8 Apr 1906, d there 13 Jan 1974; honorary D MUS (Laval) 1952.

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    Raoul Paquet

    Raoul Paquet. Organist, teacher, composer, b Lacolle, near Montreal, 2 Dec 1893, d accidentally off Bonaventure Island, Gaspé, Que, 4 Aug 1946; honorary D MUS (Montreal) 1946.

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    Raoul Roy

    Raoul Roy. Folklorist, collector, singer, b St-Fabien-sur-Mer, near Rimouski, Que, 6 Jan 1936, d Montreal, 30 Jan 1985. He attended the École de Marine in Rimouski 1954-6, after which he studied the oral tradition of folk literature at Laval University.

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    Raoul Sosa

    Raoul (Raùl) Sosa. Pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, b Buenos Aires 27 Jul 1939, naturalized Canadian 1973; diploma (Buenos Aires Conservatory) 1957.

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    Raoul Vennat

    Raoul Vennat. Music dealer, flutist, b Clairac, France, 14 May 1869, d Montreal 1 Oct 1962. A Montreal resident after 1903, he established a music store which specialized in French music.

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    Raphaëlle de Groot

    ​Raphaëlle de Groot, artist (born 21 October 1974 in Montréal, Québec). 

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    Rawi Hage

    Rawi Hage, novelist, photographer (b Beirut, Lebanon 1964). As a young man growing up in Beirut and Cyprus during the years of the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage experienced life in a war zone directly.

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    Rawlins Cross

    Rawlins Cross. Celtic-rock band formed in St. John's, NL, in 1988 with Ian McKinnon (highland pipes, whistles), Dave Panting (guitar, mandolin), and Geoff Panting (accordion, keyboard).

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    Ray Griff

    Ray (Raymond) Griff. Songwriter, singer, pianist, b Vancouver 22 Apr 1942. He was raised in Winfield, Alta, where he took up the piano and played drums with the Winfield Amateurs (a dance group) as a boy, and in Calgary, where he led the Blue Echoes in his teens.

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    Ray Mead

    ​Ray Mead, visual artist (born 22 September 1921 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England; died 5 September 1998 in Toronto, ON). A member of Painters Eleven and the Ontario Society of Artists, Mead was included in the Jubilee Year Canadian Art Show at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) in 1950 and the Painters Eleven show at the Roberts Gallery in 1954. A formative influence on the development of modernism in Canada, Ray Mead is one of Canada’s most celebrated 20th-century painters.

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    Ray Nurse

    Ray Nurse. Lutenist, builder and restorer of period string instruments, bass, b New Westminster, BC, 1 Feb 1947.

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