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    William E. Benjamin

    William E. (Emmanuel) Benjamin. Theorist, musicologist, composer, b. Montreal 7 Dec 1944; B MUS (McGill) 1965, MFA (Princeton) 1968, PH D (Princeton) 1975. He studied piano at the CMM and in 1966 won a Woodrow Wilson national fellowship, the first of several such awards.

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    William Edwin Collin

    William Edwin Collin, literary critic (b at Oakenshaw, Eng 9 May 1893; d at London, Ont 21 Dec 1984). His The White Savannahs (1936, repr 1975), a modernist study of 9 Canadian poets, established him as a major Canadian critic. Collin applied the ideas of such writers as T.S.

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    William Gibson

    William Gibson's best-known novels comprise the Neuromancer trilogy; Neuromancer (1984), which features a data thief protagonist who can link his mind with the world-spanning computer matrix, won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K.

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    William Ford Gibson (Profile)

    Gibson has become adept at viewing the world from a mind-warping distance. In essence, that is what he does in his writing. The 47-year-old author, who was raised in Virginia but has lived in Canada since 1969, has reinvented the landscape of science fiction.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 5, 1995

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    William France

    William (Edward) France. Organist, composer, pianist, teacher, b Milberta, north of North Bay, Ont, 21 Apr 1912, d Ottawa 23 Nov 1985; FCCO 1937, B MUS (Toronto) 1941, honorary FRCCO 1980. He had piano lessons with his mother and later with Catherine Gibson.

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    William Frederick Butler

    His importance in Newfoundland architecture begins with, and is best exemplified by, his design of Winterholme for the St John's merchant and industrialist, Marmaduke Winter, in 1904.

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    William George Richardson Hind

    William George Richardson Hind, artist (born 12 June 1833 in Nottingham, England; died 18 November 1889 in Sussex, NB). British-born Hind was an illustrator, painter and watercolourist who produced sketches and paintings of landscapes and people in Canada. He accompanied expeditions to the Moisie River in 1861 and to the Cariboo gold fields in 1862. 

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    William Goodridge Roberts

    By the early 1950s, he had national prominence through his participation in numerous Canadian and international exhibitions, and in 1952 was one of 4 artists in Canada's first official participation at the Venice Biennale. He became the first artist-in-residence at UNB in 1959.

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    William Grey

    Portugal Cove, Newfoundland the Parsonage and Church by William Grey. This is a sketch of his house and his parish church and both were designed by him (courtesy Royal Institute of British Architects).William Grey William Grey, clergyman, architect (b at England 27 Oct 1819; d at Exeter, Eng 1 Sept 1872). If Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland, is to be credited with imposing the architecture of the Gothic revival on Newfoundland, then William Grey must...

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    William Henry Anderson

    W.H. (William Henry) Anderson. Composer, choir director, tenor, voice teacher, b London 21 Apr 1882, d Winnipeg 12 Apr 1955. He studied in London, first with Battistini and Garcia, then at the GSM on scholarship.

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    William Henry Bartlett

    From this time until his death, Bartlett travelled widely in the Middle East, Europe and America, making hundreds of sketches for engravings in more than 40 books, 13 of which he wrote and illustrated himself.

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    William Henry Clapp

    Living in Montréal from 1908 to 1915, Clapp exhibited some of the most advanced impressionist canvases in Canada. Almost a pointillist in touch, his surfaces vibrate with broken colour and dappled light.

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    William Henry Drummond

    William Henry Drummond, poet (b at Mohill, County Leitrim, Ire 13 Apr 1854; d at Cobalt, Ont 6 Apr 1907). Drummond arrived in Canada with his parents in 1864. He studied at Bishop's and practised as a general physician in Montréal and Brome County, Qué.

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    William Henry Warren

    William Henry Warren. Organist, teacher, composer, b USA, d Montreal 19 Dec 1856. He emigrated to Toronto, becoming organist at St James' Cathedral in 1834.

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    William Herbert Dray

    William Herbert Dray, philosopher, professor (born at Montréal PQ 23 June 1921; died at Toronto ON 6 Aug 2009). After serving as a navigator in the RCAF (SeeMILITARY AVIATION) during the SECOND WORLD WAR, William H.

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