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    Samuel Black

    Samuel Black, fur trader, explorer (b at Pitsligo, Scot 3 May 1780; d at Kamloops, New Caledonia [BC] 8 Feb 1841). He joined the XY Co, which was absorbed by the NORTH WEST CO in 1804.

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    Samuel Gesser

    (photo by Lois Siegel)Samuel (Sam) Gesser. Impresario, producer, record distributor, b Montreal 7 Jan 1930, d Montreal 1 Apr 2008. He worked 1949-59 as a commercial graphic artist. During those years he also wrote more than 200 scripts of various kinds for CBC radio and CFCF-TV (now CTV Montreal). In the 1950s, as the first Canadian representative of the US Folkways label, Sam Gesser produced more than 100 albums, recording many Canadian artists including Hélène...

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    Samuel James Hungerford

    Samuel James Hungerford, railway executive (b near Bedford, Qué 16 July 1872; d at Farnham, Qué 7 Oct 1955).

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    Samuel Nordheimer

    Samuel Nordheimer. Music dealer, publisher, financier, b Memmelsdorf, Bavaria, 6 Feb 1824, d Toronto 29 Jun 1912. He was a partner with his brother Abraham in the formation of A. & S. Nordheimer music store and publishing firm. 

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    Samuel Russell Warren

    Samuel Russell Warren. Organ builder, b Tiverton, RI, 29 Mar 1809, d Montreal 30 Jul 1882. Warren was the outstanding figure in Canadian organ building during the 19th century. After emigrating from the USA, he established himself as an organ builder in Montreal in 1836.

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    Samuel Steinberg

    Samuel Steinberg, grocer (b in Hungary 1905; d at Montréal 24 May 1978). In 1909 the Steinberg family immigrated to Canada and established a small grocery store in Montréal. Samuel and his 4 brothers began working in it in 1917 and turned it into one of Canada's largest supermarket chains.

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    Samuel Zimmerman

    Samuel Zimmerman, businessman (b in Huntington County, Pa 17 Mar 1815; d near Hamilton, Canada W 12 Mar 1857). The best-known railway contractor of his time, he was notorious for his free-wheeling business methods and political connections.

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    Sid Engen

    Sid (Hanson) Engen. Violin maker, b near Oslo, Norway, 9 Nov 1902, d Dauphin, Man, 23 Jun 1976. His family arrived in Winnipeg in 1905, then moved to Saskatchewan before settling in Dauphin in 1919.

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    Sidney Carter

    Sidney Robert Carter, art and antique dealer, photographer (b at Toronto 18 Feb 1880; d at Montréal 27 Mar 1956). Carter was an early advocate of pictorialism in photography, and by 1901-02 was exhibiting in London, the US and Canada.

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    Sidney Robert Blair

    Sidney Robert Blair (Bob), CC, industrialist (born 13 August 1929 in Port of Spain Trinidad; died 18 April 2009 in Vancouver, BC).

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    Sidney Smith Shatford

    Sidney Smith Shatford, business executive (b at Hubbards, NS 1 Dec 1864; d at Halifax 8 June 1956). In partnership with his brother, he founded NS's first oil business.

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    Simeon Perkins

    Simeon Perkins, merchant, diarist (b at Norwich, Conn 24 Feb 1735; d at Liverpool, NS 9 May 1812). He arrived in Liverpool in 1762 and rapidly became the leading local merchant, dealing in fish and lumber, building sawmills and

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    Simon McGillivray

    Simon McGillivray, merchant (b at Stratherrick, Scot 1783; d at London, Eng 9 June 1840), brother of William MCGILLIVRAY and Duncan MCGILLIVRAY. Owing to physical disability, he did not enter the Canadian FUR TRADE actively like

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    Simon McTavish

    Simon McTavish, fur-trade merchant (b in Stratherrick, Scot c 1750; d at Montréal 6 July 1804). He immigrated to North America at age 13, probably as an apprentice to a merchant. After engaging in the fur trade out of

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    Simon Peter Gunanoot

    Simon Peter Gunanoot, also Simon Peter Johnson, Gitksan businessman, outlaw (b at Kispiox, BC c 1874; d of pneumonia NE of Stewart, BC Oct 1933).

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