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John Inglis
John Inglis, Church of England bishop (b at New York 9 Dec 1777; d at London, Eng 27 Oct 1850). Son of Charles INGLIS, the Church of England's first bishop of Nova Scotia, he entered the ministry in 1802, after studying at King's
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John Joe Sark
John Joe Sark, Mi'kmaw activist, spiritual leader, author, keptin (captain) (born August 1945 on Lennox Island, PEI; died 8 January 2023 in Johnstons River, PEI). John Joe Sark was an ardent advocate for Indigenous rights, who devoted his energies toward fighting discrimination and injustice.
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John Joseph Kelso
John Joseph Kelso, journalist and social reformer (born 31 March 1864 in Dundalk, Ireland; died 30 September 1935 in Toronto, Ontario). A lifelong advocate for the rights of children and animals, Kelso founded the Toronto Humane Society, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Fresh Air Fund and Santa Claus Fund. Kelso left a legacy as an early founder of the social services system in Ontario.
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John M Whyte
John M. (Marchant) Whyte. Evangelist, hymn writer, singer, b Paris, Canada West (Ontario), 8 Jun 1850, d Toronto 17 Mar 1927. He studied at the University of Toronto and devoted himself to evangelistic and temperance work.
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John Macdonald
John Macdonald, merchant, churchman, philanthropist, politician (b at Perth, Scot 27 Dec 1824; d at Toronto 4 Feb 1890). Macdonald accompanied his officer father to NS in 1838.
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John Medley
John Medley, bishop (b at Chelsea, Eng 19 Dec 1804; d at Fredericton 9 Sept 1892). As the first Anglican bishop of Fredericton, Medley spent 47 years building up the church physically and spiritually. Educated at Wadham College,
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John Medley
John Medley. Clergyman, choirmaster, composer, b London 19 Dec 1804, d Fredericton 9 Sep 1892. Medley, the Oxford-educated first Anglican bishop (1845) of Fredericton, had studied the writings of the 19th-century musical theorist Adolf Bernhard Marx.
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John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen)
John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen), Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Chief, Indian Department interpreter, school master (born 16 December 1770 at Dunfermline, Scotland; died c.1831). John Norton was the son of a Cherokee father and Scottish mother (surname Anderson). Norton later claimed to be the son of a Cherokee war chief, but his father had been taken as a boy by British soldiers after they had destroyed the Cherokee village of Kuwoki (also Keowee) in South Carolina.
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John Paul II Challenged Tyranny
THERE WERE NO INQUISITIONS, no holy crusades, no emperors kneeling in the snow. But when John Paul II took the stage in Warsaw on a sunny day in June 1979, he was challenging an empire as surely as medieval pontiffs grappled with the secular powers of their age.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 11, 2005
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John Paul II Championed Traditional Values
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a densely written treatise on love and marriage by a young Polish bishop was enough to raise eyebrows in the hierarchy of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 11, 2005
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John Paul II (Obituary)
"The Holy Father died this evening at 21:37 in his private apartment. All the procedures outlined in the apostolic Constitution 'Universi Dominici Gregis' that was written by John Paul II on Feb. 22, 1996, have been put in motion.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 11, 2005
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John Snow
John Snow, or Intebeja Mani, meaning “Walking Seal,” Indigenous spokesman, philosopher, statesman, spiritual leader (born 31 January 1933 at Morley, AB; died 15 June 2006). Snow was the first Stoney-Nakoda ordained in the United Church of Canada (1963).
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John Strachan
Strachan lost his father when he was 14. He entered the University of Aberdeen at only 16 and supported his widowed mother through teaching.
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John Sunday
John Sunday (called Shah-wun-dais, meaning "sultry heat"), Mississauga (Ojibwe) chief, Methodist missionary (born 1795 near Black River, New York; died 14 December 1875 in Alderville, ON).
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John Tanner
John Tanner, "The Falcon," scout, interpreter, amateur ethnologist (b in Virginia c 1780; d at Sault Ste Marie, Ont 1846?). Son of a clergyman who migrated to Kentucky, Tanner was captured by Shawnee about 1789 and sold to the Ottawa.
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