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    Conn Smythe

    Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe, "Conn," sports entrepreneur (b at Toronto 1 Feb 1895; d there 18 Nov 1980). He was awarded the Military Cross in WWI and was severely injured by shrapnel in WWII. His reputation for

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    Connie Gault

    Gault's first short story appeared in Grain in 1981 and she has since published fiction in literary journals and the anthologies Saskatchewan Gold, The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English, and Best Canadian Stories.

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    Connie Kaldor

    Connie (Isabelle) Kaldor. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Regina 9 May 1953; BFA (Alberta) 1975, hon DFA 2009.

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    Connor McDavid

    Connor McDavid, hockey player (born 13 January 1997 in Richmond Hill, ON). A two-time National Hockey League All-Star, McDavid plays for the Edmonton Oilers. One of the best skaters in the game, McDavid is also an elite playmaker. Since breaking into the NHL in 2015, McDavid has established himself as one of the most dynamic offensive stars in the league. He has won the Art Ross Trophy (2017, 2018), Ted Lindsay Award (2017, 2018) and Hart Memorial Trophy (2017). McDavid has also won gold medals with Team Canada at the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship (2013), IIHF World Junior Championship (2015) and IIHF World Championship (2016).

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    Conrad Bernier

    Conrad Bernier. Pianist, organist, composer, teacher, b Quebec City 9 May 1904, d Washington, DC, 7 Nov 1988; honorary D MUS (St Francis, Loretto, Pa) 1962. His father, Joseph-Arthur, was his first teacher of solfège, organ, and piano. He continued piano study with Berthe Roy.

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    Conrad Black (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 11, 1996. Partner content is not updated.

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    Conrad Black's Fall

    After Conrad Black's career totalled last week, I looked back through the book I had written about him in 1982, when he was only 38.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 1, 2003

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    Conrad Gauthier

    Conrad Gauthier. Folklorist, singer, actor, b Montreal 8 Aug 1885, d there 14 Feb 1964. After some commercial training he worked in theatre, founding in 1902 the Cercle du Drapeau and later the Cercle Lapierre.

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    Conrad Laforte

    Conrad Laforte. Ethnologist, librarian-archivist, teacher, born Kénogami (Jonquière), Que, 10 Nov 1921, died Québec  4 Sep 2008; BA (Laval) 1946, BLS (Montreal) 1949, L LITT (Laval) 1968, diplôme d'études supérieures (Laval) 1970, PH D (Laval) 1977.

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    Conrad Latour

    Conrad Latour. Choirmaster, musicologist, teacher, editor, b Montreal 3 Dec 1899, d there 23 Oct 1975. After attending secondary school in Ottawa, he entered the Oblate Order in 1918 and was choirmaster 1920-30 at the Scolasticat St-Joseph in Ottawa. He was ordained priest in 1925.

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    Conrad Black

    Conrad Moffat Black, Lord Black of Crossharbour, newspaper publisher, author, columnist and historian (born 25 August 1944 in Montreal, QC). Conrad Black owned and published a large network of newspapers in Canada and abroad between 1969 and 2004. He was convicted of mail fraud and obstruction of justice in 2007 and served a prison sentence in the United States. However, Black was pardoned for his convictions in 2019 by US president Donald Trump. He is a well-known author and columnist on history and politics.

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    Constance Beresford-Howe

    Constance Beresford-Howe, novelist (b at Montréal 10 Nov 1922). The author of 10 novels and various magazine pieces, Beresford-Howe was educated at McGill (BA, 1945, MA, 1946) and at Brown University (PhD, 1965).

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    Constance Channon-Douglass

    Constance Channon-Douglass, pianist, teacher (born 20 December 1937 in Calgary, AB; died 14 November 2014 in Rome, Italy). ARCT 1956, diplomas (Juilliard) 1962, 1963.

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    Constance Fisher

    Constance Fisher. Stage director, soprano, b Hamilton, Ont, 3 Oct 1928; ARCT piano 1950, ARCT voice 1951.

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    Constance Lindsay Skinner

    Constance Lindsay Skinner, writer, editor, journalist (born at Quesnel, British Columbia 7 Dec 1877; died at New York, NY 27 Mar 1939). Born in rural British Columbia, Constance Lindsay Skinner moved to Vancouver in 1891.

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