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David (Robertshaw) Essig. Guitarist, mandolinist, kayagum player, singer, composer, record producer, radio host, b Frederick, Md, 2 Dec 1945, naturalized Canadian 1978; BA (George Washington) 1967. He began playing the guitar at 16 in blues and bluegrass styles.
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David Fennario (David William Wiper), playwright, political candidate (born on 26 April 1947 in Montreal; died 16 September 2023). Focusing on working-class themes, his most notable piece is Balconville ― Canada’s first bilingual play.
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David Fife, farmer, wheat breeder (born 1805 in Kincardine, Scotland; died 9 January 1877 near Peterborough, ON). Fife is recognized for introducing Red Fife wheat to Canada. This variety of wheat became the male parent of Marquis wheat.
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Alison Snowden, animator, writer, voice actor, producer (b at Nottingham, UK 4 Apr 1958); David Fine, animator, writer, producer (b at Toronto 13 Sept 1960).
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Following Skylark's break-up in Los Angeles, he stayed in Los Angeles and began working as a producer and songwriter.
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David Walter Foster, OC, OBC, record producer, composer, arranger, pianist (born 1 November 1949 in Victoria, BC). David Foster is one of the most commercially successful and influential pop music producers of all time. He has been called “the real king of pop,” the “master of bombastic pop kitsch” and “the Hit Man.” He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Chicago, Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, Céline Dion, Whitney Houston, Josh Groban and Michael Bublé, and for the successful charity single “Tears Are Not Enough.” He has produced such international No. 1 hits as “I Swear,” “The Glory of Love,” “The Power of Love,” “Un-break My Heart” and “I Will Always Love You.” Foster is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of British Columbia, he has won five Juno Awards and 16 Grammy Awards.
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Françoise David, CQ, community organizer, politician and feminist activist (born 13 January 1948 in Montreal, QC). Chair of the Fédération des femmes du Québec from 1994 to 2001, David was elected member of the National Assembly of Quebecin 2012 and was co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire from 2006 to 2017.
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His first stage play, Leaving Home (1972), produced and directed by Bill GLASSCO at Toronto's TARRAGON THEATRE, portrayed with humour and powerful emotion the generational conflict and cultural alienation within a Toronto family of transplanted Newfoundlanders.
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David Gardner, actor, director, educator (born 4 May 1928 in Toronto, ON; died 8 February 2020 in Toronto). David Gardner was a theatre professional who brought a passion for Canadian drama to performance, education and political forums. He had a long and distinguished career as an actor, director, teacher and historian, and was a major player in the development of Canadian theatre. He played some 800 roles on stage, radio, film and television and directed for both stage and television. He taught at the University of Toronto and at York University. His work has been published widely in Canadian encyclopedias and journals.
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David Gilmour, novelist, film critic, journalist (born at London, Ont 22 December 1949). David Gilmour grew up in Toronto, where he attended Upper Canada College.
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David (Gordon) Duke. Composer, educator, writer, b Vancouver 20 Aug 1950, B MUS (British Columbia) 1971, MA (North Carolina) 1973. He studied violin 1956-71 with Kenneth Yunke and Douglas Stewart and composition 1970-5 with Jean Coulthard.
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David Georges Greyeyes-Steele, Plains Cree farmer, multi-sport athlete, soldier, war hero, First Nation chief, federal public servant (born 31 December 1914 on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, SK; died 22 July 1996 in Saskatoon, SK). Greyeyes-Steele served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War and was awarded the Greek War Cross.
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David Hunter Hubel, FRS, Nobel Laureate, neurobiologist (born 27 February 1926 in Windsor, ON; died 22 September 2013 in Lincoln, Massachusetts). Dr. David Hubel advanced our understanding of how our eyes transmit and reconstitute the images we see moment by moment to our brains. He was a research scientist who used innovative craftsmanship to design and create the instruments and procedures he used to conduct studies on the visual cortex of the brain. His meticulous observations revolutionized cognitive neuroscience and his pioneering approach to the recording of individual neuronal cells propelled the field forward.
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David Harry Walker, army officer, novelist (b at Dundee, Scot 9 Feb 1911; d 5 March 1992). Raised in Scotland and England, Walker was aide-de-camp to Canadian Gov Gen John BUCHAN 1938-39, a POW in Europe 1940-45, and comptroller to the viceroy of India 1946-47.
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David Gordon Helwig, author (born 5 April 1938 in Toronto, Ontario; died 16 October 2018 in Montague, PEI). David Helwig grew up in Toronto and at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. He attended the University of Toronto, where he earned a BA, and then completed an MA at the University of Liverpool. First publishing as a poet, Helwig moved on to drama and fiction, including a series of novels focusing on characters living in Kingston, where Helwig lived for many years teaching at Queen's University. He was appointed Prince Edward Island's poet laureate in 2008 and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2009.
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