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    David Suzuki (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 5, 2007. Partner content is not updated. On the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 9, emergency crews raced to the provincial cabinet offices on the Vancouver waterfront after a receptionist's hands were left tingling from a suspicious powder in a piece of mail.

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    David Tamblyn

    (Robert) David Tamblyn, bow maker, born at Ottawa 17 Apr 1946.

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    David Thompson

    David Thompson, explorer, cartographer (born 30 April 1770 in London, England; died 10 February 1857 in Longueuil, Canada East). David Thomson was called “the greatest land geographer who ever lived.” He walked or paddled 80,000 km or more in his life, mapping most of western Canada, parts of the east and the northwestern United States. And like so many geniuses, his achievements were only recognized after his death.

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  • Editorial

    David Thompson and the Mapping of Canada

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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    David Thomson

    Thomson, David. Educator, choir conductor, b Portree, Isle of Skye, 27 Sep 1895, d Saint John, NB, 23 Feb 1979. His family settled in Saint John, NB, in 1914.

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    David Wiffen

    David Wiffen. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, b England 11 Mar 1942. He moved to Canada in 1958 and began his career as a blues and folk singer in Yorkville (Toronto) coffeehouses in the early 1960s.

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    David Wilcox

    David (Karl William) Wilcox. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, b Montreal 13 Jul 1949. Raised in Toronto, he began his career there in the early 1970s with Ian and Sylvia Tyson's Great Speckled Bird, then toured and recorded with the US singer Maria Muldaur.

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    David McFadden

    David William McFadden, poet, novelist (born 11 October 1940 in Hamilton, ON; died 6 June 2018 in Toronto, ON). Winner of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, David McFadden wrote more than 20 books of poetry, three novels and several travel books.

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    David Schindler

    David William Schindler, OC, FRSC, FRS, AOE, scientist, limnologist (born 3 August 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota; died 4 March 2021 in Brisco, BC). Schindler was an outspoken researcher who advanced the understanding, protection and conservation of Canada’s fresh waters. 

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    David Willson

    David Willson, religious leader (b in Dutchess County, NY 7 June 1778; d at Sharon, Canada W 16 Jan 1866). Having disagreed with the Quakers in 1812, he formed his own sect, the Children of Peace, promoting peace, love and equality among all people.

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    David Wren

    David Wren. Guitar builder, b Toronto 9 Jul 1952. After apprenticing 1973-7 with Jean Larrivée, he opened his own shop in Toronto.

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    David Young

    David (Anthony) Young. Bassist, composer, b Winnipeg 29 Jan 1940; BA economics (Manitoba) 1964, B COMM (Manitoba) 1966. A pupil in 1962 of William Curtis at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, and 1967-9 of Thomas Monohan at the RCMT, Young has pursued a dual career in classical music and jazz.

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    David Zafer

    David Anthony Zafer, teacher, violinist, conductor (born 2 April 1934 in London, England; died 20 April 2019 in Toronto, ON); naturalized Canadian 1973.

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    David Zeisberger

    David Zeisberger, Moravian clergyman (b near Ostrava, Czech 11 Apr 1721; d in Ohio 17 Nov 1808). Beginning in the 1740s he carried on Moravian missionary work among the Indians of Pennsylvania and founded a settlement in Ohio.

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    Davidee Mannumi

    Davidee Mannumi, also known as Manumi "B", sculptor, (b Cape Dorset region, SW Baffin Island 9 Sept 1919; d there 1979). Mannumi immigrated to Iqaluit [Frobisher Bay] in the Dew Line construction period of the mid-1950s but later returned to Cape Dorset.

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