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    Diane Dufresne

    Diane Dufresne, CQ, CM, singer, actress, writer, painter (born 30 September 1944 in Montreal, QC). The first female “rocker” of the francophone world, Diane Dufresne is a popular singer whose dramatic manner and highly distinctive, provocative vocal style have been strongly identified with Quebec. Often compared to Édith Piaf for her sensitive and powerful performances, Dufresne was one of the most popular performers in France in the 1980s. Nicknamed "La Diva" and "La Dufresne," her performances in Quebec are synonymous with sold-out houses. She has won the Governor General's Performing Arts Award and several Félix Awards and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. A Member of the Order of Canada, she is also a Chevalière of the Ordre national du Québec and France’s Ordre des arts et des lettres and Legion of Honour.

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    Diane Jones Konihowski

    Diane Helen Jones Konihowski, OC, pentathlete, administrator (born 7 March 1951 in Vancouver, BC). Diane Jones Konihowski won gold medals for Canada in women’s pentathlon at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games and at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. She was considered the gold-medal favourite for the 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, which Canada boycotted. She also served as director of the Canadian Olympic Committee and as Canada’s chef de mission at the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney. A winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s top female athlete and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Jones Konihowski has been inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Diane Juster

    Diane Juster (b Rivet). Singer-songwriter, pianist, b Montreal 15 Mar 1946; BA (Montreal) 1966. She studied piano with Marie-Thérèse Paquin and Mme Legoff; encouraged by Stéphane Venne, she began composing in 1971.

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    Diane Oxner

    Diane Oxner. Soprano, teacher, b Lunenburg, NS, 10 Nov 1928; B MUS (Curtis) 1954. Her mother, Pearl Young Oxner (1899-1968), was active locally for 50 years as a contralto, a teacher, and the conductor of the Lunenburg Male Choir, which performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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    Diane Schoemperlen

    Diane Schoemperlen, short-story writer, novelist, teacher, editor (b at Thunder Bay, Ont 9 July 1954). Diane Schoemperlen grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont, and attended Lakehead University. After graduating in 1976, she spent a summer studying at the Banff Centre, under such writers as W.O.

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    Diane Tell

    Diane Tell (b Fortin). Singer, songwriter, guitarist, b Quebec City, to a Canadian father and US mother, 24 Dec 1957. Her childhood was spent between Paris, Montreal and Val-d'Or, Que. She studied violin and classical guitar at the CMM, and jazz guitar at Saint-Laurent College.

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    Dianne Warren

    Dianne Warren, fiction writer, playwright (b at Ottawa 28 Aug 1950). Dianne Warren grew up in Saskatchewan and attended the UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, where she did coursework with writers such as Joan Givner and Ken MITCHELL, and graduated in 1976 with a BFA in visual arts.

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    Dick Armin

    Richard ('Dick') Armin. Cellist, b Winkler, Man, 13 Aug 1944 (Paul's twin); performance certificate (Indiana) 1963. He studied cello 1957-61 with Thaddeus Markevitch in Detroit, in 1961 with Luigi Silva in New York, and 1962-4 with János Starker at Indiana University.

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    Dick Bond

    John Richard (Dick) Bond, OC, OOnt, FRS, FRSC, cosmologist (born 15 May 1950 in Toronto, ON). Bond is known for his work in astrophysics and cosmology, especially for his investigations of the early universe. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has described him as “a Godfather of Canada’s now vibrant internationally recognized theoretical cosmology community.”

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    Dick Damron

    Dick (b Joseph Glenn) Damron. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, banjoist, b Bentley, near Red Deer, Alta, 22 Mar 1934. He was heard early in his career in both country and rock bands, including the Musical Round-Up Gang (on CKDR radio, Red Deer) and the Nightriders.

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    Dick Nolan

    Richard Francis Nolan, singer, songwriter, guitarist (born 4 February 1939 in Corner Brook, NL; died 13 December 2005 in Carbonear, NL).

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    Dick Patrick

    Dominic (Dick) Patrick, war hero, activist (born 1920 in Saik’uz First Nation, near Vanderhoof, BC; died 1980 in Saik’uz First Nation). 

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    Dick Todd

    Dick Todd. Singer (baritone), b Montreal 4 Aug 1914, d ? He sang at 17 with George Sims' dance band at Belmont Park in Montreal and was subsequently heard on local and national (CBC) radio, the latter with the orchestras of Allan McIver and Lucio Agostini. He moved to New York in 1938.

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    Diedre Irons

    Diedre (Allison) Irons. Pianist, teacher, b Winnipeg 9 Mar 1945; LRSM 1965, B MUS (Manitoba) 1965, Artist Diploma (Curtis) 1968. After early training with Megan Howes, Diedre Irons began studies at 11 with S.C.

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    Dimitri Dimakopoulos

    Dimitri Dimakopoulos, architect, urban designer (b at Athens, Greece 14 Sept 1929; d at Montréal 7 Nov 1995).

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