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Guitarist, composer, b Montreal, of Scottish-Mi'kmaq parents, 19 Nov 1960; BFA (York) 1983.
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Guitarist, composer, b Montreal, of Scottish-Mi'kmaq parents, 19 Nov 1960; BFA (York) 1983.
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Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist, vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording engineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940. After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bass and the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taught on all instruments.
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(William) Don or 'D.T.' Thompson. Saxophonist, composer, arranger, b Drumheller, Alberta, 19 Sep 1932, d Vancouver 21 Mar 2004. He played saxophone and clarinet at 12 and began promoting his own jazz concerts, 'Jammin' the Blues,' in Edmonton at 17.
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Don (Donald John Alexander) Wright. Choir conductor, arranger, composer, educator, b Strathroy, near London, Ont, 6 Sep 1908, d Toronto 27 June 2006; BA classics (Western Ont) 1933, honorary D Mus (Western) 1986, honorary L Mus (Western Ont Conservatory) 1987, honorary D Mus (Victoria) 2001.
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Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, fur trader, railroad financier, diplomat (born 6 August 1820 in Forres, Scotland; died 21 January 1914 in London, England). Smith was a leading businessman, politician, diplomat and philanthropist of the 19th and early 20th century. He was governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, president of the Bank of Montreal and high commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom. Smith also played an important role in the development of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and the Royal Victoria College for women at McGill University.
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Donald Allan Ramsay, CM, FRSC, FRS, physicist (born 11 July 1922 in London, England; died 25 October 2007 in Ottawa, ON).
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A member of the McGill faculty from 1975 to 1992, Steven then moved on to head the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York at Purchase.
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Donald (Munro) Bell. Bass-baritone, b South Burnaby, BC, 19 Jun 1934. In 1948, while still a pupil of Nancy Paisley Benn in Vancouver, he sang with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
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In his lively, humorous, original and often biting style he portrayed such personalities as Leonard COHEN, Lord THOMSON of Fleet, Ferguson JENKINS, Malcolm LOWRY and the DIONNE QUINTUPLETS.
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Donald (George) Brown. Lyric baritone, teacher, b Nelson, BC (5 April 1925 – 7 October 2017); ARCT 1949, LRCT 1951. After early studies with Mrs P. Ferguson in Nelson, he studied in Toronto with George Lambert, Emmy Heim, and for three months with Pauline Donalda.
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Donald Alfred Chant, OC, FRSC, scientist, educator, environmentalist, executive (born 30 September 1928 in Toronto, ON; died 23 December 2007 in Kingston, ON). Chant was one of the foremost experts on the phytoseiid family of predatory mites. A professor of zoology and administrator at the University of Toronto, he was also a prominent environmental leader and advocate.
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Donald Grant Creighton, historian (b at Toronto 15 July 1902; d at Brooklin, Ont 19 Dec 1979).
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Donald Deschênes. Folklorist, b St-Octave-de-l'Avenir, Gaspésie, Que, 23 Jun 1952; BA (Laval) 1976, M MUS ethnomusicology (Laval) 1988. In addition to musicological research, he has performed folk music and his own compositions beginning in 1975.
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Donald Farquharson, politician, premier of PEI (b at Mermaid, PEI 27 July 1834; d at Charlottetown 26 June 1903). A teacher by training, Farquharson subsequently entered the wholesale and shipping business and in 1876 won election to the PEI Assembly as a Liberal.
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