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    Donna Grescoe

    Donna Grescoe, violinist, teacher (born 17 November 1927 in Winnipeg, MB; died 17 August 2012 in Richmond, BC). 

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    Donna Morrissey

    Donna Morrissey, novelist, scriptwriter (b at The Beaches, Nfld 13 January 1956). Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, an outport community on the northwest coast of NEWFOUNDLAND.

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    Donna Strickland

    Donna Theo Strickland, CC, physicist (born 27 May 1959 in Guelph, ON). Donna Strickland is a pioneering physicist, known for her work on ultrafast lasers. She is currently a professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. She has authored more than 90 publications and has made seminal contributions to the field of laser technology. In 2018, Strickland was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on the development of laser technology.

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    Donnacona

    Donnacona, leader (died ca. 1539 in France). Donnacona was the St. Lawrence Iroquoian leader of the village of Stadacona, near present-day Quebec City. He was leader during Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534–36.

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    Donovan Bailey

    Donovan Anthony Bailey, OC, O.Ont., track and field sprinter (born 16 December 1967 in Manchester Parish, Jamaica). Donovan Bailey won the gold medal for Canada in the men’s 100m at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, setting a world record with a time of 9.84 seconds. He later won a second Olympic gold medal when he led Team Canada to a first-place finish in the men’s 4x100m relay. During his athletic career, he also won four medals (three gold and one silver) at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships. He has been inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Dora de Pédery-Hunt

    Dora De Pédery-Hunt, sculptor (b at Budapest, Hungary 16 Nov 1913, d at Toronto 29 Sept 2008). Dora de Pédery-Hunt completed her studies in sculpture and design in Budapest in 1943 and immigrated to Canada in 1948.

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    Dora Mavor Moore

    Dora Mavor Moore, actress, teacher (b at Glasgow, Scot 8 Apr 1888; d at Toronto 15 May 1979). After studying elocution at Toronto's Margaret Eaton School of Expression, she became the first Canadian to graduate from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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    Doreen Hall

    Doreen (Foy) Hall. Educator, violinist, b Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland, 24 May 1921; LRCM 1954, Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1954, FRCMT 1997. Raised in Listowel, near Kitchener, Ont, she studied violin with her father, W.G.

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    Doreen Hume

    (Edith) Doreen Hume (b Hulme). Soprano, b Sault Ste Marie, Ont, 14 Jul 1926. She studied voice with John Blackburn in Sault Ste Marie and 1945-53 with George Lambert at the RCMT, and was soloist 1946-53 at Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto.

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    Dorimène Desjardins

    Marie-Clara Dorimène Desjardins (née Roy), co-founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (born 17 September 1858 in Sorel, QC; died 14 June 1932 in Lévis, QC).

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    Doris Hilda Anderson

    Doris Hilda Anderson CC, writer, editor, activist (born 10 November 1921 in Medicine Hat, AB; died 2 March 2007 in Toronto, ON). She was Chatelaine’s editor between 1957 and 1977. Anderson was an important advocate for women. During the constitutional debates of the 1980s (see Patriation of the Constitution), she pushed for women’s rights to be recognized. She also headed the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1982–84.

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    Doris Lewis

    Doris Lewis (b Mills). Teacher, soprano, b Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ont, 1908, d Vancouver 29 Dec 1966. She studied piano in Fort William and voice (with Ruth Morgan) and piano in Brandon, Man, before moving to Winnipeg.

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    Doris McCarthy

    Doris McCarthy, CM, painter, teacher, writer (Born 7 July 1910 in Calgary, AB; died 25 November 2010 in Toronto, ON). Doris McCarthy is best known for her vast array of abstracted Canadian landscape paintings.

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    Dorothea Palmer

    Dorothea Ferguson (née Palmer), birth control advocate, social worker (born 1908 in England; died 5 November 1992 in Ottawa, ON). Dorothea Palmer was arrested in 1936 for advertising birth control to women in a working-class neighbourhood in Ottawa. She was cleared of charges after a lengthy trial proved her work had been for the public good. Her acquittal was a major victory for the birth control movement in Canada.

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    Dorothy Allan Park

    Dorothy (Isobel) Allan Park (b Allan, m Park). Soprano, teacher, choir director, b Aberdeen, Scotland, 3 May 1896, d Toronto 11 Aug 1978. She began musical studies with her father, a professional musician, and continued in London with Giovanni Celrici. The family moved to Toronto in 1908.

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