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    Édouard Lebel

    Édouard Lebel. Tenor, civil servant, b Wotton, near Sherbrooke, Canada East (Quebec), 11 Dec 1865, d Montreal 17 Feb 1939. He studied voice with Achille Fortier and Guillaume Couture in Montreal.

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    Édouard Lock

    With Human Sex (1985), Lock's harsh, urban, performance-art-oriented style emphasizing maximum risk, high energy and gestural detail began to jell. Human Sex won a Bessie Award for choreography in 1986.

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    Édouard Montpetit

    Édouard Montpetit, MSRC, lawyer, economist, professor, intellectual (born 26 September 1881 in Montmagny, QC; died 27 March 1954 in Montreal, QC). A key advocate of the modernization of French Canada through the dissemination of the principles of political economy, he championed national traditions against those who believed that they only hampered the progress of the nation. In doing so, he achieved the rare feat of appealing to all audiences.

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    Édouard-Raymond Fabre

    Édouard-Raymond Fabre, bookseller, politician, mayor of Montréal 1849–51, Patriote (born 15 September 1799 in Montréal, Lower Canada; died 16 July 1854 in Montréal, Canada East). Known as the “first real bookseller in Lower Canada,” Fabre’s bookstore not only provided patrons with books and supplies, but it was also a meeting place for the Patriotes. A devoted Patriote himself, he played a major role in the creation of the Maison canadienne de commerce and la Banque du peuple as well as the survival of La Minerve and the Vindicator and Canadian Advertiser. Following the 1837–38 Rebellions, Fabre helped guarantee the return of political exiles to Lower Canada, including Louis-Joseph Papineau, and was the mayor of Montréal from 1849 to 1851.

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    Édouard Woolley

    Édouard (Joseph) Woolley. Tenor, teacher, actor, composer, b Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 31 Mar 1916, naturalized Canadian 1958, d Miami, Fla, 22 Dec 1991; D MUS (Montreal) 1947.

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    Édouard-Zotique Massicotte

    Édouard-Zotique Massicotte (pseudonyms: Blondel, Cabrette, Mistigri). Folklorist, historian, archivist, poet, dramatist, botanist, b Montreal 24 Dec 1867, d there 8 Nov 1947; LL B (Laval) 1895, honorary D LITT (Montreal) 1936.

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    Edward A. Lacey

    Edward Allan Lacey, academic, poet, teacher, translator (born 7 July 1937 in Linsday, ON; died 1995 in Toronto, ON). Edward A. Lacey was part of a trend in the 1960s towards more openly gay writing in Canada. He studied French and German at the University of Toronto and received his MA in linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with writing the first openly gay book of poetry in Canada: The Forms of Loss (1965), a collection of 26 poems that was financed by Dennis Lee and Margaret Atwood.

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    Edward A. Watson

    Edward A. Watson, veterinarian, pathologist, researcher (b in Devon, Eng 2 Jan 1879; d at Victoria 12 Mar 1945). He came to Canada in 1896 and, with a brother, homesteaded in Saskatchewan.

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    Edward Ahenakew

    Edward Ahenakew, Anglican clergyman of Cree ancestry (born 11 June 1885 at Sandy Lake Indian Reserve [now the Ahtahkakoop First Nation] in central Saskatchewan; died 12 July 1961 in Dauphin, Manitoba). Proud of his heritage and a firm believer in the Christian faith, Ahenakew dedicated his life to missionary work on reserves, promoting the Cree language and bettering education on reserves.

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    Edward Alexander Partridge

    Edward Alexander Partridge, farmer, farm leader, author (b at Whites' Corners [Dalston] near Barrie, Canada W 5 Nov 1862; d at Victoria 3 Aug 1931).

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    Edward and William Maxwell

     His younger brother William Sutherland Maxwell (b at Montréal 14 Nov 1874; d there 25 Mar 1952) became his partner in 1902.

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    Edward B. Moogk

    Edward B. (Balthasar) Moogk. Recorded-sound archivist, discographer, broadcaster, b Weston (later part of Metropolitan Toronto) 15 Jul 1914, d London, Ont, 18 Dec 1979. He had piano lessons as a child and played drums 1938-43 with the Bob Donelle and Willis Tipping dance bands.

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    Edward Barron Chandler

    Edward Barron Chandler, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick 1878–80, politician, judge, lawyer (born 22 August 1800 in Amherst, NS; died 6 February 1880 in Fredericton, NB).

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    Edward Baynes

    Edward Baynes, soldier, military officer in the WAR OF 1812 (b unknown; d at Sidmouth, England, Mar 1829). Edward Baynes entered the army as an ensign in 1783.

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    Edward Bear

    Edward Bear. Toronto rock band formed in the late 1960s as the Edward Bear Revue, a quintet which took its name from a character in A.A. Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh. It played at first in Yorkville coffeehouses and as a trio began recording for Capitol in 1969.

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