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    G. Roy Fenwick

    G. (George) Roy Fenwick. Educator, writer, adjudicator, broadcaster, b Hamilton, Ont, 11 May 1889, d Ottawa 8 Jul 1970; LTCM 1911, B MUS (Toronto) 1927, D MUS (Montreal) 1950. His mother was Maggie Barr, a Scottish soprano.

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    G. Welton Marquis

    G. (George) Welton Marquis. Musicologist, administrator, b Walla Walla, Wash, 4 Mar 1916, d Ashland, Ore, 22 Feb 1985; MA (Whitman) 1942, PH D (Southern California) 1950.

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    Gabor Szilasi

    Long recognized as an exceptional documentary photographer for his distinctive views of Québec culture, his initial success followed the completion of 2 important series, Charlevoix (1970) and La Beauce (1973).

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    Gabriel Arcand

    Gabriel Arcand, actor (b at Montréal 4 Jun 1949). His family, originally from the village of Deschambault (Portneuf County), settled in Montréal in 1952.

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    Gabriel Charpentier

    Gabriel Charpentier, composer, poet, artistic adviser (b at Richmond, Qué 13 Sept 1925). He studied piano with Jean PAPINEAU-COUTURE, the Benedictine monks in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, and in France with Norbert Dufourcq, Annette Dieudonné and Nadia Boulanger.

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    Gabriel Charpentier

    Gabriel (Moïse) Charpentier. Composer, poet, artistic consultant, teacher, b Richmond, near Sherbrooke, Que, 13 Sep 1925. He studied piano with Estelle Letarte in Richmond and J.

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    Gabriel Cusson

    Gabriel Cusson. Composer, teacher, b Roxton Pond, near Granby, Que, 2 Apr 1903, d Montreal 18 Apr 1972; B MUS (Montreal) 1924.

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    Gabriel Kney

    Gabriel Kney. Pipe organ builder, b Speyer, Germany, 21 Nov 1929. He started his apprenticeship in his hometown with Paul Sattel, then spent four years as assistant to Franz Nagel while studying church music at the Bischöfl Institute.

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    Gabrielle Bernier

    Gabrielle Bernier. Pianist, b Quebec City, November 1906. She studied piano with her father, Joseph-Arthur, and she continued her instrumental studies at Laval University. She gave a performance of a Mozart concerto with the Cercle philharmonique de Québec 25 Nov 1938.

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    Gabrielle Lavigne

    Gabrielle Lavigne. Mezzo-soprano, b Montreal 16 Mar 1940. She graduated from the Montreal School of Fine Arts in 1961 and pursued her musical studies 1961-9 at McGill University with Ria Lenssens (voice) and at the CMM with Dick Marzollo (repertoire) and Pierre Héral (stage skills).

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    Gabrielle Roy

    Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC, author, teacher, journalist (born 22 March 1909 in Saint Boniface, MB; died 13 July 1983 in Quebec City, QC). One of the most prominent figures in French Canadian literature, Gabrielle Roy was one of the great contemporary writers on the human condition. Her landmark novel Bonheur d'occasion (The Tine Flute, 1945) introduced urban realism to Canadian literature and was a huge commercial success. Roy received Canada’s most prestigious literary awards, including the Governor General’s Award (1947, 1957, 1978), the Prix Ludger-Duvernay (1956), the Prix David (1971) and the Canada Council Prize (1979). She was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967. Her childhood home in St. Boniface, Manitoba, was named a Historic Site of Manitoba in 1987. It began operating as the Gabrielle Roy House Museum in 2003. Roy was declared a National Historic Person in 2009 and a Manitoba Woman Trailblazer in 2021.

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    Gaby Haas

    Gaby (Gabriel) Haas. Accordionist, composer, b Frantiskovy Lázne, Czechoslovakia, 7 Nov 1920, naturalized Canadian 1943, d Edmonton 22 Nov 1987. He moved to Saskatoon at 18 and began playing accordion at local dances and on CFQC radio.

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    Gaelyne Gabora

    Gaelyne Gabora (b Craig). Soprano, teacher, b Regina 1931, d White Rock, BC, 1 Feb 2001. She studied at Notre Dame Academy in Charlottetown, at the GSM, England, 1953-6, and graduated with honours from the Vienna Academy 1956-9.

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    Gaétan Boucher

    In 1977 he was world indoor speed-skating champion and in 1978, 1980 and 1982 he finished second at the more prestigious World Sprint Speed-skating Championships.

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    Gaétan Laperrière

    Gaétan Laperrière. Baritone, b Montreal 14 Dec 1952. Laperrière was first employed as a schoolteacher, and came to music comparatively late in life when he began to study voice with his uncle Robert Savoie.

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