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George Alexander Elliott
George Alexander Elliott, economist, professor, civil servant (b at Napier, Ont 22 July 1901).
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George Alfred Grant-Schaefer
George Alfred Grant-Schaefer. Composer, organist, teacher, b Williamstown, near Cornwall, Ont, 4 Jul 1872, d Chicago 11 May 1939. He studied with Dominique Ducharme (piano) and Guillaume Couture (voice) in Montreal and with Victor Garwood (piano) and Adolf Weidig (theory) in Chicago. C.A.E.
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George Anderson Wells
George Anderson Wells, bishop, scholar, lecturer (b at Clarke's Beach, Nfld 18 Nov 1877; d at Toronto 10 Apr 1964). Wells was a fisherman, sealer, labourer, and a trooper in the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR before continuing his education at various American institutions.
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George Anthony Barber
George Anthony Barber, cricketer and educator (born 1802 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England; died 20 October 1874 in Toronto, ON).
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George Anthony Walkem
Associated with Amor DE COSMOS in the Confederation League before BC joined CONFEDERATION, George Walkem became attorney general in De Cosmos's Cabinet and succeeded him as premier on 11 Feb 1874.
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George Arluk
George Arluk, artist (b in the Keewatin region, NWT 5 May 1949). An Inuit sculptor now living in Arviat, Nunavut, Arluk began to teach himself how to carve soapstone at age nine.
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George Athans Jr
George Athans, Jr, water-skier (b at Kelowna, BC 6 July 1952). Athans began competitive waterskiing at age 12, and at 15 won his first Canadian slalom title. Before his career was ended in 1975 by a knee injury, he was 10 times Canadian champion 1965-74 and set 5 Canadian records.
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George B. Sippi
George B. (Buckley) Sippi. Organist, choirmaster, teacher, b Bombay 10 Mar 1847, d London, Ont, 18 Sep 1915. His family returned in 1854 to Ireland from India, where his Italian grandfather had settled. He attended Queen's College in Cork and studied piano and organ with his uncle, John A.
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George Bain
George Bain, journalist, author, educator (b at Toronto 29 Jan 1920). Bain was educated in Toronto and served as a pilot in Bomber Command during WWII. In the mid-1950s, he began the Ottawa column in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
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George Baird
George Baird, CM, architect, critic, educator, author (born 25 August 1939 in Toronto, ON; died 17 October 2023 in Toronto). Baird was professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Toronto's John H. Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. As an architect, scholar, and educator, Baird has been recognized as one of the most broadly influential figures in his generation of Canadian architects (see Architecture).
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George Benson Johnston
George Benson Johnston, poet, translator (b at Hamilton, Ont 7 Oct 1913; d at Hinchinbrook, Que, August 2004). Johnston is best known for lyric poetry that delineates with good-humoured wisdom the pleasures and pains of suburban family life.
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George Beverly Shea
George Beverly Shea. Bass-baritone, gospel singer, composer, born Winchester, near Ottawa, 1 Feb 1909, died Montreat, NC 16 April 2013; honorary DFA (Houghton College) 1956, honorary D Sacred MUS (Trinity, Deerfield, Ill) 1969.
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George Black
George Black, lawyer, politician, commissioner of the Yukon Territory, MP (b at Woodstock, NB 10 Apr 1873; d at Vancouver, BC 23 Aug 1965).
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George Bowering
George Bowering is one of Canada’s most broadly influential writers. He has published over 100 books and chapbooks and, from 2002 to 2004, was Canada's inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was the first English language writer to win the Governor General’s Literary Award in both Poetry and Fiction; the only two other writers to have done so are Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje.
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George Brough
George Brough, pianist, organist, harpsichordist, opera coach (born 25 February 1918 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died 15 September 2015 in Toronto, ON). George Brough was widely recognized as one of Canada's most skilful, reliable and versatile accompanists. Able to sight-read with tremendous proficiency, he provided secure support for hundreds of performers, from students in competitions to professional artists such as Heinz Holliger, Gervase de Peyer, Henri Temianka, Bernard Turgeon and Jon Vickers. He was an assistant conductor and accompanist with the Canadian Opera Company, an organist with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and taught at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the University of Toronto.
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