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George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)

George Copway, or Kahgegagahbowh, meaning "He Who Stands Forever," Mississauga (Ojibwa) translator, Methodist minister, lecturer, author (b near present-day Trenton, Ont 1818; d at Oka, Lake of Two Mountains, Qué Jan 1869).
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George Craig Laurence

George Craig Laurence, nuclear physicist (b at Charlottetown 21 Jan 1905; d at Deep River, Ont 6 Nov 1987). Educated at Dalhousie and Cambridge (under Ernest RUTHERFORD), Laurence became the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL's radium and X-ray physicist in 1930, when J.A.
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George Crum

He retired from the National Ballet in 1984 but continued to appear frequently as a guest conductor, including Karen KAIN's 20th anniversary gala (1988), Veronica TENNANT's farewell performance in Romeo and Juliet (1989) and the company's 40th anniversary gala (1991).
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George Crum

During the 1950s George Crum served as coach and chorus master for CBC radio opera broadcasts. In 1951, at the invitation of Celia Franca, he became music director of the newly formed National Ballet of Canada. Crum married the Canadian soprano Patricia Snell the same year.
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George Dixon

George Dixon, boxer (born 29 July 1870 in Africville, NS; died 6 January 1908 in New York, New York). George Dixon was the first Black world champion in boxing history and the first Canadian to ever win a world championship. Despite his small stature (5 feet 3.5 inches and between 87 and 115 pounds), Dixon amassed several notable accomplishments across a 20-year career and was the first boxer to win championships in multiple weight classes — bantamweight (1890) and featherweight (1891–96; 1897; 1898–1900). A cerebral fighter known as a “pioneer of scientific boxing,” he is credited with inventing various fundamental training techniques, including shadowboxing and the use of the heavy bag. As a dominant Black fighter in the post-Civil War United States, Dixon was subjected to fierce racism. He died in poverty from alcoholism at the age of 37. He was an inaugural inductee into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, and was also named to The Ring Magazine Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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George Douglas Atkinson

George Douglas Atkinson. Educator, organist-choirmaster, b Carp, near Ottawa, 1878, d Toronto 14 Sep 1964. A pupil in Toronto of George Fairclough, W.J. McNally, F.H. Torrington, A.S.
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George Douglas Pepper

George Douglas Pepper, painter (b at Ottawa 25 Feb 1903; d at Toronto 1 Oct 1962). He studied under J.E.H. MACDONALD and J.W. Beatty in Toronto, and then in Paris and Italy (1924-25).
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George Downie

Captain George Downie, naval officer, military figure in the WAR OF 1812 (b at New Ross, Ireland; d near Plattsburgh, NY, 11 Sept 1814). George Downie joined the Royal Navy in the 1790s and was promoted to lieutenant in 1802.
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George Dunning

George Dunning, animator (b at Toronto 17 Nov 1920; d at London, UK 15 Feb 1979). George Dunning studied at the Ontario Art College and in 1943 went to work for the NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB). During his short time with the NFB - he left in 1947 - he displayed a strong, individual talent.
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George Edwin Britnell

George Edwin Britnell, political economist, professor (b at London, Eng 9 June 1903; d at Saskatoon 14 Oct 1961).
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George Edwin King

George Edwin King, lawyer, politician, judge, premier of NB 1872-78 (b at Saint John 8 Oct 1839; d at Ottawa 7 May 1901). First elected MLA for Saint John in 1867, he was minister without portfolio in the Confederation Cabinet of A.R. WETMORE.
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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke, OC, ONS, poet, anthologist (born 12 February 1960 at Windsor, NS).
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George F. Gate

George F. Gate, SWIMMING coach (born 11 December 1924 in Carlisle, England; died 17 August 2014 in Montreal, QC). In 1942 this young local swimming champion joined the British Royal Navy where he spent his free time reading about swimming techniques. Five years later, George F.
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George F Graham

George F. Graham. Organist, teacher, writer, fl 1854-66. He was organist at the American Presbyterian (later Erskine and American United) Church in Montreal and wrote The Vocal Tutor (Montreal 1854), a textbook of musical rudiments.
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George F. Walker

Walker's career began in the early 1970s when, while driving a taxi in Toronto, he noticed a poster soliciting original scripts for the newly founded FACTORY THEATRE.
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