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    Georges Vézina

    Georges Vézina, hockey player (born 21 January 1887 in Chicoutimi, QC; died there 26 March 1926).

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    Georgia Simmerling

    Alice Georgia Simmerling, cyclist, alpine skier, freestyle skier, ski cross skier (born 11 March 1989 in Vancouver, BC). Georgia Simmerling is the only Canadian athlete to participate in three different sports at three Olympic Games. She helped win bronze and set a Canadian record in the women’s team pursuit cycling competition at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games. She also competed in alpine skiing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games; in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games; and in cycling again at the 2020 Olympic Summer Games. Simmerling also won two gold medals at the 2019 Pan American Track Cycling Championships, as well as five silver and four bronze medals in World Cup ski cross events.

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    Georgina Fane Pope

    Cecily Jane Georgina Fane Pope, nurse (born 1 January 1862 in Charlottetown, PE; died 6 June 1938 in Charlottetown, PE).

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    Georgina Lightning

    Georgina Lightning, actor, director, producer (b at Hobbema, Alta 1964). Georgina Lightning was born into the Samson Cree Nation. Educated in Canada, she moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to pursue an acting career and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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    Gérald-A. Beaudoin

    Gérald-A. Beaudoin, professor of law, lawyer, senator (b at Montréal 15 Apr 1929). A leading expert on the Canadian CONSTITUTION and human rights, Beaudoin was educated at the Universities of Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto and did graduate work at several European universities.

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    Gerald Arthur Pratley

    Gerald Arthur Pratley (b at London, Eng 3 Sep 1923, d at Belleville, Ont 14 Mar 2011). A noted film critic and commentator, he was the founder-director of the Ontario Film Institute, established in 1968, an organization with a mandate to preserve, catalogue, publish and exhibit world cinema.

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    Gerald Augustine Regan

    Gerald Augustine Regan, lawyer, politician, premier of NS (b at Windsor, NS 13 Feb 1928). He was elected MP in 1963 and leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in 1965.

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    Gerald Bales

    (Albert) Gerald Bales. Organist, choirmaster, composer, teacher, b Toronto 12 May 1919, d London, Ont, 4 Jul 2002; ATCM 1936, honorary FRCCO 1974. Taught first by his mother, he gave a piano recital at seven and an organ recital at 13.

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    Gerald Bull

    Gerald Vincent Bull, engineer and ballistics expert (born 9 March 1928 in North Bay, ON; died 22 March 1990 in Brussels, Belgium). He studied at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies. At the time, he was the youngest person to ever receive a PhD from the university. He was involved in some of Canada’s most advanced experimental defence projects. Later in his life, Bull was convicted of breaking an international arms embargo against apartheid South Africa. He spent his life perfecting artillery systems; some of his designs could launch payloads into space. He was assassinated during the development of a space gun for Iraq.

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    Gerald Caplan

    Gerald Lewis Caplan, political administrator, historian (b at Toronto 1938).

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    Gerald Danovitch Saxophone Quartet/Quatuor de saxophones Gerald Danovitch

    Founded in 1968 in Montreal by its director, Gerald Danovitch (b Montreal 24 Feb 1932, d Montreal 1 Dec 1997), it was originally made up of Danovitch (soprano saxophone), Donald Hughes (alto), Shane Nestruck (baritone), and Abe Kestenberg (tenor).

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    Gérald Desmarais

    Gérald Desmarais. Bass, choirmaster, b Montreal 30 Mar 1906, d Hardwick, Vt, 29 Jul 1950. He studied singing and theory with Alfred Lamoureux, Paul Doyon, and Alfred La Liberté, and received a scholarship in 1927 from the Delphic Study Club.

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    Gerald Ferguson

    Ferguson's studio production represented an ongoing commitment to an examination of the conventions of painting and to the deconstruction of its strategies.

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    Gerald Finley

    Gerald Finley. Bass-baritone, b Montreal 30 Jan 1960. Finley moved to Ottawa in 1968 and sang as a boy soprano in the St Matthew's Anglican Church choir under Brian Law.

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    Gérald Gagnier

    Gérald ('Ray D'Ièse') Gagnier. Bandmaster, composer, trumpeter, b Montreal 14 Oct 1926, d there 14 Jan 1961; graduate RMSM (Kneller Hall) 1954. His first trumpet, piano, and theory lessons were with his father, Joseph. He took his general schooling 1939-45 at the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières.

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