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Gilbert Clarence Monture (Big Feather), OC, OBE (Order of the British Empire), Mohawk mining engineer, civil servant, army officer (born 27 August 1895 on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, ON; died 19 June 1973 in Ottawa, ON). Monture was a university student during the First World War and interrupted his studies to enlist in the Canadian military. After the war, he completed university and became a world-renowned mining engineer.
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Gilbert Munroe. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Winnipeg 18 Jan 1933; ARCT 1954, LRSM 1954, BA (Manitoba) 1955, B ED (Manitoba) 1961, B MUS (Manitoba) 1970, M MUS (Alberta) 1971.
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Gilbert Patenaude. Conductor, composer, b Montreal 30 Apr 1947; BA (Montreal) 1966. Following piano and organ studies at the École Vincent-d'Indy, he studied voice with Pierre Mollet, orchestral conducting with Rémus Tzincoca and analysis with Gilles Tremblay at the CMM.
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Gilbert Watson. Dance band leader, pianist, b Glasgow, 31 Oct 1896, d Peterborough, Ont, 12 Aug 1959. He studied piano with Michael Hambourg and Harvey Robb and played at the Allen Theatre in Toronto.
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Gilbert White Ganong, confectionery manufacturer, politician, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick 1917 (b at Springfield, NB 22 May 1851; d at St Stephen, NB 31 Oct 1917).
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Gilberte Martin. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Montreal 22 May 1910. She studied 1917-30 with Arthur Letondal (piano) and 1927-30 with Georges-Émile Tanguay (harmony). She won numerous prizes, grants, and diplomas, including the Prix d'Europe in 1930.
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Giles (Bradley) Bryant. Organist-choirmaster, tenor, editor, b Weybridge, Surrey, England, 20 Jun 1934; BA (University College, London) 1957, ARCO 1978, with the John Brook Prize, honorary D LITT S (Wycliffe, Toronto) 1988.
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Gilles Archambault, novelist (b at Montréal 19 Sept 1933). He received his BA (1955) from Collège Sainte-Marie and his LL (1957) from Université de Montréal. He worked for Radio-Canada (1963-92) before becoming a radio producer and commentator.
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Gilles (Joseph Roger) Auger. Conductor, b Quebec City 7 Mar 1957; premier prix chamber music (CMQ) 1979, deuxième prix clarinet (CMQ) 1981, M MUS conducting (Juilliard) 1983.
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Gilles Baillargeon. Violinist, teacher, b Montreal 6 Oct 1928. A pupil of Lucien Sicotte 1942-3, Lucien Martin 1943-4, and (at the CMM) Louis Bailly 1944-7 and Noël Brunet 1947-50, he won a Sarah Fischer Concerts Scholarship in 1948 and the Prix Archambault in 1949.
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Gilles Carle, OC, GOQ, director, screenwriter (born 31 July 1928 in Maniwaki, QC; died 28 November 2009 in Granby, QC).
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Gilles Godard. Songwriter, record producer, singer, guitarist, b Cornwall, Ont, 13 Jul 1957. Son of a fiddler, Guillaume Godard, he played violin and pedal steel guitar in his teens and studied the latter instrument in 1977 with Jeff Newman in Nashville.
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In Où êtes-vous donc? (1968), Groulx held back from a direct exposé of Québec politics, employing instead a fragmented and lyrical script which related image and commentary in the esoteric manner of Jean-Luc Godard.
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Gilles Hénault, writer (b at St-Majoric, Qué 1 Aug 1920; d at Montréal 6 Oct 1996). After studying at Collège Mont Saint-Louis, he began a program of self-directed reading and writing, and published several poems in the magazines Horizons (1937) and La Nouvelle Relève (1941).
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