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    Jane Urquhart

    Jane Urquhart's skilful evocation of historical setting is also apparent in her novels. Her first, The Whirlpool (1986), set in Niagara Falls in the late 1890s, examines the convergence of art and life.

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    Jane Rule

    Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC, writer, teacher and activist (born 28 March 1931 in Plainfield, NJ; died 27 November 2007 in Galiano Island, BC). Rule was a ground-breaking novelist and essayist whose work explored the lives of lesbians, beginning at a time when homosexuality was still a crime in Canada (see LGBT Rights in Canada). Her first novel, Desert of the Heart, is perhaps her best known. It was adapted into the film Desert Hearts in 1986. Rule is the author of seven novels and several collections of essays and short stories. She was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1998 and the Order of Canada in 2007.

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    Janet Cardiff

    Janet Cardiff, artist (b at Brussels, Ont 15 Mar 1957). Janet Cardiff studied at QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY (BFA, 1980) and at the UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (MVA, 1983).

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    Janet Stubbs

    Janet (Helena) Stubbs. Mezzo soprano, administrator, b Toronto 21 Apr 1945; LLB (Toronto) 1969, Artist Diploma opera (Toronto) 1975. She was called to the Ontario bar in 1971. She studied with Helen Simmie at the RCMT and with Bernard Diamant at the University of Toronto.

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    Janet Wright

    Janet Wright, stage, television and film actor, theatrical director (born 8 March 1945 in Farnborough, Hampshire, England; died 14 November 2016 in Vancouver, BC). 

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    Janette Bertrand

    Janette Bertrand, CC, CQ, journalist, actor, author, playwright, feminist (born 25 March 1925 in Montreal, Quebec). A leading figure in Quebec television, Janette Bertrand has left a profound mark on journalism and culture in Quebec. She is renowned for her frank, sincere approach to social issues that had never before been addressed on Quebec television, such as sexual relationships, homosexuality, AIDS, suicide, and violence against women. She has long been recognized for her progressive stances on social issues and her role in educating the public about them. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec.

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    Janette Turner Hospital

    Janette Turner Hospital, novelist, short-story writer (b at Melbourne, Australia 12 Nov 1942). Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Queensland, Australia. She was educated at the University of Queensland, and taught high school in Australia and then worked as a librarian at Harvard University.

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    Janice Kulyk Keefer

    Janice Kulyk Keefer, writer, poet, critic (born at Toronto, ON, 2 Jun 1952).

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    Janina Fialkowska

    Janina Fialkowska. Pianist, b Montreal 7 May 1951; B MUS (Montreal) 1968, M MUS (Montreal) 1968. Born of a Polish father and a Canadian mother, she began studying the piano at five with the latter.

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    Janine Lachance

    Janine Lachance. Pianist, teacher, coach (born in Québec City on 22 February 1932, died in Laval on 16 December 2017); premiers prix piano, harmony (CMQ) 1950. She studied piano for two years with Omer Létourneau and worked 1944-50 at the CMQ with Hélène Landry (piano), Françoise Aubut (harmony), and Ria Lenssens (solfège).

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    Janine Sutto

    Janine Sutto, actor (born 20 April 1921 in Paris, France; dead 28 March 2017 in Montréal, Québec). An autodidact, she came to the stage very early, and brilliantly personified countless roles in all genres of theatre, radio and television.

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    Janis Kalejs

    Kalejs, Janis (Voldemars). Violinist, teacher, composer, b Riga, Latvia, 7 Jan 1912, naturalized Canadian 1955, d Wolfville, NS, 7 Nov 1973. He graduated in violin from the State Cons in Riga in 1934 and received advanced training in Berlin under Georg Kulenkampff.

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    Janis Kalnins

    Kalnins, Janis. Conductor, composer, organist-choirmaster, b Pärnu, Estonia, of Latvian parents, 3 Nov 1904, naturalized Canadian 1954, d Fredericton 30 Nov 2000; honorary D MUS (Mount Allison) 1981.

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    Janis Taylor

    Janis (Janice Kathleen) Taylor (b Schuster). Mezzo-soprano, b Westfield, NY, 10 Mar 1946, naturalized Canadian 1972. Initially trained as a pianist and a clarinetist, she was persuaded to study voice by a fellow music student, Robert Taylor, who subsequently became her husband and manager.

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    Jann Arden

    Jann Arden Anne Richards, singer, songwriter, actor, broadcaster (born 27 March 1962 in Calgary, AB). Jann Arden is a multiple Juno Award-winning singer and songwriter. Her melancholy yet hopeful adult contemporary pop songs, distinguished by her expressive vocal delivery and introspective lyrics, earned her an international following in the 1990s and 2000s. Candid and down-to-earth, she has parlayed her salty sense of humour and affable, self-deprecating persona into a successful second career as a host, broadcaster and sitcom star. She is a member of the Order of Canada and Canada’s Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2020.

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