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Jean Lesage
Jean Lesage, PC, CC, premier of Québec 1960–1966, politician, reformer, lawyer (born 10 June 1912 in Montréal, QC; died 12 December 1980 in Québec City, QC). Known as the father of the Quiet Revolution, he led his province during that modernizing period of profound change in the collective life of Québec.
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Jean Létourneau
Jean Létourneau, tenor, french hornist, teacher, choir director (born 12 April 1921 in Quebec City, QC; died 20 August 2018 in Lévis, QC). Jean Létourneau first studied piano and organ with his father, Omer, then french horn with Raoul Vézina, and finally voice with Émile Larochelle, Aimé Plamondon, Léon Rothier, and Bernard Taylor. After receiving his diploma from the TCM (RCMT) in 1945, he played french horn with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and with the Royal 22nd Regiment Band. He then devoted his energies to singing and performed 1948-51 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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Jean L'Italien
Jean L’Italien, actor (born 16 March 1958 in Montréal, QC). A popular actor on Québec television, he has also made a name for himself in film and on the stage.
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Jean Little
Jean Little, CM, writer, lecturer (born 2 January 1932 in Taiwan; died 6 April 2020). Jean Little was best known for her children’s books. She wrote more than 50 books. Little won the Canada Council Children’s Literature Award as well as foreign acclaim. Little’s books are widely translated. Her novels and poetry treat such themes as loneliness, alienation, intolerance, family stress and the difficulties in interpersonal and intercultural relationships. (See also Children’s Literature in English.)
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Jean-Louis Gagnon
Jean-Louis Gagnon, journalist, writer, political activist, civil servant (born 21 February 1913 in Québec City, Québec; died 26 May 2004 in Québec City).
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Jean-Louis Le Loutre
Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, missionary (b at Morlaix, France 26 Sept 1709; d at Nantes, France 30 Sept 1772).
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Jean-Louis Lévesque
Jean-Louis Lévesque, financier (b at Nouvelle, Qué 13 Apr 1911; d at Montréal 28 Dec 1994). After graduating from St Dunstan's U in PEI, and Laval, Lévesque worked for the Banque provinciale du Canada in Moncton, NB.
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Jean-Louis Millette
Jean-Louis Millette, actor (born 4 January 1935 in Montréal, QC; died 29 September 1999 in Montréal).
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Jean-Louis Riel
Jean-Louis Riel (also known as Louis Riel Sr.), Métis leader, farmer, miller (born in 1817 in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan; died in 1864 in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba). Riel rallied hundreds of Métis people in support of Métis defendants against the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1849 Sayer trial. A landmark case in the history of the Canadian West, the Sayer verdict re-established free fur trade in the Red River Colony. By the 1850s, Jean-Louis Riel had become a leader of the French-Canadian community in the Red River. His role in having the French language used in the Assiniboia courts, and in gaining representation for the Métis on the Council of Assiniboia, helped to cement this status. Riel’s outspoken stance on Métis rights and autonomy significantly influenced his son, Louis Riel, who went on to become arguably the most significant historical Métis leader.
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Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux, theatre director, writer, actor (born 18 May 1923 in Montréal; died 28 November 2013 in Montréal). A doctor's son, Roux completed his BA at Collège Sainte-Marie and then enrolled in medicine at Université de Montréal (1943-46).
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Jean Lowe Butler
Alice Maud Eugenia “Jean” Lowe Butler, track and field athlete, educator (born 1922 in Toronto, ON; died 11 September 2017 in Mobile, Alabama). Jean Lowe Butler was one of Canada’s most accomplished amateur athletes. She set Ontario records in the women’s 100-yard and 220-yard dash and held the Canadian record in the women’s 100 m sprint (11.9 seconds). An elite college athlete in the United States, she competed in the 100 m, 200 m, long jump and high jump, and won medals in each event at every meet. Her exclusion from the 1948 Canadian Olympic team was controversial. A teacher for 30 years, she was inducted into the Tuskegee University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Jean-Luc Brassard
He became a serious contender at every World Cup event, winning 10 before capturing the 1993 world championship.
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Jean Lumb
Jean Bessie Lumb (née Toy Jin Wong), CM, community leader, restaurateur (born 30 July 1919 in Nanaimo, BC; died 17 July 2002 in Toronto, ON). Jean Lumb was the first Chinese Canadian woman and first restaurateur inducted into the Order of Canada. She is also best known for her role in successfully lobbying the federal government to change its discriminatory immigration policies that separated Chinese families. Lumb also led the Save Chinatown Committee to prevent further demolition of Toronto’s Chinatown in the 1960s.
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Jean Macdonald
Jean (Hastings) Macdonald. Mezzo-soprano, organist, b Strathlorne, Cape Breton, NS, 11 Dec 1895, d Toronto 17 Nov 1979.
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Jean Macleod
Jean Macleod. Contralto, harpist, b Pio Pio, New Zealand, of Scottish parents, 18 May 1918; naturalized Canadian 1969. Her mother, Jessie Mary MacLennan, was in her day a leading interpreter of Scottish folk songs.
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