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    Jeanne Fisher Manery

    Jeanne Fisher Manery, biochemist (b at Chesley, Ont 6 July 1908; d at Toronto 9 Sept 1986).

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    Jeanne Gordon

    Jeanne (b Ruby) Gordon. Contralto, b Wallaceburg, near Windsor, Ont, 26 Jan 1885, d Macon, Mo, 22 Feb 1952; ATCM. [The corrected birthdate is a result of research by J.B. McPherson.] Her only teacher was Albert Ham, with whom she studied while attending Toronto's Havergal College.

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    Jeanne Landry

    Jeanne Landry, pianist, accompanist, teacher, composer (born 3 May 1922 in Ottawa, ON; died 2 August 2011 in Quebec City, QC.)

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    Jeanne Sauvé

    Jeanne-Mathilde Sauvé, PC, CC, governor general of Canada 1984-1990, journalist, politician, speaker of the House of Commons (born 26 April 1922 in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan; died 26 January 1993 in Montreal). Sauvé was Canada's first woman to be Speaker of the House of Commons and first woman to serve as governor general. 

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    Jeanne Maubourg

    Jeanne Maubourg. Mezzo-soprano, actress, teacher, b Namur, Belgium, 10 Nov 1875, d Montreal 9 May 1953. She received her musical training in Nancy, Algiers, and Paris. In 1897 she joined the Théâtre de la Monnaie,

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    Jeanne Pengelly

    Jeanne (Isabel) Pengelly (b Hesson). Soprano, teacher, b Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont, 10 Feb 1908, d Kingston, Ont, 2 Nov 1977.

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    Jeanne Renaud

    Jeanne Renaud, dancer, choreographer, artistic director and administrator (b at Montréal 27 August 1928). A major figure in Québec contemporary dance, Renaud was closely associated with the AUTOMATISTES.

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    Jeannette Corbiere Lavell

    Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell (called Keewednanung, “North Star” in the Anishinaabe language), CM, activist, educator and community worker (born 21 June 1942 in Wikwemikong, ON). Corbiere Lavell, an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) woman, was one of several Indigenous women who brought increased public awareness to the gendered discrimination that First Nations women faced because of status law, namely section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act. Her efforts were central to revising patriarchal (male-dominated) aspects of Canadian legal code.

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    Jeannette Zarou

    Jeannette Zarou. Soprano, b Ramallah, Palestine. She emigrated to Canada in 1947, began studies in 1961 with Irene Jessner at the University of Toronto, and made her COC debut in 1964 as the Priestess in Aida.

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    Jeannine Vanier

    Jeannine Vanier, organist, teacher, composer (born 21 August 1929 in Laval-des-Rapides, QC; died 7 March 2023 in Montreal, QC). B MUS (Montreal) 1950, L MUS (Montreal) 1952.

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    Jearld Moldenhauer

    Jearld Moldenhauer, activist, administrator, bookseller, photographer (born 9 August 1946 in Niagara Falls, New York). Jearld Moldenhauer is one of Canada’s most influential gay rights advocates and organizers. After founding one of the first gay rights groups at a US college in 1968, he spearheaded the first post-Stonewall gay organization in Canada and the first at a Canadian university. An architect of the gay liberation movement, Moldenhauer founded and ran Glad Day Bookshop (the oldest queer bookstore in the world) and was a key figure in the creation of the Body Politic, Toronto Gay Action, the Gay Alliance Toward Equality and the Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives (now called the ArQuives). In February 1972, Moldenhauer became the first gay rights advocate to formally address a political party conference in Canada. As a photographer, he was also a key documenter of the early gay rights movement in Canada.

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    Jeff Barnaby

    Jeff Barnaby, writer, director, editor, composer (born 2 August 1976 in Listuguj Reserve, QC; died 13 October 2022 in Montreal, QC). Jeff Barnaby was a multitalented Mi’kmaq filmmaker who worked mainly in the horror genre. His award-winning films, such as Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) and Blood Quantum (2019), are notable for incorporating gritty portrayals of Indigenous characters into stories with elements of science fiction, body horror and magic realism. Barnaby was a rising talent in Canadian and Indigenous cinema. He died of cancer at the age of 46.

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    Jeff Healey

    Norman Jeffrey Healey, guitarist, singer, songwriter, trumpeter, trombonist, clarinetist (born 25 March 1966 in Toronto, ON; died 2 March 2008 in Toronto).

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    Jeff Healey

    Norman Jeffrey (Jeff) Healey. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, b Toronto 25 Mar 1966, d there 2 Mar 2008. Blind from the age of one, Jeff Healey began playing guitar at three.

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    Jeff Lemire

    Jeff Lemire, illustrator, graphic novelist (b at Essex County, Ont, 21 Mar 1976).

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