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    John Babbitt McNair

    John Babbitt McNair, lawyer, politician, judge, premier of NB 1940-52 (b at Andover, NB 20 Nov 1889; d at Fredericton 14 June 1968). First elected MLA for York in 1935, he was attorney general in the DYSART government and president of the provincial Liberal Party.

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    John Babington Macaulay Baxter

    John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, politician, premier and chief justice of NB (b at Saint John 16 Feb 1868; d there 27 Dec 1946). 

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    John Bach

    John (Sebastian Peter) Bach. Teacher, performer, conductor, b Winnipeg 30 Jul 1908; LRAM 1930, ARCM 1931, ARAM 1943.

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    John Bagnall

    John Bagnall. Music dealer, piano manufacturer, b Staffordshire, England, 1828, d Victoria, BC, February 1885. He worked as a piano builder and cabinet maker for Collard & Collard in London, and came to Canada in 1862.

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    John Barrow

    John Barrow, football player (b at Delray Beach, Fla 31 Oct 1935).

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    John Bartlet Brebner

    John Bartlet Brebner, historian (b at Toronto 19 May 1895; d at New York C, NY 9 Nov 1957). Educated at University of Toronto, Oxford and Columbia University, he taught 1921-25 at U of T and then moved to Columbia U for the rest of his academic life.

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    John Baskerville Glegg

    John Baskerville (sometimes spelled Baskervyle) Glegg, soldier, military figure in the WAR OF 1812 (b Cheshire, Eng, 1773; d 1861). John Glegg was the second son in a landed family of Thurstaston Hall.

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    John Bayley

    John Bayley. Bandmaster, clarinetist, violinist, organist, b Windsor, England, ca 1847, d USA? 1910.

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    John Bayne Maclean

    John Bayne Maclean, publisher (b at Crieff, Canada W 26 Sept 1862; d at Toronto 25 Sept 1950).

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    John Watkins

    John Benjamin Clark Watkins, diplomat, scholar (born 3 December 1902 in Norval (now Halton Hills), ON; died 12 October 1964 in Montreal, QC). John Watkins was Canadian ambassador to the USSR from 1954 to 1956. In 1955, Watkins organized a historic meeting between Canadian External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson and Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union.

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    John Bearder

    John (William) Bearder. Organist, composer, b Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 26 Dec 1873, d Toronto 6 May 1958; FRCO 1895, D MUS (Bishop's College) ca 1930. At 12 he held the first of many positions as organist-choirmaster in English churches.

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    John Beckwith

    John Beckwith, CM, composer, writer, educator, pianist, broadcaster, administrator (born 9 March 1927 in Victoria, BC; died 5 December 2022 in Toronto, ON). One of English Canada’s most distinctive composers, John Beckwith created a wealth of music rooted in his sensitive experience of the Canadian environment. Widely read and highly articulate in both official languages, he was dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto (1970–77) as well as a writer, administrator and broadcaster. A committed champion of Canadian music, Beckwith was for five decades one of the most important influences on Canada’s musical life. He was a Member of the Order of Canada and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

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    John Bell

    John Bell, fur trader, explorer (b on the Isle of Mull, Scot 1799; d at Saugeen, Ont 24 June 1868). John Bell joined the North West Company as a clerk in 1818.

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    John Bentley

    John Bentley. Organist-choirmaster, harpsichordist, composer, b England 1754 or 1756, d Quebec City 10 Nov 1813. Resident in London until about 1781, Bentley moved to the USA and in 1783 founded the City Concerts in Philadelphia.

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    John Bergsagel

    John Dagfinn Bergsagel, musicologist, professor (born 19 April 1928 in Outlook, SK). John Bergsagel is a widely published musicologist and a noted scholar of medieval and renaissance music. (See Early Music.) He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1970 until 1998 and was made a Ridder (Knight) of Denmark’s Order of Dannebrog in 1993. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academia Europaea.

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