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    John Qualen

    John Qualen, born John Oleson, actor (born at Vancouver 8 Dec 1899; died at Torrance, Ca 12 Sep 1987). John Qualen was born to Norwegian immigrant parents and brought up in Vancouver and rural Illinois.

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    John Rae

    John Rae, fur trader, explorer, surgeon, author (born 30 Sept 1813 in Orkney, Scotland; died 22 July 1893 in London, England).

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    John Rankin (Obituary)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 31, 2000. Partner content is not updated. They lined up four abreast in the numbing cold outside the old family homestead in Mabou - waiting for hours to say a final goodbye to John Morris Rankin.

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    John Rea

    His numerous commissions include Treppenmusic (1982), Over Time (1987) and Las Meninas (1990-91). He was composer-in-residence in Mannheim (1984) and for the Italian summer festival Incontri in Terra di Siena (1991).

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    John Rea

    His Com-possession (1980), commissioned by CBC Radio, won the Jules Léger Prize for chamber music in 1981. Vanishing Points, commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra, was premiered by the Esprit Orchestra in 1983, and was later performed by the Toronto Symphony and Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

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    John Redpath

    John Redpath, businessman, philanthropist (born 1796 in Earlston, Scotland; died 5 March 1869 in Montreal, QC). Redpath played a pivotal role in the emergence of Montreal as a major industrial centre during the mid-19th century. Redpath, a stonemason by trade, was involved in the construction of both the Lachine and Rideau canals. He also founded the Redpath Sugar Refinery, which in turn helped establish a domestic sugar industry in Canada (see Redpath Sugar). Redpath had an extensive career as a businessman and as a philanthropist. He was involved in a number of major projects and significant enterprises that helped Montreal become Canada’s first metropolis and commercial capital.

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    John Reeves

    John Reeves, composer, broadcaster, author (born 1 December 1926 in Merritt, BC, died 3 November 2022 in Clarksburg, ON). BA classics (Cambridge) 1948. Educated in England, he began conducting Gregorian chant and renaissance polyphony as a teenager and won a choral scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. Returning to Canada after graduation he taught classics at the University of British Columbia, then joined CBC Radio as a music producer in 1952, branching out later into productions of dramas, documentaries, and religious programs. He retired from the CBC staff in 1987, but continued to produce programs on a freelance basis.

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    John Reginald Birchall

    John Reginald Birchall, murderer (b at Accrington, Eng 25 May 1866; d at Woodstock, Ont 14 Nov 1890). Birchall, a confidence man, gambler and wastrel, lured 2 young Englishmen, Douglas Pelly and Frederick C. Benwell, into a partnership with him to purchase a farm near Woodstock, Ont.

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    John Richard Fox

    John Richard Fox, painter (b at Montréal 26 July 1927). Trained by Goodridge ROBERTS, Fox also worked under John LYMAN at McGill. In 1952 he entered the Slade School of Art, London, Eng, and later spent 2 years in Italy and France before finally returning to Montréal in 1957.

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    John Richard Reppen

    John Richard Reppen, "Jack," artist, painter (b at Toronto 17 July 1933; d there 2 June 1964). Studying design at the Ontario Coll of Art in the evening, he was a free-lance cartoonist for the Toronto Star 1952-64 and art director for the Prudential Insurance Co, Toronto, 1952-62.

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    John Richardson

    John Richardson, soldier, writer (b at Queenston, Upper Canada 4 Oct 1796; d at New York 12 May 1852). Richardson's most enduring work, WACOUSTA; OR, THE PROPHECY (1832) is set at the time of PONTIAC's uprising and relates a complex story of betrayal, disguise and slaughter.

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    John Robert Colombo

    At their best, especially Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974) and Colombo's Canadian References (1976) and in Songs of the Indians (2 vols, 1983), Colombo's compilations are examples of a kind of private-sector scholarship that is as admirable as it is rare.

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    John Robert Nicholson

    John Robert Nicholson, lawyer, public servant, politician (b at Newcastle, NB 1 Dec 1901; d at Vancouver 8 Oct 1983). In 1941 Nicholson was called to Ottawa to the Department of Munitions and Supply by C.D. HOWE.

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    John Osborn, VC

    John Robert Osborn, VC, soldier, labourer (born 2 January 1899 in Foulden, Norfolk, England; died 19 December 1941 in Hong Kong). During the Second World War, Osborn’s heroic act was the first to earn a Canadian the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for bravery among troops of the British Empire.

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    John Robert Roy Drainie

    John Robert Roy Drainie, actor (b at Vancouver 1 Apr 1916; d at Toronto 30 Oct 1966). An actor of extraordinary versatility, he was the most renowned and best loved of the first truly professional community of performing artists in English Canada.

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