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    Le Groupe Dance Lab

    In 1988 artistic director Peter BONEHAM changed the artistic mission of LE GROUPE DE LA PLACE ROYALE and transformed it into Le Groupe Dance Lab (Le Groupe lab de danse), a cutting-edge international centre for the research and development of contemporary dance.

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    Le Groupe de la Place Royale

    In 1977 Le Groupe relocated to Ottawa, where it established a school, studios and a performance series featuring both Le Groupe de la Place Royale and other dance companies, including Douglas Dunn and Marie CHOUINARD.

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    Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

    With conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt (centre) (photo by Bernard Préfontaine) Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, founded in 1989 by conductor and artistic director Lorraine Vaillancourt, is a chamber orchestra dedicated to performing works of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is currently the ensemble-in-residence at UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL's Faculty of Music. Comprising 15 musicians, NEM has often been praised for its impeccable ensemble playing, balance, and rhythmic precision. Since its inception the Nouvel Ensemble...

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    Le Petit Ensemble vocal

    Le Petit Ensemble vocal. Vocal quartet founded in 1956 and directed by George Little with members of his Montreal Bach Choir to present vocal chamber music from the Middle Ages to our time.

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    Lea Foli

    Lea Foli. Violinist, teacher, b Kelowna, BC, 8 Sep 1933. He began violin lessons at five with William Gratch, continuing with Gregori Garbovitsky, Clifford Evens, Esther Glazer, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian.

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    Léa Pool

    Léa Pool, CM, filmmaker, director, documentarian, screenwriter, producer (born 8 September 1950 in Soglio, Switzerland). Through her introspective films, Pool offers an approach to female characters that is stripped of all stereotypes. Exploring themes of love, exile and uprootedness, she attempts to draw viewers into a reflection on their own condition, through their own individuality. Often compared with the films of Marguerite Duras, Pool’s films focus on intimate emotions and attract a multigenerational audience. The recipient of many awards in Canada and abroad, Léa Pool is the first female director to win Best Film at the Gala du cinéma québécois.

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    Léa Roback

    Léa Roback, CQ, bookseller, trade union activist, feminist and pacifist (born 3 November 1903 in Montreal, Quebec; died 28 August 2000 in Montréal). Léa Roback, a woman of Jewish-Polish descent, was an ardent, vocal and tireless activist who fought social inequality in all its forms.

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    Leah Pinsent

    She appeared in Eric Till's television drama Glory Enough for All (1988) and continued her studies at the University of Toronto, the Williamstown Theatre in Williamstown, Mass., and the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City.

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    Leamington Choral Society

    Leamington Choral Society. Choir of 50-65 voices founded in 1960 in Leamington, near Windsor, Ont, by Helen (Marguerite) Law. At first composed of graduates from the Mennonite High School, it presented an abridged version of Hansel and Gretel for its debut in 1961.

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    Learned Societies

    Learned Societies, a term applied in Canada to the large group of scholarly organizations that hold conferences annually from late May to mid-June at a different university location each year.

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    Lee Aaron

    Lee (b Karen) Aaron (b Greening). Singer-songwriter, b Belleville, Ont, 21 Jul 1962. Aaron participated in musical theatre from age five to 17, and was a member of her high school's concert and jazz bands.

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    Lee Cremo

    Fiddler, composer, b Barra Head (now Chapel Island), Cape Breton, NS, 30 Dec 1938, d Eskasoni, NS, 10 Oct 1999. A Mi'kmaq person, Cremo was taken at four to Eskasoni, on the East Bay of Bras d'or Lake, Cape Breton.

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    Lee Gagnon

    Lee Gagnon. Tenor and alto saxophonist, flutist, arranger, composer, b Amqui, on the Gaspé Peninsula, south of Matane, Que, of US parents, 2 Sep 1934. His teachers at the CMM were Joseph Moretti (clarinet, 1952-6), Arthur Romano, 1954-60), and Rafael Masella (clarinet, 1956-9).

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    Lee Hepner

    Lee (Alfred) Hepner. Conductor, teacher, b Edmonton 24 Nov 1920, d Vancouver 24 Jul 1986; ARCT 1950, B MUS (Toronto) 1951, BA (Washington) 1957, MA (Columbia) 1961, honorary FRHCM 1970, PH D (New York) 1972.

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    Lee Maracle

    Lee Maracle, OC, author and critic (born 2 July 1950 in Vancouver, BC; died 11 November 2021 in Surrey, BC). Lee Maracle was a prolific First Nations writer and expert on First Nations culture and history, and an influential Indigenous voice in Canadian postcolonial criticism. 

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