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    Lois Miriam Wilson

    Lois Miriam Wilson, née Freeman, United Church minister (b at Winnipeg 8 Apr 1927). Ordained after 15 years as a homemaker, Wilson shared team ministries with her husband, Roy, successively in Thunder Bay, Hamilton and Kingston, Ontario.

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    Lois Smith

    Lois Smith married dancer David ADAMS in 1950 and both were invited by Celia Franca to join the newly founded NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA in 1951 as principal dancers.

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    Lola MacLaughlin

    Lola Elizabeth Harris MacLaughlin, choreographer, dancer (b at Oliver, BC 1 Mar 1952, d at Vancouver 6 March 2009). Founder and artistic director of Lola Dance, a Vancouver-based company that supports the production and distribution of her work, Lola MacLaughlin made dances that were meticulously constructed, balancing compelling stage images with closely detailed movement phrases.

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    Lola Lemire Tostevin

    Lola Lemire Tostevin, poet, novelist, essayist (b at Timmins, Ont 15 Jun 1937). The author of one novel and 5 books of poetry, she investigates in her work the relationship between language and female subjectivity. Tostevin is a bilingual writer whose first language is French.

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    Lola MacQuarrie

    Lola (Frances Lane) MacQuarrie (b Smith). Educator, writer, b Winnipeg 30 Dec 1909, d there 24 Jan 1966; B SC (Manitoba) 1931. She was steadily involved in Winnipeg musical life after 1920, notably in the 1940s as choir director at Daniel McIntyre High School.

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    Lolita Davidovich

    Lolita Davidovich, actor (born at London, Ont 15 July 1961). Lolita Davidovich, whose parents were immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, moved to Chicago where she attended acting workshops at Steppenwolf and Victory Garden Theatres.

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    Long John Baldry

    "Long" John (William) Baldry. Singer, guitarist, songwriter, b East Haddon, Eng., 12 Jan 1941, naturalized Canadian 1980, d Vancouver 21 Jul 2005.

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    A Place to Happen

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.It has been said that Canadians don’t tell our own stories or celebrate our own myths. Our history is full of epics considered “too small to be tragic,” as The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie once sang.

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    Diane Loomer

    Diane (Mary) Loomer (b Kolander). Choral conductor, arranger, teacher, born St Paul, Minn, 23 Apr 1940, died Vancouver, 10 Dec 2012; BA (Gustavus Adolphus College) 1962, B MUS (British Columbia) 1982.

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    Lorand Fenyves

    Lorand Fenyves. Violinist, teacher, b Budapest 20 Feb 1918, naturalized Canadian 1971, d Switzerland 23 March 2004. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Oscar Studer, Jenö Hubay, Leo Weiner, Imre Waldbauer, and Zoltán Kodály.

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    Loreena McKennitt

    She took up the harp in 1984 and worked as a busker in Toronto before recording a debut album, Elemental (1985), through her own company, Quinlan Road Productions. Her vocal clarity, Celtic arrangements and pre-Raphaelite image were unique, and she soon attracted a small but devoted audience.

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    Loreena McKennitt

    An ethereal presence both visually and aurally, who transformed the harp into a pop-music instrument without subverting its natural tone, McKennitt studied piano in Winnipeg with Olga Friesen and voice with Elma Gislason, and performed in musicals and folk clubs.

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    Lorena Gale

    Lorena Gale, actor, playwright, activist (born 9 May 1958 in Montreal, QC; died 21 June 2009 in Vancouver, BC). Lorena Gale was an award-winning actor and playwright who achieved a strong body of work in Canadian theatre. Her acclaimed 1995 play Angélique tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman who was hanged in Montreal for arson in 1734. Gale spent a season with the Shaw Festival and served as artistic director of Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop. She also appeared in more than 130 films and television series. In 2009, the Union of BC Performers created the Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award in her honour.

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    Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado

    Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado, apocryphal navigator, adventurer (b in Spain; d 1625). In 1601 he submitted to King Philip III of Spain a document about his purported 1588 voyage through the NORTHWEST PASSAGE from east to west.

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    Loretta Todd

    Loretta Todd, documentary filmmaker, installation artist, essayist (born circa 1963 in Edmonton, AB). A central figure in what might be considered the second wave of Indigenous directors, Loretta Todd brings insight, discipline, resistance to sentimentality and a sense of adventurousness to her non-fiction films.

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