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    Maud Lewis

    Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley), artist (born 7 March 1901 or 1903 in Yarmouth, NS; died 30 July 1970 in Digby, NS). Maud Lewis was a Canadian painter and folk artist. Her artistic talents were largely hidden throughout much of her life — a result of poverty, shyness and social anxiety brought on by suffering from severe birth defects. Often referred to as Canada’s Grandma Moses, Lewis came to national prominence in the mid-1960s, just a few years before her death. Her work, which has been sold at auctions and been featured on postage stamps, has become widely popular. The small house where she lived and worked is on permanent display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

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    Maude Abbott

    Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, cardiac pathologist, physician, curator (born 18 March 1868 in St. Andrews East, QC; died 2 September 1940 in Montreal, QC). Maude Abbott is known as the author of The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease (1936), a groundbreaking text in cardiac research. Though Abbott graduated in arts from McGill University (1890), she was barred from studying medicine at McGill because of her gender. Instead, she attended Bishop’s College (now Bishop’s University), earning a medical degree in 1894. As assistant curator of the McGill Medical Museum (1898), and curator (1901), she revolutionized the teaching of pathology by using the museum as an instructional tool. Abbott’s work paved the way for women in medicine and laid the foundation for modern heart surgery. (See also Women in STEM).

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    Maude Charron

    Maude Garon Charron, weightlifter (born 28 April 1993 in Rimouski, QC). Maude Charron came to weightlifting following training as a gymnast and a circus performer. At the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, Charron became only the second Canadian ever to win an Olympic gold medal in weightlifting (after Christine Girard in 2012). She also won gold at the 2018 World University Weightlifting Championships and at the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games, as well as a silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games. Charron holds Commonwealth Games records and multiple Canadian records. She and sprinter Andre De Grasse were announced as the flag bearers for Canada at the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris.

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    Maureen Forrester

    Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, CC, O.ON, OQ, opera and recital singer, teacher, arts administrator (born 25 July 1930 in Montreal, QC; died 16 June 2010 in Toronto, ON). Maureen Forrester was one of Canada’s greatest and best-known classical singers. She was renowned for her remarkable trumpet-like contralto and her deeply emotive musical interpretations. The only classical performer other than Glenn Gould to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, she was admired greatly at home and abroad for her recitals, recordings and opera performances. She also served as chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, director of du Maurier Arts and chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University. She received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, the Molson Prize, the Diplôme d’honneur from the Canadian Conference of the Arts and the Canadian Music Council Medal, as well as numerous other honours.

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    Maureen Jennings

    Maureen Jennings, writer (born 23 April 1939 in Birmingham, UK). A talented writer with a keen eye for setting, character and dialogue, Maureen Jennings has helped put historical crime fiction on the Canadian literary map. She has published three series of novels as well as nonfiction, short stories and stage plays, and is best known for her Detective Murdoch series of historical crime novels. Inspired by the career of Ontario detective John Wilson Murray, the Murdoch books have been adapted into the popular, long-running television series Murdoch Mysteries (2008–).

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    Maurice Arthur Pope

    Maurice Arthur Pope, engineer, army officer, diplomat (b at Rivière du Loup, Qué 9 Aug 1889; d at Ottawa 20 Sept 1978). Son of Sir Joseph Pope and grandson of Sir Henri T. Taschereau, he was a strong nationalist who believed that Canadians must respect the traditions of both founding peoples.

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    Maurice Baril

    Maurice Baril, soldier (b at Saint-Albert de Warwick, Québec 22 Sept 1943). He enlisted in the Canadian Officer Training Corps, while studying at the University of Ottawa, became an officer in 1963, and was assigned to the Royal 22nd Regiment in 1964.

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    Maurice Bernier

    Maurice Bernier. Cellist, critic, b Quebec City 17 Apr 1900, d there 2 Dec 1990. He studied piano with his father, Joseph-Arthur and Henri Gagnon, and cello 1912-20 with J.-Alexandre Gilbert and Paul Robitaille. He played in the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Vézina in 1915.

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    Maurice Blackburn

    Joseph Albert Maurice Blackburn, composer, conductor, sound editor, instrument builder (born 22 May 1914 in Québec City, QC; died 29 March 1988 in Montréal, QC)

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    Maurice Blackburn

    (Joseph Albert) Maurice Blackburn. Composer, conductor, sound editor for film, string instrument builder, musical adviser, b Quebec City 22 May 1914, d Montreal 29 Mar 1988; lauréat piano (Laval) 1939.

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    Maurice Bolyer

    Maurice (Joseph) Bolyer (b Beaulieu). Banjoist, composer, b Edmundston, NB, of Acadian parents, 1 Dec 1920, d Toronto 18 Aug 1978.

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    Maurice Brown

    Maurice Brown. Bass-baritone, b Toronto, 1 Jan 1940; Artist and Licentiate Diploma (Toronto) 1962. He studied voice with Jeanne Pengelly, Irene Jessner, and Ernesto Vinci in Canada; Beatrice Rowe and Armen Boyajian in the USA; and Josef Metternich in Germany.

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    Maurice Charbonneau

    Maurice Charbonneau. Cellist, teacher, b Montreal 22 Jun 1903, d there 6 Jan 1982. He began studying cello at 12 with his father, Louis Charbonneau, and made his debut with the Société symphonique de Québec (Quebec Symphony Orchestra).

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    Maurice Decelles

    Maurice (Duclos) Decelles. Clarinetist, oboist, bandmaster, teacher, composer, b Trois-Rivières, Que, 11 Oct 1905, d Quebec City, 29 Jul 1979.

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    Maurice Dela

    Maurice (b Albert) Dela (b Phaneuf). Composer, arranger, organist, pianist, (b Montreal 9 Sep 1919, d Verdun [Montreal] 28 Apr 1978); BA (Montreal) 1940.

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