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Norman James Dawes
Norman James Dawes, brewer, corporate director (b at Lachine, Qué 13 July 1874; d at Montréal 14 Apr 1967). Son of James P. Dawes, a third-generation Montréal brewer, he was educated at McGill and the US Brewers' Academy and entered the family brewing business in 1894.
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Norman Campbell
Norman Kenneth Campbell, OC, OOnt, composer, television producer, director (born 4 February 1924 in Los Angeles, California; died 12 April 2004 in Toronto, ON).
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Norman Kirby
Norman Kirby, soldier (born 9 July 1925 in New Westminster, BC). Kirby served with the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment during the Second World War. He was involved in the D-Day landings and Normandy Campaign, the Battle of the Rhineland and the Liberation of the Netherlands.
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Norman Kwong
Norman “Normie” Lim Kwong (né Lim Kwong Yew), CM, AOE, football player, executive, businessman, lieutenant-governor of Alberta 2005–10 (born 24 October 1929 in Calgary, AB; died 3 September 2016 in Calgary). Nicknamed “the China Clipper,” Norman Kwong was the first Chinese Canadian to play professional football. In his 13 years as a halfback in the Canadian Football League (CFL), Kwong won four Grey Cups and set 30 league records. He was twice named the CFL’s most outstanding Canadian player and received the 1955 Lionel Conacher Award as Canada’s male athlete of the year. He served as president and general manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1988–92) and part owner of the Calgary Flames (1980–94) before becoming the first Chinese Canadian to serve as lieutenant-governor of Alberta. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
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Norman Levine
Norman Levine, short story writer, novelist (b at Ottawa, Ont 22 Oct 1923; d at Darlington, England 14 June 2005).
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Norman McLaren
Constantly innovative, McLaren tried techniques such as drawings scratched directly on film, cutout animation, painting directly on film, etc.
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Norman McLaren
McLaren has earned an international reputation for his imaginative and skilled contribution to the art of film. He has received honours from many countries.
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Norman McLeod
Norman McLeod, Presbyterian minister (b at Point of Stoer, Scot 29 Sept 1780; d at Waipu, NZ 14 Mar 1866). McLeod, a teacher and lay preacher, moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1817.
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Norman Mittelmann
Norman Mittelmann, baritone (born 25 May 1932 in Winnipeg, MB; died 17 March 2019 in Palm Desert, California). Norman Mittelmann was an acclaimed opera singer who performed with many major opera companies around the world. He made his Canadian operatic debut with the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in 1958 and debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1961. He also appeared with the Berlin Deutsche Oper, the Munich Staatsoper, the Zürich Opera, the Royal Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Manitoba Opera and the Edmonton Opera, among many others.
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Norman Nelson
Nelson, (Richard) Norman. Violinist, b Dublin 1 Aug 1931. He studied 1945-51 with George Strattan at the RCM and with Sascha Lasserson, a pupil of Leopold Auer. Nelson joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951 and the Sadler's Wells orchestra in 1952.
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Norman Reade DePoe
Norman Reade DePoe, broadcaster, journalist (b at Portland, Ore 4 May 1917; d at Toronto 13 Mar 1980). In his prime in the eventful 1960s, he was for 8 years CBC-TV's chief Ottawa correspondent and a household name as Canadian broadcasting's star reporter on national and international affairs.
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Norman Ryan
Norman Ryan, "Red," bandit (b at Toronto July 1895, d at Sarnia, Ont 25 May 1936). Nicknamed "Canada's Jesse James," Ryan committed numerous robberies in Ontario, Québec and the US, deserted the Canadian Army in WWI, and once made a spectacular escape from Kingston Penitentiary.
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Norman Sherman
Norman (Morris) Sherman, composer, bassoonist, teacher (born 25 February 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts; died 30 April 2015 in London, ON).
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Norman Symonds
Norman Alec Symonds, composer, clarinetist, saxophonist (born 23 December 1920 near Nelson, BC; died 21 August 1998 in Toronto, ON).
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Norman Symonds
Symonds, Norman (Alec). Composer, clarinetist, saxophonist, b near Nelson, BC, 23 Dec 1920, d Toronto 21 Aug 1998. Raised in Victoria, BC, Symonds began playing clarinet in his teens.
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