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    Raffi

    Raffi Cavoukian, children's singer (b at Cairo, Egypt 8 July 1948). Raffi's Armenian family came to Canada in 1958 and settled in Toronto. He began his career as a folksinger in coffee houses in 1970, but found his niche playing for young children four years later.

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    Raffi Armenian

    Raffi Armenian.

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    Raffi

    Raffi (b Raffi Cavoukian). Singer-songwriter, guitarist, b Cairo, of Armenian parents, 8 Jul 1948; honorary D LITT (Wilfrid Laurier) 2011. Taken to Canada at 10, he began his career as a folksinger in Toronto coffeehouses in the early 1970s and in 1974 performed for his first audience of children.

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    Ralls, Stephen

    Stephen Ralls. Pianist, producer, vocal coach, b Hertford, England, 1 Jul 1944; MA (Merton College, Oxford) 1967, LRAM (London) 1969. Stephen Ralls studied privately with Frederick Jackson, Rex Stephens, and Geraint Jones.

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    Ralph Allen

    Ralph Allen, journalist, editor, novelist (b at Winnipeg 25 Aug 1913; d at Toronto 2 Dec 1966). One of the best-loved and most influential editors of his day, Allen was justly famous for his work at Maclean's (1946-60) and the Toronto Star (1964-66).

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    Ralph Bowen

    Ralph Bowen. Saxophonist, flutist, composer, b Guelph, Ont, 24 Dec 1961; B Mus (Rutgers) 1989. He studied with Pat LaBarbera first at the Banff Jazz Workshop in 1978, then privately in Toronto until 1983.

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    Ralph Cecil Horner

    Ralph Cecil Horner, evangelist, church leader (b in Pontiac County, Canada E 22 Dec 1854; d at Ivanhoe, Ont 12 Sept 1921). After a short, stormy career as Methodist minister, he founded and led a series of HOLINESS CHURCHES.

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    Ralph Connor

    Connor, Ralph, see GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM.

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    Ralph Garvin Steinhauer

    ​Ralph Garvin Steinhauer, OC, lieutenant-governor of Alberta, Indigenous leader, farmer (born 8 June 1905 in Morley, North-West Territories [now AB]; died 19 September 1987 in Edmonton, AB). The first Indigenous person to serve as lieutenant-governor of a Canadian province, he was committed to Indigenous affairs in Alberta and Canada.

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    Ralph Grierson

    Ralph (Edwin) Grierson. Pianist, harpsichordist, keyboard synthesist, composer, b New Westminster, BC, 23 Jun 1942; B MUS (Southern California) 1966, M MUS (Southern California) 1968. His teachers 1948-62 in New Westminster, BC, and in Vancouver were Priscilla Eastman, Glenn Nelson, and Glen Geary.

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    Ralph Gustafson

    Ralph Gustafson, poet, professor (b at Lime Ridge, Qué 16 Aug 1909; d at North Hatley, Qué 29 May 1995). Gustafson wrote more than 20 books of poetry and edited several important anthologies of Canadian verse; he has also published 2 books of short stories.

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    Ralph Horner

    Ralph (Joseph) Horner. Conductor, composer, teacher, b Newport, Monmouthshire (now in Gwent, Wales), 28 Apr 1848, d Winnipeg 7 Apr 1926; B MUS (Durham) 1893, D MUS (Durham) 1898. He studied 1864-7 at the Leipzig Cons and returned ca 1868 to London, where he conducted choirs and operatic productions.

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    Ramón Pelinski

    Ramón Pelinski, musicologist, teacher, pianist (born 31 August 1932 in Corpus, Misiones, Argentina; died 6 July 2015). L PH (Córdoba) 1959, MA musicology (Munich) 1967, PH D musicology (Munich) 1969.

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    Ramona Luengen

    Choral conductor Ramona Luengen (courtesy Alex Waterhouse-Hayward).\r\nLuengen, Ramona Ramona (Maria) Luengen. Composer, choral conductor, teacher, b Vancouver 29 Dec 1960; B MUS (British Columbia) 1983, ARCT (Piano Performance) 1986, M MUS (Composition) (British Columbia) 1986, DMA (Toronto) 1996. Studying composition with Cortland Hultberg and piano with Jane Coop, Ramona Luengen completed a master's degree in 1986 before pursuing a doctorate in composition at the University of Toronto under Harry Freedman and John Hawkins 1990-1, and...

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    Ramsay Traquair

    Ramsay Traquair, architect and educator (b at Edinburgh, Scot 29 Mar 1874; d at Guysborough, NS 26 Aug 1952).

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