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    Raoul Paquet

    Raoul Paquet. Organist, teacher, composer, b Lacolle, near Montreal, 2 Dec 1893, d accidentally off Bonaventure Island, Gaspé, Que, 4 Aug 1946; honorary D MUS (Montreal) 1946.

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    Raoul Roy

    Raoul Roy. Folklorist, collector, singer, b St-Fabien-sur-Mer, near Rimouski, Que, 6 Jan 1936, d Montreal, 30 Jan 1985. He attended the École de Marine in Rimouski 1954-6, after which he studied the oral tradition of folk literature at Laval University.

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    Raoul Sosa

    Raoul (Raùl) Sosa. Pianist, conductor, composer, teacher, b Buenos Aires 27 Jul 1939, naturalized Canadian 1973; diploma (Buenos Aires Conservatory) 1957.

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    Raoul Vennat

    Raoul Vennat. Music dealer, flutist, b Clairac, France, 14 May 1869, d Montreal 1 Oct 1962. A Montreal resident after 1903, he established a music store which specialized in French music.

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    Raphaëlle de Groot

    ​Raphaëlle de Groot, artist (born 21 October 1974 in Montréal, Québec). 

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    Rawi Hage

    Rawi Hage, novelist, photographer (b Beirut, Lebanon 1964). As a young man growing up in Beirut and Cyprus during the years of the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage experienced life in a war zone directly.

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    Rawlins Cross

    Rawlins Cross. Celtic-rock band formed in St. John's, NL, in 1988 with Ian McKinnon (highland pipes, whistles), Dave Panting (guitar, mandolin), and Geoff Panting (accordion, keyboard).

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    Ray Edwin Powell

    Ray Edwin Powell, "Rep," business executive (b at Table Grove, Ill 7 Dec 1887; d at Montréal 9 Nov 1973). Educated at University of Illinois, Powell served in the US army during WWI.

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    Ray Fletcher Farquharson

    Ray Fletcher Farquharson, physician, medical educator (b at Claude, Ont 4 Aug 1897; d at Ottawa 1 June 1965).

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    Ray Griff

    Ray (Raymond) Griff. Songwriter, singer, pianist, b Vancouver 22 Apr 1942. He was raised in Winfield, Alta, where he took up the piano and played drums with the Winfield Amateurs (a dance group) as a boy, and in Calgary, where he led the Blue Echoes in his teens.

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    Ray Lewis

    Raymond Gray (“Rapid Ray”) Lewis, CM, sprinter (born 8 October 1910 in Hamilton, ON; died 14 November 2003 in Hamilton, ON). Ray Lewis was the first Canadian-born Black athlete to earn an Olympic medal. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 m relay at the 1932 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles. He was also part of the Canadian team that won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 m event at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, England. Lewis was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000.

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    Ray Mead

    ​Ray Mead, visual artist (born 22 September 1921 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England; died 5 September 1998 in Toronto, ON). A member of Painters Eleven and the Ontario Society of Artists, Mead was included in the Jubilee Year Canadian Art Show at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) in 1950 and the Painters Eleven show at the Roberts Gallery in 1954. A formative influence on the development of modernism in Canada, Ray Mead is one of Canada’s most celebrated 20th-century painters.

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    Ray Nurse

    Ray Nurse. Lutenist, builder and restorer of period string instruments, bass, b New Westminster, BC, 1 Feb 1947.

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    Raymond Bouchard

    Raymond Bouchard (born Lauzon, now Lévis, Qué 7 Mar 1945). Bouchard, a history, literature, and archeology student, possessed a deep warm voice and sang in his secondary school choir.

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    Raymond Brutinel

    Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel, CB, CMG, DSO, geologist, journalist, soldier and entrepreneur, a pioneer in the field of mechanized warfare (b at Alet, Aude, France 6 Mar 1872; d at Couloume-Mondebat, Gares, France 21 Sept 1964).

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