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    Robert Lenard Barclay

    Barclay (b Basham), Robert Lenard (b Leonard Edwin). Composer, writer, b Penticton, BC, 2 Feb 1918, naturalized US 1951; ATCM 1941, d Fort Lauderdale, Fla, 11 Mar 1980.

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    Robert Léonard

    (Joseph Jean Denis) Robert Léonard. Teacher, 'animateur,' percussionist, b Montreal 16 Sep 1938; B MUS (Montreal) 1966, L MUS (Montreal) 1969.

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    Robert Lepage

    Other large-scale spectacles, Les Plaques tectoniques (1990), Les Aiguilles et l'opium (1991) and Le Polygraphe (1992), have followed, attracting the highest critical acclaim at home and abroad.

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    Robert Lepage

    Robert Lepage.

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    Robert Lepage (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 11, 1995. Partner content is not updated. He makes all the world his stage, quite literally. Last spring, in the space of just two weeks, he jetted to London, Paris, Venice, Spoleto, Rome, Tokyo and Montreal before touching down in his home town of Quebec City. Robert Lepage is yet to be a household name.

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    Robert Leroux

    Robert Leroux. Percussionist, teacher, administrator, b Montreal 10 Dec 1950; B MUS (Montreal) 1970. He studied percussion at University of Montreal and McGill University and orchestral timpani repertoire with Louis Charbonneau.

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    Robert L'Herbier

    (Joseph) Robert (Fernand) L'Herbier (b Samson). Singer, administrator, songwriter, b Lévis, near Quebec City, 5 Feb 1921. He studied music for 12 years, and his teachers included Alphonse Tardif (piano) in Lévis and Mme Isa Jeynevald-Mercier (voice) in Quebec City.

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    Robert MacGregor Dawson

    Robert MacGregor Dawson, political scientist (b at Bridgewater, NS 1 Mar 1895; d there 16 July 1958). He was a graduate of Dalhousie, Harvard and London School of Economics, and taught at Dalhousie, Rutgers and University of Saskatchewan before going to University of Toronto in 1937.

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    Robert Machray

    Robert Machray, Church of England priest, bishop (b at Aberdeen, Scot 17 May 1831; d at Winnipeg 9 Mar 1904). Educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he received prizes in mathematics, philosophy and divinity.

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    Robert Markle

    Robert Markle, painter, writer, musician, educator (born 1936 in Hamilton, ON; died 1990 in Mount Forest, ON). Markle was Mohawk, but his relationship to his ancestry was not straightforward. It was only later in life that Markle actively incorporated aspects of his Indigenous identity into his art. Most well known for his female nudes, Markle usually depicted his wife, Marlene, or burlesque dancers. Following a Toronto police raid of a gallery exhibiting his work in 1965, some of Markle’s drawings were identified as obscene by a judge. Markle remains known for his sensual and passionate artwork.

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    Robert May

    May, Robert (Charles). Composer, b Hamilton, Ont, 13 Aug 1958; ARCT piano (1980), B MUS (Western) 1983, MA (Eastman School of Music [ESM]) 1986, PH D (ESM) 1988.

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    Robert McDowall

    Robert McDowall, pioneer Presbyterian minister (b at Balston Spa, near Albany, NY 25 July 1768; d at Fredericksburgh, Canada West 3 Aug 1841). In 1790 the Dutch Reformed Church sent McDowall as a missionary to what is now southern Ontario.

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    Robert McEwen (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 23, 2003. Partner content is not updated. WHEN ROBERT MCEWEN got up to speak at his company's annual meeting earlier this month, his first words were: "GOLD is money." It's become a mantra for the soft-spoken chairman and chief executive of Goldcorp Inc.

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    Robert McLellan Bateman

    Robert McLellan Bateman, painter (b at Toronto 24 May 1930). Bateman received his early training as a naturalist at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum and studied painting and drawing with Gordon Payne and Carl SCHAEFER.

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    Robert McMullin

    Robert or Bob (Wesley) McMullin. Composer, arranger, conductor, brass and winds player, b Lewiston, Utah, 29 Apr 1921, naturalized Canadian 1946, d Regina 3 Jan 1995. Robert McMullin was taken at age four to Raymond, near Lethbridge, Alta, where he had a year of piano lessons in 1935.

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