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    Robert Dunsmuir

    Robert Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician (b at Hurlford, Scot 31 Aug 1825; d at Victoria 12 Apr 1889). Dunsmuir was best known as the coal king of British Columbia. He came to Vancouver Island in 1851 and worked as a coal miner

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    Robert Edward Bell

    Robert Edward Bell, nuclear physicist, university educator (b at New Malden, Eng 29 Nov 1918; d at Vancouver, BC 1 Apr 1992). After graduating from the University of British Columbia (BA 1939, MA 1941), he worked on RADAR development at the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL during WWII.

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    Robert England

    Robert England, teacher, railway administrator, civil servant (born 15 September 1894 in Portadown, Northern Ireland; died 14 June 1985 in Victoria, BC). England had a varied education and an even more varied career. However, his contributions to Canadian society were primarily in the fields of rural education, immigration and cultural pluralism, veterans’ rehabilitation and citizenship.

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    Robert Farnon

    Robert Joseph Farnon Robert Joseph Farnon, composer, arranger, conductor (b at Toronto 24 July 1917). He is considered one of the most influential film composers of his generation in Europe and North America. Farnon became trumpeter in several 1930s Toronto dance bands and in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission's orchestras of Percy FAITH and Geoffrey WADDINGTON. He was a founding member of CBC Radio's "Happy Gang", 1937-43. After serving overseas during WWII as conductor of...

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    Robert Farnon

    While a composition pupil of Louis Waizman in the 1930s, Farnon arranged music for Faith's choral groups and for the US orchestras of André Kostelanetz and Paul Whiteman. His first symphony, completed in 1940, was premiered 7 Jan 1941 as Symphonic Suite by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

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    Robert Ferguson

    Robert Ferguson, businessman (b at Logierait, Scot 17 Apr 1768; d at Campbellton, NB 10 Aug 1851). He came to the RESTIGOUCHE RIVER in 1796 and was soon the most prominent merchant and largest landowner in the region.

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    Robert Ferguson Legget

    Robert Ferguson Legget, civil engineer (b at Liverpool, Eng 29 Sept 1904; died at Ottawa, Ont 17 Apr 1994).

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    Robert Finch

    Robert Duer Claydon Finch, poet, scholar (b at Freeport, Long Island, NY 14 May 1900; d at Toronto 11 June 1995). Robert Finch was educated at University College, University of Toronto, and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a professor of French at the University of Toronto for four decades, 1928-68.

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    Robert Fleming

    Robert James Berkeley Fleming, composer, educator (b at Prince Albert, Sask 12 Nov 1921; d at Ottawa 28 Nov 1976). 

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    Robert Fleming

    Though his music is recognizably of the 20th century, among his contemporaries Fleming was a moderate. His compositions are basically tonal and use traditional techniques, forms, and media in a personal way.

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    Robert Fleming Gourlay

    Robert Fleming Gourlay, polemicist, reformer (b at Craigrothie, Scot 24 Mar 1778; d at Edinburgh, Scot 1 Aug 1863). A successful farmer and writer who fell into financial difficulties, he came to UPPER CANADA in 1817 to take up land he owned in Dereham Township and to write an immigrant's guide.

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    Robert Ford

    Robert Arthur Douglas Ford, diplomat, poet (b at Ottawa 8 Jan 1915; d at Vichy, France 12 Apr 1998).

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    Robert Foulis

    Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer, painter (born 5 May 1796 in Glasgow, Scotland; died 26 January 1866 in Saint John, NB). Robert Foulis is known as the inventor of the world’s first steam-operated fog alarm, which was installed on Partridge Island in 1859. While Foulis never patented or even profited from his life-saving innovation, his invention assisted fogbound mariners for over a century.

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    Robert Friedland (Profile)

    The taxi pulls out of Atlanta Airport and heads towards town, past an unfinished Olympic stadium, past the headquarters of Coca-Cola Co. "You goin' to Buckhead where the rich people live," the cabbie observes.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 3, 1996

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    Robert Fulford

    Robert Marshall Blount Fulford, editor, essayist, critic (born 13 February 1932 in Ottawa, ON; died 15 October 2024 in Toronto, ON).

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