Browse "People"

Displaying 9961-9975 of 11283 results

  • Article

    Shirley Harmer

    Shirley Harmer. Singer, actress, b Thornton's Corners (now Oshawa), Ont, 25 Mar 1932. In her teens she sang in the dance bands of, and was coached by, Boyd Valleau and Art Hallman.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Shirley Harmer

  • Article

    Shirley Wiitasalo

    By the 1980s Wiitasalo's work and that of peers such as Will Gorlitz, Carol Wainio and Joanne Tod signalled the interest on the part of a new generation of figurative painters in relationships between identity, social formation and media representations.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/80ab60cf-d3e9-4acf-b41e-312900184b59.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/80ab60cf-d3e9-4acf-b41e-312900184b59.jpg Shirley Wiitasalo

  • Article

    Shuffle Demons

    Shuffle Demons. Toronto jazz group.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Shuffle Demons

  • Article

    Shuvinai Ashoona

    Shuvinai Ashoona, artist (born August 1961 in Cape Dorset, NU). Shuvinai Ashoona's art has been exhibited extensively, both within Canada and internationally. Her drawings occupy a unique place within contemporary Inuit art, combining elements of Inuit culture and traditional stories with influences derived from contact with southern industrial society, all subsumed within the reality of her richly imaginative inner world. 

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/7bd673d7-c31e-4585-b3ed-7e9ded207405.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/7bd673d7-c31e-4585-b3ed-7e9ded207405.jpg Shuvinai Ashoona

  • Article

    Shyam Selvadurai

    Shyam Selvadurai's first novel, Funny Boy won the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and The Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Fiction. The novel is at once innocent and wise, fanciful and uncompromisingly frank in its depiction of Arjie Chelvaratnam's happy and harrowing childhood.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/f51422cb-0e1b-4191-bbfc-f2298824592d.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/f51422cb-0e1b-4191-bbfc-f2298824592d.jpg Shyam Selvadurai

  • Article

    Sid Engen

    Sid (Hanson) Engen. Violin maker, b near Oslo, Norway, 9 Nov 1902, d Dauphin, Man, 23 Jun 1976. His family arrived in Winnipeg in 1905, then moved to Saskatchewan before settling in Dauphin in 1919.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sid Engen

  • Article

    Sidney Altman

    Sidney Altman, biochemist, molecular biologist, educator (born7 May 1939 in Montreal, QC; died 5 April 2022 in Rockleigh, NJ). Altman was a dual citizen of Canada and the United States (see Canadian Citizenship). His childhood delight in science culminated in his sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech in 1989 (see Nobel Prizes and Canada; Chemistry).

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/TCE_placeholder.png" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/TCE_placeholder.png Sidney Altman

  • Article

    Sidney Carter

    Sidney Robert Carter, art and antique dealer, photographer (b at Toronto 18 Feb 1880; d at Montréal 27 Mar 1956). Carter was an early advocate of pictorialism in photography, and by 1901-02 was exhibiting in London, the US and Canada.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sidney Carter

  • Article

    Sidney Crosby

    Sidney Crosby (Sid the Kid), ONS, hockey player (born 7 August 1987 in Cole Harbour, NS). Crosby is a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League and a two-time Olympic gold medallist with Canada’s men’s hockey team. He has won the Art Ross Trophy (2007, 2014), the Hart Trophy (2007, 2014), the Ted Lindsay Award (2007, 2013, 2014), the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy (2010, 2017), and the Conn Smythe Trophy (2016, 2017). Crosby has also received the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top athlete of the year (2007, 2009) and the Lionel Conacher Award as Canada’s male athlete of the year (2007, 2009, 2010).

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/7d5ab1ad-6521-40a6-a4fb-deafb7bfe4df.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/7d5ab1ad-6521-40a6-a4fb-deafb7bfe4df.jpg Sidney Crosby

  • Macleans

    Sidney Crosby

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on 5 March 2005. Partner content is not updated. ON THE FIRST TRULY WARM DAY of a Gaspé spring, Sidney Crosby is putting the pond back into HOCKEY. He and his Rimouski Océanic teammates have gathered at the Colisée, a gracefully aging 4,300-seater perched about a kilometre above the St.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sidney Crosby

  • Article

    Sidney Furie

    Sidney Furie, film director (b at Toronto 28 Feb 1933). After training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa, he worked at the CBC as a television writer and director from 1954 before striking off as an

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/8f4b89b4-a26f-47eb-a922-6daad0d14c1b.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/8f4b89b4-a26f-47eb-a922-6daad0d14c1b.jpg Sidney Furie

  • Article

    Sidney Robert Blair

    Sidney Robert Blair (Bob), CC, industrialist (born 13 August 1929 in Port of Spain Trinidad; died 18 April 2009 in Vancouver, BC).

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sidney Robert Blair

  • Article

    Sidney Robinovitch

    Sidney Robinovitch. Composer, teacher, b Brandon, Man, 16 Jul 1942; BA (Manitoba) 1963, PH D (Illinois) 1970. With a doctorate in communications, Robinovitch taught in the school of social sciences at York University 1970-7 when he left to pursue a career in music.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sidney Robinovitch

  • Article

    Sidney Smith Shatford

    Sidney Smith Shatford, business executive (b at Hubbards, NS 1 Dec 1864; d at Halifax 8 June 1956). In partnership with his brother, he founded NS's first oil business.

    "https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Sidney Smith Shatford

  • Article

    Sidney Van den Bergh

    At the David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto, he played a key role in expanding the facilities, developing computer techniques, multicolour photometry and other innovations.

    "https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/3e9c78b7-9903-440d-8b07-94cf34a0e5df.jpg" // resources/views/front/categories/view.blade.php
    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/media/media/3e9c78b7-9903-440d-8b07-94cf34a0e5df.jpg Sidney Van den Bergh