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    Betty Oliphant

    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher (b at London, Eng 5 Aug 1918; d at St. Catharines, Ont 12 July 2004).

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    Betty Phillips

    Betty (Muriel) Phillips. Mezzo-soprano, actress, b Vancouver 17 May 1923; BA (British Columbia) 1976.

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    Betty Roodish Goodwin

    Betty Roodish Goodwin, painter (b at Montréal 19 Mar 1923; died there 1 December 2008). Betty Goodwin began her career as a visual artist in the late 1940s and began to exhibit her work in the early 1960s. Largely self-taught, Goodwin began with drawing, a practice she was comfortable with.

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    Beverley Diamond Cavanagh

    Beverley (Anne) Diamond (formerly m Cavanagh). Ethnomusicologist, pianist, b Kitchener, Ont, 4 Jun 1948; B MUS (Toronto) 1970, MA musicology (Toronto) 1971, PH D ethnomusicology (Toronto) 1979.

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    Beverley Johnston

    Beverley (Jean) Johnston. Percussionist, b Lachine, Que, 4 Jun 1957; B MUS music education (Toronto) 1980. She began piano studies at 7 and at 13 took up percussion.

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    Beverley McLachlin

    Beverley McLachlin, PC, CC, Chief Justice of Canada 2000–17, lawyer and jurist (born 7 September 1943 in Pincher Creek, AB). Born into a rural Alberta farming family of modest means, McLachlin rose to become the first female chief justice of a Commonwealth high court and the longest serving chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In June 2017, McLachlin announced she would retire from the bench on 15 December 2017, nine months before mandatory retirement at age 75.

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    Beverley McLachlin (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 20, 2002. Partner content is not updated.

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    Beverley McLachlin (Profile)

    Those may be welcome words to many of the high court's critics. Although the Supreme Court has escaped some of the opprobrium Canadians feel towards so many of their national institutions, there is still a swell of complaints that the court is tampering in areas best left to elected legislators.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 15, 1999

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    Beverley Simons

    Beverley Simons, née Rosen, playwright (b at Flin Flon, Man 31 Mar 1938). Simons grew up in Edmonton and was educated at the Banff School of Fine Arts, McGill University and the University of British Columbia, where she completed a BA in English and Theatre in 1959.

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    Beverly Fyfe

    Beverly (Couper) Fyfe. Choir conductor, tenor, b Neepawa, near Winnipeg, of Scottish parents, 13 Oct 1909. His father was a choirmaster in Saskatoon and conducted the Arion Male Voice Choir in Victoria.

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    Beverly Mascoll

    Beverly Sharon Mascoll (née Ash), CM, entrepreneur, philanthropist, community leader (born 29 October 1941 in Fall River, NS; died 16 May 2001 in Toronto, ON). Mascoll was one of Canada’s notable women entrepreneurs, business owners, and community role models. She was the founder and president of Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd., a Black beauty business that was both a distribution and retail company. She was one of the first Black women to be appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. (See also Black Canadians.)

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    BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, Nicolas Laverdière)

    ​The artists Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière form the collective BGL, founded in 1996 and active today on the Québec, Canadian, and international art scenes. 

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    Bharati Mukherjee

    Bharati Mukherjee, novelist, short-story writer (born 27 July 1940 in Calcutta, India; died 28 January 2017 in New York, NY).

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    Bianca Andreescu

    Bianca Vanessa Andreescu, tennis player (born 16 June 2000 in Mississauga, Ontario). Romanian Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu won 19 junior singles titles and 13 junior doubles tournaments between 2012 and 2017, when she turned professional. In August 2019, she became the first Canadian since Faye Urban in 1969 to win the Rogers Cup. Andreescu then won the US Open in September 2019, making her the first Canadian singles tennis player to win a grand slam title. In 2019, she received the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s female athlete of the year and became the first tennis player to win the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year.

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    Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)

    Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear), Plains Cree chief (born near Fort Carlton, SK; died 17 January 1888 on the Little Pine Reserve, SK). Mistahimaskwa is best known for his refusal to sign Treaty 6 in 1876 and for his band’s involvement in violent conflicts associated with the 1885 North-West Resistance.

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