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    Terry Mosher

    Terry Mosher (a.k.a. Aislin), OC, political cartoonist (born 11 November 1942 in Ottawa, ON). Known by his pen name, Aislin, Terry Mosher is one of Canada's leading newspaper editorial cartoonists. His irreverent, acerbic sketches appear regularly in many Canadian dailies and in periodicals in the United States and abroad. He has won two Canadian National Newspaper Awards and was the youngest member inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame at age 43. He was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2012.

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    Terry Paul

    Terrance (Terry) J. Paul, CM, Chief, businessman, band manager, chief executive officer (born 30 December 1951 in Membertou First Nation, NS). Terry Paul is a Mi’kmaw leader who has been involved with the administration and governing of Membertou First Nation on Cape Breton Island for several years. He has been chief for 40 years, having been re-elected at every election since 1984. Under Paul’s leadership, Membertou has become one of the most progressive, well-organized and sustainable Indigenous communities in Canada.

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    Terry Sawchuk

    Terrence Gordon Sawchuk, hockey goalkeeper (b at Winnipeg 28 Dec 1929; d at New York 31 May 1970). He played junior hockey in Winnipeg and Galt, Ont, turning professional at age 17 with Omaha.

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    Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

    Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue, CM, figure skater (born 17 May 1989 in London, ON) and Scott Patrick Moir, CM, figure skater (born 2 September 1987 in London, ON). Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir are the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history, with five medals. They were the first North Americans to win the Olympic gold medal for ice dance, at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, they won silver in ice dance and in the team competition. They won gold in ice dance and in the team competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. They have also won four world championships (three senior and one junior), three Four Continents championships, nine Canadian championships (eight senior and one junior) and multiple Grand Prix events, including a Grand Prix Final. They are both Members of the Order of Canada and have been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Tex Lecor

    Tex (b Paul) Lecor (b Lecorre). Singer, songwriter, painter, show host, b St-Michel-de-Wentworth, near Montreal, 10 Jun 1933. While studying 1957-63 at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, he made his debut at his own boîte à chansons in Montreal, La Poubelle, at the end of the 1950s.

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    Thaïs Lacoste-Frémont

    ​Thaïs Lacoste-Frémont, women’s rights activist, journalist, speaker (born 18 October 1886 in Montréal, Québec; died there 6 April 1963). 

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    Menaka Thakkar

    Menaka Thakkar, dancer, choreographer, director and teacher (born 3 March 1942 in Bombay, India).

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    Thanadelthur

    Thanadelthur (Chipewyan for “marten shake”), peace negotiator, guide, teacher, interpreter (born c. 1697 likely in present-day northern MB; died 5 February 1717 at York Factory, MB). Known as the Ambassadress of Peace, Thanadelthur negotiated peace between the Chipewyan (Denesuline) and Cree peoples during the early fur trade. She was also instrumental in creating ties between the Chipewyan people and the Hudson’s Bay Company, as well as expanding the fur trade in today’s Churchill, Manitoba region.

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    Thayer Lindsley

    Thayer Lindsley, mining engineer, promoter (b at Yokohama, Japan 17 Aug 1882; d at New York C 29 May 1976). Born of American parents in Japan, Lindsley returned to the US at 15, graduated from Harvard in engineering and worked for the New York City subway.

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    The Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. It is the greatest murder mystery in Canadian political history. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Father of Confederation and outspoken opponent of the Fenians, was assassinated on an Ottawa street in the early hours of Tuesday, 7 April 1868.

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    The Band

    The Band. Rock group, internationally popular in the late 1960s and the 1970s. First known as The Hawks, it evolved from a US group taken to Ontario in 1958 by Ronnie Hawkins.

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    The Beau-Marks

    The Beau-Marks. Montreal rock group established in 1958; their hit single "Clap Your Hands" was the first hit rock recording made entirely in Canada. Under the name The Del-Tones, the group first released the rockabilly single "Rockin' Blues/Moonlight Party" in April 1959.

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    Beaver Hall Group

    ​The Beaver Hall Group (also known as the Beaver Hall Hill Group) was a group of artists (both male and female) who shared studio space at 305 Beaver Hall Hill in Montréal and exhibited together; A.Y. Jackson was the first president.

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    The Bells

    The Bells (The Five Bells 1965-70). Montreal-based pop group active predominantly 1965-73.

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    The Brunswick Four

    The Brunswick Four refers to four lesbian women — Adrienne Rosen (formerly Adrienne Potts), Pat Murphy, Sue Wells and Lamar Van Dyke (formerly Heather Elizabeth Nelson) — who were thrown out of a Toronto bar on 5 January 1974. Their expulsion and eventual detention led to charges and significant public outcry at their treatment by the bar staff and the police. The Brunswick Four case raised awareness about homophobia and harassment in Canada, and fueled Toronto’s growing LGBTQ2S+ rights movement.

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