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    Weldon Kilburn

    Weldon (Nicholas) Kilburn. Teacher, pianist, organist, coach, b Lloydminster, Alta, 9 Sep 1906, d Toronto 6 Mar 1986; ATCM 1925, LAB.

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    Wellie Ringuette

    Wellie or Willy Ringuette. Violoneux, composer, b Franklin, NH, 6 Feb 1898, d Trois-Rivières, Que, 10 Sep 1969. At eight he began playing a violin made by his father.

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    Wells Coates

    Wells Wintemute Coates, architect, designer, writer (b at Tokyo, Japan 17 Dec 1895; d at Vancouver 17 June 1958).

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    Wen Wei Wang

    Despite his parents' attempts to guide him into the painting or music, Wen Wei Wang felt called to dance from an early age. His professional training began at the school of the Langzhou Regional Dance Company in 1978, and 4 years later he joined the professional troupe.

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    Wendel Meldrum

    After the latter show's quick demise, Meldrum went on to play some of her most endearing characters in iconic television series The Wonder Years and Seinfeld. Her feature film work includes the Canadian period drama Beautiful Dreamers (1990) and the science fiction comedy Blast from the Past (1999).

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    Wendy Crewson

    Wendy Jane Crewson, actor (born 9 May 1956 in Hamilton, ON). One of Canadian television’s best-known and most honoured actors, Wendy Crewson has won multiple Gemini Awards for her work in Canadian TV series and TV movies. She has also enjoyed a prolific film career and has acted opposite such Hollywood stars as Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rachel McAdams, Elliot Page and Arnold Schwarzenegger. An outspoken advocate for Canadian film and television, she has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and received the Gemini Humanitarian Award, ACTRA’s Award of Excellence, and the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in Canadian television.

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    Wendy Lill

    Wendy Lill's first stage play On the Line (Agassiz Theatre, 1982) was an agitprop piece about a strike by immigrant women working in the garment industry in Winnipeg.

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    Wendy Tilby

    Tilby made Strings (1991), a charming tale about an elderly man living in an apartment below a woman his own age. The woman is working on a model of the Titanic while the man plays a violin in a string quartet with friends. A leak from the woman's apartment sends the man upstairs.

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    Werner Israel

    Werner Israel, OC, FRS, FRSC, physicist (born 4 October 1931 in Berlin, Germany; died 18 May 2022 in Victoria, BC). Werner contributed new insights to the field of physics and is perhaps best known for his research on black holes. During his career, he collaborated with the English physicist Stephen Hawking.

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    Wesley Berg

    Wesley (Peter) Berg. Musicologist, teacher, administrator, b Altona, Man, 5 Nov 1942; BA (Manitoba) 1966; AWBM 1966; B MUS (Alberta) 1970; M MUS (Alberta) 1971; PH D (University of Washington) 1979. Berg studied piano with G.

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    West Indian Domestic Scheme

    The West Indian Domestic Scheme was an immigration program for Caribbean women between 1955 and 1967. Through the scheme, approximately 3,000 Caribbean women emigrated to Canada to work as domestic workers. The program opened the door for many Black Caribbeans to migrate to Canada, giving them an opportunity which would not have been available otherwise. Despite this, the women that participated in the scheme often faced difficult work conditions and racial discrimination. (See Racism.) Due to Canada’s changing immigration policy, the scheme officially ended in January 1968; it was replaced by a points-based system, which provided temporary work permits. Even with the program’s official end, women from the West Indies continued to come to Canada as domestic workers on temporary employment visas for years afterwards. (See Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs.) 

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    What would Georges St-Pierre say?

    Behind many a successful celebrity is a ‘ghost tweeter,’ keeping him out of troubleThis article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 15, 2013

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    Anne Wheeler

    Dorothy Anne Wheeler, filmmaker, producer, director, writer (b at Edmonton 23 Sept 1946). Anne Wheeler received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Alberta in 1967 and had some experience as an actor before making her first film in 1971. She made documentaries for the National Film Board as a freelancer in the late 1970s and joined the board's Prairie region as a staff member from 1978 to 1981. From this period dates the highly acclaimed A War Story (1981), a documentary-docudrama based on Wheeler's father's diaries as a Japanese prisoner of war.

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    Whitfield Carey

    (George) Whitfield Carey. Businessman, baritone, b Millgrove, near Hamilton, Ont, 9 Jul 1851, d Hamilton 13 Mar 1922. At first a farmer, he and his brother Abiathar (b Millgrove 1864, d there 1949) established the Carey Music Store (later renamed the George W.

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    Wickananish

    Wickananish, or Wikinanish, meaning "having no one in front of him in the canoe," Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) chief (fl 1788-93). Wickananish was the leading chief at Clayoquot Sound, on the West coast of Vancouver Island, during the period of initial European contact.

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