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    Carl Schwende

    ​Carl Schwende (born 20 February 1920 in Basel, Switzerland; died 29 December 2002 in Montréal, Québec) was an athlete who participated in the fencing competition at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games.

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    Carl Tapscott

    Carl (Harry) Tapscott. Choir conductor, tenor, arranger, organist, b Toronto 14 May 1910, d Lindsay, Ont, 17 Nov 1993; ARCT 1948. A pupil of Albert Whitehead (voice) and S.

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    Carl Toth

    Carl (b Karol) Toth. Violinist, cimbalom maker, b near Stare Karasnow, Czechoslovakia, 1905, d Toronto 1958. He moved to Canada in 1925 and made his home in Toronto in 1933, working as a gypsy fiddler and a master cabinet maker.

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    Carla Qualtrough

    Carla Qualtrough, politician, athlete, lawyer (born 15 October 1971 in Calgary, AB). Carla Qualtrough is the Liberal member of Parliament for Delta, a suburban constituency south of Vancouver. She has served as Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities and is currently Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility. Prior to entering politics, she worked in human rights law and in sports administration. Qualtrough, who is legally blind, was the first Paralympian elected to the House of Commons. She won three bronze medals in swimming at the Paralympic Games and four medals at the world championships.

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    Carleton Elliott

    Carleton (Weir) Elliott. Theorist, composer, choir conductor, b Welland, Ont, 15 Mar 1928, d Fredericton 24 Aug 2003; B MUS (Mount Allison) 1951, M MUS (Redlands, Cal) 1959; further studies in theory and choral conducting at Indiana University.

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    Carleton Lamont MacMillan

    Carleton Lamont “Monty” MacMillan, CM, physician, politician, writer (born April 1903 in Goldboro, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia; died 10 February 1978 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia). MacMillan established a medical practice in Baddeck, where he practiced for nearly 40 years (1928–66). He was also a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1967. MacMillan wrote Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor (1975), which has been compared to veterinarian James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small (1972).

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    Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso

    Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso, tennis player (b at Toronto 9 Oct 1967), daughter of broadcasting executive John Bassett. In 1981 she won the Canadian junior indoor title and in 1982 was ranked first among world juniors after wins in Tokyo and Taipei.

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    Carlisle Wilson

    (John) Carlisle Wilson. Violinist, teacher, adjudicator, b Winnipeg 21 May 1944; AMM 1953, BFA (Wisconsin) 1958, B ED (Manitoba) 1973.

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    Carlo Rota

    Carlo D. Rota, actor, television host (born 17 April 1961 in London, England). Distinguished by his elegant accent and smooth, baritone delivery, Mediterranean looks and air of refinement, Carlo Rota is a successful character actor of Italian descent who is often cast as a Muslim, an erudite professional, or an ethnically ambiguous villain.

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    Carlton Showband

    Carlton Showband. Popular Irish-Canadian troupe, formed in 1964 in Toronto.

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    Carlyle Clare Agar

    In 1949 he airlifted construction material, equipment and personnel to the mountainside Palisade Lake Dam. In 1951 he performed a similar task for the Aluminium Co of Canada's giant smelter complex at Kitimat, BC.

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    Carlyle Smith Beals

    Carlyle Smith Beals, astronomer (b at Canso, NS 29 June 1899; d at Ottawa 2 July 1979). Astronomer and assistant director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946, Beals was Dominion Astronomer in Ottawa until his retirement in 1964.

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    Carmen Aguirre

    Carmen Aguirre, actor, director, playwright and writer (born in Chile, 1967). In 1973 Carmen Aguirre's family emigrated to Vancouver in the wake of the military coup that began Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror.

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    Carmen and Elin Corneil

    Carmen Corneil graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO department of architecture in 1957, receiving a Pilkington national scholarship, a Royal Architecture Institute of Canada medal and a Wegman travel scholarship.

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    Carmen Lombardo

    Carmen Lombardo. Saxophonist, singer, songwriter, b London, Ont, 16 Jul 1903, d Miami 17 Apr 1971. He was a brother of Guy Lombardo. He studied flute in London and played flute and C-melody saxophone in western Ontario with the Lombardo Brothers' Orchestra and Concert Company in his teens.

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