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    Finn Wolfhard

    Finn Michael Wolfhard, actor, writer, director, musician, model (born 23 December 2002 in Vancouver, BC). Finn Wolfhard is best known for playing Mike Wheeler in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–present). He is also known for his roles in the Stephen King adaptations It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) and director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Wolfhard has become a central figure in the contemporary Gen-X/Millennial’s interest in 1980s pop culture nostalgia.

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    Fiona Reid

    Fiona Reid, Al Waxman and Helene Winston, stars of the popular television program King of Kensington (publicity photo, public domain). Fiona Reid Fiona Reid, actress (born at Whitstable, Kent, Eng 1951). Fiona Reid is the daughter of a British military doctor; the family lived in Germany, Africa and the US before coming to Canada in 1964. She was educated at Toronto's Lawrence Park Collegiate and studied theatre at McGill University in Montréal (BA 1972) and...

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    Five Man Electrical Band

    Five Man Electrical Band (the Staccatos 1963-9). Rock band formed in Ottawa as the Staccatos.

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    Flora Carey

    Flora Carey (m Everett). Pianist, soprano, teacher, b Hamilton 1914, d there 28 Nov 1997; ATCM voice 1940, ATCM piano 1942.

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    Flora Goulden

    Flora (Henderson) Goulden (b Matheson). Violinist, teacher, b Winnipeg 25 May 1905, d Ottawa 4 Oct 1989; ATCM 1923. At 8 she was a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

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    Flora MacDonald Denison

    Flora MacDonald Denison, née Merrill, feminist, journalist, businesswoman (b in N Hastings County, Ont 20? Feb 1867; d at Toronto 23 May 1921). Denison, who combined running a successful Toronto dressmaking business with a writing career, was active in the suffrage movement in Toronto from 1906.

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    Florence Bird

    Florence Bayard Bird (née Rhein, pseudonym Anne Francis), CC, senator, journalist, broadcaster and author (born 15 January 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 18 July 1998 in Ottawa, Ontario). Chair of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada from 1967 to 1970, Florence Bird made her name as a broadcast journalist for CBC/Radio-Canada, reporting news and producing documentaries on women’s working conditions and on conditions for women in Canada’s prisons.

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    Florence Brimson

    Florence (Anne) Brimson. Soprano, b Newmarket, near Toronto, 2 Oct 1873, d Santa Barbara, Cal, 4 Oct 1953. After initial study with W. Elliott Haslam at the Toronto College of Music she spent four years with Mathilde Marchesi in Paris.

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    Florence Davidson

    Florence Edenshaw Davidson, Haida Elder, artist (born 15 September 1896 in Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC; died 13 December 1993 in Masset). Elder Florence Davidson was a renowned weaver and she made Haida baskets and button blankets (see also Northwest Coast Indigenous Art).

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    Florence Easton

    Florence (Gertrude) Easton. Soprano, b Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, Eng, 25 Oct 1882, d New York 13 Aug 1955, buried in Montreal. The Easton family moved to Toronto ca 1888, and the young Florence sang in the choir of Parkdale Methodist Church, where her father was choirmaster and her mother organist.

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    Florence Lawrence

    Florence Lawrence neé Florence Annie Bridgewood, actor (b at Hamilton, Ont 2 Jan 1886; d at Beverley Hills, Ca 28 Dec 1938). Florence Lawrence, on stage and touring with her mother since the age of 3, joined the Vitagraph Company at 21 years old when the touring company disbanded in 1907.

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    Florence Wyle

    Florence Wyle, sculptor (born 24 November 1881 in Trenton, Illinois; died 14 January 1968 in Newmarket, ON).

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    Floyd Chalmers

    Floyd (Sherman) Chalmers. Publisher, administrator, editor, patron, b Chicago 14 Sep 1898 of Canadian parents, d Toronto 26 Apr 1993; honorary LLD (Waterloo Lutheran) 1963, honorary D LITT (Trent) 1968, honorary BFA (York) 1973.

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    Floyd Sherman Chalmers

    Floyd Sherman Chalmers, CC, OOnt, journalist, editor, publisher, administrator, philanthropist (born 14 September 1898 in Chicago, IL; died 26 April 1993 in Toronto, ON).

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    FM

    FM. Toronto rock band. Experimental by nature and pioneering in its use of synthesizers, it was formed in 1976 as a duo by the performance artist 'Nash the Slash' (electric violin and mandolin) and the keyboard player Cameron Hawkins and made its debut at the Toronto gallery A Space.

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