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Georgina Lightning
Georgina Lightning, actor, director, producer (b at Hobbema, Alta 1964). Georgina Lightning was born into the Samson Cree Nation. Educated in Canada, she moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to pursue an acting career and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Gerald Arthur Pratley
Gerald Arthur Pratley (b at London, Eng 3 Sep 1923, d at Belleville, Ont 14 Mar 2011). A noted film critic and commentator, he was the founder-director of the Ontario Film Institute, established in 1968, an organization with a mandate to preserve, catalogue, publish and exhibit world cinema.
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Gerald Bales
(Albert) Gerald Bales. Organist, choirmaster, composer, teacher, b Toronto 12 May 1919, d London, Ont, 4 Jul 2002; ATCM 1936, honorary FRCCO 1974. Taught first by his mother, he gave a piano recital at seven and an organ recital at 13.
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Gerald Danovitch Saxophone Quartet/Quatuor de saxophones Gerald Danovitch
Founded in 1968 in Montreal by its director, Gerald Danovitch (b Montreal 24 Feb 1932, d Montreal 1 Dec 1997), it was originally made up of Danovitch (soprano saxophone), Donald Hughes (alto), Shane Nestruck (baritone), and Abe Kestenberg (tenor).
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Gérald Desmarais
Gérald Desmarais. Bass, choirmaster, b Montreal 30 Mar 1906, d Hardwick, Vt, 29 Jul 1950. He studied singing and theory with Alfred Lamoureux, Paul Doyon, and Alfred La Liberté, and received a scholarship in 1927 from the Delphic Study Club.
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Gerald Ferguson
Ferguson's studio production represented an ongoing commitment to an examination of the conventions of painting and to the deconstruction of its strategies.
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Gerald Finley
Gerald Finley. Bass-baritone, b Montreal 30 Jan 1960. Finley moved to Ottawa in 1968 and sang as a boy soprano in the St Matthew's Anglican Church choir under Brian Law.
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Gérald Gagnier
Gérald ('Ray D'Ièse') Gagnier. Bandmaster, composer, trumpeter, b Montreal 14 Oct 1926, d there 14 Jan 1961; graduate RMSM (Kneller Hall) 1954. His first trumpet, piano, and theory lessons were with his father, Joseph. He took his general schooling 1939-45 at the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières.
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Gérald Godin
Gérald Godin, poet, novelist, journalist, politician (born 13 November 1938 in Trois-Rivières, QC; died 12 October 1994 in Montréal, QC).
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Gerald Jarvis
Gerald Jarvis. Violinist, b Vancouver, 19 Apr 1930, d Chautauqua, New York, 15 Jan 1996; honorary FRAM 1972. Jarvis studied violin in Vancouver 1935-8 with Frederick Geaves and 1938-48 with Douglas Stewart. He first played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestrain 1947.
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Gerald Potterton
Gerald Potterton, director, producer, animator (b at London, UK 8 Mar 1931). Gerald Potterton trained at the Hammersmith School of Art in London and served in the Royal Air Force.
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Gerald Stanick
Gerald Stanick. Violist, teacher, administrator, b Winnipeg 9 Nov 1933. He studied in Winnipeg with John Konrad and Richard Seaborn and at the University of Indiana with David Dawson.
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Gerald Tailfeathers
Gerald Tailfeathers, artist (born 13 or 14 February 1925 at Stand Off, AB; died 3 April 1975 at the Blood Reserve, AB). Gerald Tailfeathers was one of the first Indigenous people in Canada to become a professional artist. He came to prominence in the 1950s. Throughout his career, he was influenced by multiple different schools of art. His work was featured in numerous exhibits and represented the real lives of Kainai people. He is perhaps best known for contributing work to the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec.
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Gerald Wheeler
(William) Gerald Wheeler. Organist, choirmaster, harpsichordist, teacher, b Richmond, Surrey, England, 26 Mar 1929; ARCM 1951, LRAM 1953, FRCO 1956. A pupil of Edgar T.
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Gérard Caron
Gérard Caron. Organist, pianist, b St-Martin-de-Beauce, Que, 2 Apr 1916, d Montreal 19 Jan 1986. At the age of nine he became organist at the church in Mansonville, Que, where his parents lived.
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