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  • Editorial

    Editorial: The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Slick

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born on 17 December 1796 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of a judge and grandson of a lawyer. An upper crust Tory, he was also a successful lawyer and businessman and was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He held office in England after his retirement from the bench. He was wealthy, respected and influential. But, despite his accomplishments, he was deeply frustrated.

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  • Article

    Hank Snow

    Clarence Eugene Snow, "Hank," singer, songwriter, guitarist (b at Brooklyn, NS 9 May 1914; d at Nashville, Tenn 20 Dec 1999), one of the fathers of Canadian COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC. His singing style, with its clear enunciation, influenced scores of artists in Canada and the US.

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    Hank Snow

    Hank (b Clarence Eugene) Snow. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, b Brooklyn, Queens County, NS, 9 May 1914, naturalized US 1958, d Nashville, Tenn, 20 Dec 1999; honorary D LITT (St. Mary's) 1994. He began playing guitar as a child.

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    Hannah Maynard

    Hannah Maynard, née Hatherly, photographer (b at Bude, Eng 17 Jan 1834; d at Victoria 15 May 1918); Maynard, Richard James, photographer (b at Stratton, Eng 22 Feb 1832; d at Victoria 10 Jan 1907). The Maynards immigrated

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    Hannah Moscovitch

    Hannah Moscovitch, playwright (born 5 June 1978 in Ottawa, ON). Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada’s most produced and prominent contemporary playwrights. Her plays tackle complex and often politically charged issues and have won multiple Dora Awards. Moscovitch has also been nominated for the Carol Bolt Award, the Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, and the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is the first playwright to win a Trillium Book Award and the first Canadian woman to win a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, a $150,000 award from Yale University. She also won a 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for her drama Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes.

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    Haralds Berino

    Haralds (Peter Albinus) Berino. Composer, organist, pianist, teacher, b Riga, Latvia, 12 Mar 1906, d Truro, NS, 18 Aug 1982. His training was at the Latvian Cons, where he studied composition with Joseph Wihtol and piano with Gomanes-Dombrovska.

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    Harold Town

    Harold Barling Town, OC, artist (born 13 June 1924 in Toronto, ON; died 27 December 1990 near Peterborough, ON).

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    Harold Brown

    Harold Douglas Brown, pianist, coach (born 28 October 1917 in Wynyard, SK; died 4 January 2011 in Burnaby, BC).

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    Harold Eustace Key

    Harold Eustace Key. Organist, choirmaster, conductor, arranger, composer, b London 1881, d 14 April 1947. After studies at the GSM he moved to Canada in 1904, occupying positions as organist-choirmaster in Dunnville, St Thomas, and Brockville, Ont, before settling in Montreal in 1914.

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  • Macleans

    Harold Fenn (Profile)

    It was Tom Thomson, oddly enough, who launched the tiny firm of H.B. Fenn and Co. Ltd. on the road to becoming a powerhouse in the Canadian book trade.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 22, 2002

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    Harold Foster

    Harold Foster, artist, author (b at Halifax 16 Aug 1892; d at Spring Hill, Fla 28 July 1982). Father of the adventure comic strip, Foster crossed Halifax harbour on a 12-foot (3.

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    Harold Greenberg

    The rise of Harold Greenberg truly began in 1967 when he acquired the exclusive rights to sell films on the site of EXPO 67 as well as photographic rights in the pavilions. In 1968 he became president of Pathé Humphries laboratories. Then, in 1973, he acquired Astral Films.

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    Harold Hamer

    Harold (Spensley) Hamer. Educator, organist, composer, b Leeds, England, 9 Mar 1900, d Halifax, NS, 11 Sep 1980; FRCO 1926, honorary D MUS (Mount Allison) 1969. His early musical training was at Durham Cathedral Choristers' School.

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    Harold Jarvis

    Harold (Augustus) Jarvis. Tenor, b Toronto 27 Dec 1864, d Detroit 1 Apr 1924. He was a son of a singer known professionally as Annie McLear. As a child, Harold, in highland costume, became a public favourite singing Scottish songs.

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    Harold Meek

    Harold Meek (after ca 1912 Edouard Albion). Baritone, impresario, b Port Stanley, near London, Ont, 24 Mar 1887, d there 27 May 1972. He studied at 18 with Cyril Dwight-Edwards in London, Ont, with Frank King Clark and Oscar Seagle in Paris, and with Vincenzo Lombardi in Florence.

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