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    Hayunga Carman

    (Bertram) Hayunga Carman. Pianist, teacher, b Morrisburg, near Cornwall, Ont, 22 Feb 1875, d Toronto 6 Jun 1965. His teachers were J.D.A.

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    Haywire

    Haywire. Hard rock band, formed in Charlottetown in 1982 by singer Paul MacAusland, guitarist Marvin Birt, keyboard player David Rashad, and bassist Ron Switzer. Sean Kilbride was the last in a succession of drummers.

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    H.C. Hamilton

    Hamilton, H.C. (Henry Cooke). Composer, writer, organist-choirmaster, b England 24 Jan 1881, d Sudbury, Ont, 23 Mar 1975. Raised in Ireland and in the USA, Hamilton was taken to Mimico (Toronto) as a youth and later studied at the TCM with A.S. Vogt and J.D.A. Tripp.

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    Headpins

    Headpins. Vancouver rock band. The Headpins began in 1980 as a part-time project of the multi-instrumentalist (guitar, keyboards, drums) and songwriter Brian 'Too Loud' MacLeod and the bassist Ab Bryant from Chilliwack, with the vocalist Denice McCann and the drummer Matt Frenette.

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    Healey Willan

    James Healey Willan, composer, organist, choir director, educator (b at Balham [London], Eng 12 Oct 1880; d at Toronto 16 Feb 1968). 

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    Healey Willan

    Willan went on to private organ study with William Stevenson Hoyte, organist of All Saints Church in London.

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    Heath Lamberts

    Heath Lamberts Heath Lamberts, actor (b James Langcaster at Toronto 15 Dec 1941; d at Pittsburgh, Pa 22 Feb 2005). At school, Heath Lamberts won contests as a boy soprano and sang with the Opera Festival Association of Toronto, a precursor of the CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY. However, his true vocation lay in comic acting. He stated in a 1976 interview that after an unhappy childhood, he re-christened himself by climbing into a trunk and emerging...

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    Heather Bishop

    Heather Bishop. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Regina 25 Apr 1949; BA (Regina) 1969. She studied piano as a child, began playing the guitar in her teens, and later took voice lessons in Winnipeg with Alicja Seaborn.

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    Heather Spears

    Heather Spears, poet, novelist, artist (b at Vancouver, BC 1934). Educated at the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia, Heather Spears has lived in Denmark since 1962, where she owns the Upper Canada Gallery. She returns to Canada annually for reading and lecture tours.

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    Heather Thomson

    Heather Thomson. Soprano, b Vancouver 7 Dec 1940. A pupil 1954-61 of Phylis Dilworth Inglis in Vancouver, in 1961 she was a CBC Talent Festival winner and a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera regional auditions.

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    Hector Charlesworth

    Hector Willoughby Charlesworth, writer, editor, critic, memoirist (born 28 September 1872 in Hamilton, ON; died 30 December 1945 in Toronto, ON). Hector Charlesworth was a Toronto-based journalist and arts commentator, particularly on music and drama. He was editor of Saturday Night magazine (1926–32) and the first head of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (1932–36), precursor of the CBC. His autobiography, in three volumes, is a splendid source of literary, political, journalistic and theatrical anecdotes. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Edward VII, and was perhaps best known for viciously criticising the Group of Seven.

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    Hector Charlesworth

    Hector (Willoughby) Charlesworth. Writer, critic, editor, b Hamilton, Ont, 28 Sep 1872, d Toronto 30 Dec 1945. In his teens he studied piano and theory (with Arthur E. Fisher) and submitted poems and articles to Saturday Night using the pseudonym 'Touchstone'.

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    Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

    Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, poet (b at Montréal 13 June 1912; d at Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Qué 24 Oct 1943). Saint-Denys Garneau's writing marks a turning point in the history of Québec poetry.

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    Hector Gratton

    (Joseph Thomas) Hector Gratton. Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, teacher, b Hull, Que, 13 Aug 1900, d Montreal 16 Jul 1970. He studied piano in Montreal with Alphonse Martin and Alfred La Liberté. The latter introduced him to the works and aesthetics of Scriabin and Medtner.

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    Hector Pellerin

    Hector Pellerin. Baritone, actor, entertainer, b Montreal 31 Oct 1887 or 1888, d there 18 Apr 1953. He studied piano and organ with Alexis Contant and J.-Daniel Dussault and made his debut as a cinema pianist at the Ouimetoscope in Montreal.

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