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    Hugh Dillon

    Hugh Dillon, actor, singer, songwriter (b at Kingston, Ont 31 May 1963). Hugh Dillon was brought up in Kingston and briefly attended Queen's University but left before receiving his degree and went to England, where he became a street busker to pay the rent.

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    Hugh Fraser

    Hugh Alexander Fraser, pianist, trombonist, composer, teacher (born 26 October 1958 in Victoria, BC; died 17 June 2020). Two-time Juno Award-winner Hugh Fraser enjoyed great success with his 13-piece big band Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation (VEJI, or “Veggie”) and with the Hugh Fraser Quintet. He composed over 200 jazz works, including many commissions, and taught at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the University of Victoria. He set up the diploma jazz program at the Victoria Conservatory of Music in 2001. Jazz Report named Fraser Canadian trombonist of the year in 1996 and 1998.

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    Hugh Garner

    Hugh Garner, writer (b at Batley, Eng 22 Feb 1913; d at Toronto 30 June 1979). Garner's parents immigrated to Canada in 1919 and his father abandoned the family soon after.

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    Hugh Graham, Baron Atholstan

    Hugh Graham, Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (b at Atholstan, Canada E 18 July 1848; d at Montréal 28 Jan 1938). In 1863 Graham went to work on the Montréal Daily Telegraph and by 1869 became a partner in the new evening paper, the Star.

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    Hugh Griffith Jones

    Hugh Griffith Jones, architect, artist (b at Randolph, Wis 3 Dec 1872; d at Montréal 16 Feb 1947). Trained in Minneapolis, he practised in Chicago and New York, and came to Montréal in 1908 to work as a designer and assistant chief architect for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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    Hugh Hartwell

    Hartwell, Hugh (Kenneth). Composer, teacher, b Hamilton, Ont, 18 Jan 1945; B MUS (McGill) 1967, (Pennsylvania) 1971, PH D (Pennsylvania) 1975.

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    Hugh Hood

    Hugh John Hood, writer, academic (b at Toronto 30 Apr 1928; d at Montreal 1 Aug 2000). Hood's writings present a view of Canadian experience in this century realistic in detail and emblematic in intent.

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    Hugh Hornby Langton

    Hugh Hornby Langton, librarian, editor, historian, translator (b at Québec C 29 Aug 1862; d at Toronto 30 Sept 1953), son of John LANGTON. Educated at the University of Toronto, he was the first full-time registrar of the university 1887-92 and its librarian 1892-1923.

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    Hugh Le Caine

    Hugh Le Caine, physicist, designer of electronic-music instruments, composer (b at Port Arthur [Thunder Bay], Ont 27 May 1914; d at Ottawa 3 July 1977). He was trained as a physicist at Queen's and later at Birmingham University (Eng).

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    Hugh Le Caine

    Le Caine, Hugh. Physicist, composer, b Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont, 27 May 1914, d Ottawa 3 Jul 1977; M SC (Queen's) 1939, PH D (Birmingham) 1952, honorary D MUS (McGill) 1971, honorary LLD (Toronto) 1973, honorary D MUS (Queen's) 1974.

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    Hugh MacLennan

    John Hugh MacLennan, CC CQ FRSL FRSC, novelist, essayist, professor (born 20 March 1907 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; died 7 November 1990 in Montreal, Quebec). Hugh MacLennan is best known as the first major English-speaking writer to attempt a portrayal of Canada's national character. A professor of English at McGill University (1951–81), he won five Governor General’s Literary Awards (three in fiction and two in creative non-fiction). MacLennan was also a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Knight of the National Order of Quebec, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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    Hugh McLean

    Hugh (John) McLean, organist, choirmaster, pianist, harpsichordist, administrator, teacher, musicologist (born 5 January 1930 in Winnipeg, MB; died 30 July 2017 in Naples, Florida). AMM (Manitoba) 1948, LRSM organ 1948, LRSM piano 1948; ARCO 1950, ARCM 1951, FRCO 1953, BA (Cambridge) 1954, B MUS (Cambridge) 1956, MA (Cambridge) 1958, FRCM 1985, honorary FRCCO 1988.

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    Hugh Orr

    Hugh (Morton) Orr. Recorder player, teacher, instrument builder, b Toronto 7 Jan 1932. In turn he studied piano, cello (with Isaac Mamott), and recorder, playing the latter instrument (1955-63) with the Pack Trio and Quartet.

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    Hugh Pickett

    Hugh (Frank Digby) Pickett. Impresario, b Vancouver 11 Apr 1913, d Keriston, BC 13 Feb 2006. Pickett grew up in Vancouver, and first worked briefly in the Port Warden's Office, then for Dingwall Cotts Steamship Co until 1940, when he entered the Canadian Army.

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    Hugues Leblanc

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