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    Joe Bouchard

    Joe or Jos (Joseph) Bouchard. Violoneux, composer, b Pointe-au-Pic, near La Malbaie, Que, 6 May 1905, d Île d'Orléans, Que, 12 Jun 1979. At eight he began playing the violin and was taught the folk repertoire by Élie Sioué; by 14 he was a competent violoneux.

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    Joe David

    Joe David, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) artist (born in 1946 at Opitsat, BC). A member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, Joe David is a leading figure in modern Northwest Coast Indigenous Art.

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    Joe Flaherty

    Joseph O’Flaherty, actor, writer (born 21 June 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1 April 2024). Joe Flaherty was an American comedian who came to Canada in 1973 to help establish the Toronto branch of the Chicago Second City comedy troupe. He is the only performer, apart from Andrea Martin, to have appeared in every episode of SCTV over the eight-year run of the satirical TV comedy show. His best-known characters were Guy Caballero, the unscrupulous station owner who rode around in a wheelchair to get “respect,” and Count Floyd. Flaherty and the SCTV cast won an Emmy Award in 1982 and another in 1983, as well as the Earle Grey Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 1995 Gemini Awards.

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    Joe Sealy

    Joseph Arthur Sealy, pianist, organist, composer, actor (born 16 August 1939 in Montréal, QC).

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    Joe Shuster

    Joe Shuster, cartoonist (born 10 July 1914 in Toronto, ON; died 30 July 1992 in Los Angeles, California). In 1933, along with writer Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster created the Superman comic book character.

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    Joe Talirunili

    Joe Talirunili, artist (b near Kuujjuaraapik [Great Whale R], Qué c 1899; d at Povungnituk, Qué 11 Sept 1976). 

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    Joeffer Caoc

    Joeffer Caoc, fashion designer (b at Valenzuela, Philippines, 15 Nov 1971). Joeffer Caoc moved to Canada at the age of two with his civil engineer father and seamstress mother.

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    Joël Pasquier

    Joël Pasquier. Pianist, teacher, b Montmorency, near Paris, 25 Sep 1943, naturalized Canadian 1973; premiers prix piano, chamber music (Paris Cons) 1962.

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    Joel Quarrington

    Joel (Andrew) Quarrington. Bassist, b Toronto 15 Jan 1955; Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1975.

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    Johan Helders

    Johan (John) Anton Joseph Helders, internationally acclaimed amateur pictorial photographer (b at Rhenen, Netherlands 3 May 1888; d at Homestead, Fla 4 Feb 1956).

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    Johana Harris

    Johana (b Beula) Harris (b Duffey). Pianist, teacher, composer, folksinger, b Ottawa 31 Dec 1912, d Los Angeles 5 Jun 1995. Beula Duffey, a child prodigy, started publicly performing advanced piano pieces and her compositions at age eight.

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    Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason

    Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason, author, poet, teacher (b at Medalnes, Nordur-Mulasysla, Iceland 24 May 1866; d at Elfros, Sask 8 Sept 1945). The greatest and most prolific of Icelandic Canadian novelists, Bjarnason immigrated to Canada in 1875.

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    Johanna Skibsrud

    A second collection of poems, I do not Think that I Could Love a Human Being, appeared in 2010. In many ways it reflects the preoccupations of the first; seemingly everyday events can form turning points in outlook or sensibility.

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    Johanne Blouin

    Johanne Blouin. Singer, b St-Hyacinthe, Que, 19 Sep 1955. Her mother, Lena Cushen, was a jazz singer, and her father, Claude Blouin, a trombonist who accompanied Trenet, Sinatra, Liberace, and Garland. She began to sing in night-clubs at 16.

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    John Adaskin

    John Adaskin, conductor, radio producer, administrator, cellist (born 4 June 1908 in Toronto, ON; died 4 March 1964 in Toronto). 

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