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    John Beckwith

    John Beckwith, CM, composer, writer, educator, pianist, broadcaster, administrator (born 9 March 1927 in Victoria, BC; died 5 December 2022 in Toronto, ON). One of English Canada’s most distinctive composers, John Beckwith created a wealth of music rooted in his sensitive experience of the Canadian environment. Widely read and highly articulate in both official languages, he was dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto (1970–77) as well as a writer, administrator and broadcaster. A committed champion of Canadian music, Beckwith was for five decades one of the most important influences on Canada’s musical life. He was a Member of the Order of Canada and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

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    John Bentley

    John Bentley. Organist-choirmaster, harpsichordist, composer, b England 1754 or 1756, d Quebec City 10 Nov 1813. Resident in London until about 1781, Bentley moved to the USA and in 1783 founded the City Concerts in Philadelphia.

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    John Bergsagel

    John Dagfinn Bergsagel, musicologist, professor (born 19 April 1928 in Outlook, SK). John Bergsagel is a widely published musicologist and a noted scholar of medieval and renaissance music. (See Early Music.) He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1970 until 1998 and was made a Ridder (Knight) of Denmark’s Order of Dannebrog in 1993. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academia Europaea.

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    John Bernard Boyle

    John Bernard Boyle, painter (b at London, Ont 23 Sept 1941). Self-taught, Boyle, whose aim in youth was to be a writer, began painting around 1962 with the support of friends Greg CURNOE and Jack CHAMBERS. Boyle favours primary colours and bold handling.

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    John Boyden

    John Boyden. Baritone, b Woodstock, Ont, 22 Nov 1935, d Stratford, Ont, 5 Dec 1982. In 1939 his family moved to Stratford. He began singing as a boy soprano and later joined the Elizabethan Singers and studied with their conductor, Gordon D. Scott.

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    John Burge

    John (David Bryson) Burge. Composer, teacher, pianist, b Dryden, Ont, 2 Jan 1961; ARCT 1979, B MUS (Toronto) 1983, M MUS (Toronto) 1984, DMA (British Columbia) 1989.

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    John Burke

    John (Joseph) Burke. Composer, teacher, b Toronto 10 May 1951; B MUS (McGill) 1974, M MUS (Michigan) 1976, DMA (Michigan) 1983.

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    John Burnett Parkin

    John Burnett Parkin, architect (b at Toronto 26 June 1911; d at Los Angeles, Calif 17 Aug 1975). Parkin graduated in architecture from University of Toronto in 1935 and worked in London, England, before returning to Toronto in 1937 to establish a small architectural practice.

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    John Cameron Porteous

    John Cameron Porteous, stage and costume designer (b at Rosetown, Sask 2 Feb 1937). One of Canada's most distinguished designers and a veteran of the Canadian stage since the late 1960s, Porteous studied design at the Wimbledon School of Art in London, England.

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    John Candy

    Roles in major films soon followed, with the rotund Candy often cast as a lovable slob or loser with a heart of gold, as in Splash (1984). His later films as a supporting player included Spaceballs, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (both 1987) and Home Alone (1990).

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    John Capek

    John Capek. Composer, arranger, keyboardist, producer, b Prague, Czechoslovakia, 26 Nov 1946; Chemical Engineering Diploma (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) 1971.

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    John Carter

    John Carter. Choir conductor, organist, b London 7 Jul 1832, d Port Dalhousie (St Catharines), Ont, 1916. He arrived in Canada ca 1853 and lived at first in Quebec City, where he was organist 1853-6 at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.

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    John Castell Hopkins

    John Castell Hopkins, journalist, encyclopedist (b at Dyersville, Iowa 1 Apr 1864; d at Toronto 5 Nov 1923). He became assistant editor of the Toronto Mail and Empire in 1890 and wrote a number of pamphlets, biographies and histories, including the deferential Life and Work of the Right Hon.

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    John Celona

    John (Anthony) Celona. Composer, saxophonist, b San Francisco 30 Oct 1947; B MUS (San Francisco State U) 1970, MA (San Francisco State U) 1971, PH D (U of California, San Diego) 1977. John Celona also studied at the University of Pittsburgh (as a Mellon fellow) and at Indiana U.

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    Christopher Pratt

    John Christopher Pratt, CC, ONL, painter, printmaker (born 9 December 1935 in St John's, NL; died 5 June 2022 in Salmonier River, NL). Christopher Pratt is considered one of the greatest classicists of contemporary Canadian painting, alongside his mentor, Alex Colville. Pratt is well known for his meticulous and pristine studies with typically Atlantic settings. He designed Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial flag in 1980 and was called “Canada’s most famous living painter” by the Globe and Mail in 2013. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1983 and received the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2018.

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