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    John McTaggart

    McTaggart, John. Composer, teacher, organist, conductor, b Liverpool, of Scottish parents, ca 1873, d Selkirk, Man, 15 Jul 1953; ARCM, LRAM, LTCL. His teachers included Sir Charles Stanford (composition) and Alberto Visetti (voice) in London.

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    John Melnyk

    John Melnyk, teacher, pianist, composer (born 17 June 1915 in Winnipeg, MB; died 11 April 2009 in Winnipeg). Pianist John Melnyk performed regularly in Winnipeg in the 1930s and toured as an accompanist to Frederick Grinke, Lorne Munroe and John Waterhouse. Melnyk began teaching privately in 1938. His pupils included Gilbert and Sheila Munroe, Arnold Spohr and Kenneth Winters. Melnyk also composed for piano and was posthumously accepted as an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 2021. His son, John S.N. Melnyk, was also a concert pianist and an arts administrator.

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    John Meredith

    John Meredith, painter (b at Fergus, Ont 24 July 1933; d at Toronto, Ont 9 Sept 2000), brother of William RONALD. John Meredith Smith (known professionally since 1951 as John Meredith), studied at the Ontario College of Art 1950-53, and had his first solo exhibition in 1958.

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    John Metcalf

    John Metcalf, short story writer, novelist, essayist, anthologist (b at Carlisle, England 12 Nov 1938; Canadian citizen 1970). Metcalf was educated at Bristol University, receiving his BA in 1960 and a Certificate in Education in 1961.

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    John Mills-Cockell

    Mills-Cockell, John. Composer, synthesizist, pianist, organist, b Toronto 19 May 1943. His teachers at the RCMT and the University of Toronto included John Coveart (piano), Samuel Dolin (composition), and Gustav Ciamaga (electronic music).

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    John Mockett Cramp

    John Mockett Cramp, Baptist minister, writer, educator (b at St Peter's, Isle of Thanet, Eng 25 July 1796; d at Wolfville, NS 6 Dec 1881). Although a well-known writer and theologian, Cramp made his important contribution in higher education.

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    John Moncrieff

    John M. (May) Moncrieff. Bass, b Winnipeg 10 Mar 1891, d Windsor, Ont, 19 Feb 1966. After studies with Otto Morando in Toronto and Vladimir Rosing in Rochester and a concert tour of Canada, he made his stage debut in 1926 in Chautauqua, NY.

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    John Montague

    Montague, John (Angus). Violinist, teacher, b Gowganda, Ont, north of Sudbury, 2 Apr 1911, d Barrie, Ont, 24 Mar 1991. He studied 1929-35 at the TCM (RCMT) with Alexander Chuhaldin, Elie Spivak, and Kathleen Parlow (violin), and with Healey Willan (pedagogy).

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    John Morgan

    John Morgan, writer, actor (b at Aberdare, Wales 21 Sept 1930; d at Toronto 15 Nov 2004).

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    John Murray Anderson

    John Murray Anderson, theatrical entrepreneur, director, author, lyricist (b at St John's 20 Sept 1886; d at New York 30 Jan 1954).

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    John Murray Gibbon (OLD)

    John Murray Gibbon, writer and cultural promoter (b in Ceylon 12 Apr 1875; d at Montréal 2 July 1952). Educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities, Gibbon came to Canada in 1913 as publicity manager for the CPR.

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    John Murray Gibbon

    John Murray Gibbon, railway publicist and author (born 12 April 1875 in Udeweller, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; died 2 July 1952 in Montreal, QC). A publicist with the Canadian Pacific Railway, Gibbon also actively promoted Canadian arts and culture. He organized cultural festivals, organizations that promoted tourism in the Rockies and founded the Canadian Authors Association. Gibbon also authored several articles, poems and novels. His book Canadian Mosaic (1938) popularized the "mosaic" as a metaphor for the diversity of "the Canadian people.” It has since been used by politicians, educators and policy makers to describe the cultural makeup of the country.

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    John Murrell

    John Murrell, playwright, librettist, arts administrator, translator, director, actor, teacher (born 15 October 1945 in Lubbock, Texas; died 12 November 2019 in Calgary, AB). John Murrell was one of Canada’s most successful and respected playwrights. His plays Waiting for the Parade, Farther West and The Faraway Nearby all won the Chalmers Award for best Canadian play of the year. He was an accomplished librettist for operas and earned an international reputation for translating plays into English. He also served as associate director of the Stratford Festival, head of the Banff Playwrights Colony, head of the theatre section of the Canada Council for the Arts and artistic director of theatre arts at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He was a Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence and an Officer of the Order of Canada. He received the Canada Council’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

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    John Neville

    Neville trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and first appeared in a walk-on role in a 1947 production of Richard II at the New Theatre in London.

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    John Newlove

    John Newlove, poet, editor (b at Regina 13 June 1938; d at Ottawa 23 December 2003).

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