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    Joseph-Désiré Marcoux

    Joseph-Désiré. Marcoux Clarinetist, farmer, b Beauport, near Quebec City, 20 May 1850, d St-Prime, Lac St-Jean, Que, 5 Feb 1888. He taught himself music and took part in all the musical soirées in the Beauport region.

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    Joseph Drapell

    Drapell first established his reputation with a series of large, primarily red, abstract canvases, which attracted little attention in Canada until one appeared on the cover of Art International (1978) and another was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1979).

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    André Laurendeau

    Joseph-Edmond-André Laurendeau, French Canadian journalist, politician, playwright, and co-chairman of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (born 21 March 1912 in Montreal, QC; died 1 June 1968 in Ottawa, ON). A lifetime French-Canadian nationalist, he helped prepare the way for Quebec's Quiet Revolution by redefining nationalist aspirations for an urban and industrial society.

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    Joseph-Élie Savaria

    Joseph-Élie Savaria. Organist, teacher, b Lachine, near Montreal, 16 Dec 1886, d Montreal 4 Oct 1973; lauréat (AMQ) 1903. He studied piano, solfège, and harmony with Jean-Noël Charbonneau.

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    Joseph Fafard

    In 1985 Fafard's work The Pasture, comprising 7 bronze cows with varying patinas, was completed for an area outside the IBM tower of the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto.

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    Joseph Gagnier

    Joseph Gagnier. Clarinetist, b Ancienne-Lorette, near Quebec City, 5 Apr 1854, d Montreal 19 Apr 1919. Having decided to make a career in music, he moved in 1874 to Montreal, where he studied theory with Ernest Lavigne and Joseph Geai and clarinet with Oscar Arnold and Jacques Vanpoucke.

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    Joseph Harvey Shoctor

    In 1964-65 Shoctor's work in theatre underwent 2 simultaneous changes. With Norman Twain he began to produce theatre in New York, an enterprise that lasted some 5 years. At the same time, with a group of friends, he established professional theatre as a permanent fixture in Edmonton.

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    Joseph-Israël Tarte

    Joseph-Israël Tarte, journalist and politician (born 11 January 1848 in Lanoraie, Canada East; died 18 December 1907 in Montréal, QC). A brilliant, caustic and often impulsive polemicist, Tarte was the owner and editor-in-chief of several newspapers throughout his career, including Le Canadien, L’Événement, La Patrie and the Quebec Daily Mercury, which he used to support various political factions and causes.

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    Guy Sylvestre

    Joseph Jean Guy Sylvestre, OC, FRSC, librarian, writer, essayist, literary critic, interpreter, (born 17 May 1918 in Sorel, QC; died 26 September 2010 in Ottawa, ON).  Guy Sylvestre was an accomplished literary figure and dedicated public servant who was called a “statesman among librarians.” Sylvestre wrote extensively about Canadian poetry and literature throughout his career. He worked as the private secretary to Louis St. Laurent and as a librarian at the Library of Parliament before serving as head of the National Library of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) from 1968 to 1983. In this role, he oversaw a massive expansion of the library’s Canadian content and the modernization of library systems across the country. He was president and chair of many major cultural organizations and the author of UNESCO’s Guidelines for National Libraries (1987).  

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    Joseph-Julien Perrault

    Joseph-Julien Perrault. Choirmaster, composer, b Montreal 8 or 18 May 1826, d Varennes, near Montreal, 22 Aug 1866. He studied theology 1844-7 at the Grand séminaire de Montréal and 1847-9 at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained a priest in Paris in 1849.

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    Joseph Laderoute

    Joseph (Victor) Laderoute (Ladéroute). Tenor, teacher, b Sault Ste Marie, Ont, ca 1913. Born of French-Canadian parents, he sang as a child in the parish choir and at seven began studying singing with Mrs S.L. Pieke.

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    Joseph Lajeunesse

    Joseph (Marie) Lajeunesse, (Lajeunesse dit Saint-Louis). Teacher, organist, harpist, violinist, pianist, b St-Martin (later part of Laval), near Montreal, November 1818, d Chambly, near Montreal, 30 Jul 1904.

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    Joseph Légaré

    Joseph Légaré, painter, art collector, politician (b at Québec C 10 Mar 1795; d there 21 June 1855). 

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    Joseph Leopold Smith

    Joseph Leopold Smith, Leo, composer, cellist, writer, teacher (b at Birmingham, Eng 26 Nov 1881; d at Toronto 18 Apr 1952).

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    Joseph Lyonnais

    Joseph Lyonnais, (Bossu or Bossue, dit Lyonnais). Violin maker, instrumentalist, conductor, teacher, b Quebec City 28 Nov 1821, d there 6 Jan 1889. He learned the craft of violin making from his uncle, Pierre-Olivier, after 1835.

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