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    Ken Mitchell

    Ken Mitchell, playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet, actor, teacher, scriptwriter (b at Moose Jaw, Sask 13 Dec 1940). Mitchell grew up on a farm near Moose Jaw, and attended the University of Saskatchewan, Regina; while a student, he began to write stories and radio plays for the CBC.

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    Ken Scott

    Ken Scott, writer, director, actor (born 1970). Ken Scott worked as a comedian and actor before writing several of the most accessible and appealing French Canadian films of the early 21st century. His intricately written commercial comedies La grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis, 2003) and Starbuck (2011), which he directed, topped the Canadian box office in their respective years and have been remade in different languages around the world — a testament to their universal appeal.

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    Ken Tobias

    Ken (Kenneth Wayne Paul) Tobias. Songwriter, popular singer, b Saint John, NB, 25 July 1945. Raised in Saint John, Ken Tobias briefly worked as a draftsman and from 1961 played guitar in the local folk band The Ramblers, and drums in the rock band Badd Cedes.

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    Ken Wheeler

    Ken or Kenny (Kenneth Vincent John) Wheeler. Trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger (born 14 January 1930 in Toronto, ON; died 18 September 2014 in London, England).

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    Ken Whiteley

    Ken (Kenneth David) Whiteley. Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, record producer, b Bellefonte, Penn, of Canadian parents, 30 Apr 1951. Taken to Toronto at 5, Ken Whiteley began playing guitar at 12 under the influence of folk, blues and jug band music.

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    Kenneth Bray

    Kenneth (Ira) Bray. Educator, bassoonist, arranger, b Chaffey Township (Muskoka), Ont, 24 Feb 1919, d London, Ont, 25 Jun 1999; B MUS (Toronto) 1949, M MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1957.

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    Kenneth Campbell

    Kenneth Campbell. Arranger, composer, conductor, b Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ont,10 Feb 1922, d Ottawa 19 May 1982. He was a clarinetist and arranger with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Band during World War II.

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    Kenneth Campbell Lochhead

    Lochhead taught at the University of Manitoba 1964-73, York University 1973-74 and University of Ottawa from 1975 to 1989. In the 1970s he reintroduced recognizable subject matter into paintings that nevertheless remained largely intuitive, colourist exercises.

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    Kenneth Edison Danby

    He began as an abstract painter, though a visit to an exhibition of Andrew Wyeth's work at Buffalo, New York, in 1962 confirmed his disenchantment with abstraction. He turned to painting carefully posed, snapshot-like views, often of rural Ontario seen in a strong light.

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    Kenneth Elloway

    Kenneth (Albert) Elloway. Conductor, teacher, b Weymouth, England, 17 Jan 1916, d Halifax, NS, 22 Sep 1980; ARCM 1943. He first played cornet and later took up the trombone and string bass. He graduated in 1945 from the RMSM (Kneller Hall).

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    Kenneth Gilbert

    Kenneth Gilbert, OC, RSC,  harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, teacher (born 16 December 1931 in Montreal, QC; died 15 April 2020 in Quebec City, QC). Hon D MUS (McGill) 1981. 

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    Kenneth J. Harvey

    Kenneth J. Harvey, short-story writer, novelist, poet (born at St John's, Nfld, 22 January 1962). One of Newfoundland's most prolific and unique writers, Kenneth J. Harvey has mined the morbid and the macabre to produce more than 15 books since 1990.

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    Kenneth John Macklin

    Kenneth John Macklin, sculptor (b at Edmonton, Alta 1952). One of several constructivist sculptors who emerged in Edmonton during the 1980s, Macklin studied sculpture and ceramics at the University of Alberta from 1972-78 and advanced sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London, England in 1979.

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    Ken Lum

    Ken Lum is widely known for work that draws upon traditions from pop and conceptual art, as well as a broad range of motifs from mass culture. His art, which has variously included painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video, has been recognized in Canada with a 30-year retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery and exhibited abroad at major international art galleries and festivals. 

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    Kenneth Meek

    Kenneth Meek. Organist, choirmaster, harpsichordist, composer, teacher, b Truro, Cornwall, England, 21 May 1908, d Montreal 18 Aug 1976; L MUS (McGill) 1927, B MUS (Toronto) 1936.

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