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    Lynne Cohen

    Lynne Cohen, photographer, artist, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, teacher (born 3 July 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin; died 12 May 2014 in Montreal, QC). Award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen was perhaps best known for winning the inaugural $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2011. She also won the Canada Council for the Arts’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1991 and a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2005. Her work focuses on everyday interior spaces and how changes in lighting and framing alter how the viewer perceives these environments. She was also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa from 1974 to 2005.

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    Lynnwood Farnam

    (Walter) Lynnwood Farnam. Organist, teacher, b Sutton, southeast of Montreal, 13 Jan 1885, d New York 23 Nov 1930. He studied piano in Dunham, Que, and in 1900 was awarded the Lord Strathcona Scholarship, which paid three years' tuition at the RCM, London.

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    Lyric Arts Trio

    Lyric Arts Trio. Formed in 1964 by the soprano Mary Morrison, the flutist Robert Aitken, and Aitken's wife, the pianist Marion Ross.

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    Lyse Richer

    Lyse Richer. Teacher, administrator, b Montreal 11 Sep 1939; BA (Montreal) 1958, B MUS (Montreal) 1960, M MUS piano (École Vincent-d'Indy) 1961, L MUS (Montreal) 1969.

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    Ma Vie en cinemascope

    Ma Vie en cinemascope (2004) is a film about Alice Robitaille (known professionally as Alys ROBI), who was a radio and cabaret star from Québec during the 1930s and 1940s.

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    Mabel Beddoe

    Mabel (Beatrice) Beddoe. Contralto, b Hamilton, Ont, 18 Aug 1880, d New York 15 Feb 1959. Her father, Thomas Davis Beddoe (1853-1933), was known as an amateur tenor in Toronto.

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    Mabel Lockerby

    ​Mabel Lockerby, painter (born 13 March 1882 in Montréal, QC; died 1 May 1976 in Montréal). 

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    Mac Beattie

    John McNab "Mac" Beattie, singer, songwriter (born 21 December 1916 in Arnprior, ON; died 14 June 1982 in Arnprior).

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    M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant)

    Marion Alice Coburn Farrant (M.A.C. Farrant), writer (born at Sydney Australia, 5 April 1947). M.A.C. Farrant was raised in Victoria, BC and studied at the UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA and SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. She describes herself as an "anthropologist of the absurd.

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    Rodney Joseph MacDonald

    Rodney MacDonald's political career began in 1999 when he secured the Progressive Conservative nomination in his home riding of Inverness. In the previous election, PC candidate Randy MacDonald had run a poor third behind Liberal victor Charles MacDonald.

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    Macedonian Music in Canada

    Balkan nation conquered and divided by Rome in 168 BC, ruled by various countries in the ensuing centuries but surviving as a region and a culture with a language predominatly Slavic. It was partitioned in 1913 by Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia (now Serbian Yugoslavia).

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    Maclean's 1995 Honor Roll

    Still, there is nothing ordinary about the lives and contributions of the 1995 Honor Roll members.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 18, 1995

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    Antonia David (née Nantel)

    Antonia David (née Nantel), patron, administrator (born 14 April 1886 in St-Jérôme, north of Montréal, Québec; deceased 6 December 1955 in Montréal).

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    Madeleine Bernier

    Madeleine Bernier. Pianist, accompanist, b Quebec City 26 Aug 1929; deuxième prix piano (CMQ) 1953, B MUS (Laval) 1953, teaching diploma (Institut Jacques-Dalcroze, London) 1957.

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    Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

    Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, novelist, poet, essayist (b at Rivière-du-Loup 27 May 1930). She graduated from Université de Montréal (1968) and received a master's degree from Université du Québec à Montréal (1975).

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