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  • Macleans

    Mary Harron (Profile)

    Against a cool white background, drops of blood slowly fall through the film's opening credits. Or so it seems - until the camera pulls back to reveal that the bright red trickle is, in fact, raspberry coulis being drizzled over a breast of duck.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 10, 2000

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    Helen Creighton

    Mary Helen Creighton, CM, song collector, folklorist, writer (born 5 September 1899 in Dartmouth, NS; died 12 December 1989 in Halifax, NS). A pioneering collector of Maritime folk music and folklore, Helen Creighton helped define Maritime culture. 

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    Mary Henderson

    Mary Henderson. Soprano, teacher, b Longueuil (near Montreal) 17 Dec 1912. A study of the violin, begun at 10, led to a licentiate from McGill University. Her vocal studies, begun with Henri Pontbriand and Pauline Donalda in Montreal, were pursued in New York with C.

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    Mary Lou Fallis

    Mary Louise Fallis, CM, soprano, teacher, comedian, writer (born 22 April 1948 in Toronto, ON). Mary Lou Fallis has performed internationally in dramatic opera and as a classical singer but is best known for her comedic theatre works.

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    Mary Louise Morrison

    Mary Louise Morrison, soprano (b at Winnipeg 9 Nov 1926). Studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music brought Morrison to Toronto, where she began her career as an opera singer, appearing with the Canadian Opera Co and on the CBC.

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    Mary Morrison

    Mary (Louise) Morrison. Soprano, b Winnipeg 9 Nov 1926; Artist Diploma voice (RCMT) 1948. She studied in Winnipeg with Doris Mills Lewis (voice 1942-4) and Mary Bornoff (piano) and in Vancouver with John Goss (voice, summer 1942).

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    Mary Munn

    Mary (Elizabeth) Munn. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Montreal 28 Jun 1909, d Calgary 10 Oct 1991; LRAM 1928, RAM Certificate of Merit 1929, M MUS (New England Cons) 1967, DMA (Boston) 1973, honorary LLD (Lethbridge) 1991.

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    Mary Pickford

    The highest paid actress of her era, and one of the most glamorous, Mary Pickford was a pioneering figure of early cinema.

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    Mary Pratt

    Mary Pratt, née West, CC, RCA, painter (born 15 March 1935 in Fredericton, NB; died 14 August 2018 in St. John's, NL).

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    Mary Riter Hamilton

    Mary Matilda Hamilton (née Riter), artist (born 7 September c. 1867 in Teeswater, ON; died 5 April 1954 in Coquitlam, BC). Mary Riter Hamilton was a painter who exhibited her works in Europe and across Canada. Shortly after the fighting stopped, Hamilton travelled to Europe to paint First World War battlefield landscapes before they were cleared (see War Artists). She produced over 350 works in three years, which are a document of the destruction and devastation caused by the war.

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    Mary Rogers

    Mary (born Mary Isabella) Rogers (born Angus). Arts patron, born Manchester 12 Mar 1869, died Vancouver 14 Oct 1965. Mary Isabella Angus acquired her love of music from her mother's family (Fairweather) and as a girl learned to play the violin.

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    Mary Simmons

    Mary Simmons. Soprano, b Philadelphia 29 Jul 1928. She studied violin in Philadelphia with Louis Angeloty for 10 years and voice in New York with Therese Schnabel, receiving the Marian Anderson Scholarship in 1945 and 1946.

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    Mary Walsh

    Mary Cynthia Walsh, actor, writer, producer, TV host, director (born 13 May 1952 in St John's, Nfld ).

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  • Macleans

    Mary Walsh (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 26, 1996. Partner content is not updated. It is a slow news week. While politicians bicker over the divisibility of Quebec, the big story is the weather, a cold snap that has the country frozen in a grimace of national unity from sea to shivering sea.

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    Marya Fiamengo

    Marya Fiamengo, poet, critic and educator (b at Vancouver 24 Oct 1926).

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