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    Maxwell Bates

    Maxwell Bates, artist, architect, author, poet (b at Calgary 14 Dec 1906; d at Victoria 14 Sept 1980).

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    May Agnes Fleming

    May Agnes Fleming, née Early, novelist (b at Saint John 15 Nov 1840; d at Brooklyn, NY 24 Mar 1880). She began publishing while still a schoolgirl, her early stories appearing in New York and Boston, Massachusetts, as well as in local papers.

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    Maynard Ferguson

    Ferguson went to New York in 1948, working in quick succession with the Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet orchestras before establishing his reputation firmly in the JAZZ world as a featured soloist from 1950 to 1953 with the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

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    Maynard Ferguson

    Ferguson went to the US in 1948 and worked in turn in the big bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, and Charlie Barnet until 1950. It was during his term 1950-3 with Stan Kenton that he first received great public acclaim, winning the Down Beat readers' polls for trumpet in 1950-2.

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    Mazo de la Roche

    Mazo de la Roche, writer (b at Newmarket, Ont 15 Jan 1879; d at Toronto 12 July 1961). Among the most prolific and widely read of Canadian authors, she wrote 23 novels, more than 50 short stories, 13 plays and many other works.

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    Measha Brueggergosman

    Measha Brueggergosman (née Gosman), soprano, (born 28 June 1977 in Fredericton, NB).

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    Meg Tilly

    Meg Tilly, née Margaret Elizabeth Chan, actor, author (born at Long Beach, Ca 14 Feb 1960). Meg Tilly was brought up on the isolated Texada Island in the Strait of Georgia. She began her career as a dancer but switched to film after a back injury.

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    Megan Follows

    Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows, actor, director (born 14 March 1968 in Toronto). Megan Follows is best known for starring as Anne Shirley in the hugely popular CBC mini-series Anne of Green Gables (1985) — the highest-rated television drama in Canadian history. Follows won two Gemini Awards for her iconic portrayal of the famous PEI orphan. She has since amassed more than 100 credits in film and television, including a co-starring role in the popular CW series Reign (2013–17), for which she received three Canadian Screen Award nominations. She has also won both a Directors Guild of Canada Award and a Canadian Screen Award for her work as a director.

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    Mel Hoppenheim

    Mel Hoppenheim, CM, entrepreneur, philanthropist (born October 1937 in Montreal, QC; died 27 July 2022 in Montreal). Mel Hoppenheim developed Panavision Canada into the largest provider of film and television services in Canada. He also owned and operated one of the largest privately held film studios in North America. Hoppenheim was instrumental in the development of Canada’s film and television industry, and of Montreal as a major site for international productions. A noted philanthropist, he earned the nickname “Mr. Hollywood North.” He received an honorary Genie Award in 2010 and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.

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    Mel Hurtig

    ​Melvin Hurtig, OC, publisher, political activist, author (born 24 June 1932 in Edmonton, AB; died 3 August 2016 in Vancouver, BC).

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    Melissa Auf Der Maur

    Melissa Auf der Maur. Bass guitarist, singer, songwriter, photographer, b Montreal 17 Mar 1972. Melissa Auf der Maur is the daughter of Montreal journalist Nick Auf der Maur and former Montreal rock radio disc jockey Linda Gaboriau.

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    Melissa Hayden

    Melissa Hayden, stage name of Mildred Herman, ballet dancer and teacher (b at Toronto, Ont 25 Apr 1923, d at Winston-Salem, NC 9 Aug 2006). During her long performing career Melissa Hayden became internationally known as a

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    Melville Cook

    (Alfred) Melville Cook. Organist, choir conductor, composer, teacher, b Gloucester 18 Jun 1912, d Cheltenham, Eng 21 May 1993; ARCO 1931, FRCO with the Harding Prize, 1931, B MUS (Durham) 1934, D MUS (Durham) 1940.

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    Melvin Berman

    Melvin Berman. Oboist, teacher, b Hartford, Conn, 28 Feb 1929, d 2 Apr 2008; B MUS (Hartford) 1949, M MUS (Hartford) 1950. Melvin Berman studied oboe with Clement Lenom and Harold Gomberg.

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    Melvin Charney

    Charney's first independent project was a school built at Lac Beauport, Qué, in 1964. In 1970 his proposal for the Canadian pavilion for the Osaka World Fair, although not selected, received wide acclaim.

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