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    Sheila McCarthy

    Sheila McCarthy in Patricia Rozema's film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (courtesy Toronto International Film Festival Group).Sheila McCarthy  Sheila Catherine McCarthy, actor, singer, dancer (b at Toronto 1 Jan 1956). Sheila McCarthy, one of the hardest-working performers in Canadian film, television and on stage, began as a self-described "lovely little dancer girl" at the Thornhill Free School north of Toronto. Her first appearance on stage was at Toronto's Elgin Theatre in Peter Pan at 6...

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    Sheila Munroe

    Sheila (m Rodgers) Munroe. Pianist, b Winnipeg 3 Aug 1928. She studied piano with her mother, Zoë (b Ekaterinoslav [Dniepro Petrovsk], Russia, 18 Apr 1898), and with John Melnyk won the Aikins Memorial Trophy (the top instrumental award) at the 1946 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Music Competition Festival.

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    Sheila Piercey

    Sheila (Kathleen) Piercey. Soprano, b Halifax, NS, 18 Nov 1933. Coached by her mother Lilian (MacKinnon) Piercey, she made her debut at five.

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    Sheila Watson

    Sheila Watson, née Doherty, novelist, critic, teacher (b at New Westminster, BC 24 Oct 1909; d at Nanaimo 1 Feb 1998). Publication of Watson's novel The Double Hoook (1959) marks the start of contemporary writing in Canada.

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    Shelton Brooks

    Shelton L. Brooks. Songwriter, pianist, comedian, actor, b Amherstburg, near Windsor, Ont, 4 May 1886, d Los Angeles, California, 6 Sep 1975. Brooks played organ and piano at home as a boy, and attended his preacher father's Nazery African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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    Sherwood Robson

    (Charles William) Sherwood Robson. Educator, choir conductor, b Vancouver 27 May 1913; B ED (British Columbia) 1962. His teachers included John Goss (voice) and Frederic Staton (voice, choir training) in the early 1940s and Burton Kurth (voice, organ, piano) in the 1950s.

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    Shields Wins Pulitzer

    Anne Giardini of Kamloops, B.C., almost drove into the back of a wood-chip truck when she heard the news on her car radio last week. An announcer had just revealed that her mother, Winnipeg-based novelist Carol Shields, had won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 24, 1995

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    Shingoose

    Shingoose (also Curtis Jonnie), Ojibwe singer-songwriter, guitarist, folk musician, Indigenous activist (born on 26 October 1946 in Winnipeg, MB; died on 12 January 2021 in Winnipeg, MB). Shingoose rose to popularity in Canada and the US in the late 1960s. A well-respected musician, Shingoose was also a strong advocate of Indigenous issues and strove to highlight Indigenous culture on the world stage. (See also Music of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.)

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    Shirley Douglas

    Shirley Douglas, OC, actor, activist (born 2 April 1934 in Weyburn, SK; died 5 April 2020). 

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    Shirley Eikhard

    Shirley (Rose) Eikhard. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Sackville, NB, 7 Nov 1955.

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    Shirley Harmer

    Shirley Harmer. Singer, actress, b Thornton's Corners (now Oshawa), Ont, 25 Mar 1932. In her teens she sang in the dance bands of, and was coached by, Boyd Valleau and Art Hallman.

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    Shirley Wiitasalo

    By the 1980s Wiitasalo's work and that of peers such as Will Gorlitz, Carol Wainio and Joanne Tod signalled the interest on the part of a new generation of figurative painters in relationships between identity, social formation and media representations.

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    Shuffle Demons

    Shuffle Demons. Toronto jazz group.

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    Shuvinai Ashoona

    Shuvinai Ashoona, artist (born August 1961 in Cape Dorset, NU). Shuvinai Ashoona's art has been exhibited extensively, both within Canada and internationally. Her drawings occupy a unique place within contemporary Inuit art, combining elements of Inuit culture and traditional stories with influences derived from contact with southern industrial society, all subsumed within the reality of her richly imaginative inner world. 

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    Shyam Selvadurai

    Shyam Selvadurai's first novel, Funny Boy won the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and The Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Fiction. The novel is at once innocent and wise, fanciful and uncompromisingly frank in its depiction of Arjie Chelvaratnam's happy and harrowing childhood.

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