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    Tracy Dahl

    Tracy Elizabeth Dahl, CM, opera singer, coloratura soprano (born 13 November 1961 in Winnipeg, MB). Praised for her effortless flights of coloratura and natural acting abilities, operatic soprano Tracy Dahl has enjoyed a high-profile international career since the mid-1980s. Known for her clear, high, flexible voice, and in particular for her ornaments and cadenzas, Dahl has performed with such major companies as the Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company and the Hamburg Opera. Winner of Opera Canada’s Ruby Award and a Member of the Order of Canada, the Juno Award-nominated Dahl also gives concerts, has made recordings and teaches voice at the University of Manitoba.

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    Trailer Park Boys

    Trailer Park Boys, the most successful comedy series to be broadcast on Canadian cable television, began life as a 90-minute mock documentary about the lives of 2 petty felons living in a Nova Scotia trailer park.

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    Trevor Winston Payne

    Trevor Winston Payne, conductor, composer, teacher (born 21 December ca. 1948 in Black Rock, Barbado).

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    Trey Anthony

    Trey Anthony (a.k.a. trey anthony), comedian, playwright, screenwriter, producer (born 1974 in London, England). The first Black Canadian woman to have her own prime-time show on a Canadian television network, Trey Anthony is best known for her award-winning play and television series, 'da Kink in my Hair.

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    Trichy Sankaran

    Sankaran, Trichy. Performer, composer, ethnomusicologist, b Poovalur, Madras State, India, 27 Jul 1942; BA (Madras), 1964; MA (Madras) 1966. He is the most distinguished performer from the gharana (circle of pupils) of Palani Subramania Pillai, with whom he studied 1954-9.

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    Tudor Singers of Montreal/Ensemble vocal Tudor de Montréal

    The Tudor Singers of Montreal/L'Ensemble vocal Tudor de Montréal. Mixed choir founded in 1962 by Wayne Riddell to perform unaccompanied music of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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    Twenty Pioneering Newspaperwomen in Canada

    Did you know that Canadian women, like writer and suffragist Emily Murphy, have been writing and working for newspapers since the 19th century? The following 20 Canadian newspaperwomen include the first Black woman in North America to publish and edit a newspaper, the first female war correspondent in North America and the first female French-Canadian journalist. Others were literary and drama critics, sports journalists, agricultural writers and editors. Many wrote or edited “women’s pages,” which covered not only recipes, fashion and homemaking tips but also the women’s movement, among other issues. Several were founding members of the Canadian Women’s Press Club (1904).

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    Bruce Ubukata

    Bruce Ubukata. Pianist, organist, harpsichordist, vocal coach, b Goderich, Ont, 3 Sep 1949; BA (Carleton) 1970. Bruce Ubukata studied privately with Greta Kraus in Toronto, Sir Peter Pears at Aldeburgh, and Pierre Bernac at St Jean de Luz, France.

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    Udo Kasemets

    Udo Kasemets, composer, educator, writer (b at Tallinn, Estonia 16 Nov 1919, d 19 January 2014). 

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    Udo Kasemets

    Udo Kasemets. Composer, pianist, organist, teacher, writer, b Tallinn, Estonia, 16 Nov 1919, naturalized Canadian 1957; honorary D LITT (York) 1991.

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    Ukrainian Music in Canada

    Towards the end of the 19th century large numbers of Ukrainians began to arrive in Canada; the majority settled in the Prairie provinces. By the late 1980s there were over 950,000 Ukrainian Canadians, the largest concentrations in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal.

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    Ukrainian Shumka Dancers

     The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Edmonton are perhaps the most well known of Canada's 230 Ukrainian dance groups and schools.

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    Ukrainian Writing

    Ukrainian Writing in Canada began in the 1890s with the first major wave of UKRAINIANS. The first story was written in 1897 by Nestor Dmytriw while he was visiting Calgary, and the first poem in 1898 by Ivan Zbura near Edmonton.

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    Ulrich Leupold

    Ulrich (Siegfried) Leupold. Musicologist, Lutheran minister, administrator, b Berlin 15 Jan 1909, d Kitchener, Ont, 9 Jun 1970; PH D musicology (Berlin) 1932, honorary DD (Knox College) 1969. His father was an organist, his mother a voice teacher.

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    Ulysse Comtois

    Ulysse Comtois, sculptor and painter (born 2 March 1931 in Granby, QC; died 10 July 1999 in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC).

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