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    Betty Oliphant

    Betty Oliphant, ballet teacher (b at London, Eng 5 Aug 1918; d at St. Catharines, Ont 12 July 2004).

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    Betty Phillips

    Betty (Muriel) Phillips. Mezzo-soprano, actress, b Vancouver 17 May 1923; BA (British Columbia) 1976.

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    Betty Roodish Goodwin

    Betty Roodish Goodwin, painter (b at Montréal 19 Mar 1923; died there 1 December 2008). Betty Goodwin began her career as a visual artist in the late 1940s and began to exhibit her work in the early 1960s. Largely self-taught, Goodwin began with drawing, a practice she was comfortable with.

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    Beverley Diamond Cavanagh

    Beverley (Anne) Diamond (formerly m Cavanagh). Ethnomusicologist, pianist, b Kitchener, Ont, 4 Jun 1948; B MUS (Toronto) 1970, MA musicology (Toronto) 1971, PH D ethnomusicology (Toronto) 1979.

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    Beverley Johnston

    Beverley (Jean) Johnston. Percussionist, b Lachine, Que, 4 Jun 1957; B MUS music education (Toronto) 1980. She began piano studies at 7 and at 13 took up percussion.

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    Beverley Simons

    Beverley Simons, née Rosen, playwright (b at Flin Flon, Man 31 Mar 1938). Simons grew up in Edmonton and was educated at the Banff School of Fine Arts, McGill University and the University of British Columbia, where she completed a BA in English and Theatre in 1959.

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    Beverly Fyfe

    Beverly (Couper) Fyfe. Choir conductor, tenor, b Neepawa, near Winnipeg, of Scottish parents, 13 Oct 1909. His father was a choirmaster in Saskatoon and conducted the Arion Male Voice Choir in Victoria.

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    BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, Nicolas Laverdière)

    ​The artists Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière form the collective BGL, founded in 1996 and active today on the Québec, Canadian, and international art scenes.

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    Bharati Mukherjee

    Bharati Mukherjee, novelist, short-story writer (born 27 July 1940 in Calcutta, India; died 28 January 2017 in New York, NY).

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    Big Miller

    "Big" (Clarence Horatio) Miller. Singer, trombonist, actor, (born 18 December 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa; died 9 June 1992 in Edmonton, AB).

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    bill bissett

    bill bissett, poet, artist, performer, publisher (b at Halifax, NS 23 Nov 1939). The son of a judge, bill bissett ran away from home several times as a child, once to join a circus, looking to escape conventional middle-class life.

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    Bill Gaston

    Bill Gaston writer and teacher (born at Flin Flon MB, 1953). After graduating from the University of British Columbia with an MFA Gaston "fooled around with words" while working alternately as a logger, fishing guide, and semi-professional European Hockey player before committing to a writer's life.

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    Bill Glassco

    William Grant Glassco, director, producer (b at Québec City 30 Aug 1935; d at Toronto 13 Sept 2004). As artistic director of Tarragon Theatre in Toronto (1971-1982) and Centre Stage (1985-1991), Bill Glassco was a major force in the development and promotion of Canadian theatre and drama.

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    Bill Lishman (Profile)

    On a brisk spring morning, Bill Lishman is preparing cappuccino in the bright, spacious kitchen of his $400,000 underground home. As he pours a cup of the rich coffee, the 57-year-old sculptor, who lives in the village of Blackstock, Ont.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 27, 1996

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    Bill Phillips

    William Phillips, trumpeter, conductor, composer (born 19 September 1937 in Guelph, Ontario; died 17 February 2023 in Plattsburgh, NY). ARCT 1958, BA (Toronto) 1958. His teachers were Joseph Umbrico in Toronto and Maurice André in 1970 at the Paris Conservatory. He served as principal trumpet 1961-2 with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Festival Orchestra, Stratford, 1963-4 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, and 1965-6 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. He was assistant conductor 1964-5 of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.

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