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    Christopher Plummer

    Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, actor (born 13 December 1929 in Toronto, ON; died 5 February 2021 in Weston, Connecticut). A great-grandson of Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, Christopher Plummer was an international star of theatre, film and television. He was Canada’s most distinguished movie star in the classical mould — the New York Times hailed him as “the finest classical actor in America.” He took on innumerable larger-than-life roles, including Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Hamlet, Rudyard Kipling, John Barrymore, and Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), one of the most popular films of all time. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Film Independent Spirit Award, a Canadian Screen Award and a Genie Award. He received lifetime achievement awards from the Governors General’s Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards and the National Arts Club of America. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame.

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    Christopher Weait

    Christopher (Robert Irving) Weait. Bassoonist, teacher, composer, b Surrey, England, 27 Mar 1939; B SC music education (State U of New York) 1961, MA (Columbia) 1966. He studied with Charles Robert Reinert at State U College and with William Polisi.

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    Christos Hatzis

    Christos Hatzis, composer, professor, writer (b at Volos, Greece 21 March 1953). 

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    Claire Gagnier

    Claire Gagnier, CM, soprano (born 28 March 1924 in Montreal, QC). She studied violin with her father, René Gagnier, and at 14 began voice lessons with Roger Filiatrault. She sang in public and on the radio and won first prize in the CBC's "Singing Stars of Tomorrow" in 1944.

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    Claire Grenon-Masella

    Claire Grenon-Masella (née Grenon), soprano, teacher (born 14 September 1932 in Sault Ste. Marie, ON; died 14 April 2017 in Gatineau, QC). B MUS (Montreal) 1954, M MUS (Montreal) 1957. 

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    Claire Harris

    Claire Harris, poet (born 13 June 1937 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; died 5 February 2018). Claire Harris wrote numerous collections of poetry, beginning with Fables from the Women’s Quarters (1984). Her work garnered national and international acclaim. She won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region (1985), the Writers' Guild of Alberta Award for poetry (1987), the Alberta Culture poetry prize (1988) and the Alberta Culture Special Award (1990). Harris’s poetry often voices the psychological struggles experienced by racialized women who face oppression and violence.

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    Claire Martin

    Claire Martin, pseudonym of Claire Montreuil (b at Québec C 18 Apr 1914). She studied with the Ursulines (in Québec City) and the Dames de la Congrégation (in BEAUPORT). She won the Prix du Cercle du livre de France (1958) for her first book, a collection of short stories called Avec ou sans amour.

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    Clara Carey

    Clara (Mable) (m Allan) Carey. Contralto, b Millgrove 8 Aug 1879, d Hamilton 26 Dec 1974. She taught singing privately and was a soloist at Centenary United Church in the early 1900s.

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    Clara Dennis

    Clarissa Archibald Dennis, travel writer, photographer, motorist (born 24 November 1881 in Truro, NS; died 16 February 1958 in Halifax, NS). Beginning around 1930, Clara Dennis spent a decade travelling across Nova Scotia by car. She was one of the first travel writers from Nova Scotia to write about the province. Her books and photographs documented the people and places in the far corners of the area.

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    Clara Lichtenstein

    Clara Lichtenstein. Pianist, teacher, b Budapest, ca 1860, d Dorset, England, 3 May 1946. Born into a musical family, she studied at the Charlotte Square Institute in Edinburgh, founded by her uncle, George Lichtenstein. Her first public performance was in piano duets with Sir Charles Hallé in 1880.

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    Clara McCandless Thomas

    Clara McCandless Thomas, teacher, critic (b at Strathroy, 22 May 1919).

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    Clara Morris

    Clara Morris, stage name of Clara Morrison, née La Montagne, actress, author (b at Toronto 17 Mar c 1848; d at New Canaan, Conn 20 Nov 1925), dubbed "the Queen of Melodrama" for her ability to move an audience to tears.

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    Clarence Gagnon

    Clarence Gagnon, engraver, painter (b at Montréal 8 Nov 1881; d there 5 Jan 1942). After studying at the École normale du Plateau in Montréal, he received his artistic training from the painter William BRYMNER at the Art Association of Montreal 1897-1900.

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    Clarence Horatio Miller

    Clarence Horatio Miller, "Big," jazz musician, blues singer, trombonist, educator (born 18 December 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa; died 9 June 1992 in Edmonton, AB). By 1960 Big Miller had sung with the Jay McShann and Duke Ellington orchestras and recorded with Bob Brookmeyer, Rex Stewart and Jon Hendricks.

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    Clarence Lucas

    Clarence Lucas, composer, writer, conductor (b at Six Nations Reserve near Brantford 19 Oct 1866; d at Sèvres, near Paris 1 Jul 1947). 

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