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    Knowlton Nash

    Cyril Knowlton Nash, journalist, broadcasting executive (born 18 November 1927 in Toronto, ON; died 24 May 2014 in Toronto).

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    Cyril Moss

    Cyril (Albert) Moss. Organist, teacher, composer, b Strood, Kent, England, 3 Jan 1891, d Toronto 6 Jan 1965; LTCM, FCCO ca 1925. He moved to Canada in 1908 and studied at the TCM with George Knight and Sir Ernest MacMillan and at the ESM in Rochester, NY, with Harold Gleason.

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    Cyril Mossop

    Cyril (Stephenson) Mossop. Organist, choirmaster, teacher, conductor, b Calgary 14 Jun 1910, d Victoria 16 Nov 1994. He studied piano first with his mother and later with Mary Titchmarsh, receiving an LTCL and an ATCM. He studied organ 1933-6 with Harold Heeremans.

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    Cyrille-Roch Lyonnais

    Cyrille-Roch (also known as Roch fils) Lyonnais (Bossu or Bossue, dit Lyonnais). String-instrument maker, music dealer, teacher, b Quebec City 13 Jul 1876, d there 10 Nov 1925.

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    Czech Music in Canada

    Perhaps the first musically important immigrant to Canada from what later was to be known as Czechoslovakia was Wilhelm Labitzky (violinist, b Becov 1829, d Toronto 1871; son of Joseph Labitzky, 'the waltz king of Bohemia').

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    Pierre Daignault

    Pierre Daignault. Actor, folksinger, writer, born Montreal 25 Mar 1925, died Laval 18 Dec 2003. He made his stage debut in 1939 and as a performer and caller of square dances, and was a regular member of the CBC radio folk-music program 'Soirée de chez-nous' in 1947.

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    Daisy Peterson Sweeney

    Daisy Elitha Sweeney (née Peterson), teacher, pianist, organist (born 7 May 1920 in Montréal, QC; died 11 August 2017 in Montréal). An accomplished musician in her own right, Daisy Peterson Sweeney is perhaps best known as the older sister, and early teacher, of celebrated jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. She also taught other notable Montréal jazz pianists, including Oliver Jones and Joe Sealey.

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    Dal Richards

    Dallas Murray Richards, CM, OBC, clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, conductor, composer (born 5 January 1918 in Vancouver, BC; died 31 December 2015 in Vancouver). 

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    Dale Bartlett

    Dale Bartlett, pianist, teacher, accompanist (born 10 August 1936 in Lethbridge, AB; died 20 December 2013 in Montréal, QC); ARAM 1983; honorary LLD (Lethbridge) 1984. He studied 1941-53 in his native city with Margaret Stevens and later with Beatrice Foster. During these years he received the silver medal of the RCMT eight times in succession.

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    Dale McIntosh

    (Robert) Dale McIntosh. Music educator, musicologist, b Quill Lake, north of Regina, Sask, 25 Jun 1938; ARCT 1966, B ED (Alberta) 1969, M ED (Saskatchewan) 1970, M MUS (Alberta) 1972, PH D (Washington) 1979.

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    Dale Reubart

    Dale Reubart. Pianist, teacher, b Kansas City, Mo, 19 Jan 1926, naturalized Canadian 1971; BA (Missouri) 1952, M MUS (Southern California) 1956, DMA (Southern California) 1965. His teachers included Harold Bauer, Carl Friedberg, Conrad Bos, and Ingolf Dahl.

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    Dallas Green

    Dallas Green. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, b St Catharines, Ont, 29 Sep 1980. Dallas Green's musical training began with guitar lessons at the age of eight. He credits bands such as Alice in Chains, Mogwai and Sunny Day Real Estate with inspiring him to compose and pursue a career in music.

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    Dallas Harms

    Dallas Leon Harms, singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer (born 18 July 1935 in Jansen, SK; died 12 October 2019 in Hamilton, ON). He was raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Inspired by Hank Williams, he began his career in the mid-1950s and made his first record, for Reo, in 1959. Harms had country hits for Columbia in 1972–73 with “In the Loving Arms of My Marie” and “Old Ira Gray,” and for Broadland 1975–79 with “Paper Rosie,” “Georgia I’m Cheating On You Tonight,” “It’s Crying Time for Me,” “The Fastest Gun,” “I Picked a Daisy,” and “The Ballad of the Duke.” Concurrently, his LPs for Broadland included Paper Rosie (BR-1917), The Fastest Gun (BR-1982), and Painter of Words (BR-2052).

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    Dalton Baker

    Dalton Baker. Baritone, teacher, choir conductor, organist, b Merton, Surrey, England, 17 Oct 1879, d Vancouver 22 Mar 1970; ARAM 1903. He was a choirboy at All Saints, Margaret St, London, and a student at the RAM.

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    Damase Potvin

    Damase Potvin, journalist, writer (b at Bagotville, Qué 16 Oct 1879; d at Québec C 9 June 1964). After studies at the Petit Séminaire de Chicoutimi in 1903, Potvin entered the novitiate of the White Fathers of Africa in Algiers.

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