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    Daniel Fowler

    Daniel Fowler, painter (b at Champion Hill, Eng 10 Feb 1810; d on Amherst I, Ont 14 Sept 1894). He studied from 1831-34 with painter and lithographer J.D. Harding, then spent a year in Europe sketching and painting.

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    Daniel Grossman

    Daniel Williams Grossman, dancer, choreographer (born 13 September 1942 in San Francisco, California; died 29 July 2023 in Toronto, ON). Daniel Grossman was one of Canada’s greatest choreographers. He was known for weaving themes of social justice into his dance and for choreography that was equal parts athletic, humorous and satirical. He founded the Danny Grossman Dance Company (DGDC) in 1975 and taught for many years at York University. He received the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Choreography, the William Kilbourn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Toronto Arts Awards and the Dance Ontario Award. He was an inaugural inductee of Canada’s Dance Hall of Fame in 2018.

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    Daniel Hétu

    Daniel Hétu. Pianist, organist, accompanist, arranger, conductor, singer-songwriter, b Montreal 1 Dec 1950, d Montreal 8 Jan 2008; B MUS (Montreal) 1971. Daniel Hétu began studying piano at four with André Mathieu.

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    Daniel Langlois

    Daniel Langlois, OC, COQ, animator, producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (born 6 April 1957 in Jonquière, QC; died 2023 in Gallion, Dominica). Daniel Langlois was a pioneer in the field of computer animation. In 1997, he received a Scientific and Technical Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for developing Softimage, the industry standard in 3-D computer animation software. After selling and resigning from the company, Langlois created the Daniel Langlois Foundation, which promotes artistic and scientific research. He was then involved in various technology projects, including Montreal’s Ex Centris cinema complex, and developed an eco-conscious luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Dominica. He and his partner were found dead in Dominica under mysterious circumstances in December 2023.

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    Daniel Lanois

    Lanois has enjoyed a fruitful co-production partnership with renowned UK composer Brian Eno, which began when Eno began working at Grant Avenue in 1979.

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    Daniel Lanois

    LifeBorn into a musical family (both his father and grandfather were noted fiddlers), Lanois moved with his mother in 1963 to Hamilton, Ont, where he played guitar in local rock bands (eg, Tranquility Base). He later toured as an accompanist to several folk artists.

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    Daniel Lavoie

    Daniel Lavoie learned the piano from nuns when he was very young and continued his musical education at the Jesuit boarding school, Collège de St-Boniface, in St. Boniface, Manitoba.

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    Daniel Lavoie

    In 1983, the song 'Ils s'aiment' (two million copies sold) thrust Lavoie into the forefront of French-speaking singer-songwriters. It conveyed the anguish of young people in the 1980's, its tense, haunting melody matching the sensitivity of a new generation born with the atom bomb.

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    Daniel Lichti

    Concert and Oratorio EngagementsLichti in his early career was primarily a concert-oratorio singer and as such first appeared as a soloist in Canada in 1979 in Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Ontario Choral Federation under Helmuth Rilling.

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    Daniel MacIvor

    Daniel MacIvor, playwright, actor, film director, screenwriter (born 23 July 1962 in Sydney, NS). 

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    Daniel McCowan

    Daniel McCowan, naturalist, lecturer, writer (b at Crieff, Scot 20 Jan 1882; d at Cloverdale, BC 19 Feb 1956). After an early education in Scotland, he moved to Banff, Alta, where he soon acquired expertise on the local flora and fauna.

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    Daniel Paul

    Daniel Nicholas Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaq elder, author, social justice advocate (born 5 December 1938 on Indian Brook Reserve, NS; died 27 June 2023 in Halifax, NS). Paul is the author of We Were Not the Savages, one of Canada’s first history books from an Indigenous perspective. He had long campaigned for the removal of Halifax’s statue to its controversial founder, Edward Cornwallis, until its removal by Halifax's city council in January 2018.

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    Daniel Petrie

    Daniel Petrie, director, writer, producer, actor, (b at Glace Bay, NS 26 Nov 1920; d at Los Angeles 22 Aug 2004). Daniel Petrie achieved a Bachelor of Arts in communications at Nova Scotia's St Francis Xavier University before completing a masters in adult education at Columbia.

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    Daniel Price Erichsen Brown

    Daniel Price Erichsen Brown, painter, printmaker (b at Forestville, Ont 21 Aug 1939). D.P. Brown's interest in art was sparked on frequent childhood sketching trips with A.Y.

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    Daniel Roby

    ​Daniel Roby, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer (born 25 October 1970 in Montréal, QC). 

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