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    Darrel J McLeod

    Darrel James McLeod, author, educator (born 13 July 1957 in Athabasca, AB; died 29 August 2024 in Victoria, BC). Darrel McLeod was an award-winning Nehiyaw (Cree) educator, land claims negotiator and author. He was also an Indigenous leader and advocate. McLeod was a celebrated memoirist who also delved into fiction shortly before his death. His debut memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2018.

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    Daryl Hine

    ​Daryl Hine, poet, translator, editor, dramatist (born 24 February 1936 in Burnaby, BC; died 20 August 2012 in Evanston, Illinois).

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    Daryl Irvine

    (Helen) Daryl Irvine. Pianist, teacher, b Toronto 25 Aug 1932; ARCT (organ performance, RCM), ARCT (piano performance, RCM), LRSM (piano pedagogy, Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music), ARCM (organ and piano performance, Royal College of Music).

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    Dave Broadfoot

    Dave Broadfoot, humorist, writer, performer, producer, director (born 5 December 1925 in Vancouver, BC; died 1 November 2016). Dave Broadfoot is an internationally known comedian who has probably provoked more laughter from Canadians than any performing artist in English Canada.

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    Dave Foley

    Dave Foley, actor, writer (born at Toronto 4 January 1963). Dave Foley dropped out of an alternative Toronto high school to do standup comedy at age 17. He joined up with Kevin MCDONALD at improv classes held at Second City Theatre, and they began working as a comedy team in the early 1980s.

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    Dave Robbins

    Dave (David) Robbins. Trombonist, teacher, composer, arranger, b Greenburg, Ind, 14 Aug 1923, naturalized Canadian 1965; B SC music education (Sam Houston State Teachers' College) 1943, M SC (Southern California) 1951.

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    Dave Thomas

    David William Thomas, actor, writer, director (born at St Catharines, Ont 20 May 1948). Dave Thomas went to public school in Durham, North Carolina, and returned to Canada where he attended high school in Dundas, Ont.

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    Davenport Kerrison

    (John) Davenport Kerrison. Pianist, teacher, composer, editor, b London 1841, d Jacksonville?, Fla, after 1927. He studied in England with John Boardman and Benedict Rolfs and in the USA with J.N. Pattison and Louis Gottschalk.

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    David Adams

    David Adams, ballet dancer (born at Winnipeg 16 Nov 1928; died at Stony Plain, Alta 24 Oct 2007). Adams was a key figure from the early days of Canadian Ballet. As the company's first principal male dancer, he played an important role in establishing the National Ballet of Canada.

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    David Adams Richards

    David Adams Richards, CM, ONB, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, Member of the Senate (born 17 October 1950 in Newcastle, NB). An acclaimed author of novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, poetry and plays, David Adams Richards is one of only three Canadian writers to be awarded a Governor General’s Literary Award for both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps best known for his fictionalized accounts of his native region of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Richards’ work increasingly tackles complex explorations of conscience, morality, integrity and consequences. He has been compared to Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus and William Blake. He has won the Giller Prize and two Gemini Awards, and is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of New Brunswick. He was appointed to the Senate in 2017 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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    Alexander Colville

    David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42).

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    David Arthur Watmough

    David Arthur Watmough, short story writer, novelist, playwright (born 17 August 1926 in London, England; died 4 August 2017 in Vancouver, BC). Canadian citizen 1963.

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    David Astor

    David Astor (né Thomas David Holman), tenor, teacher (born 24 April 1926 in Vancouver, BC; died 30 June 2008 in Calgary, AB).

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    David Bergen

    David Bergen, novelist, short-story writer (b at Port Edward, BC 1957). David Bergen grew up in the small fishing village of Port Edward and later in the small Mennonite town of Niverville, Manitoba.

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    David Bergen (Profile)

    ON A COLD January afternoon three years ago, novelist and teacher David Bergen was walking home from his day job at Winnipeg's Kelvin High School when he spotted a teenage girl seated on the railing of the Maryland Bridge, her legs dangling above the Assiniboine River.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 16, 2002

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