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    Donna Morrissey

    Donna Morrissey, novelist, scriptwriter (b at The Beaches, Nfld 13 January 1956). Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, an outport community on the northwest coast of NEWFOUNDLAND.

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    Dora de Pédery-Hunt

    Dora De Pédery-Hunt, sculptor (b at Budapest, Hungary 16 Nov 1913, d at Toronto 29 Sept 2008). Dora de Pédery-Hunt completed her studies in sculpture and design in Budapest in 1943 and immigrated to Canada in 1948.

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    Dora Mavor Moore

    Dora Mavor Moore, actress, teacher (b at Glasgow, Scot 8 Apr 1888; d at Toronto 15 May 1979). After studying elocution at Toronto's Margaret Eaton School of Expression, she became the first Canadian to graduate from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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    Doreen Hall

    Doreen (Foy) Hall. Educator, violinist, b Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland, 24 May 1921; LRCM 1954, Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1954, FRCMT 1997. Raised in Listowel, near Kitchener, Ont, she studied violin with her father, W.G.

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    Doreen Hume

    (Edith) Doreen Hume (b Hulme). Soprano, b Sault Ste Marie, Ont, 14 Jul 1926. She studied voice with John Blackburn in Sault Ste Marie and 1945-53 with George Lambert at the RCMT, and was soloist 1946-53 at Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto.

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    Doris Hilda Anderson

    Doris Hilda Anderson CC, writer, editor, activist (born 10 November 1921 in Medicine Hat, AB; died 2 March 2007 in Toronto, ON). She was Chatelaine’s editor between 1957 and 1977. Anderson was an important advocate for women. During the constitutional debates of the 1980s (see Patriation of the Constitution), she pushed for women’s rights to be recognized. She also headed the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1982–84.

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    Doris Lewis

    Doris Lewis (b Mills). Teacher, soprano, b Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ont, 1908, d Vancouver 29 Dec 1966. She studied piano in Fort William and voice (with Ruth Morgan) and piano in Brandon, Man, before moving to Winnipeg.

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    Doris McCarthy

    Doris McCarthy, CM, painter, teacher, writer (Born 7 July 1910 in Calgary, AB; died 25 November 2010 in Toronto, ON). Doris McCarthy is best known for her vast array of abstracted Canadian landscape paintings.

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    Dorothy Allan Park

    Dorothy (Isobel) Allan Park (b Allan, m Park). Soprano, teacher, choir director, b Aberdeen, Scotland, 3 May 1896, d Toronto 11 Aug 1978. She began musical studies with her father, a professional musician, and continued in London with Giovanni Celrici. The family moved to Toronto in 1908.

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    Dorothy Bee

    Dorothy (Williamina) Bee. Piano teacher, editor, bassist, b Lemberg, near Regina, 1 Nov 1910, d Regina 20 Sep 1986; ATCM 1928, LAB 1931. She studied piano 1928-31 with William M.

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    Dorothy Elsie Knowles

    An important exhibition of her work was organized by the Edmonton Art Gallery in 1983, followed by exhibitions at Canada House in London and Paris, the Chicago and Los Angeles art fairs, and n Vancouver in 1987.

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    Dorothy Howard

    Dorothy (Alice) Howard (née Phimister), mezzo-soprano, teacher (born 4 February 1929 in Winnipeg, MB; died 1 March 2013 in Winnipeg). 

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    Dorothy Sandler

    Dorothy Sandler (m Glick). Pianist, b Toronto 4 Jun 1937. She was a pupil of Boris Berlin, Albert Jaffy, and Alberto Guerrero in Toronto and of Giselle Couteau in Paris.

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    Dorothy Stevens

    Dorothy Stevens, portrait and figure painter (b at Toronto 2 Sept 1888; d there 5 June 1966). Entering the Slade School of Art, London, at age 15, she studied under Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks. She subsequently studied in Paris and travelled on the continent before returning to Canada.

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    Dorothy Swetnam

    Dorothy Swetnam (m Hare). Pianist, teacher, accompanist, examiner, adjudicator, b Glace Bay, NS, 27 Mar 1911, d Calgary 8 Jun 2002; B MUS (Mount Allison) l933. She studied with James Noel Brunton, a pupil of Godowsky, at Mount Allison University.

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