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    Lyn Vernon

    Lyn Vernon. Mezzo-soprano (later dramatic soprano), conductor, teacher, b New Westminster, BC, 19 Aug 1944. She studied piano as a child, then 1962-3 and 1964-6 at the University of British Columbia with Barbara Custance, Kathryn Bailey, and Marshall Sumner. Her voice teacher there was Donald Brown.

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    Lynda Gaudreau

    Lynda Gaudreau, choreographer, artistic director, teacher, advisor (born at Sept- ëles, Qué). Lynda Gaudrea's academic background is in art history and philosophy from the University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal and Université de Québec à Montréal, and she trained in jazz and classical DANCE.

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    Lynda Lemay

    Lynda Lemay, singer-songwriter (born 25 July 1966 in Portneuf-Station, Québec). A Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of numerous Félix Awards as well as one Victoire de la musique award, Québec artist Lynda Lemay showcases French-language music across the French-speaking world.

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    Lyne Fortin

    Lyne Fortin. Soprano, b L'Islet-sur-Mer, Que, 28 Apr 1962; B MUS (Laval) 1985.

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    Lynn Coady

    Lynn Coady, writer, editor, playwright, journalist (born 24 January 1970 in Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton, NS). An acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Lynn Coady is an acute, often hilarious observer of the absurdities and indignities of everyday life in small town Canada.

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    Lynn Crawford

    Originally focused on fine dining, Lynn Crawford has come to be known, not just as a celebrity chef, but also for owning a Toronto restaurant that features a fixed menu and locally grown ingredients.

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    Lynn Johnston

    She has won many awards for her work, and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1992. Johnston is the first cartoonist to introduce a homosexual character in a mainstream Canadian comic strip (1993).

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    Lynn Whidden

    (Rose) Lynn Whidden. Ethnomusicologist, teacher, b Carnduff, Sask, 14 Jan 1946; BA (Manitoba) 1967, B MUS (Manitoba) 1969, M MUS (Minnesota) 1977, PH D (Montreal) 1987. She did graduate work in music, anthropology, and folklore.

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    Lynn Williams

    Lynn Williams, union leader (b at Springfield, Ont, 21 July 1924). A minister's son, he received a degree in economics from McMaster University and served in the Canadian Navy during WWII. In 1947 he took a job at a Toronto plant and joined the USWA.

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    Lynne Cohen

    Lynne Cohen, photographer, artist, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, teacher (born 3 July 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin; died 12 May 2014 in Montreal, QC). Award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen was perhaps best known for winning the inaugural $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2011. She also won the Canada Council for the Arts’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1991 and a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2005. Her work focuses on everyday interior spaces and how changes in lighting and framing alter how the viewer perceives these environments. She was also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa from 1974 to 2005.

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    Lynnwood Farnam

    (Walter) Lynnwood Farnam. Organist, teacher, b Sutton, southeast of Montreal, 13 Jan 1885, d New York 23 Nov 1930. He studied piano in Dunham, Que, and in 1900 was awarded the Lord Strathcona Scholarship, which paid three years' tuition at the RCM, London.

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    Lyric Arts Trio

    Lyric Arts Trio. Formed in 1964 by the soprano Mary Morrison, the flutist Robert Aitken, and Aitken's wife, the pianist Marion Ross.

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    Lyse Doucet

    Lyse Marie Doucet, CM, OBE (born 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick). Lyse Doucet is an award-winning Canadian journalist, news anchor, presenter and documentarian. She works as the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) chief international correspondent, as well as its senior presenter, working for both the radio and television services. Doucet anchors news programs for BBC World TV and World Service Radio. She frequently reports on major international events and interviews important world leaders. She is recognized for her commitment to journalistic integrity and for reporting on events that are often underreported in Western news media. The human cost of war is her driving preoccupation as a journalist. She has won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

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    Lyse Richer

    Lyse Richer. Teacher, administrator, b Montreal 11 Sep 1939; BA (Montreal) 1958, B MUS (Montreal) 1960, M MUS piano (École Vincent-d'Indy) 1961, L MUS (Montreal) 1969.

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    Ma Vie en cinemascope

    Ma Vie en cinemascope (2004) is a film about Alice Robitaille (known professionally as Alys ROBI), who was a radio and cabaret star from Québec during the 1930s and 1940s.

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