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    Mabel Beddoe

    Mabel (Beatrice) Beddoe. Contralto, b Hamilton, Ont, 18 Aug 1880, d New York 15 Feb 1959. Her father, Thomas Davis Beddoe (1853-1933), was known as an amateur tenor in Toronto.

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    Mabel Timlin

    Mabel Frances Timlin, OC, FRSC, economist, professor (born 6 December 1891 in Forest Junction, Wisconsin; died 19 September 1976 in Saskatoon, SK). Timlin was an influential economist best known for her interpretation of Keynesian economics. Although she became a professor relatively late in her career, Timlin achieved a series of firsts as a Canadian woman in her field. She remained at the University of Saskatchewan throughout her career.

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    Mabel Hubbard Bell

    Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell, aeronautics financier, community leader, social reformer and advocate for the deaf (born 25 November 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; died 3 January 1923 in Chevy Chase, Maryland). Bell actively supported and contributed to the work of her husband, inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Her financial investment in his work made her the first financier of the aviation industry in North America. She was a community leader in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, where the Bell family spent their summers. She was also a social reformer and supported innovation in education. Click here for definitions of key terms used in this article.

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    Mabel Lockerby

    ​Mabel Lockerby, painter (born 13 March 1882 in Montréal, QC; died 1 May 1976 in Montréal). 

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    Mac Beattie

    John McNab "Mac" Beattie, singer, songwriter (born 21 December 1916 in Arnprior, ON; died 14 June 1982 in Arnprior).

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    M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant)

    Marion Alice Coburn Farrant (M.A.C. Farrant), writer (born at Sydney Australia, 5 April 1947). M.A.C. Farrant was raised in Victoria, BC and studied at the UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA and SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. She describes herself as an "anthropologist of the absurd.

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    Rodney Joseph MacDonald

    Rodney MacDonald's political career began in 1999 when he secured the Progressive Conservative nomination in his home riding of Inverness. In the previous election, PC candidate Randy MacDonald had run a poor third behind Liberal victor Charles MacDonald.

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    Ronald St. John Macdonald

    Ronald St. John Macdonald, international jurist, teacher, (born at Montréal 20 Aug 1928; died at Halifax 7 Sept 2006). He was educated at St Francis Xavier U (BA, 1949), Dalhousie (LLB, 1952), London and Harvard (LLM, 1954-55).

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    Macedonian Music in Canada

    Balkan nation conquered and divided by Rome in 168 BC, ruled by various countries in the ensuing centuries but surviving as a region and a culture with a language predominatly Slavic. It was partitioned in 1913 by Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia (now Serbian Yugoslavia).

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    Macedonian Canadians

    The Republic of Macedonia is located on the Balkan Peninsula in south eastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia and Kosovo to the north, Albania on the west, Greece to the south, and Bulgaria is located on Macedonia's eastern border.

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    Inuvialuit

    Inuvialuit originally occupied the western Canadian arctic coast from Barter Island in the west to Cape Bathurst in the east, as well as the northern portion of the Mackenzie River Delta. Numbering about 2000 during the 19th century, they formed the densest Inuit population in arctic Canada.

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    Mackenzie King and the War Effort

    Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King guided the country through six painful years of conflict, oversaw a massive war effort and made surprisingly few errors in a period of tremendous turmoil, change and anguish.

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  • Editorial

    Mackenzie King: The Alchemist

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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    William Lyon Mackenzie

    William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist, politician (born 12 March 1795 in Dundee, Scotland; died 28 August 1861 in Toronto, ON). A journalist, Member of the Legislative Assembly, first mayor of Toronto and a leader of the Rebellions of 1837, Mackenzie was a central figure in pre-Confederation political life. His grandson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, was Canada’s longest-serving prime minister.

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  • Macleans

    Maclean's 1995 Honor Roll

    Still, there is nothing ordinary about the lives and contributions of the 1995 Honor Roll members.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 18, 1995

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