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Florence Davidson
Florence Edenshaw Davidson, Haida Elder, artist (born 15 September 1896 in Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC; died 13 December 1993 in Masset). Elder Florence Davidson was a renowned weaver and she made Haida baskets and button blankets (see also Northwest Coast Indigenous Art).
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Florence Easton
Florence (Gertrude) Easton. Soprano, b Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, Eng, 25 Oct 1882, d New York 13 Aug 1955, buried in Montreal. The Easton family moved to Toronto ca 1888, and the young Florence sang in the choir of Parkdale Methodist Church, where her father was choirmaster and her mother organist.
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Florence Lawrence
Florence Lawrence neé Florence Annie Bridgewood, actor (b at Hamilton, Ont 2 Jan 1886; d at Beverley Hills, Ca 28 Dec 1938). Florence Lawrence, on stage and touring with her mother since the age of 3, joined the Vitagraph Company at 21 years old when the touring company disbanded in 1907.
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Florence Wyle
Florence Wyle, sculptor (born 24 November 1881 in Trenton, Illinois; died 14 January 1968 in Newmarket, ON).
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Floyd Sherman Chalmers
Floyd Sherman Chalmers, CC, OOnt, journalist, editor, publisher, administrator, philanthropist (born 14 September 1898 in Chicago, IL; died 26 April 1993 in Toronto, ON).
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FM
FM. Toronto rock band. Experimental by nature and pioneering in its use of synthesizers, it was formed in 1976 as a duo by the performance artist 'Nash the Slash' (electric violin and mandolin) and the keyboard player Cameron Hawkins and made its debut at the Toronto gallery A Space.
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F.M. McLeod
F.M. (Francis Murray) or Ray McLeod. Bandmaster, b Grand Forks, near Nelson, BC, 27 Nov 1918. After training as a trumpeter with 'Tug' Wilson in Vancouver and playing in dance and radio orchestras, he joined the Canadian armed forces in 1941 and became a bandsman.
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Four the Moment
Four the Moment, was an a cappella quartet formed in 1981 in Halifax by Delvina and Kim Bernard, Jackie Barkley, and Deanna Sparks.
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Fox Battles Parkinson's Disease
The early symptoms can be minor and easy to ignore - a leg that drags when the victim is walking, an inexplicable difficulty fastening an earring or a voice that gradually weakens to a whisper. In the case of Canadian-born television and movie star Michael J.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 7, 1998
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France Daigle
France Daigle, Acadian author (born 18 November 1953 in Dieppe, a suburb of Moncton, New Brunswick), is the leading representative of postmodern Acadian literature.
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France Dion
(Marie Marguerite Aline) France Dion. Soprano, teacher, born Québec City 16 May 1929; died Boucherville 2 Jul 2011.
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Frances Bay
Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman), actor (born 23 January 1919 in Manville, Alberta; died 15 September 2011 in Los Angeles, California). Frances Bay began her career as a radio actor with the CBC. She studied with Uta Hagen and worked on stage for many years before beginning a Hollywood career when she was in her 50s. Primarily known for playing sweet older women in comedic roles, she amassed nearly 180 credits and was one of the most recognizable character actors of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. She won a Gemini Award in 1997 for a guest role in Road to Avonlea and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2008.
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Frances Brooke
Here she wrote what may be described as the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769), which she enriched with descriptions of landscape and climate, current events and inhabitants of the new colony.
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Frances Ginzer
Frances (Joan) Ginzer. Soprano, b Calgary 19 Sep 1955; B MUS (Calgary) 1976, M MUS (North Texas) 1979, Artist Diploma opera (Toronto) 1981. Her first public performances took place at seven when she sang 'Santa Lucia' on two Calgary children's TV programs.
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Frances Hyland
Invited to the STRATFORD FESTIVAL by Tyrone GUTHRIE to play Isabella opposite James Mason in Measure for Measure in 1954, Hyland returned to Stratford (1955, 1957-59, 1964-57) in a variety of roles including Perdita, Desdemona, and a "definitive" Ophelia opposite Christopher PLUMMER in 1957.
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