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    Neil Bissoondath

    Neil Devindra Bissoondath, novelist, short-story writer, essayist (b at Arima, Trinidad and Tobago 19 Apr 1955). He attended St Mary's College in Port of Spain before emigrating to Canada in 1973, when he became a student at York University (BA 1977).

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    Neil Chotem

    Neil Chotem. Pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, b Saskatoon, of Russian parents, 9 Sep 1920; d Greenfield Park, Que, 21 Feb 2008. In Saskatoon Neil Chotem began his piano studies at the Palmer School of Music at five and performed for the first time in public.

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    Neil Crone

    Crone taught high school drama and English while performing in Theatresports and Big City Improv. He accepted a spot in Toronto's famed Second City Touring Company and before long moved on to the prestigious Second City Mainstage.

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    Neil Harris

    Harris, Neil (Foster). Composer, arranger, conductor, critic, producer, b Young, southeast of Saskatoon, 21 Apr 1925, d Winnipeg 29 May 2000; BA (Saskatchewan) 1947, B ARCHITECT (Manitoba) 1968.

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    Neil Munro

    Neil Munro, actor, director, playwright (b at Musselburgh, Scotland 1 Jan 1947, d at London, Ont 13 July 2009). Neil Munro emigrated to Canada with his parents when he was 9 years old and enrolled in the NATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL in Montréal in 1964.

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    Neil Swainson

    Neil (James Sinclair) Swainson. Bassist, composer, b Victoria, BC, 15 Nov 1955. He studied briefly with Robert Meyer in Victoria but is largely self-taught.

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    Neil V. Rosenberg

    Neil V. (Vandraegen) Rosenberg. Folklorist, teacher, b Seattle, Wash, 21 Mar 1939; BA history (Oberlin College) 1961, MA folklore (Indiana) 1964, PH D folklore and history (Indiana) 1970.

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    Neil Young

    Neil (Percival) Young. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, harmonica player, b Toronto 12 Nov 1945; honorary D MUS (Lakehead) 1992.

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    Nell Shipman

    Nell (née Helen Barham) Shipman, screenwriter, actor, director, producer, author (born in Victoria, British Columbia on 25 Oct 1892; died in Cabazon, California on 23 Jan 1970). Nell Shipman's first starring role in a major film was in the silent movie God's Country and the Woman (1916), which was an overnight success. Starring roles in 10 other films, mostly for Vitagraph, were followed by a seven-year contract offer from Samuel Goldwyn in 1917.

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    Nellie Smith

    Nellie Smith. Contralto, b Skipton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, 1906, d Toronto 12 Jun 1958; LRAM. She began her career in England, singing in concert and on radio before moving to Canada in 1930.

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    Nelly Arcan

    Nelly Arcan, née Isabelle Fortier (born 5 March 1973 in Lac-Mégantic, QC; died 24 September 2009 in Montréal, QC) was a Québec novelist who specialized in autobiographical fiction. 

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    Nelson Symonds

    Nelson Frederick Symonds, jazz guitarist, composer (born 24 September 1933 in Upper Hammonds Plains, NS; died 11 October 2008.

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  • Macleans

    Newman Loses Co-hosting Job

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 18, 1999. Partner content is not updated. As the clock wound down on a Good Morning America broadcast last week, co-host Kevin Newman was promoting highlights for the ABC network show the next day. One was an interview with a former host of the program who now anchors occasional specials for ABC.

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    Nexus

    Toronto-based percussion ensemble formed in 1971 by the US-born musicians Robert Becker, William Cahn, Michael Craden, Robin Engelman, Russell Hartenberger, and John Wyre. In programs encompassing African drumming, ragtime, 20th-century works (much of it composed or arranged by the ensemble's members), and freely improvised music, the group has mastered the many percussion instruments of the world's major music traditions and introduced numerous instruments invented by its players.

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    Nicholas Campbell

    Nicholas Campbell starred in The Company Theatre's production of Through the Leaves in 2010 (photo by Guntar Kravis, courtesy The Company Theatre).Nicholas Campbell won a Gemini Award for his portrayal of Shorty McAdoo in The Englishman's Boy in 2008 (courtesy of Minds Eye Entertainment).Actor Nicholas Campbell became familiar to television viewers across Canada when he starred in the series Da Vinci's Inquest(courtesy Noble Caplan Abrams).PreviousNextNicholas Campbell  Nicholas Campbell, actor, director (born at Toronto 24 Mar...

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