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Stephen Codman
Stephen Codman. Organist, composer, teacher, b Norwich, England, ca 1796, d Quebec City 6 Oct 1852.
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Stephen Fearing
Stephen Fearing, singer, songwriter, guitarist (born 12 January 1963 in Vancouver, BC). Stephen Fearing is a singer-songwriter known for his poetic storytelling, rich vocals, skillful guitar playing and deft blending of folk, rock and country.
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Stephen Fentok
Stephen Fentok. Guitarist, teacher (born 6 November 1930 in Montréal, QC; died 25 February 2016 in Montréal, QC). Of Ukrainian origin, he began studying electric guitar at 14 at the Montreal YMCA. He eventually joined an amateur group where he developed an interest for jazz improvisation, a discipline he studied with Jimmy D'Abate in 1946.
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Stephen George Chatman
Chatman moved to Vancouver in 1976 to teach composition at the University of British Columbia, where in 1982 he was promoted to full professor. He is currently head of composition at the UBC School of Music.
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Stephen Kondaks
Stephen Kondaks. Violist, teacher, b Salonika, Greece, 15 Feb 1919, d Pointe Claire, Québec, 11 Oct 2005, naturalized Canadian 1920. He studied violin 1930-6 with Harold Sumberg at the TCM (RCMT) and 1936-8 with Sascha Jacobsen at the Juilliard School.
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Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC, humorist, author, academic (born 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, England; died 28 March 1944 in Toronto, ON). Stephen Leacock was the English-speaking world’s best-known humorist between 1915 and 1925. He was awarded the Mark Twain Medal for humour, the Royal Society of Canada’s Lorne Pierce Medal and the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Trained as an economist, historian and political scientist, he served as a professor in the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University from 1903 to 1936. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was established in his honour in 1947. He was designated a National Historic Person of Canada in 1968.
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Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is a silver medal awarded each year to the Canadian writer of the best book of humour. Since 1946 it has been offered by the Stephen Leacock Associates, based in Orillia, Ont.
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Stephen Marvin
Marvin, who holds dual citizenship, studied in the US with Joseph Silverstein (violin), Martha Katz (viola), and Eugene Lehner (chamber music), and was awarded a Tanglewood fellowship in 1973. He began his professional career as a violinist in the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he remained until 1977.
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Stephen McHattie
Stephen McHattie Smith, actor (born at Antigonish, NS 3 Feb 1947). Stephen McHattie grew up in Guysborough County, NS, and at age 16 began acting in local amateur plays. At 19 he moved to New York to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Stephen Reid
Stephen Reid, writer, bank robber (born 13 March 1950 in Massey, ON; died 13 June 2018 in Haida Gwaii, BC). Best known for his novel, Jackrabbit Parole (1986) and his collection of essays, A Crowbar in The Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison (2012), Stephen Reid was a founding member of the infamous Stopwatch Gang.
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Stephen Scobie
Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, professor, publisher (b at Carnoustie, Scot 31 Dec 1943). Typical of his 20 volumes of poetry are The Birken Tree (1973), The Rooms We Are (1974), A Grand Memory for Forgetting (1981) and Expecting Rain (1984), Remains (1990) and Slowly into Autumn (1995).
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Stephen Willis
Stephen (Charles) Willis. Archivist, musicologist, b Collingwood, Ont, 17 Dec 1946, d Ottawa 11 Sep 1994; AWCM piano 1965, BA (Western) 1969, MA (Columbia) 1971, M PHIL (Columbia) 1974, PH D (Columbia) 1975.
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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf, Los Angeles-based blues-rock band (flourished 1967-72) which had its genesis in the Toronto quintet Sparrow (flourished 1964-67), which included German-born singer John Kay (né Joachim Krauledat), drummer Jerry Edmonton (aka Mars Bonfire) and organist Goldy McJohn.
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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf. Hard-rock group. It had its origins in the Toronto blues band Sparrow, which was formed in 1964 and by 1965 comprised John Kay (vocals, harmonica and guitar), Dennis Edmonton (guitar), Goldy McJohn (organ, piano), Nick St Nicholas (bass guitar), and Jerry Edmonton (drums).
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