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Henri Bergeron
Henri Bergeron, media personality, author (b at Saint-Lupicien, Man 1925; d Montreal 10 Jul 2000). The son of a French Canadian farmer and railwayman and a pious and devoted woman from Cevennes, he was born in a very small pioneer house, and grew up in a family of 13 children.
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Henri Bohrer
Henri (b Heinrich) Bohrer. Pianist, teacher, b Paris 1829; d Victoria, BC, 1889. He was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner and settled in Montreal in 1877 as a music teacher.
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Henri Bourassa
Henri Bourassa, politician, journalist (born 1 Sept 1868 in Montreal; died 31 Aug 1952 in Montreal). Henri Bourassa was an important Canadian nationalist leader who supported Canada’s increased independence from the British Empire. Bourassa was also an advocate for French Canadian rights within Canada.
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Henri Brassard
Henri Brassard. Pianist, teacher, b St-Siméon, near Quebec City, 16 Jan 1950. He began his piano studies at the École Vincent-d'Indy with Lucille Brassard and continued 1960-8 with Yvonne Hubert.
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Henri de Tonty
Henri de Tonty, explorer, voyageur (b 1649 or 1650; d at Ft Louis-de-la-Louisiane Sept 1704). He was the son of Lorenzo de Tonty, inventor of the "tontine" system of life annuity.
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Henri Delcellier
(Joseph) Henri (Jean) Delcellier. Clarinetist, violinist, conductor, b Béziers, France, 21 Sep 1872, d Montreal 27 Dec 1967. He began clarinet lessons with his father, Joseph Delcellier, and studied violin and theory in Paris at the École Niedermeyer, from which he graduated with a diploma.
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Henri Gagnon
(Charles Édouard Gustave) Henri Gagnon. Organist, teacher, composer, b Quebec City 6 Mar 1887, d there 17 May 1961. He studied solfège and piano 1895-1900 with his father, Gustave, solfège and harmony 1900-3 with Joseph Vézina, and organ 1900-3 with William Reed.
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Henri Garrouteigt
(Jean-Joseph) Henri Garrouteigt. Gregorianist, b Paris 28 or 29 Oct 1875, d Montreal 28 Aug 1965. He joined the Sulpicians in 1893 in Issy and was ordained a priest in 1898 in Paris. He held a degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology.
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Henri Hébert
Henri Hébert, sculptor (b at Montréal 3 Apr 1884; d there 11 May 1950). The son of sculptor Louis-Philippe HÉBERT, he studied at the Monument national de Montréal under painter Edmond DYONNET and at the Art Association with William BRYMNER.
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Henri J. Breault
Henri Joseph Breault, medical doctor, anti-poisoning advocate (born 4 March 1909 in Tecumseh, ON; died 5 September 1983 in Exeter, ON). Breault is known for spearheading a national campaign to prevent accidental childhood poisonings. He advocated for the development of the Palm-N-Turn, a safety cap that drastically reduced child deaths due to poisoning in Canada and around the world.
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Henri K. Jordan
Henri K. (Kew) Jordan. Choir conductor, organist, manufacturer, b Seaforth, near Stratford, Ont, 30 Mar 1880, d Brantford, Ont, 27 Oct 1949; honorary D MUS (Toronto) 1938. He studied piano and organ at the Toronto College of Music under F.H.
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Henri Léopold Masson
Henri Léopold Masson, painter (b at Spy, Belgium 10 Jan 1907; d at Ottawa 9 Feb 1996). Largely self-taught, Masson combined his narrative abilities with a fluid GROUP OF SEVEN style. He lived in Ottawa from 1921 and began exhibiting nationally in 1938 and internationally in 1946.
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Henri Letondal
Henri Letondal. Critic, administrator, cellist, playwright, actor, b Montreal 29 Jun 1901, d Hollywood 15 Feb 1955. He studied the cello with Gustave Labelle. He was a man of wide interests and wrote many sketches and revues, including, on occasion, the music.
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Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand
Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand, sixth bishop of Québec (b at Vannes, France Jan 1708; d at Montréal 8 June 1760). Educated by the Jesuits and Sulpicians and appointed bishop of Québec in 1740, Pontbriand arrived in August 1741 determined to remedy the abuses of episcopal absenteeism.
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Henri Miro
Miro, Henri (Enrique). Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, critic, b Tarrega, Spain, 13 Nov 1879, d Montreal 19 Jul 1950. He studied music at the monastery of Montserrat in Catalonia with Padre Domingo de Guzman and worked in 1895 with Bienvenido Socias at the Barcelona Cons.
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