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    Jan Overduin

    Jan (Garrit) Overduin. Organist, b Franeker, Holland, 12 May 1943, naturalized Canadian 1962; ARCT 1961, FRCCO 1963, BA (U Western Ont) 1964, FTCL 1966, Associate American Guild of Organists 1967, MA (Waterloo) 1969, M MUS (U Western Ont) 1979.

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    Jan Rubes

    Rubes decided to expand his musical possibilities and immigrated to Canada on 31 December 1948.

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    Jan Rubes

    In 1948 Rubeš emigrated to Canada and gave his first Canadian performance as Betto in Gianni Schicchi with the Royal Conservatory Opera (University of Toronto Opera Division).

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    Jan Simons

    Jan Simons. Baritone, teacher, administrator, b Düsseldorf, Germany, 11 Nov 1925, naturalized Canadian 1944 - d Montreal 7 May 2006.

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    Jan Zwicky

    Jan Zwicky, poet, philosopher, essayist, musician, teacher (born 10 May 1955 in Calgary, AB). 

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    Jane Ash Poitras

    Jane Ash Poitras, painter, printmaker, writer (b at Fort Chipewyan, Alta 1951).

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    Jane Bunnett

    Maryjane Bunnett, "Jane," jazz musician (b at Toronto 22 Oct 1955). Jane Bunnett studied for a career as a classical pianist before turning at 20 to jazz and to flute and soprano saxophone.

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    Jane Coop

    Jane Austin Coop, pianist, teacher (b at Saint John, NB 18 Apr 1950).

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    Jane Coop

    Jane (Austin) Coop. Pianist, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 18 Apr 1950; Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1971, B MUS (Toronto) 1972, M MUS (Peabody Conservatory) 1974. She grew up in Calgary (from 1952) and studied there with Alexandra Munn and Gladys Egbert.

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    Jane Fair

    Jane Fair. Saxophonist, composer, teacher, b Guelph, Ont, 24 July 1948; BA (McGill) 1970. One of the first Canadian women to play jazz, Fair worked in dance bands in Barrie, Ont, before moving to Montreal in 1966 to study French literature at McGill University.

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    Jane Jacobs

    Jane Isabel Jacobs (née Butzner), OC, OOnT, author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist and philosopher (born 4 May 1916 in Scranton, PA; died 25 April 2006 in Toronto, ON). Jacobs earned renown for her books, beginning with The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). In her writings Jacobs employed innovative expository techniques, including dialogues, to explain how economies and cities function and to analyze the conditions that permit them to thrive.

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    Jane Leslie MacKenzie

    Jane Leslie MacKenzie. Soprano, b Revelstoke, BC, 15 May 1956; B MUS (Victoria) 1978. A pupil of Frances James, she went to England in 1978 to study with Morag Noble at Trinity College, London.

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    Jane Mallett

    Jane Mallett, actor-comedian (b Jean Dawson Keenleyside at London, Ont. 1899; d at Toronto, Ont. 14 April 1984). Raised in Regina, Sask., Mallett was an undergraduate at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and performing as Miss J. D.

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    Jane Siberry

    A self-financed debut LP in the contemporary folk style, Jane Siberry (1980-1, Street SR-002), was followed 1984-9 by four 'pop-art' albums for Duke Street Records: No Borders Here (DSR-31006), The Speckless Sky (DSR-31019), The Walking (DSR-31040), and Bound by the Beauty (DSR-31058).

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    Jane Urquhart

    Jane Urquhart's skilful evocation of historical setting is also apparent in her novels. Her first, The Whirlpool (1986), set in Niagara Falls in the late 1890s, examines the convergence of art and life.

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