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    Jean Bonhomme

    Jean (Robert Gérard Joseph) Bonhomme. Tenor, b Ottawa 14 Feb 1937, d there19 Jun l986; BA (Ottawa) 1957. He studied 1961-4 with Raoul Jobin privately and 1962-4 with George Lambert at the RCMT, winning the top vocal award in the 1964 CBC Talent Festival.

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    Jean Boyle (Profile)

    Jean Boyle is used to being the best. An athlete as a youth in Ottawa's largely francophone east end, he won a black belt in judo by the age of 20. As an officer cadet at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 15, 1996

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    Jean Cadieux

    Cadieux, Jean, legendary French Canadian VOYAGEUR of the 18th century who lived in the Ottawa River region. When his cabin was attacked by Indians, he sent his family down the rapids in his canoe and stayed behind to prevent pursuit.

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    Jean Carignan

    Jean “Ti-Jean” Carignan, CM, fiddler (born 7 December 1916 in Lévis, QC; died 16 February 1988 in Delson, QC). Jean Carignan was one of the greatest folk fiddlers of the 20th century and the leading exponent of the Celtic tradition in French Canadian fiddling.

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    Jean Carignan

    In his mid-teens Carignan joined George Wade and his Toronto oldtime band, the Cornhuskers. He played violin and occasionally clarinet and saxophone for about five years and participated in the Cornhuskers Victor recordings.

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    Jean Chalmers

    Jean (Alberta) Chalmers (b Boxall). Music patron, b Toronto 18 Aug 1899, d Toronto 8 Oct 1990.

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    Jean Chamberlain Froese

    Jean Chamberlain Froese, CM, MD, MEd, FRCSC, obstetrician, associate professor, international expert in women’s reproductive health (born 27 March 1965 in St. Thomas, ON). Chamberlain Froese is founding director of Save the Mothers and the founder and co-director of McMaster University’s International Women’s Health Program.

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    Jean-Charles Chapais

    Jean-Charles Chapais, senator, politician, businessman (born 2 December 1811 in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada; died 17 July 1885 in Ottawa, ON).

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    Jean-Charles Harvey

    Jean-Charles Harvey, journalist, writer, lecturer (b at La Malbaie, Qué 10 Nov 1891; d at Montréal 3 Jan 1967). A lively and outspoken thinker, Harvey was at the heart of almost every cultural, political and social debate of his time.

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    Jean Chatillon

    Jean Chatillon. Composer, theorist, teacher, administrator, b Nicolet 13 Sep 1937; B PED (Montreal) 1967, Teacher's Diploma (Montreal) 1967.

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    Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis

    Jean (John)-Chrysostome Brauneis (b Johann Chrysostomus). Bandmaster, teacher, composer, baptized Herrnsheim, near Worms 29 Mar 1785, d Quebec City 15 Sep 1832. He moved to Quebec City about 1813, as a musician with the 70th Foot Regiment British army band.

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    Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis II

    Jean (John) Chrysostome Brauneis II. Teacher, organist, composer, b Quebec City 26 Jan 1814, d Montreal 11 Aug 1871. He studied with his father, Jean (John)-Chrysostome I Brauneis, and was perhaps the first Canadian to study music in Europe 1830-3. 

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    Jean-Claude Germain

    Jean-Claude Germain, writer, theatre producer, artistic director, teacher, journalist, critic (born 18 June 1939 in Montreal, QC; died 24 April 2025 in Magog, QC). In 2001, Germain is made Chevalier of the Order of La Pléiade.

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    Jean-Claude Labrecque

    Jean-Claude Labrecque, filmmaker (born 19 June 1938 in Québec City, Québec). Labrecque has worked in the Québec and Canadian film industries for over 40 years and has won audience acclaim both for his remarkable documentary films and for his fiction films, which are often inspired by true events.

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    Jean-Claude Lauzon

    Jean-Claude Lauzon, director, screenwriter (born 29 September 1953 in Montréal, QC; died 10 August 1997 near Kuujjuag, QC). 

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