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    Leonard Ratzlaff

    Leonard Ratzlaff. Bass-baritone, conductor, teacher, administrator, b Swalwell, Alta, 27 Jan 1949; B Church MUS (Mennonite Brethren Bible College) 1970, BA (University of Winnipeg) 1971, MA (University of Iowa) 1980, DMA (Iowa) 1985.

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    Leonard Walter Brockington

    Leonard Walter Brockington, first chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (b at Cardiff, Wales 6 Apr 1888; d at Toronto 15 Sept 1966). 

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    Leonard Warren Murray

    Leonard Warren Murray, naval officer (b at Granton, NS 22 June 1896; d at Derbyshire, Eng 25 Nov 1971). Murray joined the navy in 1911, served in WWI and by 1939 was deputy chief of the naval staff.

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    Leonard Wilson

    Leonard Wilson. Organist-choirmaster, composer, lecturer, writer, b near Manchester 1911, d Vancouver 22 Apr 1963; LTCL 1929, honorary FTCL 1947. Though his family emigrated to Vancouver when he was 9, Wilson returned to England at 18 for five years of study at the TCL and the RSCM.

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    Leone Norwood Farrell

    Leone Norwood Farrell, biochemist and microbiologist (born 13 April 1904 in Monkland, Ontario; died 24 September 1986 in Toronto). Farrell was a pioneer in the development of vaccines. Most notably, her “Toronto Method” made possible the large-scale production of the Salk polio vaccine in the early 1950s. Farrell’s polio vaccine work followed innovations in the production of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, as well as penicillin.

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    Leonora Howard King

    Leonora Howard King, physician, missionary (born 17 March 1851 in Lansdowne, Canada West; died 30 June 1925 in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, China). King was a pioneering Canadian physician and medical missionary, widely recognized as the first Canadian doctor to work in China. A recipient of the Order of the Double Dragon, King was likely the very first Western woman to become a Qing Dynasty mandarin.

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    Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky

    Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky (b at Zhitomir 1872; d at Moscow 17 December 1916), a theatre personality in Russia, participated in the settlement of Western Canada by taking charge of the 1898-99 emigration of DOUKHOBORS, in place of the imprisoned leader Peter Vasilevich VERIGIN.

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    Léopold L. Foulem

    ​Léopold L. Foulem, ceramist, writer, teacher (born 4 April 1945 in Bathurst, New Brunswick). Léopold Foulem is one of the leading conceptual ceramists in the world. He has been active for over 50 years and his work has been featured in over 40 solo exhibitions.

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    Léopold Simoneau

    On various occasions (the last being in 1970), Simoneau sang with his wife, Pierrette ALARIE. He recorded all the major Mozart tenor roles, notably Così fan tutte with Herbert von Karajan.

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    Léopold Simoneau

    Simoneau's career took on an international dimension in 1949 when he made his Paris debut at the Opéra-Comique in Gounod's Mireille.

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    Lépine Massacre Ten Years After

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 6, 1999. Partner content is not updated. The nightmares that haunted Heidi Rathjen for such a long time seem to have disappeared. For years, she snapped awake at night, tormented by remembered sounds of screams, shouts and the popping of an assault rifle.

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    Leroy Little Bear

    Leroy Robert Little Bear, OC, AOE, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) educator, lawyer, advocate, speaker, author, political activist (born c. 1943 at Blood Indian Reserve, AB). Leroy Little Bear has advised the United Nations, many First Nations and the federal and provincial governments on matters related to the constitution, Indigenous Title, justice and the restoration of the buffalo.

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    Les Allen

    Les or Leslie Allen. Singer, saxophonist, actor, b London 29 Aug 1902, d Toronto 25 Jun 1996. He was brought to Canada as an infant and played clarinet as a boy alongside his father in the Queen's Own Rifles Band.

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    Les Amateurs Typographes

    Sometime in the late 1830s, members of the Union typographique de Québec founded a theatre company called Les Amateurs Typographes. Under the direction of Aimé-Nicolas dit Napoléon Aubin, the company remained in existence until 1876.

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    Les Amis de l'art

    Les Amis de l'art. A non-profit society founded in Montreal in 1942 by Mesdames Aline Hector Perrier and J.-E. Perrault with the dual aim of facilitating students' access to the arts and encouraging young talent.

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