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    Lloyd Wolfe Bochner

    Lloyd Wolfe Bochner, actor (b at Toronto 29 July 1924; d at Santa Monica, Ca 29 Oct 2005). Lloyd Bochner worked both sides of the Canada/US border, performing on local radio since the age of 10.

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    L.N.F. Crozier

    Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier, soldier, policeman (b at Newry, Ire 11 June 1846; d in Oklahoma, US 25 Feb 1901). He was appointed an inspector in the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1873.

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    Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming

    Lois Isobel Birkenshaw-Fleming (née Sutherland), educator, author (born 8 October 1928 in Toronto, ON; died 11 March 2015 in Toronto). ARCT 1948, BA (Toronto) 1951.

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    Lois Choksy

    Lois (b Dowell) Choksy. Teacher, administrator, b Baltimore, Md, 30 Jun 1928, naturalized Canadian 1983; B SC music education (Peabody Cons) 1958, M SC music education (Wisconsin) 1962, Kodály certificate (Liszt Academy, Budapest) 1971, certificate in aesthetics (Massachusetts) 1972.

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    Lois Marshall

    During her late teenage years as a stenographer at the T. Eaton Company, Marshall made an unofficial debut as Princess Ida in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta mounted by that firm's opera society.

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    Lois Marshall

    Marshall won the coveted Naumburg Award in 1952 and made her New York debut 2 December at Town Hall. As a result of this recital Arturo Toscanini chose her to appear 28 Mar 1953 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis and in the subsequent recording.

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    Lois McDonall

    Lois Jeanette McDonall, CM, soprano, teacher (born 7 February 1939 in Larkspur, AB). Lois McDonall is best known for her work as a resident artist at the English National Opera (1969–84). She also made guest appearances with the Scottish and Welsh National Opera companies and at the Royal Opera House, as well as at summer festivals throughout Great Britain. She appeared in Canada with the Canadian Opera Company (COC), the Edmonton Opera, Opera Hamilton and Toronto Operetta Theatre, and taught at the University of Toronto and the RCMT. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2023.

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    Lois Miriam Wilson

    Lois Miriam Wilson, née Freeman, United Church minister (b at Winnipeg 8 Apr 1927). Ordained after 15 years as a homemaker, Wilson shared team ministries with her husband, Roy, successively in Thunder Bay, Hamilton and Kingston, Ontario.

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    Lois Smith

    Lois Smith married dancer David ADAMS in 1950 and both were invited by Celia Franca to join the newly founded NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA in 1951 as principal dancers.

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    Lola MacLaughlin

    Lola Elizabeth Harris MacLaughlin, choreographer, dancer (b at Oliver, BC 1 Mar 1952, d at Vancouver 6 March 2009). Founder and artistic director of Lola Dance, a Vancouver-based company that supports the production and distribution of her work, Lola MacLaughlin made dances that were meticulously constructed, balancing compelling stage images with closely detailed movement phrases.

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    Lola Lemire Tostevin

    Lola Lemire Tostevin, poet, novelist, essayist (b at Timmins, Ont 15 Jun 1937). The author of one novel and 5 books of poetry, she investigates in her work the relationship between language and female subjectivity. Tostevin is a bilingual writer whose first language is French.

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    Lola MacQuarrie

    Lola (Frances Lane) MacQuarrie (b Smith). Educator, writer, b Winnipeg 30 Dec 1909, d there 24 Jan 1966; B SC (Manitoba) 1931. She was steadily involved in Winnipeg musical life after 1920, notably in the 1940s as choir director at Daniel McIntyre High School.

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    Lolita Davidovich

    Lolita Davidovich, actor (born at London, Ont 15 July 1961). Lolita Davidovich, whose parents were immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, moved to Chicago where she attended acting workshops at Steppenwolf and Victory Garden Theatres.

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    Long John Baldry

    "Long" John (William) Baldry. Singer, guitarist, songwriter, b East Haddon, Eng., 12 Jan 1941, naturalized Canadian 1980, d Vancouver 21 Jul 2005.

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    A Place to Happen

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.It has been said that Canadians don’t tell our own stories or celebrate our own myths. Our history is full of epics considered “too small to be tragic,” as The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie once sang.

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