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    Lorand Fenyves

    Lorand Fenyves. Violinist, teacher, b Budapest 20 Feb 1918, naturalized Canadian 1971, d Switzerland 23 March 2004. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Oscar Studer, Jenö Hubay, Leo Weiner, Imre Waldbauer, and Zoltán Kodály.

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    Loreena McKennitt

    She took up the harp in 1984 and worked as a busker in Toronto before recording a debut album, Elemental (1985), through her own company, Quinlan Road Productions. Her vocal clarity, Celtic arrangements and pre-Raphaelite image were unique, and she soon attracted a small but devoted audience.

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    Loreena McKennitt

    An ethereal presence both visually and aurally, who transformed the harp into a pop-music instrument without subverting its natural tone, McKennitt studied piano in Winnipeg with Olga Friesen and voice with Elma Gislason, and performed in musicals and folk clubs.

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    Lorena Gale

    Lorena Gale, actor, playwright, activist (born 9 May 1958 in Montreal, QC; died 21 June 2009 in Vancouver, BC). Lorena Gale was an award-winning actor and playwright who achieved a strong body of work in Canadian theatre. Her acclaimed 1995 play Angélique tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman who was hanged in Montreal for arson in 1734. Gale spent a season with the Shaw Festival and served as artistic director of Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop. She also appeared in more than 130 films and television series. In 2009, the Union of BC Performers created the Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award in her honour.

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    Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado

    Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado, apocryphal navigator, adventurer (b in Spain; d 1625). In 1601 he submitted to King Philip III of Spain a document about his purported 1588 voyage through the NORTHWEST PASSAGE from east to west.

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    Loretta Todd

    Loretta Todd, documentary filmmaker, installation artist, essayist (born circa 1963 in Edmonton, AB). A central figure in what might be considered the second wave of Indigenous directors, Loretta Todd brings insight, discipline, resistance to sentimentality and a sense of adventurousness to her non-fiction films.

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    Lori-Ann Muenzer

    Lori-Ann Muenzer, cyclist (born 21 May 1966 in Toronto, ON). Lori-Ann Muenzer is one of Canada's most decorated cyclists, having won 13 national titles and 11 World Cup medals. At the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens, at the age of 38, she became the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal in cycling. She won the 2004 Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada’s female athlete of the year and has been inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Lori Fung

    Donna Lori Fung, gymnast (b at Vancouver 21 Feb 1963). Lori Fung excelled in a sport that at the time was virtually unheard of in Canada's sporting world. She began serious competition at age 21 and soon rose to the top of the ranks.

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    Lorie Kane

    Judith Lorie Kane, CM, golfer (born 19 December 1964 in Charlottetown, PEI). A four-time winner on the Ladies Professional Golfing Association (LPGA) Tour, Lorie Kane is tied with Sandra Post for the most LPGA wins by a Canadian golfer in a calendar year, with three. Kane is a two-time winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award (1997, 2000) as Canada’s best female athlete and a Member of the Order of Canada. She has been inducted into the Prince Edward Island Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. 

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    Lorie Kane (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 3, 1998. Partner content is not updated. It's Friday night at the Javelina Cantina, a Tex-Mex saloon in Tucson, Ariz., and the standing-room-only crowd is ringing in the weekend with pitchers of beer and all-you-can-eat fajitas. Fresh off the golf course, Nancy Lopez and Lorie Kane fit right in.

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    Loring Woart Bailey

    Loring Woart Bailey, geologist, educator (b at West Point, NY 28 Sept 1839; d at Fredericton 10 Jan 1925). Son of a professor at the US Military Academy, Bailey was educated at Harvard and Brown and knew many important scientists.

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    Loris Shano Russell

    Loris Shano Russell, palaeontologist (born 21 April 1904 in Brooklyn, New York; died 6 July 1998 in Toronto, ON). Over the course of his career, Russell served as a palaeontologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, as professor of geology at the University of Toronto, and in various roles at the National Museums of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum. Russell was among the first to suggest that dinosaurs might have been warm-blooded, his most significant contribution to the field of palaeontology.

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    Lorna Crozier

    Lorna Crozier's first 2 books, Inside Is the Sky (1976) and Crow's Black Joy (1978), investigate conditions of the divided self and explore the power politics of male-female relations.

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    Lorne Albert Pierce

    Lorne Albert Pierce, publisher, editor, writer (b at Delta, Ont 3 Aug 1890: d at Toronto 27 Nov 1961). Editor in chief of RYERSON PRESS 1922-60, Pierce championed Canadian writers and writing for over 40 years.

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    Lorne Betts

    Lorne (Matheson) Betts. Composer, critic, organist-choirmaster, b Winnipeg 2 Aug 1918, d Hamilton, Ont, 5 Aug 1985; ACCO 1940, LRSM 1941, honorary FRHCM 1968. After piano, organ, voice, and theory tuition in Winnipeg with Filmer Hubble, W.H.

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