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Lou Snider
Lou (Louis) Snider (b Sniderman). Organist, pianist, composer, b Toronto 13 Jun 1918, d there 26 Jun 1982. At 10 he began playing piano at the B.F. Keith Theatre in Ottawa. In Toronto he made his radio debut in 1931 on CKCL and also played with the Mountaineers.
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Louis-Adélard Senécal
Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman, politician (b at Varennes, LC 10 July 1829; d at Montréal 11 Oct 1887).
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Louis-Adolphe Paquet
Louis-Adolphe Paquet, priest, theologian (b at St Nicolas, Canada E 4 Aug 1859; d at Québec C 24 Feb 1942).
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Louis-Amable Quévillon
Louis-Amable Quévillon, woodworker, sculptor, architect (b at St-Vincent-de-Paul [Laval, Qué] 14 Oct 1749; d there 11 Mar 1823). He began his career as a woodworker in St-Vincent-de-Paul in the early 1770s.
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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de Bougainville, soldier, sailor (born 12 November 1729 in Paris, France; died 20 August 1811).
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Louis Applebaum
Louis Applebaum, CC, OOnt, composer, conductor, administrator (born 3 April 1918 in Toronto, ON; died 20 April 2000 in Toronto). One of Canada’s most prodigious composers, Louis Applebaum wrote and conducted hundreds of scores for film, theatre, and radio and TV drama. His frequently commissioned concert pieces, ballets and fanfares were widely admired. In addition to his busy career as a composer, Applebaum’s administrative skills made him a consultant and administrator for such organizations as the National Film Board, the Canada Council for the Arts and the CBC. Applebaum established the music wing of the Stratford Festival in 1955. In 1965, he chaired a government-commissioned committee whose report led to the formation of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He was also the founding president of SOCAN. Applebaum was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976 and was promoted to Companion in 1995.
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Louis Archambault
Louis Archambault, OC, sculptor (born 4 April 1915 in Montréal, QC; died 27 January 2003 in Montréal, QC).
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Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron Lahontan
Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan, baron, officer, author (b at Lahontan, France 9 Jun 1666; d at Hanover 21 Apr 1716).
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Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer (born Eliezer Mayer), studio executive (born 12 July 1884 in Dymer, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]; died 29 October 1957 in Los Angeles, California). Louis B. Mayer was one of the first Hollywood movie moguls, and arguably the most powerful. After running a successful chain of movie theatres, Mayer founded his own production company in 1917. In 1924, it merged with two other companies to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Mayer served as head of MGM until 1951, presiding over the biggest and most prestigious studio of Hollywood’s golden age. He was also instrumental in creating the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which administers the Academy Awards.
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Louis Bailly
Louis Bailly. Violist, teacher, b Valenciennes, France, 13 Jun 1882, naturalized Canadian 1950, d Cowansville, near Sherbrooke, Que, 21 Nov 1974; premier prix (Paris Cons) 1899, honorary D MUS (Curtis) 1930. He studied violin and viola at the Paris Cons.
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Louis 'Pitou' Boudreault
Louis 'Pitou' Boudreault (or Boudreau), violoneux and raconteur (born 5 July 1905 in Chicoutimi, QC; died there 7 Jul 1988).
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Louis Bouhier
(Joseph Marie Emmanuel) Louis Bouhier. Teacher, choirmaster, b La Marne, France, 8 Nov 1867, d Magog, near Sherbrooke, Que, 22 Jun 1949. Ordained a priest 219 Jun 1893, he joined the Sulpicians. He studied in Nantes, in Paris, and at the Benedictine monastery in Solesmes.
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Boyd Neel
Louis Boyd Neel, OC, CBE, conductor, administrator, lecturer, writer, surgeon (born 19 July 1905 in Blackheath, London, England; died 30 September 1981 in Toronto, ON).
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Louis Caron
Louis Caron, journalist, writer (b at Sorel, Qué 21 July 1942). He quit his classical studies to try several trades before becoming a journalist 1960-76, with Radio-Canada, Le Nouveliste of Trois-Rivières and the Québec government. After 1976 he devoted himself to writing.
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