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    Lydia Boucher

    Lydia (Sister Marie-Thérèse) Boucher. Teacher, composer, b St-Ambroise-de-Kildare, near Montreal, 28 Feb 1890, d Montreal 5 Mar 1971; lauréat (AMQ) 1914, diplôme académique (AMQ) 1916, B MUS (Montreal) 1931. She joined the Soeurs de Ste-Anne in 1907 and took her vows in 1909.

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    Lydia Campbell

    Lydia Campbell (née Brooks, formerly Lydia Blake, known commonly as “Aunt Lydia”), matriarch, writer (born 1 November 1818 at Hamilton Inlet, Newfoundland Colony; died 29 April 1905 in Mulligan, Newfoundland Colony). Campbell was an Anglo-Inuit matriarch in Labrador. She was the first person from Nunatsiavut to publish her writing. Her “Sketches of Labrador Life,” first published in 1894-95, is a rare autobiography detailing life in 19th-century Labrador. Campbell’s writing recounted the role of women in the period of early European colonization of the area.

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    Lyell Gustin

    Lyell (Adams Raphael) Gustin. Pianist, teacher, b Fitch Bay, near Sherbrooke, Que, 31 May 1895, d Saskatoon 7 Feb 1988; honorary LL D (Saskatchewan) 1969, honorary FTCL 1978. After studies at Stanstead Wesleyan College, Stanstead, Que, he moved to Saskatoon in 1912.

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    Lyn Vernon

    Lyn Vernon. Mezzo-soprano (later dramatic soprano), conductor, teacher, b New Westminster, BC, 19 Aug 1944. She studied piano as a child, then 1962-3 and 1964-6 at the University of British Columbia with Barbara Custance, Kathryn Bailey, and Marshall Sumner. Her voice teacher there was Donald Brown.

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    Lynda Gaudreau

    Lynda Gaudreau, choreographer, artistic director, teacher, advisor (born at Sept- ëles, Qué). Lynda Gaudrea's academic background is in art history and philosophy from the University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal and Université de Québec à Montréal, and she trained in jazz and classical DANCE.

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    Lynda Lemay

    Lynda Lemay, singer-songwriter (born 25 July 1966 in Portneuf-Station, Québec). A Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of numerous Félix Awards as well as one Victoire de la musique award, Québec artist Lynda Lemay showcases French-language music across the French-speaking world.

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    Lyne Fortin

    Lyne Fortin. Soprano, b L'Islet-sur-Mer, Que, 28 Apr 1962; B MUS (Laval) 1985.

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    Lynn Coady

    Lynn Coady, writer, editor, playwright, journalist (born 24 January 1970 in Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton, NS). An acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Lynn Coady is an acute, often hilarious observer of the absurdities and indignities of everyday life in small town Canada.

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    Lynn Crawford

    Originally focused on fine dining, Lynn Crawford has come to be known, not just as a celebrity chef, but also for owning a Toronto restaurant that features a fixed menu and locally grown ingredients.

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    Lynn Johnston

    She has won many awards for her work, and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1992. Johnston is the first cartoonist to introduce a homosexual character in a mainstream Canadian comic strip (1993).

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    Lynn Whidden

    (Rose) Lynn Whidden. Ethnomusicologist, teacher, b Carnduff, Sask, 14 Jan 1946; BA (Manitoba) 1967, B MUS (Manitoba) 1969, M MUS (Minnesota) 1977, PH D (Montreal) 1987. She did graduate work in music, anthropology, and folklore.

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    Lynn Williams

    Lynn Russell Williams, OC, union leader (born 21 July 1924 in Springfield, ON; died 5 May 2014 in Toronto, ON). In 2005 Lynn Williams was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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    Lynne Cohen

    Lynne Cohen, photographer, artist, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, teacher (born 3 July 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin; died 12 May 2014 in Montreal, QC). Award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen was perhaps best known for winning the inaugural $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2011. She also won the Canada Council for the Arts’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1991 and a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2005. Her work focuses on everyday interior spaces and how changes in lighting and framing alter how the viewer perceives these environments. She was also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa from 1974 to 2005.

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    Lynnwood Farnam

    (Walter) Lynnwood Farnam. Organist, teacher, b Sutton, southeast of Montreal, 13 Jan 1885, d New York 23 Nov 1930. He studied piano in Dunham, Que, and in 1900 was awarded the Lord Strathcona Scholarship, which paid three years' tuition at the RCM, London.

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    Lynton R. Wilson

    Lynton Ronald (Red) Wilson, OC, Canadian foreign service officer, public servant, businessperson (born 3 April 1940 in Port Colborne, ON; died 9 February 2026). In various professional capacities, Lynton Wilson worked in the public and private sectors, including government and Canadian and multinational companies like BCE Ltd. A generous philanthropist, Wilson was chancellor emeritus of McMaster University. He was a founding co-chairman of the Historica Foundation of Canada (now Historica Canada) and continued to serve as a member of Historica Canada’s board of directors until his passing.

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