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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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    Lyric Arts Trio

    Lyric Arts Trio. Formed in 1964 by the soprano Mary Morrison, the flutist Robert Aitken, and Aitken's wife, the pianist Marion Ross.

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    Lyse Doucet

    Lyse Marie Doucet, CM, OBE (born 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick). Lyse Doucet is an award-winning Canadian journalist, news anchor, presenter and documentarian. She works as the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) chief international correspondent, as well as its senior presenter, working for both the radio and television services. Doucet anchors news programs for BBC World TV and World Service Radio. She frequently reports on major international events and interviews important world leaders. She is recognized for her commitment to journalistic integrity and for reporting on events that are often underreported in Western news media. The human cost of war is her driving preoccupation as a journalist. She has won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

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    Lyse Richer

    Lyse Richer. Teacher, administrator, b Montreal 11 Sep 1939; BA (Montreal) 1958, B MUS (Montreal) 1960, M MUS piano (École Vincent-d'Indy) 1961, L MUS (Montreal) 1969.

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    Ma Vie en cinemascope

    Ma Vie en cinemascope (2004) is a film about Alice Robitaille (known professionally as Alys ROBI), who was a radio and cabaret star from Québec during the 1930s and 1940s.

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    Mabel Beddoe

    Mabel (Beatrice) Beddoe. Contralto, b Hamilton, Ont, 18 Aug 1880, d New York 15 Feb 1959. Her father, Thomas Davis Beddoe (1853-1933), was known as an amateur tenor in Toronto.

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    Mabel Timlin

    Mabel Frances Timlin, OC, FRSC, economist, professor (born 6 December 1891 in Forest Junction, Wisconsin; died 19 September 1976 in Saskatoon, SK). Timlin was an influential economist best known for her interpretation of Keynesian economics. Although she became a professor relatively late in her career, Timlin achieved a series of firsts as a Canadian woman in her field. She remained at the University of Saskatchewan throughout her career.

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    Mabel Hubbard Bell

    Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell, aeronautics financier, community leader, social reformer and advocate for the deaf (born 25 November 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; died 3 January 1923 in Chevy Chase, Maryland). Bell actively supported and contributed to the work of her husband, inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Her financial investment in his work made her the first financier of the aviation industry in North America. She was a community leader in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, where the Bell family spent their summers. She was also a social reformer and supported innovation in education. Click here for definitions of key terms used in this article.

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    Mabel Lockerby

    ​Mabel Lockerby, painter (born 13 March 1882 in Montréal, QC; died 1 May 1976 in Montréal). 

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    Mac Beattie

    John McNab "Mac" Beattie, singer, songwriter (born 21 December 1916 in Arnprior, ON; died 14 June 1982 in Arnprior).

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    M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant)

    Marion Alice Coburn Farrant (M.A.C. Farrant), writer (born at Sydney Australia, 5 April 1947). M.A.C. Farrant was raised in Victoria, BC and studied at the UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA and SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. She describes herself as an "anthropologist of the absurd.

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