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    Marion Ironquil Meadmore

    Marion Ironquil Meadmore, CM, lawyer, newspaper editor, community activist, founder and co-founder of national and Prairie Indigenous organizations (born 11 July 1935 on the Peepeekisis reserve, SK; died 19 February 2025 in Winnipeg, MB). Marion Ironquil Meadmore was one of the first female Indigenous lawyers in Canada and helped create the National Indian Council, and co-founded the National Indigenous Council of Elders and the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada.

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    Marion Ross

    Marion Ross, MD, physician, military officer (born 10 July 1909 in Barrie, ON; died 31 August 2000 in Toronto, ON). Ross was one of the first female physicians commissioned into the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC). She was also one of the few to serve in a campaign, in her role as bacteriologist with No. 15 Canadian General Hospital in North Africa and Italy (see Canada and the Italian Campaign). After the Second World War, Ross was on the medical staff of Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital and taught at the University of Toronto.

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    Marion Woodman (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 13, 1996. Partner content is not updated. In the 17 years since she began popularizing the dream theories of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Woodman has become one of the biggest names in the continent's human potential circles.

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    Marius Benoist

    Marius Benoist. Conductor, choirmaster, composer, administrator, customs broker, b Ste-Anne-des-Chênes, near Winnipeg, 1 Oct 1896, d St-Boniface, Man, 13 Jan 1985. He studied piano and organ with Rodolphe Pépin in St-Boniface, and took courses at the Schola cantorum in Montreal.

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    Marius Cayouette

    Marius Cayouette. Organist, teacher, composer, b Ste-Justine, near Quebec City, 3 Nov 1904, d Quebec City 16 Mar 1985.

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    Marjan Mozetich

    Marjan Mozetich, composer, teacher (b at Gorizia, Italy 7 Jan 1948). Arriving in Canada in 1952, Mozetich took piano and theory lessons in Hamilton with Reginald Bedford. After graduation from the University of Toronto in 1972, he studied in Europe with Luciano Berio.

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    Marjan Mozetich

    Marjan Mozetich. Composer, teacher, b Gorizia, Italy, of Yugoslavian parents, 7 Jan 1948, naturalized Canadian 1957; ARCT piano 1971, B MUS (Toronto) 1972. His family moved to Canada in 1952.

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    Marjo

    Marjo, née Marjoléne Morin, singer, songwriter (b at Montréal, 2 Aug 1953). Best described as "une rockeuse," smokey-voiced Marjo is the most powerful woman in Québec rock. After brief stints as a secretary, model and actress, Marjo landed a small role in a musical revue and realized her calling.

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    Marjo

    Marjo (b Marjolène Morin). Singer, songwriter, b Montreal 2 Aug 1953. She was a model, fashion editor for the magazine Madame, and manager of L'Air du temps, a Montreal jazz bar, then a chorister in François Guy's musical comedies Tout chaud, tout show (1975), and L'Île en ville (1978).

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    Marjolaine Hébert

    ​Marjolaine Hébert, actor, O.C., C.O.Q. (born 13 April 1926 in Ottawa, Ontario; died 28 July 2014 in Longueuil, Québec). 

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    Marjorie Biggar

    Marjorie (May) Biggar. Mezzo-soprano, b Vancouver ca 1938; LRAM 1960, ARAM 1965. She studied with Scott Robertson in Vancouver, Jennie Tourel in Aspen, Colo, and Astra Desmond and Olive Groves at the RAM, London.

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    Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

    Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall, writer, poet (b at Gunnersbury, England, 14 Sep 1883; d at Vancouver, 19 Apr 1922). Born in England, Marjorie Pickthall immigrated to Canada with her family in 1889. They settled in Toronto, where Pickthall attended St.

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    Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

    Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, author (b at London, Eng 1901; d at Toronto 23 Nov 1986). Campbell's career as a writer of historical fiction reflects her affinity for the early Canadians, developed from childhood after her family immigrated to the Saskatchewan Qu'Appelle Valley in 1904.

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    Mark Anthony Jarman

    Mark Anthony Jarman, novelist, short story writer, travel writer (born 1955 in Edmonton, AB). 

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    Mark Arendz

    Mark Arendz, Paralympian, biathlon and cross-country skiing (born 3 March 1990 in Charlottetown, PEI). Arendz has won eight medals at the Paralympic Winter Games in biathlon and cross-country skiing, including a gold medal in the men’s 15 km standing biathlon at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang. He has also won eight medals at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Nordic Skiing World Championships and has had great success on the IPC World Cup circuit, including winning the 2013 World Cup Crystal Globe in para-biathlon.

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