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    Mimi Kuzyk

    Mimi Kuzyk, actor (born at Winnipeg 21 Feb 1952). Mimi Kuzyk was a child performer with the Winnipeg Ukrainian dance ensemble Rusalka and briefly studied at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. In 1977 she moved to Toronto and began her career as a professional actor.

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    Mimi Parent

    Mimi Parent, surrealist artist (b at Montréal 1924; d at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 14 June 2005). She was a student of Alfred PELLAN at the École des Beaux-arts de Montréal, from which she was eventually expelled in 1947 for being undisciplined.

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    Min Sook Lee

    Min Sook Lee, filmmaker, activist (born 1969 in South Korea). Min Sook Lee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and social justice advocate. She has directed numerous critically acclaimed films, including the Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature winner Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (2005), the Gemini Award-winning Tiger Spirit (2008), and the Canadian Screen Award-winning The Real Inglorious Bastards (2012). Lee is also an associate professor at OCAD University and ran unsuccessfully as an NDP candidate in the 2019 federal election. In 2025, the Museum of Toronto named her one of 52 women who shaped the city. This article was created in collaboration with Museum of Toronto.

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    Mina Benson Hubbard

    Mina Benson Hubbard (née Mina Benson, also Mina Benson Hubbard Ellis), explorer, geographer, author, nurse, teacher (born 15 April 1870 near Bewdley, ON; died 4 May 1956 in the County of Surrey, England). After her husband died while exploring the interior of Labrador, Mina Benson Hubbard embarked on an expedition to complete his work. She completed the nine-week canoe journey through at least 900 km of Labrador in 1905. Hubbard was one of the first non-Indigenous people to travel extensively in the area. Using measurements and notes taken during her trip, she developed some of the first maps of the region.

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    Mina Benson Hubbard's Labrador Expedition

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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    Mina Shum (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on July 31, 1995. Partner content is not updated. Both the star of Double Happiness and its writer-director have lived through such auditions in real life. Sandra Oh, 24, and Mina Shum, 29, both grew up in Canada. But, as struggling actors of Asian descent, they became all-too-familiar with the rituals of ethnic casting.

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    Minda Bronfman de Gunzburg

    Aileen Mindel (Minda) Bronfman de Gunzburg, philanthropist (born 4 March 1925 in Montreal, QC; died 1 July 1985 in Paris, France).

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    Minute Opera/Opéra Minute

    Minute Opera/Opéra Minute. A chamber opera company founded in Montreal in 1949 by Francis Coleman (music director), Noël Gauvin (director), Jean-Paul Jeannotte (adviser), and Gilles Potvin (administrator).

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    Mireille Dansereau

    Mireille Dansereau, filmmaker (b at Montréal 19 Sept 1943). Dansereau directed the first dramatic feature film made by a woman in Québec, La Vie rêvée (1972). After studying at Université de

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    Mireille Lagacé

    Mireille Lagacé (nee Bégin), organist, harpsichordist, teacher (b at St-Jérôme, Qué, 8 Jun 1935). Lagacé studied in Montréal with Germaine Malépart (piano), Conrad Letendre (organ), and Gabriel Cusson (theory).

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    Mireille Lagacé

    Mireille (b Bégin) Lagacé. Organist, harpsichordist, teacher, b St-Jérôme, Que, 8 Jun 1935. She studied in Montreal with Germaine Malépart (piano), Conrad Letendre (organ), and Gabriel Cusson (theory).

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    Miriam Mandel

    Miriam Mandel, née Minovitch, poet (b at Rockglen, Sask 1930; d at Edmonton 13 Feb 1982). An English graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, Mandel began writing poetry in her late 30s, shortly after her 20-year marriage with author Eli MANDEL dissolved.

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    Miriam Rossi

    Miriam Frances Rossi (née Senhouse), FRCPC, nutritionist, pediatrician, Black health-care advocate (born 31 January 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts; died 11 July 2018 in Toronto, ON). Through her work as a physician and university educator, Rossi co-founded numerous organizations advocating for diversity in health-care education.

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    Miriam Toews

    Miriam Toews, writer (born at Steinbach, Man 1964). Miriam Toews grew up in the MENNONITE town of STEINBACH, Manitoba. She provides a detailed description of life in this isolated, conservative religious community, and its impact on her family, in Swing Low: A Life (2000).

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    Miriam Waddington

    Miriam Waddington, née Dworkin, poet, essayist (b at Winnipeg, Man 3 Dec 1917; d at Vancouver 3 Mar 2004). Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, she was raised in Winnipeg and Ottawa and attended the Universities of Toronto (BA 1939; MA 1968) and Pennsylvania (MSW 1945).

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