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    Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – 1887

    On 20 June 1887, Queen Victoria marked the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne. There were Golden Jubilee celebrations in the United Kingdom and the wider British Empire and Dominions, including Canada. The Golden Jubilee was the occasion of the first Colonial Conference, a forerunner of modern-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings.

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    Quenten Doolittle

    Quenten Doolittle, composer, violinist, violist, teacher, conductor (born 21 May 1925 in Elmira, New York).

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    Quentin Maclean

    Quentin Stuart Morvaren Maclean, organist, composer, teacher (born 14 May 1896 in London, England; died 9 July 1962 in Toronto, ON). 

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    Quest for Fire

    The film Quest for Fire (1982) begins with 3 warriors (Ron Perlman, Everett McGill and Nameer El-Kadi) of a primitive homo-sapien tribe who are sent out to find a source of fire (they don't know how to produce it) after their tribe's fire is extinguished during an attack by a group of marauding Neanderthals. 

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    R. Bruce Elder

    His Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness won the 1976 Canadian Film Award for best experimental film and his autobiographical The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979) was named Best Independent Experimental Film by the Los Angeles Critics Circle.

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    R. Harlan Smith

    R. (Robert) Harlan Smith. Singer, songwriter, record producer, b Central Butte, near Moose Jaw, Sask, 6 Nov 1939.

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    R. Murray Schafer

    Raymond Murray Schafer, composer, writer, educator (born 18 July 1933 in Sarnia, ON; died 14 August 2021).

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  • Macleans

    Rabin Assassinated

    "I have always believed that the majority of the people want peace, and are ready to take a risk for it," Yitzhak Rabin told a crowd of 100,000 at a peace rally last Saturday night in Tel Aviv. With those words, the Israeli prime minister wrote his own epitaph.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 13, 1995

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    Rabindranath Maharaj

    Rabindranath Maharaj, novelist and short-story writer (born at George Village, Trinidad and Tobago 1955).

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    Rabinovitch Named New CBC Boss

    It was a real eye-opener of a wake-up call - but Bob Rabinovitch isn't complaining. Two weeks ago, the Montreal native and his wife, Cecil, were on vacation in Hawaii when the telephone rang in their hotel room at 3 a.m.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 1, 1999

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    Royden Rabinowitch

    Royden Rabinowitch lives in Ghent, Belgium, and has had an exceptional exhibition record in Europe, including one-man shows at the Kunstmuseum, Bern (1990), and the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (1992).

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    Rachel Browne

    Browne danced with the RWB from 1957 until 1961, when she retired as a ballerina to care for her young family. She soon began to teach ballet classes at the Lhotka School of Ballet and to choreograph.

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    Rachel Cavalho

    Rachel Cavalho. Pianist, teacher, lecturer, b Queensland, Australia. She studied in England with Arthur Alexander, Louis Kentner, John Nowell, and Priaulx Rainier. She performed in concert and on radio in England and later in Canada.

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    Rachel Laurin

    Rachel Laurin. Organist, composer, teacher, b St-Benoît, near Montreal, 11 Aug 1961; premier prix musical dictation (CMM) 1981, premier prix organ (CMM) 1986.

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    Rachel Martel

    Rachel Martel. Pianist, teacher, b La Tuque, Que, 12 Mar 1939; premier prix piano (CMQ) 1959. She studied 1953-6 at the École supérieure de musique de Nicolet and 1956-9 at the CMQ with Guy Bourassa. In 1959 she obtained the Prix d'Europe and a Canada Council scholarship.

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