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    Robert England

    Robert England, teacher, railway administrator, civil servant (born 15 September 1894 in Portadown, Northern Ireland; died 14 June 1985 in Victoria, BC). England had a varied education and an even more varied career. However, his contributions to Canadian society were primarily in the fields of rural education, immigration and cultural pluralism, veterans’ rehabilitation and citizenship.

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    Robert-Falcon Ouellette

    Robert-Falcon Ouellette, musician, educator, anthropologist, parliamentarian, Armed Forces member, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper (born 22 November 1976 in Calgary, AB). Robert-Falcon Ouellette is a treaty member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation and was named the first Indigenous Knowledge Keeper for the Canadian Armed Forces in 2025.

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    Robert Farnon

    Robert Joseph Farnon, CM, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter (born 24 July 1917 in Toronto, ON; died 23 April 2005 in Guernsey, in the United Kingdom). He is considered one of the most influential film composers of his generation in Europe and North America. Farnon's compositions include the popular suite Canadian Impressions and Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (recorded by Steven Staryk) as well as more than 40 film scores. He won four British Novello awards (1956, 1960, 1972, 1991), a Grammy (1995) and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1997.

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    Robert Ferguson

    Robert Ferguson, businessman (b at Logierait, Scot 17 Apr 1768; d at Campbellton, NB 10 Aug 1851). He came to the RESTIGOUCHE RIVER in 1796 and was soon the most prominent merchant and largest landowner in the region.

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    Robert Ferguson Legget

    Robert Ferguson Legget, civil engineer (b at Liverpool, Eng 29 Sept 1904; died at Ottawa, Ont 17 Apr 1994).

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    Robert Finch

    Robert Duer Claydon Finch, poet, scholar (b at Freeport, Long Island, NY 14 May 1900; d at Toronto 11 June 1995). Robert Finch was educated at University College, University of Toronto, and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a professor of French at the University of Toronto for four decades, 1928-68.

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    Robert Fleming

    Robert James Berkeley Fleming, composer, educator (b at Prince Albert, Sask 12 Nov 1921; d at Ottawa 28 Nov 1976). 

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    Robert Fleming

    Though his music is recognizably of the 20th century, among his contemporaries Fleming was a moderate. His compositions are basically tonal and use traditional techniques, forms, and media in a personal way.

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    Robert Fleming Gourlay

    Robert Fleming Gourlay, polemicist, reformer (b at Craigrothie, Scot 24 Mar 1778; d at Edinburgh, Scot 1 Aug 1863). A successful farmer and writer who fell into financial difficulties, he came to UPPER CANADA in 1817 to take up land he owned in Dereham Township and to write an immigrant's guide.

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    Robert Ford

    Robert Arthur Douglas Ford, diplomat, poet (b at Ottawa 8 Jan 1915; d at Vichy, France 12 Apr 1998).

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    Robert Foulis

    Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer, painter (born 5 May 1796 in Glasgow, Scotland; died 26 January 1866 in Saint John, NB). Robert Foulis is known as the inventor of the world’s first steam-operated fog alarm, which was installed on Partridge Island in 1859. While Foulis never patented or even profited from his life-saving innovation, his invention assisted fogbound mariners for over a century.

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    Robert Friedland (Profile)

    The taxi pulls out of Atlanta Airport and heads towards town, past an unfinished Olympic stadium, past the headquarters of Coca-Cola Co. "You goin' to Buckhead where the rich people live," the cabbie observes.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 3, 1996

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    Robert Fulford

    Robert Marshall Blount Fulford, editor, essayist, critic (born 13 February 1932 in Ottawa, ON; died 15 October 2024 in Toronto, ON).

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    Robert George Ferguson

    Robert George Ferguson, physician (b at Joliette, ND 12 Sept 1883; d at Regina 1 Mar 1964). Ferguson studied arts, theology and medicine at the University of Manitoba and in 1917 became medical superintendent of the Saskatchewan Anti-tuberculosis League at Fort Qu'Appelle.

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    Robert Gill

    Robert Gill, theatre and opera director, teacher (b at Spokane, Wash 19 July 1911; d at Toronto 10 Aug 1974). He studied acting, production and singing at the Cleveland Playhouse on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship after taking a BA and MFA at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology.

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