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    Roger Doucet

    Roger Doucet. Tenor, b Montreal 21 Apr 1919, d there 19 Jul 1981. As a boy, he sang at the Immaculée-Conception Church. The choir director, Émile Fontaine, gave him his first music lessons 1929-33 at the École St-François-Xavier.

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    Roger Filiatrault

    Roger Filiatrault. Baritone, teacher, choir conductor, b Montreal 5 Feb 1905, d Lesage, near Montreal, 27 Apr 1973; premier prix voice (Brussels Royal Cons) 1928. He studied piano and violin before taking voice lessons from Salvator Issaurel.

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    Roger Frappier

    Roger Frappier left the NFB in 1986 and founded Max Films with Pierre Gendron, producing Jean-Claude LAUZON's Un Zoo La Nuit in 1987; it won a record 13 Genie Awards.

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    Roger Gosselin

    Roger Gosselin. Bass, director, administrator, b Drummondville, Que, 4 Mar 1919. At St-Frédéric College, Drummondville, he studied violin, trumpet, and french horn 1924-34.

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    Roger Jackson

    Roger Charles Jackson, OC, AOE, rower, doctor, administrator (born 14 January 1942 in Toronto, ON). Roger Jackson and George Hungerford came out of nowhere to win the gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1964 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo. Having been cut from Canada’s rowing eights crew, they became known as the “Golden Rejects.” They were the only Canadian athletes to win gold in Tokyo that year. They received the 1964 Lou Marsh Trophy (now the Northern Star Award) as Canada’s athletes of the year. Jackson also competed in rowing at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Summer Games before becoming an influential administrator. He was director of Sport Canada (1976–78), president of the Canadian Olympic Association (1982–90), CEO of Own the Podium (2005–10) and chair of the board of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (2010–12). He has been inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame both as an athlete and a builder and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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    Roger James Rossiter

    Roger James Rossiter, biochemist, neurological scientist (b at Glenelg, Australia 24 July 1913; d at Helsinki, Finland 21 Feb 1976). Rossiter pioneered studies of the nervous system's chemical composition and was prominent in the development of biochemistry in Canada.

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    Roger Lemelin

    Lemelin has published 4 novels, a short-story collection and some nonfiction. Most successful have been his novels, Au pied de la pente douce (1944; tr The Town Below, 1948) and LesPLOUFFE (1948; tr The Plouffe Family, 1950).

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    J.R. Léveillé

    (Joseph) Roger (Louis) Léveillé, also known as "Jesse James" or the "Manitoban Rimbaud", poet and author (born 1945 in Winnipeg, MB).

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    Roger Matton

    Roger Matton, composer, teacher, ethnomusicologist (b at Granby, Qué 18 May 1929, d at Québec City, 7 Jun 2004).

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    Roger Matton

    Roger Matton. Composer, teacher, ethnomusicologist, b Granby, Que, 18 May 1929, d Quebec City 7 Jun 2004.

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    Roger Sinha

    Roger Sinha studied karate, then came to dance at 23 and devoted himself to it passionately after studying economics at the University of Toronto (BA 1984). A 1983 stint at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's summer school was followed by attendance at Toronto Dance Theatre's school from 1984-86.

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    Roger Teillet

    Roger Jean-Baptiste Joseph Camille Teillet, PC, banker, air force navigator, insurance agent, politician, pension commissioner (born 21 August 1912 in St. Vital, MB; died 1 May 2002 in Ottawa, ON). After leaving college, Roger Teillet took several jobs until he joined the air force in 1939 (see Royal Canadian Air Force). When his bomber was shot down, Teillet spent almost three years as a prisoner of war. After the Second World War, he successfully entered provincial and then federal politics. Teillet became Minister of Veterans Affairs and subsequently chair of the Canadian Pension Commission.

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    Roger Yate Stanier

    Roger Yate Stanier, microbiologist, professor (b at Victoria, BC 22 Oct 1916; d at Paris, Fra 29 Jan 1982).

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    Rohinton Mistry

    Rohinton Mistry, short-story writer, novelist (b at Bombay, India 3 Jul 1952). After graduating in 1973 in mathematics and economics from Bombay University, Rohinton Mistry immigrated 2 years later to Toronto, where he found employment as a clerk in the accounting department of a bank.

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    Roland Brener

    Roland Brener, sculptor (b at Johannesburg, South Africa 22 February 1942). He completed his artistic training at St Martin's School of Art, London, England, in 1965 where he studied with Anthony Caro.

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