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    Sherwood Robson

    (Charles William) Sherwood Robson. Educator, choir conductor, b Vancouver 27 May 1913; B ED (British Columbia) 1962. His teachers included John Goss (voice) and Frederic Staton (voice, choir training) in the early 1940s and Burton Kurth (voice, organ, piano) in the 1950s.

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    Shields Wins Pulitzer

    Anne Giardini of Kamloops, B.C., almost drove into the back of a wood-chip truck when she heard the news on her car radio last week. An announcer had just revealed that her mother, Winnipeg-based novelist Carol Shields, had won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 24, 1995

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    Shingoose

    Shingoose (also Curtis Jonnie), Ojibwe singer-songwriter, guitarist, folk musician, Indigenous activist (born on 26 October 1946 in Winnipeg, MB; died on 12 January 2021 in Winnipeg, MB). Shingoose rose to popularity in Canada and the US in the late 1960s. A well-respected musician, Shingoose was also a strong advocate of Indigenous issues and strove to highlight Indigenous culture on the world stage. (See also Music of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.)

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    Shirley and Sharon Firth

    Shirley Firth, CM, cross-country skier (born 31 December 1953 in Aklavik, NWT; died 30 April 2013 in Yellowknife, NWT) and Sharon Anne Firth, CM, ONWT, cross-country skier (born 31 December 1953 in Aklavik, NWT). Twin sisters Shirley and Sharon Firth, members of the Gwich’in First Nation, were among the first Indigenous athletes to represent Canada at the Olympics. They were members of the first Canadian women’s Olympic cross-country ski team and competed at four Olympic Winter Games. They were members of the national cross-country ski team for an unprecedented 17 consecutive years. Between them, they won 79 medals at the national championships, including 48 national titles. The first Indigenous women inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, they are Members of the Order of Canada and have been inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame.

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    Shirley Douglas

    Shirley Douglas, OC, actor, activist (born 2 April 1934 in Weyburn, SK; died 5 April 2020). Shirley Douglas was a recipient of several awards that recognized her contributions in the arts, namely a Gemini Award (1999), a Diamond Award (2000), an International Achievement Award from Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) (2009) and ACTRA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2011). She was inducted into the National Arts Centre’s Wall of Fame (2004) and Canada’s Walk of Fame (2005). She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and was inducted into the Order of Canada as an Officer in 2003.

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    Shirley Eikhard

    Shirley (Rose) Eikhard. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Sackville, NB, 7 Nov 1955.

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    Shirley Harmer

    Shirley Harmer. Singer, actress, b Thornton's Corners (now Oshawa), Ont, 25 Mar 1932. In her teens she sang in the dance bands of, and was coached by, Boyd Valleau and Art Hallman.

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    Shirley Wiitasalo

    By the 1980s Wiitasalo's work and that of peers such as Will Gorlitz, Carol Wainio and Joanne Tod signalled the interest on the part of a new generation of figurative painters in relationships between identity, social formation and media representations.

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    Shuffle Demons

    Shuffle Demons. Toronto jazz group.

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    Shuvinai Ashoona

    Shuvinai Ashoona, artist (born August 1961 in Cape Dorset, NU). Shuvinai Ashoona's art has been exhibited extensively, both within Canada and internationally. Her drawings occupy a unique place within contemporary Inuit art, combining elements of Inuit culture and traditional stories with influences derived from contact with southern industrial society, all subsumed within the reality of her richly imaginative inner world. 

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    Shyam Selvadurai

    Shyam Selvadurai's first novel, Funny Boy won the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and The Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Fiction. The novel is at once innocent and wise, fanciful and uncompromisingly frank in its depiction of Arjie Chelvaratnam's happy and harrowing childhood.

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    Sid Engen

    Sid (Hanson) Engen. Violin maker, b near Oslo, Norway, 9 Nov 1902, d Dauphin, Man, 23 Jun 1976. His family arrived in Winnipeg in 1905, then moved to Saskatchewan before settling in Dauphin in 1919.

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    Sid Stevens

    Sydney (Stevens) Stavitsky, OQ, community organizer, community advocate, philanthropist, and co-founder of the charitable organization Sun Youth (born 25 June 1940 in Montreal, QC; died 17 August 2025 in Montreal, QC.). Commonly known as Sid Stevens, he created Sun Youth as a teenager in 1954 and developed the organization over the course of 70 years, building it into one of Montreal’s pre-eminent charitable organizations. Sun Youth supports roughly 30,000 people annually, providing youth programs, food, emergency services, clothing and financial aid. Stevens and Sun Youth are credited with helping numerous Montrealers since its founding. Among the organization’s many accomplishments was the creation of the city’s first food bank, services to assist victims of fires, and innovative services to support Montreal’s urban youth. Stevens also introduced the Crime Stoppers program to Montreal.

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    Sidney Altman

    Sidney Altman, biochemist, molecular biologist, educator (born7 May 1939 in Montreal, QC; died 5 April 2022 in Rockleigh, NJ). Altman was a dual citizen of Canada and the United States (see Canadian Citizenship). His childhood delight in science culminated in his sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech in 1989 (see Nobel Prizes and Canada; Chemistry).

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    Sidney Carter

    Sidney Robert Carter, art and antique dealer, photographer (b at Toronto 18 Feb 1880; d at Montréal 27 Mar 1956). Carter was an early advocate of pictorialism in photography, and by 1901-02 was exhibiting in London, the US and Canada.

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