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Stephen Kondaks

Stephen Kondaks. Violist, teacher, b Salonika, Greece, 15 Feb 1919, d Pointe Claire, Québec, 11 Oct 2005, naturalized Canadian 1920. He studied violin 1930-6 with Harold Sumberg at the TCM (RCMT) and 1936-8 with Sascha Jacobsen at the Juilliard School.
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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC, humorist, author, academic (born 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, England; died 28 March 1944 in Toronto, ON). Stephen Leacock was the English-speaking world’s best-known humorist between 1915 and 1925. He was awarded the Mark Twain Medal for humour, the Royal Society of Canada’s Lorne Pierce Medal and the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Trained as an economist, historian and political scientist, he served as a professor in the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University from 1903 to 1936. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was established in his honour in 1947. He was designated a National Historic Person of Canada in 1968.
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Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is a silver medal awarded each year to the Canadian writer of the best book of humour. Since 1946 it has been offered by the Stephen Leacock Associates, based in Orillia, Ont.
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Stephen Lett

Stephen Lett, psychiatrist (b at Callan, Ire 4 Apr 1847; d at Kingston, Ont Oct 1905). Having served as assistant medical superintendent of the insane asylums in Malden and London, Ont, 1870-77, he lost out to R.M. BUCKE for the post of London's medical superintendent.
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Stephen Marvin

Marvin, who holds dual citizenship, studied in the US with Joseph Silverstein (violin), Martha Katz (viola), and Eugene Lehner (chamber music), and was awarded a Tanglewood fellowship in 1973. He began his professional career as a violinist in the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he remained until 1977.
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Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie Smith, actor (born at Antigonish, NS 3 Feb 1947). Stephen McHattie grew up in Guysborough County, NS, and at age 16 began acting in local amateur plays. At 19 he moved to New York to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Stephen McNeil

Stephen McNeil, business owner, politician, 28th premier of Nova Scotia, 2013–21 (born 10 November 1964 in Halifax, NS). Few observers expected much from refrigerator repairman Stephen McNeil when he was first elected to the Nova Scotia legislature in 2003. But he surprised pundits when he became leader of the Liberal Party, and was twice elected premier, winning majority governments in 2013 and 2017.
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Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid, writer, bank robber (born 13 March 1950 in Massey, ON; died 13 June 2018 in Haida Gwaii, BC). Best known for his novel, Jackrabbit Parole (1986) and his collection of essays, A Crowbar in The Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison (2012), Stephen Reid was a founding member of the infamous Stopwatch Gang.
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Stephen Scobie

Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, professor, publisher (b at Carnoustie, Scot 31 Dec 1943). Typical of his 20 volumes of poetry are The Birken Tree (1973), The Rooms We Are (1974), A Grand Memory for Forgetting (1981) and Expecting Rain (1984), Remains (1990) and Slowly into Autumn (1995).
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Stephen Smith

Stephen John Richard Smith, OOnt, financial services entrepreneur, civic leader, philanthropist (born 2 June 1951 in Ottawa, ON). Stephen Smith is a successful entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He is the chair and executive officer of Smith Financial Corporation (SFC). Through SFC, he has significant equity investments in a range of financial entities including First National Financial Corporation, Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance, Home Capital Group, Fairstone Bank of Canada, Glass, Lewis & Co. and Peloton Capital Management. Smith co-founded First National Financial Corporation in 1988, serving as CEO until 2022. He was then appointed executive chairman. He served as chair of Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company from 2010 to 2023. He is the chair of Peloton Capital Management, a mid-market North American private equity firm, Glass, Lewis & Co., a leading global proxy advisory firm based in San Francisco, and Fairstone Bank of Canada, a 240-branch bank focused on consumer lending. Smith is also involved in the leadership of cultural organizations. Since 2009, he has been chair of Historica Canada, the producer of the Heritage Minutes and the publisher of The Canadian Encyclopedia. He is a member of the board of the Rideau Hall Foundation and honorary governor of the Royal Ontario Museum. The business school and engineering faculty at his alma mater, Queen’s University, were renamed in his honour after his record-setting donations to the university in 2015 and 2023.
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Stephen Teeple

Stephen Teeple, architect (born 17 April 1954 in St. Thomas, ON).
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Stephen Van Rensselaer III

Stephen Van Rensselaer III (b at New York, NY, 1 Nov 1764; d near Albany, NY, 26 Jan 1839). Stephen Van Rensselaer grew up in the Van Rensselaer manor in the Upper Hudson River region of New York State. He graduated from Harvard College in 1782.
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Stephen Willis

Stephen (Charles) Willis. Archivist, musicologist, b Collingwood, Ont, 17 Dec 1946, d Ottawa 11 Sep 1994; AWCM piano 1965, BA (Western) 1969, MA (Columbia) 1971, M PHIL (Columbia) 1974, PH D (Columbia) 1975.
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Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf, Los Angeles-based blues-rock band (flourished 1967-72) which had its genesis in the Toronto quintet Sparrow (flourished 1964-67), which included German-born singer John Kay (né Joachim Krauledat), drummer Jerry Edmonton (aka Mars Bonfire) and organist Goldy McJohn.
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Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf. Hard-rock group. It had its origins in the Toronto blues band Sparrow, which was formed in 1964 and by 1965 comprised John Kay (vocals, harmonica and guitar), Dennis Edmonton (guitar), Goldy McJohn (organ, piano), Nick St Nicholas (bass guitar), and Jerry Edmonton (drums).
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