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    Suzanne Paradis

    Suzanne Paradis, poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic (b at Québec City 27 Oct 1936). Though she had already published several poems and stories, it was only in 1962 that she decided to devote herself to writing.

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    Suzanne Shulman

    Suzanne Shulman. Flutist, b Toronto 30 Nov 1946; Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1967. Her teachers were Nicholas Fiore and Robert Aitken at the University of Toronto and (in 1967) Christian Lardé, Michel Debost, Marcel Moyse, and Jean-Pierre Rampal in Paris.

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    Suzanne Simard

    Suzanne Winette Simard, conservationist, educator, researcher (born 1960 or 1961 in BC). Simard’s innovative research on the ways trees cooperate, nurture, warn each other and share resources through the “wood-wide web” has garnered significant attention from the scientific community, filmmakers and Canadians across the country. Her 2021 book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, has changed popular understanding of forests, depicting them as vibrant, intelligent and resilient systems. In her book, Simard also wrote about her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated industry and her battle against breast cancer.

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    Suzanne Steele

    Suzanne Steele, poet, librettist, researcher, teacher (born in Manitoba). From 2008 to 2010, Suzanne Steele was an Official Canadian War Artist (see also Canadian War Art Programs). In this role, she was the first war poet and the first Indigenous Official Canadian War Artist to go to a war zone. She wrote the lyrics for a requiem about the Afghanistan War and the libretto for an opera about Louis Riel. Steele is a university research fellow, acclaimed lecturer and is involved in projects promoting greater respect for and understanding of Indigenous languages, cultures and histories.

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    Suzie LeBlanc

    Suzie LeBlanc. Soprano, teacher, actress, harpsichordist, born Edmunston, NB, 27 Oct 1961; honorary D LL (Mount Allison) 2009, honorary D CL (King’s College University, Halifax) 2008.  Suzie LeBlanc is of Acadian heritage, but grew up listening to and practicing classical music.

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    Suzie Vinnick

    Suzie Vinnick.  Singer, songwriter, bassist, guitarist, born Saskatoon 26 Apr 1970. Vinnick is largely known for her vocal talents but has also worked as a side musician for various other groups.

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    Suzy Lake

    Suzy Lake, photographer, performance artist, video maker (born 14 June 1947 in Detroit, Michigan).

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    Sven Börje Johansson

    Sven Börje Johansson, CM, choreographer, reindeer specialist (born in Säffle, Värmland, Sweden on 29 August 1924; died 17 October 2018 in Victoria, BC). Johansson participated in the Canadian Reindeer Project, the Geological Survey of Canada and founded the non-profit Discovery Dance Society.

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    Swedish Canadians

    Three Swedish names appeared among Lord Selkirk's group of settlers in the Red River Valley of Manitoba, the first evidence of Swedish settlers in Canada (see Red River Colony.) From 1868 to 1914, more than one million Swedes moved to the United States and Canada.

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    Swiss Canadians

    Swiss immigration to the territory we now know as Canada began in the late 16th century. The 2016 census reported 155, 120 people of Swiss origin in Canada (25, 235 single responses and 129, 885 multiple responses). 

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    Sybil Andrews

    Sybil Andrews, printmaker (b at Bury St Edmunds, Eng 1891; d at BC 1992). Before her arrival at Campbell R, BC, in 1947, Andrews studied in England with Claude Flight, a proponent of futurism, a radical art form of the early 1900s.

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    Sydney Humphreys

    Sydney (Ernest) Humphreys. Violinist, teacher, born Chilliwack, near Vancouver, 26 Sep 1926; FRAM 1960, MA (Newcastle) 1969. He studied violin with Gregori Garbovitsky in Vancouver, Kathleen Parlow in Toronto, Thomas Matthews and Frederick Grinke at the RAM, London, and Georges Enesco in Paris.

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    Sydney Murray Friedman

    Sydney Murray Friedman, scientist, scholar, physician (born 17 February 1916 in Montréal, QC; died 16 February 2015 in Vancouver, BC). 

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    Sydney Newman

    Sydney Cecil Newman (né Nudelman), OC, television executive, producer, administrator, writer, director, editor (born 1 April 1917 in Toronto, ON; died 30 October 1997 in Toronto). Sydney Newman was an influential television producer and executive in Canada and Britain. He began his career at the National film Board (NFB) in 1941 and worked on more than 300 films in 11 years. In 1952, he left to work for the CBC, where he became one of the architects of Canadian television, establishing the foundation for sports broadcasts and live drama. Lured to Britain in 1958, Newman helped create iconic British TV series The Avengers and Doctor Who. He then returned to Canada and served a tumultuous term as chairman of the NFB from 1970 to 1975. A keen judge of talent, Newman nurtured such artists as Harold Pinter, Arthur Hailey, Ken Loach and Ted Kotcheff. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981.

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    Sydney River McDonald's Murders

    On 7 May 1992, three men broke into a McDonald’s restaurant in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, after closing time, intending to rob the restaurant’s safe. They killed three employees and left a fourth permanently disabled, in a massacre that shocked the small Cape Breton town, and all of Canada.

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