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    Tara Spencer-Nairn

    Her career began with a series of one-off guest appearances on Canadian dramas and American syndicated series such as Poltergeist: The Legacy, Breaker High and Cold Squad. Soon she was cast as Lou Benzoa in the Cape Breton feature New Waterford Girl (1999).

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    Tara Whitten

    During her undergraduate years at the UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, Whitten ran cross country as a member of the U of A Pandas team.

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    Taras Gabora

    Taras (Daniel) Gabora. Violinist, teacher, b Yellow Creek, Sask, 23 Apr 1932; AMM 1952, Reifeprüfung (Vienna Academy) 1956.

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    Tasha Hubbard

    Tasha Hubbard, filmmaker, director, writer, professor (born in 1973 in Saskatoon, SK). Tasha Hubbard is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Hubbard has directed several documentaries for the National Film Board focused on Indigenous rights in Canada. Her documentaries have covered subjects such as the death of Colten Boushie, the Sixties Scoop and Starlight Tours, which came to public attention in Saskatoon when police officers were charged with driving Indigenous men to the city limits and leaving them to freeze at night. Hubbard’s work has won a Gemini and Canadian Screen Award and has further been recognized with awards from Hot Docs, DOXA and the Calgary International Film Festival. Hubbard also serves on the Indigenous Advisory Council of the National Film Board. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory. She also has ties to the Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory (see also First Nations in Saskatchewan).

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    Tatiana Maslany

    Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany, actor (born 22 September 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan). Versatile film and television actor Tatiana Maslany is perhaps best known for her multiple performances as various clones in the hit sci-fi series Orphan Black (2013–17). In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian television series. She has also won five Canadian Screen Awards, two Gemini Awards, two ACTRA Awards and numerous other honours.

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    Ivars Taurins

    Ivars Taurins, who is of Latvian background and grew up in Toronto, demonstrated musical ability at an early age, commencing piano studies at the age of 8, and violin at 13. He began studies in the viola during his final year at North Toronto Collegiate.

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    Tecumseh

    Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, leader of a First Nations confederacy, military leader in the War of 1812 (born circa 1768 in south-central Ohio; died 5 October 1813 near Moraviantown [Thamesville, ON]). Tecumseh was leader of the First Nations confederacy that was formed to resist American intrusion on Indigenous land in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When the War of 1812 broke out between the United States and Britain, Tecumseh and the confederacy allied with the British. He was killed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813. Tecumseh is remembered as a respected Indigenous warrior and major figure in the War of 1812. While his death was the end of serious resistance in the Northwest, Indigenous people continued to fight for their land and rights.

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    Ted Allan

    Ted Allan wrote hundreds of radio and television scripts broadcast in Britain and Canada. He is also the author of several plays, including the long-running Double Image (1957) and My Sister's Keeper (1974).

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    Ted Byfield (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 25, 1999. Partner content is not updated.

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    Ted Davidson

    Frank Sterling (“Ted” or “Teddy”) Davidson, saxophonist, popular singer (born 21 June 1914 in Sudbury, ON; died 7 August 1983 in Toronto, ON).

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    Ted Hockridge

    Edmund "Ted" (James) Hockridge. Baritone, born Vancouver 9 Aug 1919; died Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England 15 Mar 2009. Ted Hockridge studied piano and voice in Vancouver and was encouraged by the visiting Metropolitan Opera baritone John Charles Thomas, who heard him sing a solo in church.

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    Ted Kennedy

    Hardworking and tenacious, Ted Kennedy typified the powerful, tough checking Maple Leaf teams built by Conn SMYTHE. In 1946 he and players Howie Meeker and Vic Lynn formed the renowned KLM Line, which helped the Leafs to another 3 Stanley Cup victories from 1947-49.

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    Ted King

    Theodore “Ted” Stanley King, civil rights activist, real estate broker, accountant, railway porter (born 14 July 1925 in Calgary; died 7 July 2001 in Surrey, BC). Ted King was the president of the Alberta Association for the Advancement of Coloured People from 1958 to 1961, where he advocated for the rights of Black Canadians. In 1959, King launched a legal challenge against a Calgary motel’s discriminatory policy, decades before human rights protections existed throughout Canada. The case made it to the Alberta Supreme Court. Though it was not successful, King’s case exposed legal loopholes innkeepers exploited in order to deny lodging to Black patrons.

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    Ted Kotcheff

    William “Ted” Kotcheff (né Velichko Todor Kostadin Kotcheff), filmmaker, producer (born 7 April 1931 in Toronto, ON; died 10 April 2025 in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico). Ted Kotcheff is best known today for his work on the film adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and First Blood (1982), the first Rambo film starring Sylvester Stallone.

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    Ted Lindsay

    Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay, "Terrible Ted," hockey player (born 29 July 1925 in Renfrew, ON; died 4 March 2019 in Oakland, Michigan). Small in stature at 173 cm (5' 8") and only 73 kg (160 pounds), Ted Lindsay was nonetheless known as one of the most aggressive players in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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