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    Valerie Weeks

    Valerie Weeks. Harpsichordist, b Toronto 6 Dec 1954; ARCT 1974, B MUS (Toronto) 1978.

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  • Macleans

    Weir Celebrates Masters Win

    IT WAS NEARLY MIDNIGHT when the post-Masters dinner finally broke up.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 28, 2003

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    Welby Patterson

    Welby Lloyd Patterson, MM, Indigenous Second World War soldier (born 10 June 1922 in Six Nations of the Grand River, ON; died 14 April 1945 at Friesoythe, Germany). Welby Patterson worked at various jobs before he joined the army in 1943. He served in the infantry and fought across North-West Europe. Patterson received the Military Medal for bravery, but he was killed in action shortly before the war ended.

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    Weldon Kilburn

    Weldon (Nicholas) Kilburn. Teacher, pianist, organist, coach, b Lloydminster, Alta, 9 Sep 1906, d Toronto 6 Mar 1986; ATCM 1925, LAB.

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    Wellie Ringuette

    Wellie or Willy Ringuette. Violoneux, composer, b Franklin, NH, 6 Feb 1898, d Trois-Rivières, Que, 10 Sep 1969. At eight he began playing a violin made by his father.

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    Wells Coates

    Wells Wintemute Coates, architect, designer, writer (b at Tokyo, Japan 17 Dec 1895; d at Vancouver 17 June 1958).

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    Wen Wei Wang

    Despite his parents' attempts to guide him into the painting or music, Wen Wei Wang felt called to dance from an early age. His professional training began at the school of the Langzhou Regional Dance Company in 1978, and 4 years later he joined the professional troupe.

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    Wendel Meldrum

    Wendy “Wendel” Anne Meldrum, actress, screenwriter (born 21 July 1954 in Edmonton, AB; died 27 January 2021). Wendel Meldrum's most compelling quality as an actress was her ability to convey a sort of artless grace; she had a knack for playing blameless characters who have no capacity for cunning.

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    Wendy Crewson

    Wendy Jane Crewson, actor (born 9 May 1956 in Hamilton, ON). One of Canadian television’s best-known and most honoured actors, Wendy Crewson has won multiple Gemini Awards for her work in Canadian TV series and TV movies. She has also enjoyed a prolific film career and has acted opposite such Hollywood stars as Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rachel McAdams, Elliot Page and Arnold Schwarzenegger. An outspoken advocate for Canadian film and television, she has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and received the Gemini Humanitarian Award, ACTRA’s Award of Excellence, and the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in Canadian television.

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    Wendy Lill

    Wendy Lill's first stage play On the Line (Agassiz Theatre, 1982) was an agitprop piece about a strike by immigrant women working in the garment industry in Winnipeg.

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    Wendy Tilby

    Tilby made Strings (1991), a charming tale about an elderly man living in an apartment below a woman his own age. The woman is working on a model of the Titanic while the man plays a violin in a string quartet with friends. A leak from the woman's apartment sends the man upstairs.

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    Werner Israel

    Werner Israel, OC, FRS, FRSC, physicist (born 4 October 1931 in Berlin, Germany; died 18 May 2022 in Victoria, BC). Werner contributed new insights to the field of physics and is perhaps best known for his research on black holes. During his career, he collaborated with the English physicist Stephen Hawking.

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    Wesley Berg

    Wesley (Peter) Berg. Musicologist, teacher, administrator, b Altona, Man, 5 Nov 1942; BA (Manitoba) 1966; AWBM 1966; B MUS (Alberta) 1970; M MUS (Alberta) 1971; PH D (University of Washington) 1979. Berg studied piano with G.

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    West Indian Domestic Scheme

    The West Indian Domestic Scheme was an immigration program for Caribbean women between 1955 and 1967. Through the scheme, approximately 3,000 Caribbean women emigrated to Canada to work as domestic workers. The program opened the door for many Black Caribbeans to migrate to Canada, giving them an opportunity which would not have been available otherwise. Despite this, the women that participated in the scheme often faced difficult work conditions and racial discrimination. (See Racism.) Due to Canada’s changing immigration policy, the scheme officially ended in January 1968; it was replaced by a points-based system, which provided temporary work permits. Even with the program’s official end, women from the West Indies continued to come to Canada as domestic workers on temporary employment visas for years afterwards. (See Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs.) 

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  • Macleans

    What would Georges St-Pierre say?

    Behind many a successful celebrity is a ‘ghost tweeter,’ keeping him out of troubleThis article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 15, 2013

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