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    William John Bennett

    William John Bennett, businessman (b at Schreiber, Ont 3 Nov 1911; d at Montréal, Qué 23 Apr 1991). A graduate of the University of Toronto, Bennett became private secretary to C.D. HOWE in 1935 and served as Howe's executive assistant in the Department of Munitions and Supply during WWII.

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    William John Wintember

    William John Wintemberg, archaeologist (b at New Dundee, Ont 18 May 1876; d at Ottawa 25 Apr 1941). Wintemberg worked as a compositor and later a coppersmith before his varied and dedicated antiquarian activities led to an association with the Ontario Provincial Museum.

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    William John Wood

    William John Wood, labourer, artist (b near Ottawa 26 May 1877; d at Midland, Ont 5 Jan 1954).

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    William Jordan

    Jordan, William (Sheldon). Composer, teacher, b Athens, Ga, 19 Nov 1951; B MUS (Georgia) 1971, MA (Pennsylvania) 1973, PH D (Florida State) 1976. In 1971 he went to France for two months' study with Nadia Boulanger and Jean Casadesus, and completed courses in composition and music theory.

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    William Joseph Parnell MacMillan

    William Joseph Parnell MacMillan, physician, premier of Prince Edward Island 1933-35, lieutenant-governor (b at Clermont, PEI 24 Mar 1881; d at Charlottetown 7 Dec 1957). After a brilliant career as a scholar and physician, MacMillan entered politics in 1923.

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    William Kaye Lamb

    William Kaye Lamb, librarian, author, archivist (born at New Westminster, BC 11 May 1904; died at Vancouver, 24 Aug 1999). Educated at UBC (BA, 1927, MA, 1930), the Sorbonne and London School of Economics (PhD, 1933), Lamb served as provincial librarian and archivist in BC 1934-1940.

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    William Keith Rogers

    Rogers, William Keith. Composer, b Charlottetown 16 Mar 1921; M MUS (Juilliard) 1948. Early success in competitions encouraged Rogers to enter the Juilliard School in 1939 where he studied piano with Arthur Newstead and composition with Vittorio Giannini, Bernard Wagenaar, and Frederick Jacobi.

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    William Kennedy

    William Kennedy, explorer (born 26 April 1814 probably at Cumberland House, Rupert's Land; died 25 January 1890 at St Andrews, Red River Settlement). William Kennedy was a Métis explorer who contributed to the search for the Franklin Expedition. He was also a leader who promoted Indigenous rights, including the rights of Métis in Rupert’s Land. In 2025, Kennedy was designated a national historic person by the Government of Canada.

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    William Kirby

    William Kirby, novelist, journalist (b at Kingston-upon-Hull, Eng 23 Oct 1817; d at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont 23 June 1906).

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    William Krehm

    William Krehm, journalist, musician, real estate developer, and political activist (born 23 November 1913 in Toronto, ON; died 19 April 2019 in Toronto). The brother of pianist Ida Krehm, William Krehm was a leading figure in the Canadian Trotskyist movement during the Great Depression and the Canadian leader of the League for a Revolutionary Workers’ Party. Krehm was the last surviving Canadian witness to events in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. Krehm later became a foreign correspondent in Latin America and a real estate developer in Toronto.

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    William Kuinka

    William Kuinka, mandolinist, bassist, guitarist (born 28 January 1916 in Anyox, BC; died 7 April 2008 in Toronto, ON). ARCT 1951.

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    William Kurelek

    Returning to Toronto, he was established by the early 1960s as an important painter, alternating realistic works depicting his prairie roots with didactic series. In the 1970s he began to publish his paintings with simple texts.

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    William Lash Miller

    William Lash Miller, educator, chemist (b at Galt, Ont 10 Sept 1866; d at Toronto 1 Sept 1940). When he died, Miller was described as the greatest chemist Canada had produced; he was certainly the most colourful.

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    Willie Dunn

    William Lawrence “Willie” Dunn (a.k.a. Roha’tiio, meaning “his voice is beautiful”) musician, filmmaker (born 14 August 1941 in Montreal, QC; died 5 August 2013 in Ottawa, ON). Willie Dunn was a folk musician of Mi’kmaq-Scottish origin. He was also a leading member of the Indian Film Crew, an all-Indigenous film production unit established by the National Film Board in 1968.

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    William Lewis Morton

    William Lewis Morton, historian, professor (b at Gladstone, Man 13 Dec 1908; d at Medicine Hat, Alta 7 Dec 1980).

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