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    Yousuf Karsh

    Yousuf Karsh, CC, RCA, photographer (born 23 December 1908 in Mardin, Armenian Turkey; died 13 July 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts). Armenian Canadian Yousuf Karsh was arguably Canada’s best-known and most acclaimed photographer. Known professionally as “Karsh of Ottawa,” he was widely regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Well-known Karsh portraits include those of Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Einstein, Sir Robert Borden, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Marshall McLuhan. Karsh’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the National Portrait Gallery in London, among many others. Karsh’s younger brother, Malak Karsh, was also an acclaimed photographer.

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    Yuli Turovsky

    He began studying cello at the age of seven. He first attended the Moscow Central Music 1946-57, then pursued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Kozolupova 1957-69.

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    Yuval R Fichman

    Yuval R. Fichman. Pianist, b Tel Aviv, 21 Mar 1965, naturalized Canadian 1972; ARCT 1981. His family moved to Toronto in 1967 and in 1976 he continued his piano studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Mildred Kenton and Andrew Markow.

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    Yvan Bienvenue

    Yvan Bienvenue, poet, playwright, producer, translator, publisher (b at Saint-Hyacinthe, Qué 14 August 1962). Yvan Bienvenue studied playwriting at the École nationale de théâtre du Canada in the late 1980s and co-founded the Théâtre Urbi et Orbi with Stéphane Jacques in 1992.

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    Yves Beauchemin

    Yves Beauchemin, writer (b at Noranda, Québec; d 26 June 1941). Before becoming a Radio-Québec researcher, Beauchemin taught and worked in publishing.

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    Yves Beaupré

    Yves Beaupré. Harpsichord maker, b Montreal 21 Mar 1954; B MUS (Montreal) 1980. He first devoted himself to performance and was trained at the St-Laurent Cegep and at the University of Montreal.

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    Yves Chartier

    Yves Chartier. Musicologist, teacher, b Thetford-les-Mines Que, 18 Aug 1942; Lauréat AMQ piano 1959, BA french, latin (Ottawa) 1964, MA classics (Ottawa) 1965, Docteur en musicologie (Paris-Sorbonne) 1973. He began teaching at Ottawa U in 1969.

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    Yves Daoust

    Daoust, Yves. Composer, teacher, b Longueuil, near Montreal 10 Apr 1946. Daoust began studies in piano at age seven, wrote a film soundtrack for "prepared" piano at 16, and at 19 completed his first electronic work, for a Berlin theatre.

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    Yves-François Blanchet

    Yves-François Blanchet, politician, pundit, artist manager, environmentalist, administrator (born 16 April 1965). Yves-François Blanchet has been the leader of the Bloc Québécois since January 2019 and the Member of Parliament for Beloeil—Chambly since October 2019. Prior to that, he was a Quebec MNA for the riding of Johnson (formerly Drummond) from 2008 to 2014. He also served as minister of the environment in the Parti Québécois government of Pauline Marois from December 2012 to April 2014. Blanchet is a staunch advocate of Quebec nationalism, sovereignty and secularism and of the province’s supply management dairy industry.

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    Yves Gaucher

    Yves Gaucher, artist (born 3 January 1934 in Montréal, Québec; died 8 September 2000 in Montréal) specialized in printmaking and abstract geometric painting.

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    Yves Hébert

    Yves Hébert, pen name Yves Sauvageau, actor, playwright (b at Waterloo, Qué 17 May 1946; d at Granby, Qué 12 Oct 1970). After studies in education at the École normale de Sherbrooke (1963-65), he enrolled in the National Theatre School (1965-68).

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    Yves Jacques

    Yves Jacques, actor (b at Québec 10 May 1956). This splendid actor had an international career in theatre and film since the early nineties, after revealing his talent for all aspects of performing on Québec stages and television.

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    Yves Lambert

    Yves Lambert, CM, singer, musician (born 15 September 1956 in Joliette, QC). Yves Lambert rose to fame in Quebec as a founding member of La Bottine souriante. The folk music group had three platinum albums and four gold albums in Canada and won multiple Juno Awards and Félix Awards. Lambert has been credited with popularizing traditional Québécois folk music while also reinventing it. His musical style blends folk music with traditional Quebec, Acadian, Celtic and country music styles. He has been described as a pillar of Quebec’s living heritage. Lambert was named Traditional Singer of the Year at the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards and has twice won the Conseil québécois de la musique (Québec Music Council) Opus Award. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2021.

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    Yves Lapierre

    Yves Lapierre, composer, arranger, singer (born 9 August 1946 in Montreal, QC; died 26 September 2026 in Montreal). Yves Lapierre, a grandnephew of Eugène Lapierre, studied at the École Vincent-d'Indy and took conducting and instrumentation classes 1969–70 with Michel Perrault. He was the director 1963–68 of the folk vocal quartet Les Cailloux, and he and Jean Fortier, Jean-Pierre Goulet and Robert Jourdain, performed in Montreal and elsewhere in Quebec and in 1967 made a tour in Europe, Africa and Asia. Les Cailloux recorded two LPs with Pathé and two others with Capitol, which also reissued some of their great hits.

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    Yves Michaud

    Yves Michaud, journalist, diplomat and politician (born 13 February 1930 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec).

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