Mavor Moore

Mavor Moore

male, deceased (2006)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, professor, OBC, Order of Canada, Upper Canada College alumni, Doctor of Letters…CanadaCouncil, Companion of the Order of Canada
James Mavor Moore, CC, OBC, BA, D.Litt (March 8, 1919 - December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and...
Jean-Louis Roux

Jean-Louis Roux

male, 86 years old
Nazi, From Quebec, Order of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada senator, Canadian Senate, National Order of Quebec…CanadaCouncil, Companion of the Order of Canada
Jean-Louis Roux, CC, CQ (born May 18, 1923) is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Canada. Born...
Carol Shields

Carol Shields

female, deceased (2003)
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadian women writer, 1993 Governor General's Awards, The Stone Diaries, Women novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…immigrant to Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, CanadaCouncil
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for...
Roch Carrier

Roch Carrier

male, 72 years old
Crémazie, Il est par là, le soleil, French Quebecer, Quebec writer, Acadie, Volkswagen Blues…Canada Reads 2005, Library and Archives Canada, CanadaCouncil, National Librarian of Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada
Roch Carrier, OC, (born 13 May 1937) is a celebrated Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among...

Sheila Fischman

female, 71 years old
Columbia University, Authors selected for Canada Reads, Governor General's Award, Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Perfect Circle, 1998 Governor General's Awards…Canada Council Prize for Translation, CanadaCouncil, Canada Reads, Member of the Order of Canada, Order of Canada
Sheila Leah Fischman, C.M., M.A., D.U. (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary...
Jasper Wood

Jasper Wood

male, 35 years old
Buffalo, Ricardo Morales, Eckhardt-Gramatte, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Bela Bartok, CanadaCouncil…Canada Council for the Arts
Jasper Wood (born April 29, 1974 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian concert violinist. Jasper Wood was born into a musical family of six...
Iain Baxter

Iain Baxter

male, 73 years old (Windsor, Ontario , Canada)
professor, artist, Canadian, University of Windsor, visual arts, CanadaCouncil
Iain Baxter (born November 16 1936) (also known as "Iain Baxter&") is a Canadian photographer, painter, sculptor, installation artist and...
Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

male, 57 years old
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Bombay University, Indo-Canadian, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, short stories…immigrant to Canada, Authors selected for Canada Reads, CanadaCouncil
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952 and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he took employment working for a Toronto bank. After...
Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin

female, 77 years old
First Nations artist, film director, Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation, Spudwrench – Kahnawake Man, My Name is Kahentiiosta, Rocks at Whiskey Trench…National Film Board of Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada, CanadaCouncil
Alanis Obomsawin : Filmmaking with a focus on social justice Alanis Obomsawin (photo: National Film Board of Canada)Reference: Publication of the...
Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen

female, 58 years old
Jamaican expatriate in Canada, Canadian women writer, expatriate in the United States, dub poet, Juno Award, Spanish Town, Jamaica…CanadaCouncil
Lillian Allen (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian dub poet. Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she left that country in 1969, first moving to New York...