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• Country
  {{short description|Genre of American popular music}} | subgenrelist = List of country genres
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• Elizabeth Russell (Upper Canada)
  ...eter, in this relatively modest-sized house, even though he had become one of the richest men in Upper Canada.]] ...as able to secure employment with the [[Royal Navy]] in [[Harwich]], the ''Dictionary'' reported ''"Elizabeth grew up with little education, in an atmosphere dar
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• Frederick Charles Denison
  | parliament = Canadian | nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]]
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• James Muir
  ...y arrived from Scotland, to take up his first position with the Royal Bank of Canada, 21 year-old James Muir, in Moose Jaw (cropped).png ...y arrived from Scotland, to take up his first position with the Royal Bank of Canada, 21 year-old James Muir, in Moose Jaw.
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• Louis Pasteur
  * [[University of Strasbourg]] * [[University of Lille]]
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• Hip hop
  ...><ref name="History">[http://www.burkinanyc.com/coollinks.html The History of Hip Hop] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411120145/http: ...[hip hop culture]][[https://www.whatsonrap.com/]] and historical knowledge of the movement (intellectual/philosophical); [[beatboxing]], a percussive voc
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• Charles Coxwell Small
  ...on a pencil sketch by Mrs C.C. Small made in 1831.jpg|thumb|This painting of [[Berkeley House, York, Upper Canada|Berkeley House]] is based on a drawing ...born 1746)|John Small]], Small was the [[Clerk (legislature)|Chief Clerk]] of [[Upper Canada's Privy Council]].<ref name=CanadianBioJohnSmall1746/>
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• Olivier Letardif
  ...upied Quebec, during the [[Anglo-French War (1627–1629)|Anglo-French War of (1627–1629)]].<ref name=DictCdnBioMarieRollet/><ref name=WomenSlaveryInCa ...r trader, where he was noted for quickly learning several of the languages of [[First Nations]] peoples.
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• 2005
  ...t]]. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005). ...ft)|''Deep Impact'']] is launched from [[Cape Canaveral]] with the purpose of studying the comet [[Tempel 1]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/
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• 1898 Toronto municipal election
  ...4-1936); Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]04 Jan 1898: 2.</ref> The main issues of both the mayoralty and aldermanic campaigns were a proposal to build the [[ :'''[[John Shaw (Canadian politician)|John Shaw]]''' (incumbent) - 12,602
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• David William Smith (1st Baronet)
  | office1 = Surveyor General of Upper Canada ...d his father's regiment, the [[Royal Northumberland Fusiliers|5th Regiment of Foot]], as an ensign in 1779. He married his first wife in 1788 and rejoine
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• Hannah Jarvis
  ...[[Upper Canada]], only to be reduced to poverty, through the mismanagement of her husband [[William Jarvis]], her son [[Samuel Peters Jarvis]], and her s == Biography ==
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• Anitta
  | awards = [[List of awards and nominations received by Anitta|Full list]] ...mes/articles/4Cqlsz10pzqT4Yrqk9CfDf5/class-of-2018-are-these-the-pop-icons-of-the-future |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |access-date=February 24, 2021
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• George Taylor Denison
  | image = Portrait of George Taylor Denison.png | alt = Portrait of George Taylor Denison
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• Polson Iron Works Limited
  | publisher = [[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]] ...led to its incorporation on 23 Oct. 1886 as the Polson Iron Works Company of Toronto Limited, with William as president and Franklin as secretary-treasu
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• George Taylor Denison II
  | image = Portrait of George Taylor Denison Jr.png | alt = Portrait of George Taylor Denison Jr.
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• John Denison (Upper Canada)
  | known_for = member of Upper Canada's Family Compact ...ettler of [[Upper Canada]]. He was a militia officer, and became a member of Upper Canada's notorious [[family compact]].<ref name=macleans1913-12-01/>
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• Georgina Stanley Reid
  | publisher = [[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]] ...ne froth the ratepayers of St Lawrence Ward and the other from the parents of children attending the school, against a female head.
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