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    CHUM Limited

    CHUM Limited, controlled by Allan Waters, and headquartered in Toronto, is one of Canada's largest radio and television broadcasting holding companies.

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    Church Choir Schools

    Church choir schools. Institutions set up to train young musicians in the literature and performance of church music and to enable them, through the presentation of such music, to worship in a manner at once spiritual and artistic.

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    CIBC National Music Festival/Le Festival national de musique CIBC

    CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) National Music Festival/Le Festival national de musique CIBC. Annual amateur competition, known until 1987 as The National Competitive Festival of Music.

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    Cinar Films (Profile)

    Micheline Charest and her husband, Ronald Weinberg, do not have to look hard - at home or abroad - for signs of success.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 24, 1998

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    Cinémathèque québécoise

    Cinémathèque québécoise (established 1963 as the Cinémathèque canadienne) was founded by a group of film producers and cinéphiles led by Guy L. Coté to conserve films (along with related materials such as equipment, posters and photographs) and to make this material available for educative purposes.

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    Cirque du Soleil

    Las Vegas is the last place you would expect to find art. The city rises from the Nevada desert like a pop-up cartoon of American consumerism.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 27, 1998

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    City of Gold

    City of Gold (1957) is a classic example of the superb work by the National Film Board of Canada's (NFB) acclaimed Unit B Directors Wolf Koenig and Colin Low and editor and producer Tom Daly.

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    CJRT Orchestra

    CJRT Orchestra. Concert and broadcasting ensemble formed in Toronto in 1975 by Paul Robinson for the independent non-commercial educational radio station CJRT-FM (which receives 70 per cent of its funding from the Ontario government and 30 per cent from private donors).

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    CKNX Barn Dance

    "CKNX Barn Dance." 'Canada's Largest Travelling Barn Dance,' a radio show heard Saturday nights 1937-63 on CKNX, Wingham, Ont. Patterned after the barn dances first heard on US radio in the 1920s (see Country music), the CKNX Barn Dance was the longest-lived show of its kind in Canada.

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    Classical Quartet of Montreal/Quatuor classique de Montréal

    Classical Quartet of Montreal/Quatuor classique de Montréal. Founded in 1968 by Arthur Garami, violinist. Robert Verebes, violist, was the only other original member remaining when the quartet disbanded in 1976.

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    Clothing during the colonial period

    The colonization of eastern Canada began with the French in the 17th century. For some years, these settlers depended for clothing on what they brought with them.

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    CODCO

    After the Ontario performance, CODCO returned to Newfoundland and, following a run in St John's, toured the province.

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    College Songs and Songbooks

    North American college and university songs tend to be associated with a specific institution, unlike traditional student songs such as 'Gaudeamus igitur' and 'Integer vitae.

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    Collegiate Gothic and Other Revival Styles in 20th-Century Canadian Architecture

    From the 1880s, architects found late Gothic precedents appropriate for use in modern contexts. In Canada, an excellent example of the Collegiate Gothic style is HART HOUSE on the University of Toronto campus, one of the earliest and most comprehensive undergraduate student centres in North America.

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    Come From Away

    Come From Away is a Canadian musical based on the true story of how the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed stranded airline passengers into their homes in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The play, with book and music by Toronto-based husband-and-wife team Irene Sankoff and David Hein, was developed at Toronto’s Sheridan College. It enjoyed successful runs in Connecticut, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Toronto before becoming the sleeper hit of the 2016–17 season on Broadway. Come From Away has won more than two dozen awards, including three Dora Awards and a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. It also became the first Canadian show to win the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in London’s West End. A feature film adaptation was announced in November 2017.

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