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    Yolande Deslauriers-Husaruk

    Yolande Deslauriers-Husaruk, soprano (born 14 June 1938 in Montréal, QC). 

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    Yolande Grisé

    Yolande Grisé, CM, FRSC, academic, writer, advocate for French language, arts and culture (born 1944 in Montreal, QC). Throughout her career, Grisé has promoted French language and culture in Canada. She supervised the first doctoral thesis on French literature at the University of Ottawa in 1983, developed the first cultural policy for Francophones living in Ontario in the early 1990s and was the first director at the Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs at Simon Fraser University, which oversaw the first bilingual degree program in British Columbia. Grisé was also president of the Ontario Arts Council (1991–94) and the Royal Society of Canada (2011–13).

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    Yolande Teillet Schick

    Yolande “YoYo” Schick (née Teillet), baseball player (born 28 September 1927 in St. Vital, Manitoba; died 26 January 2006 in Winnipeg, Manitoba). Yolande Teillet was one of the first Métis women to play professional baseball. From 1945 to 1947, she played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The league, which ran from 1943 to 1954, was established during the Second World War and later immortalized in the movie A League of Their Own (1992). Yolande Schick (née Teillet) was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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    Yolande Villemaire

    Yolande Villemaire, teacher, writer (b at St-Augustin-des-Deux-Montagnes, Qué 28 Aug 1949). After studying dramatic arts at UQAM, where she received her BA (1970) and MA (1974), she taught creative literature at the Rosemont CEGEP.

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    York Winds

    York Winds. Wind quintet formed in Toronto in 1972.

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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 (born 16 April 1965) is leader of the Bloc Québécois, a federal political party that promotes Quebec’s interests and Quebec sovereignty in the House of Commons.

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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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