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- Joseph Légaré (March 10, 1795 - June 21, 1855) was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. Légaré painted a number of works depicting the "customs of North American Indians".However, some of his more memorable works include: First Monastery of the Ursulines at Quebec, Memorials of the Jesuits of New France, The Martyrdom of Brothers Brebeuf and Lalement and The Battle of Sainte-Foy.
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Calixa Lavallée was born on 28 December 1842 in Verchères, Quebec, Canada. Calixa died on 21 January 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.- Acton Davies was born in 1870 in St. Jean's, Québec, Canada. Acton was a writer, known for The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914) and Tillie's Tomato Surprise (1915). Acton died on 12 June 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Charles J. Ross was born on 18 February 1859 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Death of Nancy Sykes (1897), The Senator (1915) and The Great Diamond Robbery (1914). He was married to Mabel Fenton. He died on 15 June 1918 in North Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
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Dark Cloud was born on 20 September 1861 in St. Francis Indian Village, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for What Am I Bid? (1919), The Dishonored Medal (1914) and The Woman Untamed (1920). He was married to Margaret Camp. He died on 17 October 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Wilfrid Laurier was born on 20 November 1841 in St. Lin, Québec, Canada. He was married to Zoe Lafontaine. He died on 17 February 1919 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Fred Hallen was born on 1 January 1858 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Scrub Lady (1917). He was married to Mollie Fuller and Enid Hart. He died on 27 February 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Born in Montreal, Canada, Frederick A. Thomson--not to be confused with cowboy star Fred Thomson--had a 20-year career on the stage as an actor and producer before entering the film industry. He was a longtime director at Vitagraph, although he would occasionally appear in the studio's films as an actor. He directed his last film in 1921, and after appearing in A Tailor-Made Man (1922) for United Artists in 1922, he left the business.
He died in Hollywood of heart problems in 1925. He was 55.- Carrie Turpin was born in 1882 in Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Snakeville's Hen Medic (1915), Too Much Turkey (1915) and Their First Misunderstanding (1911). She was married to Ben Turpin. She died on 3 October 1925 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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Began as an actor, then as director and producer at the Suburban Garden Theatre in St. Louis, then at the Academy of Music in New York, where he was hired by William Fox to direct films in 1914. He directed 22 films starring Theda Bara, who called him "the nicest director I ever worked with." His grandson is the director Blake Edwards.- Editorial Department
Considered to be one of the greatest goaltenders of all time, Georges Vezina was born in Chicoultimi, Quebec, He joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1910-11 and for the next 15 years, he played a total of 328 consecutive games and 39 more in the playoffs.
Nicknamed the "Chicoultimi Cucumber", for his grace and coolness under pressure, he comes from an era when there were no backup goaltenders on a team and goaltenders were not permitted to drop to their knees to stop a puck. He played a stand-up style of goaltending.
He helped the Canadiens to five championship teams and to two Stanley Cup winning teams in the 1915-16 and the 1923-24 seasons.
His last game was on November 28, despite severe chest pains, which were the first signs of tuberculosis and he had to retire after one period. Stories were that when he left the team, what he wanted to take with him, was his jersey he wore when he helped the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup. Tuberculosis took his life on March 26, 1926.
In his honor, the Vezina Trophy is awarded to the top goaltender in the National Hockey League, as decided by the National Hockey League general Managers. The Trophy was presented to the NHL before the 1926-27 season by Montreal Canadiens owners Leo Dandurand, Leo Letourneau and Joseph Cattaranich.
Vezina was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 as one of the first inductees. In addition, 11 others who were inducted into the Hall that year. That class includes, Art Ross, for whom the NHL's scoring title is named after and Lord Stanley of Preston, The "Father" of the Stanley Cup.- Clarence Handyside was born in 1854 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Jungle (1914), The Turn of the Wheel (1918) and Mice and Men (1916). He was married to Blanche Sharp and Kate D. Baker. He died on 20 December 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Raoul Barre was born on 29 January 1874 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Cartoons in the Hotel (1915), Cartoons in the Parlor (1915) and The Animated Grouch Chaser (1915). He was married to Antoinette. He died on 21 May 1932 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.- Actor
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James Durkin was born on 21 May 1876 in Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Perils of Pauline (1933), Who Killed Simon Baird? (1916) and The Clarion (1916). He was married to Maude Fealy and Alice Naylor. He died on 12 March 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Martin Brown was born on 22 June 1884 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Paris (1929), The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) and Java Head (1934). He died on 13 February 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.
- André Bessette was born on 9 August 1845 in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, Canada. He died on 6 January 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Edward E. Rose was born on 11 February 1862 in Stanstead, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Murder in the Private Car (1934), The Rosary (1915) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). He was married to Dorothy Stanton (actress). He died on 2 April 1939 in Fremont, Wisconsin, USA.
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Mary-Rose-Anne Travers was born 4 June 1894 in Newport, Gaspésie in Québec. Born into a large family of Irish (Lawrence Travers) and French Canadian (Adéline Cyr) descent, he left home at 13 to earn her living in Montreal. A gifted child, she had learned easily to play the violin, the harmonica, the button accordion, and the jew's-harp. To pay for her trip to Montreal she played the violin in the main street of Newport while selling Red Pills - a patent medicine. In Montreal she worked at first as a domestic, then married Édouard Bolduc, a plumber, on 17 Aug 1914 and raised a large family. She began to perform publicly out of economic necessity.
After she accompanied the singer Ovila Légaré in a recording session, she was recommended to Conrad Gauthier, organizerof the Veillées du bon vieux temps at the Monument National. She was engaged at first as a violoneuse, but in 1927 Gauthier encouraged her to sing for the first time in public. Such was her success that Gauthier suggested that she compose some songs. Though she was scarcely known, her recordings of 'La Cuisinière' and 'La Servante,' issued on a Starr 78, quickly sold some 12,000 copies - a success unprecedented in Quebec at the time. There followed other songs and recordings which enjoyed great popularity because of their humour, frankness, and inimitable style of embellishment, with 'turlutages' or comic ritornelles produced by clicking the tongue against the palate. She performed tirelessly in Canada and the USA and continued to record, completing 85 songs on 43 78s for the Starr label before her death. Apex and MCA Coral have reissued many of her songs.
This likeable, joyous, and dynamic woman, composed her songs as she lived, wilfully, intuitively, guided by an uncommon sense of observation. She was Canada's first chansonnière in the true sense of the word, in that her verses deal with real life and, seen as a whole, reflect vividly the particular climate of the 1930s in Quebec. The daily problems and the material difficulties of ordinary people are reflected in her songs: 'Le Commerçant des rues,' 'L'Enfant volé,' 'Les Cinq Jumelles,' 'Les Colons canadiens,''La Grocerie du coin,' 'Les Agents d'assurance,' 'Les Conducteurs de chars,' and others.
In 1937, Mary and her troop members were victims of a car accident in the parish of Sacré-Coeur, near Rimouski. The singer survives with a double fracture of the right leg, broken nose, strong bruises and a concussion. She cancels the current tour, but decides to honor the contracts of the actors. As for the rest, she will suffer from aphasia and loss of memory for two long years, which affects her career. She died on February 20, 1941 at the age of 46 following cancer.- Urbain J. Ledoux was born on 13 August 1874 in Ste Hélène de Bagot, Quebec, Canada. He was married to Mary Hall and Carmeline Pauschand. He died on 8 April 1941 in New York, New York, USA.
- Veda Buckland was born on 25 August 1882 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), This Mad World (1930) and Doctor Bull (1933). She was married to Wilfred Buckland. She died on 20 May 1941 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Canadian writer Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1877. His parents were Americans who moved to Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1897 with a B.Sc., and the next year attended the University of Liege in Belgium for a post-graduate course. He returned to Canada later that year, moved to the US and got a job as a civil engineer.
He began his writing career in 1906, submitting stories to magazines. He had worked in maintenance shops for the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and had experience as an engraver, so many of his stories had a railroad setting. He also wrote a series of detective books using the characters Jimmie Dale and Shanghai Jim, and his Jimmie Dale series--about the adventures of a daring safecracker--sold more than 2,000,000 copies.
He died at his home in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, in 1942, leaving a wife and three sons. - W.S. McDunnough was born on 15 December 1863 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Afraid to Fight (1922) and Those Who Dance (1924). He died on 1 July 1942 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Will James was born on 6 June 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-D'Acton, Quebec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Sand (1949), Lone Cowboy (1933) and Smoky (1946). He was married to Alice Conradt. He died on 3 September 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Robert Hobart Davis was born on 23 March 1869 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Robert Hobart was a writer, known for The Bugler of Algiers (1916), Love and Glory (1924) and The Miracle Man (1932). Robert Hobart was married to Madge Lee Hutchinson. Robert Hobart died on 11 October 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- J. Robert Pauline was born on 11 June 1874 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Mystery Mind (1920). He died on 11 November 1942 in Rochester, New York, USA.
- Marie-Victorin was born on 3 April 1885 in Kingsey Falls, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada. He died on 15 July 1944 in Sainte-Rosalie, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada.
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Fred Held was born on 12 June 1867 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Fred was a cinematographer and executive, known for The Glory of Yolanda (1917), The Girl in His House (1918) and An American Live Wire (1918). Fred died on 5 January 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Percy Moore was born on 19 September 1877 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Shock Punch (1925). He was married to Helen Stewart (actress). He died on 8 April 1945 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Susanne Leach was born on 17 August 1865 in Brompton, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress. She died on 16 August 1945 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Eva Tanguay was born in Marbleton, Québec, Canada, on August 1, 1878. A stage actress early on, Eva went into vaudeville as soon as she got the chance and performed there for years, becoming known as "The Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous". She was a late comer to the world of movies; had she been born 20 years later, she probably would have been a bona fide star on the screen. She was 38 when she appeared in her first motion picture, Energetic Eva (1916). Her next--and last--film was The Wild Girl (1917).
Eva died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, on January 11, 1947. She was 69 years old. - Actress
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Louise Beaudet was born on 5 December 1859 in Lotbinere, Québec, Canada. She was an actress and writer, known for The Goddess (1915), The Gold Diggers (1923) and The Man Behind the Door (1914). She died on 31 December 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Matheson Lang was born on 15 May 1879 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Drake the Pirate (1935), Carnival (1921) and Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922). He was married to Nellie Hutin Britton. He died on 11 April 1948 in Bridgetown, Barbados.- Muriel Starr was born on 20 February 1888 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Within the Law (1916). She was married to Walter Hartwell Johnson (Wrigley Gum director, Aus.). She died on 19 April 1950 in New York, USA.
- Lucien Martin was born on 30 May 1908 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for A Man and His Sin (1949). He died on 20 October 1950 in Montreal, Canada.
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was born on 5 March 1867 in Québec, Québec, Canada. He was married to Adine Dionne. He died on 6 July 1952 in Québec, Québec, Canada.
- Henri Bourassa was born on 1 September 1868 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was married to Joséphine Papineau . He died on 31 August 1952 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Raymond Lovell was born on 13 April 1900 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952) and Who Killed Van Loon? (1948). He was married to Tamara Desni and Margot Collis. He died on 1 October 1953 in London, England, UK.
- Henri Letondal was born on 29 June 1901 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Madame Bovary (1949), Monkey Business (1952) and Dangerous When Wet (1953). He died on 15 February 1955 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Gertrude H. Anderson was born on 7 May 1898 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She was a writer, known for What Love Can Do (1916). She died on 3 June 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- William Langford was born in 1920 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Den underbara lögnen (1955), Foreign Intrigue (1951) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died on 20 July 1955 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Eddie Houghton was born in 1867 in Québec City, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Where There's a Will (1936). He died on 20 May 1956 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA.
- Albert Duquesne was born on 5 November 1890 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Les lumières de ma ville (1950), Le père Chopin (1945) and Farm Electrification (1946). He was married to Marthe Thierry. He died on 20 May 1956 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Norman Field was born on 4 January 1881 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Destination Big House (1950), Invitation (1952) and The Twonky (1953). He died on 11 September 1956 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Adélard Godbout was born on 24 September 1892 in Saint-Éloi, Québec, Canada. He was married to Dorilda Fortin. He died on 18 September 1956 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Nanette Bordeaux was born on 3 April 1911 in St. George, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Women in Bondage (1943), Pest Man Wins (1951) and My Little Margie (1952). She was married to Paul-Émile Lavallée. She died on 20 September 1956 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Montreal-born Huntley Gordon was educated in both Canada and England, and upon completing his education took a job with the Bank of Montreal, later starting his own stock trading firm. However, he had had a taste of "the stage" in amateur productions, and soon gave up the business life for that of an actor, moving to New York and eventually managing to get small parts in Broadway productions. As luck would have it, one day he ran into a friend who was on his way to the Lambs Club to offer an actor who was living there a part in a film being shot by Vitagraph in New York City. Gordon said that he would take the part, and he was soon in front of the cameras. Director Ralph Ince took Gordon under his wing and secured him a contract with Vitagraph. Gordon became a reliable leading man and character actor in silents and, unlike many of his contemporaries, easily made the transition into sound films. He made his last film in 1941. He died of a heart attack at his home in Van Nuys, CA, in 1956.
- Nels Stewart was born on 29 December 1902 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died on 21 August 1957.
- Joy Lafleur was born on 25 June 1914 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Matinee Theatre (1955), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Sins of the Fathers (1948). She was married to Henri Grier Lafleur. She died on 6 November 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Camillien Houde was born on 13 August 1889 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He died on 11 September 1958.
- Cecil Yapp was born on 4 April 1879 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Silver King (1919) and The Second Son (1915). He died on 4 February 1959 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.