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Susan Jacks was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a Canadian singer/songwriter who shot to international fame as part of the Poppy Family with then-husband Terry Jacks, a member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame. Her first recording “Which Way You Going Billy” sold 3 million records worldwide and became #1 in Canada and #2 on Billboard in the USA.…
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A British Columbia -based actor/singer/director/choreographer whose career spans over four decades. He is probably best known around the world for his appearances on children’s television. However, Mr. Hyslop has also had a fruitful career in theatre, particularly on the musical stage. He has appeared across the nation in lead roles in works as varied as…
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“When I was 12,” Rick Honey remembers, “my father who was a policeman, took me to a different business every week to see what my career would be.” One of those places in Winnipeg must have been a radio station, because not long after that, he started working as an operator and music librarian at…
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As an actor, director and teacher, Antony Holland was a mainstay of the Vancouver theatrical scene after he arrived in the late 1950s from his native England, where he had been Vice-Principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1965 he founded Studio 58 at Langara College and for 20 years was instrumental in shaping…
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(John) Gordon Hilker – B COM (British Columbia) 1934.  Impresario, producer, born in Vancouver in 1913, died in 1991. His mother was a music teacher and he studied piano for some 12 years. In 1936 he brought Martha Graham and her dancers to Vancouver, in 1937 he initiated the Greater Artists Series, and in the…
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