Tag: Inducted 1994

Mart (Herbert Martin) Kenney was born in Toronto on March 7,1910. Kenney, an alto and baritone saxophonist and clarinetist who played during the late 1920s in the CJOR radio orchestra. Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, Canada’s leading dance band in the 1930s and 1940s was formed in 1931 for an engagement at Vancouver’s Alexandra…
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Evan Kemp was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but, it was growing up in the Canadian prairies that began his love for music. A childhood accident at the age of six left him almost blinded for the good part of a year and it was then that he began to listen and love the music…
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Juliette ( Juliette Augustina Sysak). was born in St Vital (Winnipeg), on Aug 26, 1927. She was taken to Vancouver at 10, was hired by and sang with Dal Richards’ Hotel Vancouver orchestra at 13, and made her CBC network debut on ‘Sophisticated Strings’ at 15. After a year (1943-4) in Toronto on Alan Young’s…
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Born in Montreal in 1940, died in 2003.  John was an Actor, director, theatre producer, writer and educator. He studied acting at the National Theatre School, and worked for two seasons at the Stratford Festival. In 1966 he taught theatre at Simon Fraser University and established “Savage God” – a theatre company named after W.B.…
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Gerald Jarvis was born in Vancouver on April 19, 1930. Jarvis studied violin in Vancouver 1935-8 with Frederick Geaves and 1938-48 with Douglas Stewart. He first played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestrain 1947. In 1948 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the RAM. He remained in England for several years, playing first with the…
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