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Vancouver (pronounced /vænˈkuːvər/) is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city is bounded by English Bay, Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River, the city of Burnaby, and the...
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Freelance software developer in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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| x Tyler Pirtle |
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| x R. Edward Gosnell |
R.E. Gosnell was British Columbia's first Provincial Archivist, an office to which he was appointed in 1908 while he also held the office of Legislative Librarian.
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| x William Kaye Lamb |
William Kaye Lamb, OC, FRSC (May 11, 1904 – August 24, 1999) was a Canadian historian, archivist, librarian, and civil servant.
Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Lamb received his B.A. in 1927 and M.A. in 1930 from the University of British...
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| x Markus Frind |
Markus Frind, CEO and Founder of Plentyoffish Media Inc. In 2003, Frind had to learn ASP.NET and to better learn the language, he built a dating website. The free dating website quickly grew in Canada and then spread, via word of mouth, to the U.K.,...
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| x Adriane Carr |
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Adriane Carr (born 1952) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first leader from 1983 to 1985, whereafter the party...
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| x Jim Mullin |
James Thomas "Jim" Mullin' (born September 15, 1968 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Vancouver-based broadcaster. He currently works with CKNW radio as their sports director, sportscaster, reporter and guest host for SportsTalk on CKNW and...
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| x Aaron Webster |
Aaron Webster (June 1959 - November 17, 2001) was a gay man living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who was beaten by a group of men close to a gay cruising area in a woody part of Stanley Park near Second Beach on November 17, 2001....
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| x Angelo Branca |
Angelo Ernest Branca (21 March 1903 - 3 October 1984) was a judge in British Columbia's Supreme Court and Court of Appeal from 1963 until 1978, a prominent Italian-Canadian leader, especially of the Vancouver Italian community, and a Canadian...
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| x Kash Heed |
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Kash P. Heed is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2009 provincial election, representing the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview.
He is currently serving as the Minister...
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| x Michael Shanks |
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Michael Garrett Shanks (b. December 15, 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson on the long-running science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
After graduating from the...
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| x Dylan Bruce |
Dylan Bruce (born April 21, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is an actor, who was raised in Seattle, Washington. Since November 2007, Bruce has portrayed Chris Hughes on CBS's daytime drama As the World Turns. In August 2008, Bruce was...
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| x Arthur Griffiths |
Arthur Griffiths is a Canadian businessperson, philanthropist, and candidate for political office. He is former owner of the Vancouver Canucks and General Motors Place, and chaired the Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Bid Society which helped to bring the...
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| x Levon Kendall |
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Levon Maxwell Simon Kendall (born July 4th, 1984, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian professional basketball player. He plays at both power forward and center. He is 2.09 m (6 ft 10 ¼ in) in height. He currently plays for the...
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| x Walter Belasco |
Walter Belasco (1864, Vancouver, Canada - 21 June 1939, San Francisco, California) was a Canadian silent film actor.
He starred with William Garwood in films such as Lord John in New York.
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| x Colin Miller |
Colin Fyfe Miller (born 4 October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire) is a Scottish-born Canadian professional football coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps (scoring 5 goals) in total.
Moving to Vancouver at...
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| x Ian Hacking |
Ian Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the...
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| x Michael Ames |
Michael M. Ames, CM, FRSC (June 19, 1933 – February 20, 2006) was a Canadian academic and Professor of Anthropology of the department of anthropology-sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received a...
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| x Mike James |
Mike B. James (born on July 21, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is one of a handful of professional Canadian rugby union players. Standing at 196 cm tall and weighing in at 110 kg, James is an imposing figure and is well known for his...
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| x Bill Leeb |
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Bill Leeb (born Wilhelm Anton Leeb, 21 September 1957, Vienna, Austria) is an electronic musician.
He moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 13. He was a high school student at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
Leeb...
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| x Jennifer Granholm |
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Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician, former Attorney General of Michigan, and the current Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Granholm became Michigan's first...
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| x Britt McKillip |
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Britt McKillip (born January 18, 1991 in British Columbia) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Reggie Lass in the cable series Dead Like Me and the movie Dead Like Me: Life After Death, based on the series.
Her father is the producer...
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| x Emmanuelle Vaugier |
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Emmanuelle Vaugier (born June 23, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Detective Jessica Angell on CSI: New York, Mia on Two and a Half Men, and Dr. Helen Bryce on Smallville. In feature films, Vaugier...
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| x Ann Mortifee |
Ann Mortifee, CM (born 30 November 1947 in Zululand, South Africa) is a Canadian-based singer-songwriter, writer and speaker. After emigrating to Canada in childhood, she spent her youth in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the beginning of her...
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| x Juliette |
Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, CM (born 27 August 1926, St. Vital, Manitoba), nicknamed "Our pet", is a Canadian singer and television host who was featured on CBC Television from the 1950s through the 1970s.
The daughter of Polish-Ukrainian...
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| x Chris Bradshaw |
Christopher John (Chris) Bradshaw (born 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian politician and business person. He served as interim leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2001 to 2003, and has sought public office as a candidate of the...
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| x Gerald Smedley Andrews |
Gerald Smedley Andrews, CM, MBE, OBC, FRGS (December 12, 1903 – December 5, 2005) was a Canadian frontier teacher, farm and ranch hand, cook, horse wrangler, engineer and soldier.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was educated in Vancouver, Toronto,...
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| x Chiara Zanni |
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Chiara Zanni (born July 19, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia to Italian parents) is a Canadian actress & voice actress, performing in movies such as BIONICLE: Mask of Light as Hahli, playing the role of Hamtaro in the TV anime cartoon series...
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| x Penelope Corrin |
Penelope Anne Corrin (born 28 November 1975 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and writer.
She is nationally seen on CBC Television's Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy broadcasts as a replacement cast member while Jessica Holmes was on...
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| x Don Taylor |
Don Taylor (born September 25, 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian television and radio sportscaster.
He currently hosts Rogers Sportsnet Pacific's nightly sports news program Sportsnet Connected and also co-hosts the weekday...
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| x Michael Ontkean |
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Michael Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a Canadian actor.
Ontkean was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel (née Cooper), an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor.
Ontkean is best known for early roles in the film Slap...
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| x Tim Bowling |
Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has also written three novels.
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| x Craig Culpan |
Craig Culpan (born May 17, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Auckland, New Zealand) is a Canadian rugby union footballer. Culpan currently is a member of the Canadian national team.
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| x Jeff Francis |
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Jeffrey William Francis (born January 8, 1981, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. It is expected that he will miss all of the 2009 season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on...
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| x Gwynyth Walsh |
Gwynyth Walsh is a Canadian actress.
She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Vancouver. Walsh earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta and started her career appearing on stage across Canada and in the U.S. in many...
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| x Charles Loewen |
General Sir Charles Falkland Loewen GCB, KBE, DSO (1900 - 1986) was a Canadian born and educated soldier who became Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom.
Educated at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, where he...
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| x Joely Collins |
Joely Collins (born August 8, 1972) is a Canadian actress.
Collins is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli, and adopted daughter of Phil Collins following their marriage. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and studied at The Vancouver Youth...
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| x Francesco Aquilini |
Francesco Aquilini is the Managing Director of Vancouver-based Aquilini Investment Group. He is the current owner of the Vancouver Canucks and GM Place.
Aquilini attended Templeton Secondary School, where he was an excellent athlete and mediocre...
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| x Dave Barrett |
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David Barrett, OC (born 2 October 1930 in Vancouver, British Columbia), commonly known as Dave Barrett, was a politician and social worker in British Columbia, Canada. He was Premier of British Columbia for three years between 1972 and 1975, the...
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| x Kevin Ham |
Dr. Kevin Ham is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Reinvent Technology, Inc. A medical doctor by profession, he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.
Kevin Ham entered the Internet in 1999, when he founded his first...
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| x Joe Cowan |
Joseph William Cowan (born September 15, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former Canadian-born American college football wide receiver for the UCLA Bruins.
He played at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California. There he played...
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| x Steve Larsen |
Steve Larsen (born January 26, 1975 in Langley, British Columbia) is a bobsleigher for the Canadian Olympic Team, and participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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| x Jeff McLean |
Jeffrey A. McLean (born October 6, 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired National Hockey League player. In the 1993–94 season, he played 6 games for the San Jose Sharks and scored 1 goal.
Jeff McLean's career stats at The Internet Hockey...
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| x Alexander Duncan McRae |
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Alexander Duncan McRae, C.B., (November 17, 1874 in Glencoe, Ontario – June 26, 1946, Ottawa, Ontario) was a successful businessman, a Major General in the Canadian Army in First World War, a Member of Parliament, a Canadian Senator and a farmer....
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| x John Anson |
John Anson (born April 7, 1949) is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, known by his ring name "Handsome" John Anson, who competed in North American and Japanese promotions from the mid-1960s until the early-1980s, including International...
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| x Gabrielle Miller |
Gabrielle Sunshine Miller (born November 9, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress.
She was a cast member of the Canadian television series Corner Gas, for which she won a shared Gemini Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in a...
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| x Troy Brouwer |
Troy Brouwer (born August 17, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Brouwer was drafted 214th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago...
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| x David Paetkau |
David E. Paetkau (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian actor who is perhaps best known for his roles of Evan Lewis in Final Destination 2 (2003) (in which his character meets a grisly fate with a ladder) and the deceased Beck McKaye in Whistler ...
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| x Nick Sandhu |
Hagurnek ("Nick" of "Niki") Sandhu (born January 26, 1962 in Jamsher Khas, Jullandhar, Punjab, India) is a former field hockey defender.
Sandhu participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada, starting in 1984. After having finished in...
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| x Conchita Campbell |
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Conchita Elizabeth Campbell (born October 25, 1995) is a Canadian actress.
Campbell was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known for her role as Maia Skouris on the hit USA channel miniseries and show The 4400, on which she portrays a child...
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| x Dave Ogilvie |
Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer and musician. He is a producer of industrial music and has been associated with bands such as Skinny Puppy (as longtime producer and onetime member), The Birthday Massacre (as producer for their 2007...
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| x Greg Anderson |
Greg Anderson (born 5 April 1961) is a Canadian actor who lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife and son. He was born in Chatham Head, New Brunswick. Although an established stage actor, he is best known for his roles on television...
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| x Duncan Suttles |
Duncan Suttles (born 21 December 1945) is an International Grandmaster of chess who was the strongest Canadian player between the eras of Abe Yanofsky and Kevin Spraggett. He is one of the few over-the-board grandmasters who also holds the title of...
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| x Joaquin Gage |
Joaquin Jesse Gage (born October 19, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional ice hockey goaltender. He spent his junior career with the Portland Winter Hawks of the WHL. Gage was selected in the fifth round of the 1992 NHL...
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| x Aaron Strate |
Aaron Strate was a MuchMusic VJ. He won the Canadian music channel's 2002 VJ Search, and stayed at the station for only a couple of months, before returning to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he had grown up, to further his studies.
He now spends...
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| x Dolores Claman |
Dolores Claman (July 6, 1927 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for composing the theme song, known simply as The Hockey Theme, for Hockey Night in Canada, a song often regarded as Canada's...
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| x Elise Estrada |
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Elise Estrada (born July 30, 1987 in Marikina City, Philippines) is a Canadian pop singer from Surrey, British Columbia. She is of Filipino descent.
At age 17, Estrada won the title of Ms. Vancouver Princess in 2004. She later became the first...
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| x Bill Smart |
William ("Bill") Smart (born June 5, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired male middle distance runner from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. He claimed the silver medal in...
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| x Nat Bailey |
Nat Bailey (January 31, 1902 – March 27, 1978) was a restaurateur most well-known for building the first drive-in restaurant in Canada, in 1928, and developing the first car-hop tray.
Born Nathaniel Ryal Bailey, he moved from St. Paul, Minnesota to...
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