“Daniel Mangan is a Canadian musician. He has won two Juno awards and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Australia, having released 5 studio LPs and numerous EPs and singles. He has scored for feature film, as well as television for Netflix and AMC. He is also a co-founder of Side Door, a marketplace platform connecting artists with alternative venue spaces for in-person and online shows.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mangan
Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820) was an English schoolmistress at Crofton Hall and writer of the famous book Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People (1800), generally known as “Magnall’s Questions,” which was prominent in the education of English girls in the first half of the 19th century.
Aaron Mangoff is a Songwriter/Composer with a background rock music, touring around Canada for over 10 years. His music ranges from metal to rock to accoustic folk. https://soundcloud.com/aaron-mangoff/reposts
William Edward Mann (1918-2012), writer and professor, was educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto (MTh 1949) where he also received his PhD in 1953. He served in the Anglican Church of Canada ministry from 1949 to 1959, during which time he was also a special lecturer at Trinity College, an assistant secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (1948-1949) and secretary of the Toronto Diocesan Council for Social Service (1953-1958). In 1959 Mann embarked upon his second career, teaching at the Ontario Agricultural College (1959) and the University of Western Ontario (1961). He joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Atkinson College, York University in 1965 and remained there until 1982. He served as chairman of that department from 1965 to 1968. Mann is the author of several books including "A Mann for all seasons" (1996), "The Quest for total bliss : a sociological interpretation of Rajneeshism," (1990), "Vital energy and health," (1989), "Orgone, Reich and eros," (1973), "Society behind bars" (1969), and others. He has edited several texts including "Canada : a sociological profile" (3rd ed., 1976), and is the author of numerous reports and studies. Mann died on 12 January 2012.
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Manuel was born to Maria and Rainbow in 1921, on the Secwepemc territory of the Shuswap people. Maria later married Louie Manuel and George took his last name. He was first educated at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, but contracted tuberculosis and was transferred to an Indian TB hospital on an Indian reservation near Chilliwack, British Columbia. It was there that Manuel met the woman who would become his first wife, Marceline Paul, a Kootenai woman from St. Mary's Indian Band. Together Manuel and Paul would have six children.
Unfortunately, Manuel's developing responsibilities as a political leader began to be a growing strain on his marriage. He was elected chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band. In 1959, following the death of his mentor Andy Paull, Manuel was elected head of the North American Indian Brotherhood. Soon after, he and Marceline separated. Not long after this, the federal Department of Indian Affairs hired Manuel for a position with the Cowichan Tribes government at Duncan. Manuel worked as a Community Development Officer, and increased the awareness of problems and conditions the Cowichan people were experiencing.
Manuel moved on from this position to a role with the Alberta Brotherhood, and developed a strong working relationship with the Cree political leader Harold Cardinal. Manuel networked extensively with chiefs across Canada during his time with the Alberta Brotherhood. Eventually Cardinal approached him to run for the position of national chief of the newly created National Indian Brotherhood, a body that would represent almost 250,000 Indians. After some time the National Indian Brotherhood would rename itself as the Assembly of First Nations, and Manuel would serve as its national chief from 1970 to 1976.
Building on this experience, in 1975 Manuel helped found and became the president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, a position he kept until 1981. In this role he travelled internationally, meeting with and advocating for the indigenous people of nations like Argentina, Chile, and Peru. This work was inspired by his thinking on the impact of successive waves of European expansion on Indigenous societies, a group he termed "the Fourth World." Manuel wrote a book expanding on this idea, co-written with Michael Posluns, which was published in 1975.
George Manuel was President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs[3] from 1979 to 1981, where he continued to inspire many into action. He developed the Aboriginal Rights Position Paper and organized what came to be regarded as one of the UBCIC's most ambitious projects – the Indian Constitutional Express. Under his leadership, the UBCIC worked hard to fulfil its mandate to the people. Under his leadership, the UBCIC grew in esteem of indigenous people for whom it was created and gained stature in the eyes of the general public. His legacy lives on at the UBCIC today.
Manuel was honoured several times for his lifetime of work representing both First Nations peoples in Canada and indigenous peoples worldwide. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was repeatedly recognized for his international work with the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. In 1983 he received an honorary degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1984, Manuel and Dr. Rudolph C. Ryser formed the Center for World Indigenous Studies.
His sons Robert Manuel and Arthur Manuel became active in indigenous politics.
His eldest daughter Vera Manuel became an internationally known playwright, and poet, as well as a highly respected leader in the community.
For more information, see Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Manuel .
Jose Eduardo Marchant (1927-2012) immigrated to Montreal on September 13, 1972. His life before is almost a complete mystery. Vidozaba Vucadinovich Marchant (1938- )arrived in Montreal in the early 1970s. In Montreal they met each other, married, and had one son, Jean-Pierre Marchant, born in 1975. In the late 1970s, the Marchant family sold their home in Montreal and moved to Calgary in search of economic opportunities. They lived there until the mid-2000s, whereupon the family uprooted and moved again.
Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866, Jersey - 18 February 1943, Oxford) was a British ethnologist. An exponent of the British evolutionary school, his work focused primarily on anthropology of religion. In this field he modified the theories of E. B. Tylor.
Marett was the only son of Sir Robert Pipon Marett, poet and Bailiff of Jersey, and Julia Anne Marett. He succeeded E.B. Tylor as Reader in Anthropology at Oxford in 1910, teaching the Diploma in Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He worked on the palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade from 1910-1914, recovering some hominid teeth and other remains of habitation by Neanderthal man. In 1914 he established a Department of Social Anthropology, and in 1916 he published "The Site, Fauna, and Industry of La Cotte de St. Brelade, Jersey" (Archaeologia LXVII, 1916). He became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. His students included Marius Barbeau, Dorothy Garrod, Earnest Albert Hooten, Henry Field and Rosalind Moss
Whereas E.B. Tylor had considered animism to be the earliest form of human religion, Marett was convinced that primitive man had not developed the intellectual ability to form the conceptual structures Tylor proposed, and this led Marett to criticize Tylor
Marion Andre, director, playwright and writer, was born Marian Andrzej Czerniecki on January 12, 1920 in Le Havre, France. Andre was raised in Poland, survived The Holocaust, and established his career in Poland before emigrating to Canada in 1957. Andre taught as a drama specialist for the Protestant School Board in Montreal before becoming artistic director of the city's Saidye Bronfman Centre in 1967. In 1971, Andre came to Toronto to work in the theatre program at York. In 1972, he founded Theatre Plus at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto where he remained artistic director until his retirement in 1985. Andre is the author of several plays and documentaries that were produced by CBC Radio and Television both in English and French. His theatre works, mostly dealing with Jewish life in Poland during the Nazi occupation, have been presented on stages in Toronto, London, and New York. He has also served as a board member of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, the largest, international co-operative undertaking in the history of world theatre.
The Mariposa Folk Festival was conceived and realized by Ruth Jones and her husband Dr. Casey Jones, two folk music enthusiasts. Pete McGarvey a local radio broadcaster and Orillia town councillor suggested the name "Mariposa" in honour of local author Stephen Leacock's fictional name for Orillia in his work Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
The first festival was held in August 1961 and featured Jacques Labreque, Bonny Dobson, The Travelers, Alan Mills and Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker. Mariposa has hosted many up-and-coming stars in Canadian folk and popular music. From Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot, all have performed in the early stages of their musical careers on the Mariposa stage.
The festival grew in popularity, size and rowdiness until the popularity of the 1963 festival (with over 8000 advance tickets sold), and the lack of sufficient security, led to a backlash from town locals. The city of Orillia secured a court injunction to prevent the festival from continuing in the town limits.
The festival moved to Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto, Innis Lake near Caledon until settling at the Toronto Islands in the 1970s. In the 1980s, the festival was moved to Harbourfront and Bathurst Quay and later Molson Park in Barrie. The 1990s also saw a shifting roster of venues. Toronto Island, Queen Street West, Parkdale, Ontario Place, as well as Bracebridge and Coburg all played host to Mariposa performers and workshops. In 2000, the Mariposa Folk Festival was invited back to Orillia by city councillors Tim Lauer and Don Evans.
In 2010, the Mariposa Folk Festival will celebrate its' 50th Anniversary.
(Material below from history written by Mariposa Folk Foundation)
Mariposa is Founded
On a cold January afternoon in 1961, radio personality John Fisher gave a short but enthusiastic speech to the Orillia Chamber of Commerce where he suggested that Orillia needed something such as an arts festival to promote the town as a tourist destination. In the audience that day was Dr. 'Casey' Jones and his wife Ruth, folk music enthusiasts, and within days the idea of starting a folk festival in Orillia had taken root. Ruth called upon Pete McGarvey, a local broadcaster and town councillor, who jumped aboard enthusiastically. He suggested the name "Mariposa" in honour of Stephen Leacock's thinly disguised fictional name for Orillia in his novella titled Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
On August 18, 1961 the very first Mariposa Folk Festival saw two thousand enthusiastic and generally well-behaved attendees set up their lawn chairs in front of a medieval-themed stage at the Orillia Community Centre. Double that number showed up on Saturday night to hear such artists as The Travellers, Bonnie Dobson, Jacques Labreque, Alan Mills and of course, Ian Tyson and his beautiful partner Sylvia Fricker.
One interesting story from that first festival was the fact that home town boy, Gordon Lightfoot, was deemed to be "not of high enough caliber" to perform. He and then-partner, Terry Whelan, were told that they sounded "too much like the Everly Brothers."
In 1962, virtually the same lineup appeared -- this time including Gordon and Terry, then billed as The Tu-Tones. 1963 was a different story and a turning point in the history of the festival. Over 8000 tickets sold in advance and, by the festival weekend, festival goers nearly outnumbered the townsfolk. Restaurants ran out of food, the roads and highways were jammed, and crowding and confusion reigned. The small police force was overwhelmed as it struggled to cope with the crowds, the drunkenness, and the petty vandalism. The backlash from the townsfolk and their elected officials was quick and unkind. The days of Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia were, so it seemed, done. The folkies and their rowdy behaviour were no longer welcome.
Mariposa on the Move
In 1964, the Town of Orillia got a court injunction and the festival was forced to go somewhere else. It moved to Maple Leaf stadium in Toronto, later to Innis Lake near Caledon, and finally to Toronto Island where it made its home for the 1970s. While not always a financial success, Mariposa built a reputation as the place to be among both audiences and performers. Artistic director Estelle Klein pioneered the idea of workshop performances and the idea was quickly adopted by nearly every festival in North America. Estelle also had an eye for talent. Among those she hired were Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gordon Lightfoot, Phil Ochs, John Hammond, Joni (Mitchell) Anderson, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, James, Taylor, Tom Rush, Leonard Cohen, Murray McLauchlan, Taj Mahal, John Prine, Richie Havens, Buddy Guy and Bruce Cockburn. Neil Young made a surprise guest appearance in 1972 as did Bob Dylan.
It was during the time at Toronto Island that the festival blossomed with its workshops, its artisans area and its "native people's area." Dance, craft and music were consistently of such high standards that audiences returned year after year despite changes in the popular music mainstream.
By 1980, the festival had moved to Harbourfront in Toronto and then over to Bathurst Quay in 1981. That year the rain made the festival site a quagmire and, despite a good artistic lineup, the festival lost a lot of money. In fact, things were so bad financially that no festival was held at all in 1982.
In 1984, Molson Breweries approached Mariposa organizers about moving the event to Molson Park in Barrie. A few meters off the main highway to Toronto, and with lots of trees and open spaces, it seemed a good fit for a folk music festival. A modest crowd of 2000 people attended that year and established a home for the festival for the next several years. By the time 1989 rolled around, crowds of 25,000 were commonplace. The next year though, unseasonable cold and rain all spoiled the fun, and the festival was in debt once again. To make matters worse, Mariposa and Molsons parted company, and the festival found itself on the road once again.
Ontario Place became the next home for Mariposa and for two years served that purpose. In 1993 it was back to the Toronto Island for daytime workshops and to Queen Street West for evening concerts. James Keelaghan, Colin Linden, the Irish Descendents, Holmes Hooke and Ann Lederman were among the widely recognized performers to appear that year. For the next couple of years, the festival followed that format, but poor weather and weak attendance put the festival into serious debt, yet again.
The Doldrum Years
By 1996, there were threatening noises that the festival would fold, just like in 1987 when last minute heroics by Lynne Hurry and Mariposa founder, Ruth Jones McVeigh, helped save the festival from extinction.
In 1996, there were two Mariposa festivals: one in Bracebridge and one in Cobourg. Mariposa in Bracebridge was a success but the one in Cobourg lost money. By the end of the 1990s, the festival had become a small, one-day festival in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto.
The Rising Phoenix
The City of Orillia had more than doubled in size since the festival was ignominiously given the boot in the early sixties. As was the case forty years earlier, there were individuals with foresight and imagination. City councillors Tim Lauer and Don Evans were like-minded individuals with an interest in folk music. Joined by fellow roots enthusiast Gord Ball, they cooked up a plan to approach Mariposa Folk Foundation about the chances of re-locating the festival to where it all began. It was a case of fortuitous good timing. With Mariposa scouting for a new location, the Foundation's board of directors was receptive to the request from the small party from Orillia.
Within weeks, a loose band of volunteers pulled together to form a not-for-profit organization, Festival Orillia Inc. (FestO), to stage the festival in Orillia, and to complete negotiations with Mariposa Folk Foundation.
Late in 1999, a three-year agreement to stage Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia was signed and the re-building began. In the ensuing months of intensive meetings, discussions and planning sessions, a strong bond and mutual trust developed between FestO Charter President, Gerry Hawes, and Mariposa Folk Foundation President, Lynne Hurry. By the time of Mariposa's triumphant return to Orillia in July 2000, the two had already cooked up a plan to make Orillia its permanent home. Less than a year into the three-year agreement, a Harmonization Committee was struck, leading to the eventual disbandment of FestO with Mariposa Folk Foundation continuing on, not only as the predecessor organization, but as the successor organization as well. To this day, the Mariposa Folk Foundation board of directors is comprised of people from Toronto, Orillia and elsewhere across Southern Ontario.
At the first festival back in Orillia in 2000 nearly 400 volunteers signed up, and a stellar cast of performers played to the delight of a large appreciative audience. Of course, it helped that hometown boy Gordon Lightfoot headlined the Sunday night finale. Since then, Mariposa Folk Festival has flourished in Orillia.
During past decade, the Mariposa Folk Foundation launched a Hall of Fame to recognize leaders and classic performers from its past. Mariposa has also entered into a Partnership with York University to protect, catalogue and digitize its nationally significant archive of folk music and materials.
In 2010, Mariposa Folk Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary, cementing its place internationally as one of the 'Grande Dames' of folk festivals.
Mariposa In The Schools (MITS) introduces Ontario young people to world oral cultural traditions, reaching 50 school communities each year with a repertoire of world music, dance, storytelling, spoken word and puppetry.
We believe that oral traditions and world performing arts, celebrate, critique and share knowledge and lead to cross-cultural understanding and inter-generational continuity, ultimately building more caring and joyful communities.
Our artists connect with children and youth in meaningful creative learning that challenges perceived abilities and racial and cultural stereotypes, as well as inspire us all to reflect, cooperate and build something that’s bigger than ourselves.
Since 1969 MITS has been committed to the principle of equity of access for all children. We invest our fundraising revenues in this cause, bringing affordable programs to under-resourced inner city, rural and First Nations communities across Ontario.
(from MITS website: http://www.mariposaintheschools.ca/)
In the summer of 1970, the Marlborough Avenue Ratepayers' Association, a part of the Avenue-Bay-Cottingham group, began a dispute with Marathon Realty Corporation over the building of the York Racquets Club on Marlborough Avenue. The boundaries of the dispute widened when it was learned that Marathon planned to build Summerhill Square, a combined retail and residential complex on land it owned in the area. Marathon later sold the property and the Square was not built. Jack Granatstein, a professor of history at York University, was a Director of the Avenue-Bay-Cottingham Ratepayers' Association in 1969, president in 1971, and a prime mover in the Marlborough Avenue Ratepayers' Association. His description of the dispute is contained in his book, 'Marlborough marathon: one street against a developer', (1971).
Domingos de Oliveira Marques was born 20 January 1949 in Ribeiro, Murtosa, the son of Francisco Marques and Augusta da Purificacao Oliveira.
His father was a cod fisher who had visited Saint John's Newfoundland while fishing the Grand Banks and Greenland. He attempted to immigrate in 1953 but was rejected due to his large family. The family eventually succeeded in 1957 when Marques' parents and siblings emigrated while he remained in Portugal in the seminary school at Aveiro. Domingos visited with his family in the summer of 1967. After graduating in 1968 and starting theological studies in Lisbon, Marques, having doubts about his future as a Catholic priest, returned to his family in Toronto in 1968. He worked in the tomato harvest in Chatham to repay his parents the cost of his travels. He worked several jobs, including as a journalist with "O Jornal Português" and in the Promotions Department of the Toronto Star before quitting to pursue a university degree full-time.
As a community activist, Marques was involved during the 1960s in the cultural and theatrical projects of the youth organization of the local St. Mary's Catholic parish and the cable 10 television program Luso-Brasileiro. In the 1970s he reported and edited the community newspaper "Comunidade." Marques taught Portuguese at the First Portuguese Community School at Harbord Collegiate Institute, as well as coordinating projects for the Portuguese Community from the West End YMCA. He edited and researched a book on the history Portuguese immigration to Canada with João Medeiros "Emigrantes Portugueses: 25 anos no Canadá", which was published in 1978.
In the late nineteen-seventies, Marques was self-employed and ran Marquis Printing and Publishing. In 1981, he joined the Workers Compensation Board as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, serving fifteen years in this role. In 1992 he published with Manuela Marujo "With hardened hands : a pictorial history of Portuguese immigration to Canada in the 1950s", a more official history of Portuguese Immigration to Canada.
A volunteer for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) and the Portuguese Interagency Network (PIN) in the 1980s, Marques was elected Trustee of the Separate School Board Ward 3-4 in 1991. He is married to Manuela Marujo.
Jane Marshland has managed arts organizations since 1970, and was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1982 to 1999. Jane was a co-founder of For Dance and Opera, co-founder and Director of Technical Assistance of The Creative Trust: Working Capital for the Arts, as well as co-founder and director of ARTS 4 CHANGE.
Dianne Lee Martin, lawyer, advocate and professor, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on 19 March 1945. She attended the University of Toronto, graduating with an BA (Hon) in 1973, followed by an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1976, and a LLM (with merit) from the University of London (1987). Martin began her legal career with an articling position at Toronto law firm Ruby and Edwardh and was called to the bar in 1978. She practised in the area of criminal law between 1978 and 1981 as a partner in Martin, Kainer & Fyshe and then as a partner in Martin & Gemmell from 1981 to 1989. From 1989 onwards, Martin was a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she taught in the LLM (criminal law) programme, and also served as the Academic Director of the Intensive Programme in Poverty Law from 1989 to 1992, the director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies from 1999 to 2002, and as the director of Clinical Legal Education from 2000-2001. She was the director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted from 1993 to 1997 and director of Osgoode Hall Law School's Innocence Project from 1997 until 2004.
Outside of her work at Osgoode Hall Law School, Martin was actively involved in the legal profession as a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association of Ontario (1979-1995), a member of the John Howard Society of Ontario (1981-1990), a member and director of Parkdale Community Legal Services (1989-2004), and a member of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan's York County Area Committee (1980-2004). She was a posthumous recipient of Legal Aid Ontario's Sidney B. Linden Award in 2005.
Martin was a co-author of three monographs, Criminal Sentencing Digest (1993), Principles of Evidence for Policing (1999), and The Law of Evidence: Fact Finding, Fairness and Advocacy (1999), in addition to numerous book chapters, reports and journal articles in the area of social justice/injustice and criminal law.
Martin died in Toronto on 20 December 2004.
Dr. James Martineau (21 April 1805 - 11 January 1900) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
For 45 years he was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in Manchester New College, the principal training college for British Unitarianism. His portrait, painted by George Frederick Watts is held at London's National Portrait Gallery, which also holds written correspondence between Martineau and Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson - who records that he "regarded Martineau as the master mind of all the remarkable company with whom he engaged". Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone said of Martineau; "he is beyond question the greatest of living thinkers".
Dr. James Martineau (April 21, 1805 – January 11, 1900) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
(1839-?). Daughter of James Dr. Martineau and Helen Higginson.
Jennifer Wootton Mascall is a dancer, modern dance choreographer, and educator. Mascall was born in Winnepeg, Manitoba on December 11, 1952. She graduated from York University with a BFA in Dance in 1974. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Mascall worked and studied in the US and Canada, notably under acclaimed choreographers, Twyla Tharp and Merce Cunningham. In 1989, she established her own dance company, Mascall Dance. Her choreography is known for pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance and has earned Mascall numerous awards, including the Canada Council Jacqueline Lemieux award (1982), a Dora Award (1983), and a Jessie Award (1987). Throughout her career, she has received commissions to produce works for Dancemakers, Winnepeg's Contemporary Dancers, and others. Since 2000, she has continued with her choreographic work, and has collaborated with other artists to produce site-specific performances.
Employed by the Smithsonian Institute.
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Henry William Massingham (May 25, 1860 - August 27, 1924) was an English journalist, editor of The Daily Chronicle from 1897-1899, and editor of The Nation from 1907 to 1923.
James Mavor (1854-1925), educator and author, was born and educated in Scotland. He was the second professor of political economy at the University of Toronto, beginning his appointment in 1892. Mavor was instrumental in assisting the emigration to Canada of the Doukhobors in 1916.
“Kirsten Maxwell is New York raised singer, songwriter, and artist, currently residing in South Carolina. Maxwell has toured extensively in the U.S, winning songwriting competitions, and performing in festivals across the country and in Canada. In 2015, she released her debut album, Crimson, and in June of 2018 she put out a self-titled EP.” https://www.bandsintown.com/a/10853451-kirsten-maxwell-music
William Babington Maxwell (1866-1938) was a British novelist. Born on June 4th 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.
He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston (i. e., Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in April, 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell. New International Encyclopedia
“Mayfly’s Landing originally formed in 2012, started as a solo project, and quickly evolving into a larger concept. By 2015 they adopted the 4-piece project sound that continues and prospers today, by 2016 they released a debut album, a much loved 5 song self-titled EP, produced and engineered by Epidemic Music Group. Mayfly’s Landing went on our first tour in the Summer of 2016 to the East Coast.” https://indiepulsemusic.com/2019/05/12/mayflys-landing/
"Mû Mbana multifaceted artist, singer, poet and composer. Shades and flavors of Africa germinated around the world. Born on the island of Bolama, Guinea-Bissau, grew up influenced by the music of his immediate surroundings, especially the female voices and religious music of the Brame (Mancanha) and Bidjugu peoples. Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and poet. The maturity of his music and the ins- truments that accompany it are as a material reflection of his soul of musician and artist." https://mu-mbana.com/biography/
Owen McBride is a Irish-Canadian Irish folk music performer, storyteller, and spoken word artist. "McBride was a key figure in the folk revival movement in Canada and in North American in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at major folk music festivals like the Mariposa Folk Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festivals.For this role, he was inducted in the Mariposa Folk Festival Hall of Fame in 2019." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_McBride
"Steven McCabe is a poet and multidisciplinary artist originally from the American midwest now living in Toronto. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Hierarchy of Loss (Ekstasis Editions, 2007). He has exhibited works on canvas, paintings on paper, collaborative artworks, mixed media sculpture and video. In 2006 he illustrated a chapbook, Orpheus and Eurydice: Before the Descent (LyricalMyrical Books), which he co-authored with Tanaz Nanavati." (Source: http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/contributors/steven-mccabe/)
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John McDermott is a Canadian tenor within the Celtic music genre. McDermott has three platinum albums and five Juno nominations.
Dorothy Anne Virginia McDonald-Evans (1928- ) was an associate professor in the Political Science Department of Atkinson College, 1973-1986 and served as chair of the department 1978-1982. She was a scholar of liberal democratic theory and an author of several articles on the topic. McDonald-Evans was a critic of C.B. MacPherson's 'Possessive individualism,' and she had a keen interest in Canadian parliamentary reform.
“[Brad McEwen] lives in Cambridge, Ontario Canada most of the time and in Stroud, Gloucestershire when possible. [His] instrument of choice is the Cittern and prefers English traditional music, but has become increasingly interested in traditional music from Canada, particularly Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. [McEwen is] in three bands, Cotillion (UK) www.cotillion.yolasite.com Hunter’s Corners www.hunterscorners.yolasite.com and Tethera www.tethera.webs.com (both Ontario). [He is] the founder/Artistic Director of the Mill Race Folk Society in Cambridge. www.millracefolksociety.com [An] annual festival has been going since 1993 and specializes in presenting traditional folk music from various cultures.” https://thesession.org/members/98626
"Eileen McGann is an Irish-Canadian folk singer, songwriter and traditional Celtic musician. Her album, Beyond The Storm, was Juno Award-nominated in 2002. She has released seven solo CDs and has established an almost 30-year career touring across North America and Great Britain." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_McGann_(musician)
Edgar Wardwell McInnis was an educator, author and university administrator, who was born in Charlottetown, P. E. I. on July 26, 1899. McInnis took his first degree (B. A. 1923) at the University of Toronto, after serving in the Canadian Heavy Artillery in the First World War. He was a Rhodes Scholar and he received further degrees in History from Oxford University (B.A. 1926, M.A. 1930), where he won the Newdigate Prize for English Verse. McInnis taught at Oberlin College, Ohio and the University of Toronto (1928-1952), and served as the President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1952-1960) prior to his appointment as the first faculty member and History professor of York University in 1960. McInnis taught History at York until his retirement in 1968, (Emeritus Professor of History, 1969-1973). He also served York as a University Orator, as Chair of the History Department, 1962-1968 and as Dean of Graduate Studies at the University, 1963-1965. He remained at Glendon College following the opening of the Keele Street campus in 1965. McInnis was a prolific writer. Notably, he twice won the Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction, first in 1943 for "The Unguarded Frontier: a History of American-Canadian relations" and second in 1945 for "The war: the fourth year". His "Canada: a Political and Social History" went through three editions in his lifetime and was a standard text for a generation of Canadian History students. In addition to numerous works on History and International Relations, McInnis published works of poetry, including "On the road to Arras," (1924) and "Eleven poems," which appeared in the anthology "Modern Canadian Poetry" (1930). Many of his works were written for a wider audience than the academic community, which reflected his activities outside of the university. In 1952 McInnis was a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nation's Seventh General Assembly. McInnis died on September 28, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario.
Stephen McKenna (1888-1967), author, was born in England and educated at Oxford University (MA 1914). His writing career was launched in 1912 with the publication of 'The reluctant lover'. He produced several novels of manners which were popular in the United Kingdom between the wars. An inveterate traveller, McKenna was in Africa, South America and the Caribbean during the 1920s and 1930s. He is the author of 'Sonia,' (1917), 'The education of Eric Lane,' (1921), 'The magic quest,' (1933), and several other titles.
“Chris McKhool is a Canadian violinist, producer, guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter. He has received numerous awards for his work, including four JUNO Award nominations and four Canadian Folk Music Awards for his various recordings.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McKhool
Murray McLauchlan is a British-Canadian country singer-songwriter and painter. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1993. http://www.murraymclauchlan.com/about/