• Graham Spry, CC (February 20, 1900 – November 24, 1983) was a Canadian broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist. He was the husband...
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  • sports journalist Graham Spooner (1933–2015), Australian rules footballer Graham Spring (born 1961), Australian cricketer Graham Spry (1900–1983), Canadian...
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  • Eunice Spry (born 1944), British criminal Graham Spry (1900–1983), Canadian broadcaster Irene Spry (1907–1998), Canadian economic historian John Spry (priest)...
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  • Irene Mary Spry, OC (née Biss: Standerton, Transvaal Colony, August 28, 1907 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 16, 1998) was an economic historian and...
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  • Documentary. Robin Spry was born in Toronto, Ontario to Canadian broadcast pioneer and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation founder Graham Spry CC, and economic...
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  • (French: Ligue canadienne de la radio) was a public pressure group led by Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt to mobilize support for the establishment of public broadcasting...
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    over its rival, CP. This, the CNR Radio, is the forerunner of the CBC. Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt lobbied intensely for the project on behalf of the Canadian...
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  • Sun, publication of the United Farmers of Ontario until purchased by Graham Spry). The group further contributed to Canada's political and intellectual...
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    contributors include Marshall McLuhan, Marcel Dzama, Andrew Coyne, Nahlah Ayed, Graham Spry and Izzy Asper. The Manitoban starts advertising for the position of...
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  • Lib Spry is a Canadian director, playwright, and academic. She is a co-founder of Company of Sirens and Straight Stitching Productions and served as the...
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    Château Laurier hotel, while the television division operated out of the Graham Spry Building in the Westboro neighbourhood. The CBC's Parliamentary Bureau...
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    the Blind (CNIB). In 1993, Walsh was chosen to deliver the prestigious Graham Spry lecture which was broadcast nationally on CBC Radio. In 1994, Walsh addressed...
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    important figures in Canadian history, including acquaintances such as Graham Spry, Charles Ritchie, Lester B. Pearson, and William Lyon Mackenzie King...
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    1992) January 8 – Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962) February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d...
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    Candidate Votes % ±%   Conservative Thomas Langton Church 13,227   Liberal Harold Proctor Snelgrove 10,721   Co-operative Commonwealth Graham Spry 4,649...
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    the increasingly popularity of broadcast hockey games. Pressure from Graham Spry and the Canadian Radio League encouraged Mackenzie King to request a...
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    Thomas Langton Church 11,380 Liberal Harold P. Snelgrove 7,527 Co-operative Commonwealth Graham Spry 5,167 Reconstruction John C. MacCorkindale 3,793...
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    government showed huge concern with how television affected Canadians. Graham Spry, founder and spokesperson of the Canadian Radio League, stated about...
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  • Canada, Charles Ritchie, a civil servant and later a prominent diplomat, Graham Spry, a writer and broadcast pioneer who later helped form the Canadian Radio...
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  • CCF as individuals. The UFO's newspaper, The Farmer's Sun, was sold to Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt and became an organ for the League for Social Reconstruction...
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  • 1923 2010 October 30, 2003 May 14, 2004 Member of the Order of Manitoba Graham Spry 1900 1983 December 18, 1970 March 31, 1971 Louis St. Laurent 1882 1973...
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    Dressup was added in the building lobby. Adjacent to the museum is the Graham Spry Theatre, a 40-seat venue projects video onto a screen made to look like...
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    Rosa 'Constance Spry' is a light pink shrub rose introduced into Great Britain in 1961. It is the first rose cultivar commercially developed by British...
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  • seat in the Legislature. He continued as party president until 1941. Graham Spry, a publisher and broadcaster who was also a member of the LSR, served...
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    Dishes of the World. London: Nelson. Constance Spry, Rosemary Hume (1979 [1956]). The Constance Spry Cookery Book. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330233106...
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  • Australia Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (1949–1964) Graham Spry University of Manitoba University 1922 Canada Broadcaster and diplomat...
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  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation of Ontario in 1934, the paper was sold to Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt who renamed it New Commonwealth and operated it as the...
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    (b.1907) October 20 - Yves Thériault, author (b.1915) November 24 - Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (b...
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  • Dick O'Shea 14 8 1930–1931 1930 119 Arthur Smith 2 0 1930 1930 120 Bill Spry 9 0 1930–1931 1930 121 Syd Barker Jr. 41 4 1930–1933 1930 122 Joe McElholum...
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    floribundas. His first commercially successful rose cultivar was 'Constance Spry', which he introduced in 1961. He created a new, informal class of roses...
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