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    Mifflin Gibbs

    Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, politician, judge, diplomat, banker, entrepreneur (born 17 April 1823 in Philadelphia, PA; died 11 July 1915, in Little Rock, AR). Gibbs was a notable figure in both American and Canadian history. In just over a decade in colonial British Columbia, he prospered in business, advocated for the Black community, served as an elected official and helped guide British Columbia into Confederation. Gibbs was the first Black person elected to public office in what is now British Columbia.

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    Mikael Eliasen

    Mikael Eliasen. Pianist, accompanist, teacher, administrator, b Copenhagen 3 Dec 1944, naturalized Canadian 1972; L MUS (Montreal) 1966.

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    Mikaël Kingsbury

    Mikaël Kingsbury, freestyle skier (born 24 July 1992 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, QC). Mikaël Kingsbury won the silver medal in men’s moguls at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and the gold medal in moguls at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang (see Freestyle Skiing). In International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup competition, he has won seven Crystal Globes as the overall champion of freestyle skiing (2012–18) and the World Cup moguls title for seven straight years (2012–18). As of December 2018, he had won a record 50 World Cup gold medals and 74 medals overall in moguls competition, as well as seven medals at the world championships. Also in 2018, Kingsbury became the first freestyle skier to win the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year.

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    Mike Bossy

    Michael "Mike" Bossy, hockey player (born 22 January 1957 in Montreal, QC; died 15 April 2022 in Montreal). After starring for the Laval Nationals in junior, Bossy joined the New York Islanders in 1977-78. He scored 53 goals that year, becoming the first rookie in National Hockey League history to record a 50 goal season, a feat that earned him the Calder Trophy. He proved this was not a fluke by registering 50 or more goals for each of the next eight seasons, including a remarkable 50 goals in the first 50 games of the 1980-81 season, equalling the 26-year-old record established by Maurice Richard.

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    Mike Brown

    Mike Brown, swimmer (b at Perth, Ont, 5 May 1984). A two-time Olympic Games competitor, Brown has solidified himself as one of the best swimmers in the world.

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    Mike Bullard (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 28, 1998. Partner content is not updated. Outside John Brunton's office in the old Masonic Temple, workers are ripping out the guts of the historic downtown Toronto edifice, putting in lights and drop ceilings, toilets and showers and walls, transforming the storied concert venue into a state-of-the-art TV studio.

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    Mike Ford

    Michael Ford, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (born 27 September 1962). Mike Ford was a member of the popular alternative pop-folk group Moxy Früvous, for which he sang and played a variety of instruments from 1990 to 2001.

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    Mike John Hoolboom

    Of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, Hoolboom used his father's Super 8 camera to shoot much of his early work, in which he is fascinated with dismantling the mechanics of meaning: how language and narrative work, how physicality determines perception, how film itself conveys ideas.

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    Mike Lazaridis

    Mihal (Mike) Lazaridis, OC, OOnt, FRS, entrepreneur, business executive, philanthropist (born 14 March 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey). Lazaridis studied electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo, where in 1984 he formed Research In Motion (RIM), the wireless technology firm that revolutionized the communications industry with the development of the BlackBerry (see BlackBerry Limited).

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    Mike Murley

    Mike (Michael David) Murley. Saxophonist, composer, b Windsor, near Halifax, 12 Dec 1961; BFA (York) 1986. He has studied saxophone with Don Palmer in Halifax, Pat LaBarbera in Toronto, and Dave Liebman at the Banff CA Jazz Workshop and during a sojourn 1988-9 in New York.

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    Mike Myers

    Mike Myers, comedian, actor, writer, producer, musician (b at Scarborough, Ont 25 May 1963). A staunchly outspoken and proud Canadian, Mike Myers created original characters on television's Saturday Night Live (SNL) that propelled him to national fame.

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    Mike Myers (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 14, 1999. Partner content is not updated. Now all we need are rumours that Bill Clinton goes around the White House saying, "Yeah baby! Oh, behave! Shag-a-delic!" Not since ... well, not since Myers hatched Wayne's World in 1992 has a movie latched itself onto the zeitgeist with such a profusion of Velcro-like catch phrases.

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    Mike Savage

    Michael John Savage, mayor of Halifax (2012–present), Member of Parliament (2004–11), businessman (born 13 May 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland). The son of former Dartmouth mayor (1985–92) and Nova Scotia premier (1993–97) John Savage, Mike Savage served three terms as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartmouth–Cole Harbour. He has been mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) since 2012.

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    Mike Weir

    Michael Richard Weir, CM, OOnt, golfer (born 12 May 1970 in Sarnia, ON). Mike Weir is widely considered the one of the greatest Canadian golfers, and one of the best Canadian athletes, of all time. He became the first Canadian man to win one of professional golf’s four major tournaments when he won the 67th Masters Tournament in 2003. In total, he won eight events on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour, tying him with George Knudson and Sandra Post for the most wins by a Canadian professional golfer (surpased by Brooke Henderson in 2019). Weir won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top athlete in 2003 and is a three-time winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as the country’s best male athlete. He has been inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. He has also run a winery and several charitable foundations.

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    Mike Weir (Profile)

    Mike Weir may be the latest Great Canadian Hope in men's golf, but he is not infallible. At the PGA Tour's Greater Vancouver Open in late August, the 27-year-old from Bright's Grove, Ont., had his high hopes dashed on the slick, undulating greens of Northview Golf Club in suburban Surrey.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on September 8, 1997

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