Gwendolyn Black
Canadian musician and social activist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gwendolyn McDonald Black was a Canadian musician, educator and community activist. She was the first woman from New Brunswick to become an Officer in the Order of Canada. The daughter of Nathaniel McDonald, a Methodist pastor, and Statira Preble, she was born Gwendolyn McDonald in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Her father died when she was six and her mother found a job at Lasell Junior College for Girls in Auburndale, Massachusetts, where Black grew up. She became an American citizen as a result. In 1929, she returned to Canada, earning a BMus at Mount Allison's Ladies College in 1932. She returned to the College soon afterwards to teach music. After her marriage in 1935, she continued to give private piano lessons and to perform in recitals and competitions.
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