Olivier Guimond (père)
Olivier Guimond (Suffix (name)#Other European countries, père) (born March 18, 1893, in Greater Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario, died October 9, 1954, in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian comedian, humorist, and burlesque revue leader who was very famous in Quebec between the mid-1910s and the late 1940s. He was the father of comedian Olivier Guimond (fils) and the grandfather of Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbing actor Richard Darbois. Biography Early years He started his career at a very young age, in English. He played in a duet with Nosey Black, a New York vaudeville performer. But this early career did not support him and he had to work at other jobs such as a Shoeshiner, shoeshine boy at the Ottawa station, Ottawa train station. It was there that Arthur Petrie, who became Juliette Petrie's husband, discovered Olivier Guimond while on tour in Ontario around 1912. While waiting to catch a train at the Ottawa Station, he stopped to shine his shoes. The young man shining his shoes w ...
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Greater Sudbury
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and towns in Canada by area, fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a List of census divisions of Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any district, county, or regional municipality. The City of Greater Sudbury is separate from, but entirely surrounded by the Sudbury District. The city is also referred to as "Grand Sudbury" among Franco-Ontarian, Francophones. The Sudbury region was inhabited by the Ojibwe people of the Algonquin people, Algonquin group for thousands of years prior to the founding of Sudbury after the discovery of nickel ore in 1883 during the construction of the transcontinental railway. Greater Sudbury was formed in 2001 by merging the cities and towns of the former Regi ...
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