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states that the citation for the Order of Canada read "as ambassador of
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Festival, Cape Breton
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in 2003 for outstanding achievement benefiting the province and its residents. In
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to John Duncan MacMaster and Sarah Agnes MacDonald MacMaster. The family was originally from
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