Big Bear
1825 - 1888
Cree Chief
David Oancia
1929 - 1995
Journalist and correspondent for The Globe
Terry Fox
1958 - 1981
Marathon of Hope
Samuel Cunard
1787 - 1865
Founder of the Cunard Line
Chad Allan
1943 - 2023
Singer-songwriter
Peter Munk
1927 - 2018
Founder and chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation
Leonard Warren Murray
1896 - 1971
Naval Officer
Albert Ross Tilley
1904 - 1988
Plastic surgeon and war hero
Tommy Prince
1915 - 1977
Soldier and Advocate
William Christopher Macdonald
1831 - 1917
Tobacco manufacturer and education benefactor
William Osler
1849 - 1919
Physician and educator
John Weir Foote
1904 - 1988
Military Chaplain, Politician
Irene Ayako Uchida
1917 - 2013
Geneticist and scientist
Tommy Douglas
1904 - 1986
Politician and socialist
Ramsey Muir Withers
1930 - 2014
Chief of Defence Staff
John McCrae
1872 - 1918
Poet, Physician, Soldier
Morley Safer
1931 - 2016
Broadcast journalist, reporter and correspondent
Bernard John Ebbers
1941 - 2020
CEO of WorldCom
Harrison McCain
1927 - 2004
Co-founder of McCain Foods Limited
Frederick Ross Johnson
1931 - 2016
CEO of RJR Nabisco
John Bottomley
1960 - 2011
Singer-songwriter
Jack Kent Cooke
1912 - 1997
Owner of Los Angeles Lakers, Kings
Hoang Gia Hop
1907 - 2009
Medical Doctor
Win Mortimer
1919 - 1998
Comic strip artist and writer
Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott
1865 - 1941
Doctor and medical missionary
Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard
1867 - 1932
Railway builder and colonial administrator
Robert Campeau
1923 - 2017
Real estate developer and corporate raider
Billy Bishop
1894 - 1956
Pilot and war hero
Ian Dawson Tyson
1933 - 2022
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist
Peter Lymburner Robertson
1879 - 1951
Inventor of the Robertson screw and screwdriver
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt
1908 - 2000
Soldier
Bernard Lamarre
1931 - 2016
Founder of Lavalin Group
Henry Ruttan
1792 - 1871
Legislator and author
William Beynon
1888 - 1958
Ethnographer, Hereditary Chief
Kenneth Douglas Taylor
1934 - 2015
he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran.
Louis B. Mayer
1884 - 1957
Co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios
John Redpath
1796 - 1869
Founder and chairman of Redpath Sugar Corporation
Ellen Louks Fairclough
1905 - 2004
Politician
William Harding le Riche
1916 - 2010
Physician and epidemiologist
Harry Crerar
1888 - 1965
General and soldier
Wilbur R. Franks
1901 - 1986
G-suit and cancer research
John Gilbert Layton
1950 - 2011
Leader of the NDP
Irving Layton
1912 - 2006
Poet
Alfred Dudoward
1850 - 1914
Hereditary Chief
Harold Rogers
1899 - 1994
Founder of Kin Canada
Sydney Chilton Mewburn
1863 - 1956
Lawyer, Soldier, Politician
Stephen Irwin
1944 - 2019
Architect and urbanist
Doreen Kimura
1933 - 2013
Psychologist and neuropsychologist
Timothy Gregg Bachman
1951 - 2023
Guitarist, Singer
Levy Solomons
1730 - 1792
the founders of the Canadian Jewish community
James Randi
1928 - 2020
Stage Magician, Scientific Skeptic
Frank Calder
1915 - 2006
Politician
Alan Arnett McLeod
1899 - 1918
Aviator
Donny George Youkhanna
1950 - 2011
Director of Iraq National Museum
Edgar Bronfman
1929 - 2013
Former CEO of Seagram president of World Jewish
Kenneth G. Mills
1923 - 2004
designer
Shirley Rose Eikhard
1955 - 2022
Singer, Songwriter
Cluny MacPherson
1879 - 1966
Gas mask
Albert Lacombe
1827 - 1916
Missionary, Priest
Louis Joseph Papineau
1786 - 1871
Politician, Lawyer
Mary John
1913 - 2004
Community Leader
Elijah McCoy
1844 - 1929
Lubricating cup
Henry Norwest
1881 - 1918
Military Sniper
Sarah Hegazi
1989 - 2020
IT specialist
James Alexander Cowan
1901 - 1978
Writer and public relations consultant
Reginald Fessenden
1866 - 1932
Radio and sonar
John Fitzwilliam Stairs
1848 - 1904
Founder and chairman of Nova Scotia Steel
Frederick Grant Banting
1891 - 1941
Co discoverer of insulin
Samuel Benfield Steele
1849 - 1919
Mountie and Military Leader
Sam Jacks
1915 - 1975
Ringette and floor hockey
Edward Plunket Taylor
1901 - 1989
Chairman of Argus Corporation
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
1821 - 1893
He was the first Canadian born prime minister
Ernest Cormier
1885 - 1980
Architect and engineer
Paul-Emile Leger
1904 - 1991
Cardinal, Archbishop
Arthur William Currie
1875 - 1933
Commander of Canadian Corps
Anthony Barringer
1925 - 2009
INPUT system
Thomas Leopold Willson
1860 - 1915
Inventor of the electric arc furnace
Leonard Norman Cohen
1934 - 2016
Singer, songwriter, poet, novelist
Willard Boyle
1924 - 2011
Co-inventor of charge-coupled device
Karl Tremblay
1976 - 2023
Singer, Composer, Video Game Developer
Francis Pegahmagabow
1891 - 1952
Soldier, Politician, Activist
Lionel Guy d'Artois
1917 - 1999
SOE Agent, Military Officer
Joe Shuster
1914 - 1992
Comic book artist and writer
Victor Kennedy Copps
1919 - 1988
Mayor
Jaime Royal Robertson
1943 - 2023
Musician, Songwriter, Guitarist
Jean Vanier
1928 - 2019
Creating communities for people
Etienne Gaboury
1930 - 2022
Architect and urbanist
Ammo Baba
1934 - 2009
Iraq national football team manager
Wilfred Bigelow
1913 - 2005
Heart surgeon and scientist
Henry Asbjorn Larsen
1899 - 1964
Arctic explorer and RCMP officer
David H. Hubel
1926 - 2013
Neurophysiologist
Jack Leonard Warner
1892 - 1978
President
Joan Burt
1930 - 2021
Architect and educator
Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill
1915 - 1944
SOE Agent
Kenneth Roy Thomson
1923 - 2006
Chairman of Thomson Corporation
Hal Foster
1892 - 1982
Comic strip artist and writer
John Cabot
1450 - 1500
he discovered a new foundland CANADA
James Hamet Dunn
1874 - 1956
Financier and industrialist
Elijah Harper
1949 - 2013
Politician
William Hall
1827 - 1904
Naval Seaman
Edward Oliver Wheeler
1890 - 1962
Surveyor General of India
Alfred John Scow
1927 - 2013
First Aboriginal lawyer and judge in BC
Erik Bruhn
1928 - 1986
Ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director
Thomas Ricketts
1901 - 1967
Soldier
Sandford Fleming
1827 - 1915
Railway and standard time
Bruce Guthro
1961 - 2023
Singer-songwriter
Jerome Ch en
1919 - 2019
Historian of modern China
James Layton Ralston
1881 - 1948
Politician and Soldier
James TC Liu
1919 - 1993
Historian of modern China
William Samuel Clouston Stanger
1897 - 1989
Spymaster
Errol Flynn
1909 - 1959
known for his romantic swashbuckler roles
Ryan Larkin
1943 - 2007
animator, artist
Samuel Bronfman
1889 - 1971
Founder of Seagram Company
Jean de Brebeuf
1593 - 1649
Jesuit priest and missionary to the Huron people
Abraham Pineo Gesner
1797 - 1864
Kerosene
Kenneth Stuart
1891 - 1945
Chief of the General Staff
Chris Haney
1950 - 2010
Trivial Pursuit
Henry Woodward
1832 - 1910
Inventor of the electric light bulb
John Edward Broadbent
1936 - 2024
Politician, Political Scientist
Gordon Edgar Downie
1964 - 2017
singer
Norman Bethune
1890 - 1939
Mobile blood-transfusion service
Alfred Carl Fuller
1885 - 1973
Founder of the Fuller Brush Company
George-Etienne Cartier
1814 - 1873
Father of Confederation
Doug Henning
1947 - 2000
Magician, Illusionist, Escape Artist
John Graham Lake
1870 - 1935
Missionary
Qamar Gula
1952 - 2022
Musician
Charles Fenerty
1821 - 1892
Wood pulp paper
Roy Herbert Thomson
1894 - 1976
Founder of Thomson Corporation
George Brock Chisholm
1896 - 1971
Psychiatrist
Thomas Francis Ryan
1872 - 1961
Businessman and sports promoter
Basil Boulton
1913 - 2005
Heart surgeon and scientist
James Naismith
1861 - 1939
Physical educator and sports coach
Agnes Campbell Macphail
1890 - 1954
Politician, Reformer
George Lawrence Price
1892 - 1918
Soldier
James Sewid
1913 - 1988
Chief councillor
Lois Marshall
1925 - 1997
Soprano Singer
Arthur Erickson
1924 - 2009
Architect and urbanist
Lionel Groulx
1878 - 1967
Historian, Priest
Romeo Sabourin
1923 - 1944
Spy
Dai Vernon
1894 - 1992
Magician, Sleight-of-Hand Artist
Myles Francis Goodwyn
1948 - 2023
Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Peter Trueman
1934 - 2021
Broadcast journalist, reporter
Izaak Walton Killam
1885 - 1955
Investor in utilities, pulp and paper
Nelly Arcan
1973 - 2009
writer
Joseph Arthur Gosnell Sr.
1936 - 2020
Tribal Leader
Simon McTavish
1750 - 1804
Founding partner of the North West Company
Seta Hagopian
1950 - 2018
Singer and songwriter of Iraqi music
Louis Riel
1844 - 1885
Founder of Manitoba
Arthur Wellington Clah
1831 - 1916
Chief, Diarist, Missionary
Andrew George Latta McNaughton
1887 - 1966
Military Officer, Scientist, Diplomat
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